True, Miss Public...
Also put on some white noise on the background, as loud as you need to for it to do its job properly...
To do this properly, you should get yourself one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QD1F2Q8...pa_dk_detail_4
Don't you know what white noise is?
Easy, a white noise is the sound as a white light is to light... It consist of all the frequencies of sound blended together in a mess.
How does it sounds like?
The white noise by excellence consists of a analog radio or TV set to no channel. You know, that typical Shhhh sound.
That simple sound does its job quite well. If you feel like it won't, however, there are other less white noises, that do their job just as fine. They all sound similar, but are unique somehow:
- Waterfall
- River
- Rain
- Wind
- Wind through forest
- A window AC unit
- Shower stream
- Generated electronically by apps on your phone or computer
- Etc
Did you notice the pattern? They all (excepting the fake one) involve a moving fluid, weather it is air or water.
What is its job?
Think of what a white flash does to a camera, it totally blinds and neutralizes all other colors. In the same way, a white noise deafens and neutralizes you from all other sounds.
So, this plus an eye mask (such as you do get),
means total sensory deprivation.
Every night!