Listening to white noise has long been praised by insomniac sufferers as one of the best ways to help you drift off more easily and sleep more soundly. It works by drowning out other disruptive background noises with its continuous, static-like sound, but there's now a new kid on the block, and it's said to have even more promising effects. Its name? Pink noise.
The chances are you've already heard of white noise - and you may have heard word of brown noise, too - but for most of us, pink noise is a far more alien term. You can think of it as white noise's closely related cousin. It's another type of ambient noise that combines different frequencies for a relaxing background sound that blocks out bothersome internal thoughts as well as external noises, only it has a slightly lower pitch to white noise. The question is, which one works best? And why?
