How and why is white noise so comforting to humans, including adults? Why is it used for focusing the mind?
In: Biology
Your brain is constantly working to remove unimportant input from your senses (filtering): touch (feeling the clothes you are wearing), sight (notice your nose is turned invisible), hearing (your breathing, wind, traffic driving by your house), etc.
When you are around white noise, the filtering blocks out more sound because there’s a consistent, louder sound nearby, and now your brain has an easy job, just sorta block most sound I’m hearing. Now you can relax more because you’ve got less stimulation bothering you.
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