Is the Marpac Sleepmate 980a Sleep Conditioner any good?

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This site is dedicated to the Marpac SleepMate 980a Sound Conditioner which is a white noise machine designed to help you sleep. Below I have summarised what it is and what it can do for you.

What is it?

The Marpac SleepMate 980a Sound Conditioner is a white noise machine, which means it creates a constant background noise while you try and sleep to help you block out unwanted noises that stop you getting to sleep (or waking you up), or to stop it feeling 'too quiet' when you go to bed.

It makes a whooshing sound kind of like a fan, and you can twist the cover to change the tone and the volume of the sound it makes.

They have designed the machine well because it doesn't make any mechanical noises which would just give you something else to focus on and annoy you all night, and the bottom is padded to stop any kind of vibration from driving you crazy when you put it on a bedside table etc.

Now let's discuss why you would want it.

Why would I want something that makes a noise all night?

It is strange to think of something that makes noise as being a sleep aid, but unless you have experienced it then you can't really know how comforting it can be.

My first experience with white noise was a dehumidifier that was outside my bedroom when I was young, when that was going off then I could hear the gentle hum that gently drowned out anything else and gave a very reassuring feeling which helped me sleep. It is hard to explain to anyone who hasn't experienced it!

Don't get me wrong, this device is not going to drown out the noise of someone playing electric guitar at 3am in the morning, it is not that loud, but it is for people who struggle to sleep and need something to cover up all the little noises of the night, like cars going past, taps dripping, the house settling and creaking, those kind of things.

Instead of it being really quiet and the tap dripping which then sounds so loud it is like the water is dripping into your ear, then as you now have background noise from this machine, you either do not hear it, or you don't care if you do, because it is not breaking the silence anymore which is the annoying thing.

Also sometimes it is not the little noises of the night which keep you up, instead it is the lack of noise. After the hustle and bustle of daily life where we are constantly assaulted with noise, then when you lay down to sleep in a perfectly quiet house, it is TOO quiet, suddenly the absence of any noise is disconcerting and it means you can't sleep. That is where the Marpac SleepMate 980a comes in to help give you a relaxing drone to lull you into sleep.

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Will it help me sleep?

Now that is a tricky question, at the time of writing though then 815 people on Amazon.com have given it 4 or 5 stars and absolutely love it, which is a lot of people!

Yet there are some people who don't like it, so I recommend that if you have never used something like this that you start off with a fan running at night (do that at your own risk of course, leaving appliances on all night that aren't designed for it could be risky!) and see how you react to it, you'll either find it annoying or soothing, then you'll know if you should get the Marpac SleepMate 980a or not.

Also remember what I said about it not being designed to drown out loud noises from your neighbours partying all night, if you buy it for that reason you are probably going to be disappointed, but if you want a relaxing background noise to lull you to sleep, or drown out the annoying little sounds of the night, then this is a fantastic device to do it with.

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