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Anecdote time. Our cat has gotten into the annoying habit of moaning whenever things aren't to her liking; even if its 3AM. If she hears other cats playing outs
by discardorama 11y ago
Anecdote time. Our cat has gotten into the annoying habit of moaning whenever things aren't to her liking; even if its 3AM. If she hears other cats playing outside, she wants to go out. If she thinks we are awake, moan again to demand breakfast. Heck, if I'm sleeping on the side and she wants to sleep on top of me, she'll whine about it till I'm on my back. And so on.
It became so bad that I could barely get an hour or two of continuous sleep a night.
Finally, I found a bunch of videos: https://www.google.com/search?q=rain+white+noise&tbm=vid https://www.google.com/search?q=rain+white+noise&tbm=vid and started playing them at night. Boy, what a difference it made. Now, I wake up at most once a night; I'm sleeping better than ever, and not a zombie during the day.
I'm wondering if there are any command-line rain generators for Linux? And is there some research on how to generate the 'best' (most realistic?) rain sounds.
- JamesMcMinn 11y agoJust to clarify, the noise is helping you sleep, not keeping the cat from moaning?
- discardorama 11y agoYes, it's helping me sleep. It's not that it drowns out the cat's moans; it just adds enough white noise that the moan doesn't wake me up (unless, of course, it's standing on me, moaning to make me turn over :-/ ).
- edem 11y agoWhy don't you lock the cat into another room or just put him out of the house? Who is the boss at home? You or the cat?
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- arasmussen 11y agoIt probably depends on who you ask... them or the cat. ;)
- noir_lord 11y agoI trained mine from kittens to sleep in the living room, when it gets to bed time they run in and jump onto their favourite sleeping spots and bed down for the night. I think if you don't do this early getting them to accept it later will result in them singing you the song of their people at 3am.
- discardorama 11y ago> Who is the boss at home? You or the cat? Clearly you have never had a cat, if you're asking that question.... ;-)
- DanBC 11y agohttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/220113-sneaky-cat-parasite-takes-over-human-brains-science/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/220113-sneak... Possibly the cat.
- deutronium 11y agoI've just been playing with some examples for PureData and Supercollider (which you could probably run from a CLI, I was using their IDEs though): These are two I've tried out: http://sccode.org/1-e http://sccode.org/1-e -- Rain and thunder (for supercollider) http://www.obiwannabe.co.uk/tutorials/html/tutorial_rain.html http://www.obiwannabe.co.uk/tutorials/html/tutorial_rain.htm... -- for PureData The rain does sound somewhat whitenoise-y though, I wonder if there are any simulations of rain, that take into account the actual physics of droplets hitting a surface.