What is Pink Noise?

Carla Gee
2 min readJun 27, 2022

Is It Better Than White Noise?

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Pink noise. Yes, there really is such a thing.

There have been tons of research conducted on the positive effects of white noise on brain functioning, including but not limited to focus, concentration and sleep.

The research that has been done on the positive effects of pink noise on the brain is less abundant but positive, just the same.

Pink noise slightly differs from white noise, in that pink noise has proven to be more effective for improving sleep.

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Pink noise is yet another way for you to relax your body, ease your mind, slow down your brainwaves and drift off to sleep.

What is pink noise?

Just like the color spectrum (ROYGBIV), noises also exist on a spectrum.

The most popular noises you will come across are white, pink and Brown (Brownian noise, Brown for short, was named for the scientist who discovered the frequencies not actually the color).

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Carla Gee

Writing when I can about things that are important to me.