It’s a push many young parents use. At baby’s bedtime, the ritual is not yet a story, but white noise. This technique to facilitate falling asleep seems to be increasingly democratic. As proof, one song has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify, he noted. the parisian.
Behind this impressive score is a sound loop of one minute and thirty seconds, to listen to infinity. It helps to put babies to sleep, but also to facilitate concentration or mask tinnitus.
“Saturate the auditory system”
This is how hundreds of videos have emerged on YouTube, but also tracks on Spotify. Since CES 2018 in Las Vegas, Philips had introduced an overnight headband. By detecting the different phases of sleep, the device makes it possible to guarantee the depth and duration of sleep.
White noise is a sound made up of a superposition of auditory frequencies, which somehow masks sound disturbances. Already in 2019, Thomas Andrillon, a sleep researcher, confirmed: “We saturate the auditory system.”
no scientific truth
This phenomenon is already well exploited in the field of childcare. Many accessories offer the possibility of diffusing white noise to calm babies. However, Dr. Arnaud Metlaine warned against prolonged use of this type of sound.
like the point the parisian, there are no recent and reliable studies on the subject. The effectiveness of white noise in the sleep of newborns is therefore essentially linked to the testimonials of parents. Despite the absence of scientific truth, Internet users are increasingly demanding. Daily Google searches have doubled in five years.
Source: BFM TV
