If they can sleep during all the noise, wouldn’t they have even better sleep when it’s quiet?
In: Biology
Nowhere is ever truly quiet, and from someone who grew up in a city, and moved to a less populated place for college, then moved back to the city: silence is creepy to those unaccustomed to it. With “silence” every noise outside, inside, etc becomes amplified. Wind, crickets, natural house creaking, AC/heat, the seldom car that drives down the street, you can now hear all of this which someone used to silence “tunes out.” For example I’m a light sleeper, while I grew up tuning out airplanes and cars driving by frequently. I’m in a quiet suburb now and I need the fan on or else every noise outside wakes me up because they actually happen seldomly.
You adapt to what is your own normal.
If you are accustomed to incredibly loud noises, then you are NOT accustomed to all of the small noises. Refrigerator hum, pipes settling, neighbors opening and closing doors, animals walking on the roof, the crinkling of your mattress protector when you roll over…. all of those would be suddenly brand new noises to someone who normally sleeps in a few decibels of constant background.
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