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Listening to rain sounds improves sleep quality in adults.

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CONTESTED PARTIAL
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Is it true that listening to rain sounds improves sleep quality in adults?

Partly. One review reports white sounds (water or ocean waves) inducing sleep in young adults, and a skeptics thread notes white noise helped maintain sleep in noisy environments; neither tested rain sounds or measured sleep quality in adults. A separate study found rain sound interfered with memory encoding, which does not address sleep quality.

Verdict: CONTESTED PARTIAL · 2 sources for, 1 against · Last checked

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Evidence for · 2
Does white noise improve sleep quality?
2014
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Does white noise improve sleep quality?. (2014). skeptics.stackexchange.com. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19623/does-white-noise-improve-sleep-quality

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The effect of background music on episodic memory and autonomic responses: listening to emotionally touching music enhances facial memory capacity
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The effect of background music on episodic memory and autonomic responses: listening to emotionally touching music enhances facial memory capacity. (n.d.). cir.nii.ac.jp. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep15219

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A Retrospect of the History of White Sounds and Applications in the Dental, Medical and Educational Communities.
1995
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A., S. C. (1995). A Retrospect of the History of White Sounds and Applications in the Dental, Medical and Educational Communities.. eric.ed.gov. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED384183

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