Fans

[Gerontius]

Fans are just great too.

They spin. They look so cool, and come in a million styles from bladeless to portable to squirrel cage to anything imaginable. They are simple, repairable, and reliably safe.

More fans, I don't sleep with these on but I know I use them too much the rest of the time.

This one has Micarta blades and is very quiet.

There's a ceiling fan over my dining table but everyone knows what a ceiling fan looks like.

Tiny fan in the kitchen, a GE.

I love fans and should get around to restoring a pair of very old brass blade fans I have here as junk basically, a 1914 Emerson and a 1924 Hunter, but I don't know if I have time to do so.

 

[Sherlock77]

I don't use a fan, but... I generally listen to the radio as I go to sleep, using the snooze button of course to make sure it doesn't go all night...

So it might be the same idea, a little bit of noise

 

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

In summer sometimes but I often turn it quickly off because I hate the blowing too long
Honestly I really do hate fans and air con. They may things cooler when it is really past a certain temerature but it gets too cold and u can freeze in front of air con and it gets annoying blowing in ur face all the time too.
I hate things that blow in my face the opposite way. It gets me actually tired.

 

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

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I don't use a fan, but... I generally listen to the radio as I go to sleep, using the snooze button of course to make sure it doesn't go all night...

So it might be the same idea, a little bit of noise

I like dead silence

 

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

Point taken. Not all fans operate with the same pitch at the same speeds. I can't say I like the sound of most of them at their highest RPMs. Worse if they oscillate.

I hate the sound a lot too

 

[MROSS]

Just experienced an early fall heatwave here in CA within a few miles of the ocean. My cooling is with a ceiling fan - which was running through much of the warm evening.

Even with a heatwave bringing balmy tempeatures overnight, I opted to turn-off the fan at around midnight, and open the bathroom window. A few years back, with rare humidity, and warm temperatures at night, from the last of a tropical storm, I opted to run my ceiling fan all night.

I do have mild sensory-issues (that I sometimes focus on background sounds), yet, I opt not have the sound of a fan running overnight unless it's necessary.

 

[Kisa the tea]

I need some kind of background noise like a fan to sleep.

 

[Mr. Stevens]

I need some kind of background noise like a fan to sleep.

 

[Mr. Stevens]

Or?

 

[Au Naturel]

Lately, I've been listening to boring programs on the BBC or the Telegraph. Something about that unexcited, carefully modulated British voice droning on and on does it. Almost any disinterested sound helps. Street traffic did it when I lived in the city. Nature sounds or soft wind chimes are good. A neighbor's party, as long as it is subdued.

I also run a fan. It helps to distract from my tinnitus.