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The effectiveness of white noise as a sleep aid varies per individual, but is based on lengthy scientific sleep studies. Hearing is the last sense to switch off as humans fall asleep and is the most likely cause of sleep disturbances. White noise essentially overloads that sense and masks noises that might otherwise wake an individual.

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