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I have a tinnitus, so I have a fan running in every room of my apartment to (partially) cover it with a white noise. I live alone right now but I wonder how man

I have a tinnitus, so I have a fan running in every room of my apartment to (partially) cover it with a white noise. I live alone right now but I wonder how many women, if they were to live with me (in a relationship), would be ok with it. BTW the biggest win in getting a good sleep for me has been making sure my bedroom is properly ventilated, so that I have low levels of CO2. Since I started doing that, my sleeping issues have been reduced to practically nothing - i.e. I almost never wake up feeling drowsy, which was something that happened to me a couple days a month before I started monitoring CO2.

mattgreenrocks 6y ago
I’ve never heard about CO2 contributing to sleep issues. What did you do to diagnose and remediate this?
- graeme 6y ago
  It’s an emerging field of research. A bunch of studies have found cognitive effects of CO2 rising above 800 ppm or so. This study looked at the effect on sleep. It’s still all a preliminary field however. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ina.12254 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ina.12254
- graeme 6y ago
  Oh, I’m not OP but I forgot to add that the standard remediations are pretty simple: airflow. Open a door and open a window. Pretty much nothing else does it, though an air exchanger in a home ventilation system can help. This of course can get complicated by light (the door), sound (door and window), pollution (window) and heat/cold (window). So your local setup may vary. In my own case the big challenge is winter. But usually just a small crack is enough to lower co2 a fair bit during the cold season.
  - burntoutfire 6y ago
    > In my own case the big challenge is winter. But usually just a small crack is enough to lower co2 a fair bit during the cold season. Yep - I open a window in another room of my apartment, and the brownian motion air exchange (as both rooms have no doors) is enough to keep CO2 at around 600 ppm through the night. Without it, it'd probably shoot to over 2000 ppm over the night.
    - mattgreenrocks 6y ago
      Interesting, I might try this. As someone with seasonal allergies, I've often been surprised at how serenely I'd sleep with a window open.

mattgreenrocks 6y ago

I’ve never heard about CO2 contributing to sleep issues. What did you do to diagnose and remediate this?

graeme 6y ago
It’s an emerging field of research. A bunch of studies have found cognitive effects of CO2 rising above 800 ppm or so. This study looked at the effect on sleep. It’s still all a preliminary field however. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ina.12254 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ina.12254
graeme 6y ago
Oh, I’m not OP but I forgot to add that the standard remediations are pretty simple: airflow. Open a door and open a window. Pretty much nothing else does it, though an air exchanger in a home ventilation system can help. This of course can get complicated by light (the door), sound (door and window), pollution (window) and heat/cold (window). So your local setup may vary. In my own case the big challenge is winter. But usually just a small crack is enough to lower co2 a fair bit during the cold season.
- burntoutfire 6y ago
  > In my own case the big challenge is winter. But usually just a small crack is enough to lower co2 a fair bit during the cold season. Yep - I open a window in another room of my apartment, and the brownian motion air exchange (as both rooms have no doors) is enough to keep CO2 at around 600 ppm through the night. Without it, it'd probably shoot to over 2000 ppm over the night.
  - mattgreenrocks 6y ago
    Interesting, I might try this. As someone with seasonal allergies, I've often been surprised at how serenely I'd sleep with a window open.