Would you say it’s worse or better than living near a highway without sound barriers?
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It's different - I used to live next to major road, and yeah it was louder in intensity, for sure, but at least it would die down quite a lot during the night, and you'd only ocassionally get a car/motorbike with a loud exhaust passing by. This really bothers me because it's just constant and completely unchanging, I keep lying in bed and hearing the whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.....with cars I'm just like ok, there was a loud motorbike but it's gone now. With a wind turbine I know it won't change, and either I have to get used to it or....well, move out I guess, and that sucks.
YMMV but I for the past few years I have been sleeping with Bose QuietComfort earbuds with active noise cancelling and they've significantly improved my life. Loud noises that would have woken me in the past are dampened enough that I can sleep through them, and annoying hums or whatever while traveling are just completely gone.
Yeah so actually I use my Sony WF-1000XM3 headphones often when falling asleep, or I just put on some rain sounds on my phone next to me - that's usually enough.
Interestingly I can not keep headphones on (in ear, over ear does not matter) as after a while I begin to experience discomfort and after 1-1.5 I go mad.
If a motorway was built next to my house I'd have a problem with that too