Some people use it to improve their focus while others use it to drop off to sleep. Some say they listen to it day and night. But what is brown noise? And does it work? The “brown” in brown noise is not a colour, but a reference to sound that mimics Brownian motion, the movement pollen makes in water, identified by the botanist Robert Brown in 1827. In essence, brown noise is the familiar, staticky sound of white noise (that is, all the audible frequencies simultaneously) but with the low frequency notes augmented and the less pleasant high frequency notes turned down, counteracting the human ear’s natural tendency to hear higher frequencies louder. What are your thoughts LiveTribers? Can brown noise really help you concentrate?
Posted by on 24 Oct 2022
