The Effects of Brown Noise on Sleep Quality

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the effects of brown noise on sleep quality, specifically addressing the myths surrounding the "brown note" and the scientific validity of claims made by various media shows regarding its effects.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant questions how loud brown noise needs to be to be effective.
  • Another participant asserts that the "brown note" myths are false, referencing the show Mythbusters and suggesting that loud low-Hertz sounds can have negative effects.
  • A different participant mentions that another show, Braniac, claimed the opposite regarding the brown note, indicating a discrepancy in media portrayals.
  • Several participants express skepticism about Braniac's scientific rigor, with one noting its entertainment focus and another criticizing its content quality.
  • One participant recounts an experiment from Mythbusters where an elaborate sound system was used, suggesting that no effects were observed on a participant despite high volume, which they interpret as evidence against the myth.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express disagreement regarding the validity of the "brown note" and the reliability of different media portrayals. There is no consensus on the effects of brown noise or the claims made by the shows mentioned.

Contextual Notes

Participants reference various media portrayals and experiments, but there is uncertainty regarding the scientific basis of these claims and the conditions under which they were tested.

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Individuals interested in the effects of sound on sleep quality, media representations of scientific claims, and discussions surrounding noise types may find this thread relevant.

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How loud does brown noise have to be for it to be effective?
 
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These "brown note" myths are totally false, sorry.

They even featured this myth on MYTHBUSTERS on the Discovery Channel, if you live in a very English country, like the US, UK, or Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note

Of course any really loud low-Hertz sound, will have negative effects on the subject.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/09/09/121851.php

"Brown noise," in a more scientific sense is, is... hard to explain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Brownnoise.ogg"

Other color noises are pink noises, violet noises, white noises, blue, purple, grey, red, orange, black, and green.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise
 
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funny thing how mythbusters said it is false yet yesterday another show "braniac" said that it is possible. thanks.
 
On Braniac, I don't think they did, but that show is purely for entertainment (they once had a guys dive into a pool of custard).
 
Mk said:
(they once had a guys dive into a pool of custard).

Conducting some highly detailed and scientific experiment no doubt!
 
I hate that show Braniac. Mythbusters makes some real attempts at solving probelms, and some of the things the ideas they come up with are brilliant (and others are just cool to watch, like filling a cement truck with 460 pounds of explosive). I watched Braniac last night for the first time and its terrible.
 
Well last week on braniac they put cessium and rubiddium in water, just cool to watch, (giant bang).
 
also on the mythbusters episode they had one of the best audio engineers build a very elabrotate sound system they played all the frequencys at very high volume yet nothing happened to adam who was staning inbetween the speakers. Compltely a fake mtyh. Other members of the crew said it made them feel like something was wrong or awkward or sumthing like that but no one had and bowel movements:-p
 

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