Yogasleep Dohm Classic (Tan) The Original White Noise Machine, Soothing Natural Sound from a Real Fan, Noise Cancelling for Office Privacy, Travel & Meditation, Sleep Therapy for Adults & Baby

We moved from the east coast to the west coast about 14 years ago. One of the biggest differences (for the worse IMHO) is that the west coast has housing developments where the houses are almost on top of each other. There is literally 6 to 10 feet between your house and your neighbor's house. The back yards contain a sliver of land before it meets your backyard neighbor's house. In addition to this close proximity causing other problems, one of the problems is that noises generated by neighbors (some of them not so respectful) are exacerbated. You name it: dogs barking all dang night, mowing the lawn and using other loud equipment for yard work (like a blower, string trimmer, etc.), loud music, loud talking, etc. There are also other noises not caused by neighbors such as planes, trains and (to me) the horrible sound of morning doves at the crack of dawn. The most annoying and frustrating noise emission we've had to deal with are dogs barking, incessantly and/or during "normal" sleep hours...incredibly rude and this can literally drive one insane!! Our neighbor's (at the time they were renters) would leave their dog outside virtually all night, maybe taking it in the house at 3:00am sometimes, only to let the blasted thing out again at 6:00am (including weekends!). Our bedroom, which was on the first floor, would literally be a few feet from the neighbor's side yard and back yard because the houses are so close together. Many talks with the neighbors and their landlord failed. We tried the police...they said we needed to file something in court. We looked into court options and, unfortunately, the criteria necessary to file the appropriate action was not met, so we couldn't do anything there either. Finally, we discoverd the Marpac Sound Conditioners (a prior name). They are unbelievable. Lifesavers, and savers of our sanity. We have had three of them for almost TEN years...one for each of our children and one for ourselves. The sound is incredibly soothing. There are no "repeating cycles" that you can oftentimes here with digital white noise and sound machines because the unit is generating the noise like a fan, but without the cold air. I have many digital sounds too (beach waves, rain, white noise, etc.), which are good for me at times, but I still feel the Marpac units are clearly the best for me for sleep. Additionally, if your mind/ears are like mine, and you HEAR a digital cycle start over (like rain that has been recorded, plays for 30 seconds and then starts over), it can interrupt the process of going to sleep because you noticed the loop starting over. There are no loops with the Marpac. There are two settings, high and low. The low has worked for my wife and I and one of the children this entire time. The older child likes hers on high. There are holes on the top and slits on the side. The top can turn to open or close some of the holes and the side has a sleeve that can be rotated to open or close the slits. Manipulating the slits or the holes adjusts not only the volume of the unit, but also the tonality of the sound. So, there are quite a few options for you as far as volume and tonality. Incidentally, these items are small enough for travel and they have a long cord (on purpose) for more placement options. With this on, ALL of the outside noises are gone, and we can sleep in peace. The external noises melt away. An additional HUGE bonus for me was something I discovered after I started using the Marpac. I purchased the Marpac to drown out EXTERNAL noises. I didn't even think about the INTERNAL noises in my head!! I'm talking about laying in bed and thinking too much, which can also cause sleep loss and insomnia. Sometimes my mind can race. You know, where you are just laying there, thinking about things...what I forgot to do today, what I need to do tomorrow, a work issue, etc. The sound from this unit helps me to NOT think about things so I can fall asleep, and stay asleep. It is one sound (the type you choose using the sleeve and the top) that simply continues without changing, so it is not distracting and you become immersed in its calm soothing sound. I can't recommend these enough, not only for downing out external sounds, but to also help one NOT to think as much when trying to sleep.

As many people who reviewed this product have complained, we, too, live beneath 'those' neighbors. We've suffered through countless sleepless nights and sighed in relief when air conditioning weather rolled around again. While we could still hear noise from above and were still frequently rudely awakened, it happened less often and was less jarring, making it easier to fall back asleep. Well, the cold weather rolled around again and once again we were functioning on very little sleep. When earplugs, quiet music, and nature sounds failed to have any effect, we had to find an answer. A fan was not practical in our tiny room, leaving us feeling chilled no matter how we arranged it, beside the fact that I hate blowing the fan constantly and trying to keep it dust free. We had to find an answer. The great reviews inspired me though the bad reviews cast doubts. To me, the price was well worth it to have even a chance at sleep. At this point I often found myself in tears at 4am praying for the relief of sleep . When the unit arrived ahead of schedule, I ran into my room to set it up. I put it on a dresser about six feet from the head of our bed. I set it to the loudest sound it could make and looked forward to bed. Two words: It worked! We got the same effect as the air conditioning, pretty much. The noise was greatly reduced. The noise that came through was less bothersome so that often I could just turn over and drift back asleep since I didn't literally jump out of bed thinking something happened to one of my kids. I run this 24 hours a day since I like that it muffled some of the daytime noise, which, while not waking me up, can really get on my nerves (guitar playing, balls bouncing, things being repeatedly thrown and dropped on the floor, kids screaming, parents yelling). What I like: Blocks a lot of noise, muffles the rest. Doesn't take up a lot of room. Doesn't stand out like an alien device. Easy to use. So far very reliable. Not as loud as my air conditioner but I feel it does just as good a job. What's OK: The noise isn't annoying, but neither is it soothing. Being fair, I feel that if it were soothing, it wouldn't really neutralize as much sound as it does. I can hear a little vibration from it sitting on my dresser, though I have a couple of things I haven't tried yet to help that. What I don't like: There is nothing I do not like. Let's be fair. This unit does exactly what it promises. The noise may bother some, true, but the only way to know is to try. I don't know why people say, "Don't buy this, the noise is horrible!" Definitely tell us if you find it horrible but understand that not everybody will. I know people who can't sleep with a window air conditioner or a fan. They don't tell people not to buy them. Would I prefer if my house was quiet and I didn't need this? YES! I would! I love when it is dark and silent and I can sleep. Unfortunately, right now I do not have this option. This machine has literally given me back hours of sleep PER NIGHT and, in turn, made me feel less stressed and I am rarely short tempered. (I say me because my husband has lost a lot of hearing and simply sleeps on his good ear. It seems to work for him as well as the machine works for me!) One point I would like to make is that this machine does cover noise, so if you have kids (or even sometimes pets, I would imagine) you might want to keep in mind that chances are you won't hear them when you are in the room with this machine, sleeping. My seven year old woke up with a stomachache one night and in the morning he told me he'd been in the bathroom for a while. The bathroom door is directly across the hall from my bedroom door and I never heard him. (Ha - that shows you how loud the neighbors are as I still hear them!) If something is going on in the house, it could be easily missed. That also makes it great for kid's rooms to block the sounds from the rest of the house when they go to bed early. If you have noise that keeps you awake or wakes you from your sleep, this machine could be the answer to a better night's sleep. If you can sleep with a fan or window air conditioner, this may work for you. It has been a life changer for me! Update: We have been using this product continuously for coming up on five years. I can no longer sleep without it. We use one to travel with and is a lifesaver in hotels where rude people talk loudly late into the night, or you hear road noise, or even just the strange noises of a new place. Sleep saving device!

A must have for a baby/toddler's room. An absolute must have for shift workers. I used to have it bad, for ten years I often worked nights and lived in hotels. Maids vacuuming in the next room, doors slamming shut, kids running and yelling in the hall. Without the Marpac Sleepmate II, now the Marpac Dohm-DS Dual Speed Sound Conditioner my sleep was constantly being disturbed. I would toss and turn in bed for nine plus hours and would still feel unrested. With the sound conditioner I would sleep for 6.5 to 7.0 hours and wake up before my alarm went off feeling like a million bucks. It hides noises that would wake you, but it also hides the lesser noises that would just disturb your sleep by barely waking you (small wakes that you won't remember in the morning) or just keeping you from going into deep recuperative sleep. I fall asleep faster and sleep better with it. My daughter as a baby, toddler, and now a five year old sleeps like a dream with it. I would turn it on when she was a baby and that plus one or two short lullabies and she was out for a long nap or a long night. I believe, that when she would wake prematurely, as naturally happens, the soothing sound or perceived quietness from the sound conditioner, ensured her brain that everything was as it should be, so she would not get curious or upset, and if her mind/body needed more sleep she would fall right back into it. She wouldn't wake until she was thoroughly rested. Sometimes I would have to stir her from three plus hour afternoon naps instead of letting her wake on her own. Even if she was just a naturally perfect sleeper and it wasn't so much the sound conditioner, It did allow adults to not have to tip toe around the house while the baby/toddler is sleeping. That right there, makes it worth it. I lived in a small apartment and I would do dishes, watch TV, flush the toilette right outside her room, and even vacuum while she slept. I'd make the noise and peek inside her room and she wouldn't even stir. My girlfriend would sleep with a table top fan on her nightstand blasting air across her face all night because she needed it to sleep. Of course after years of that she started waking up with bloody noses. I figured she needed the white noise of the fan blades more than the sinus drying gale force wind. I bought her a sound conditioner and convinced her to run the ceiling fan at a moderate speed. It worked, she loves it. Quality: I have had mine for four and a half years (as of April 2014) and I can guarantee that I have abused mine more than just about anybody out there. I used mine when I was at home and I tossed it in a suitcase to travel an average of 18 days every month. In and out of home, suitcases, and hotels. I would also fly with it in my checked baggage several times a year. It still works and looks great. The only thing I can fault it on is that the still functioning fine switch doesn't have the same solid click/feel that it had when new when you switch it back to center. Up or down to switch it to low or high and I still get the reassuring feel/sound from the switch. A solid accomplishment for the years of abuse I've given it. Yours will likely sit on a night stand and last forever. Buy it!=)

I have always been a light sleeper, and am easily woken up by relatively quiet sounds like the air conditioner turning on/off or floor boards creaking etc - to say nothing about outside noise from passing cars or neighbors mowing their lawn at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning... I tried drowning out the background noises with a "Nature Sounds" CD, but couldn't find any that I liked. So eventually I started sleeping with the ceiling fan on high - which definitely muted the background noise, but also makes the bedroom feel colder and really dried my eyes and skin out. Then I started babysitting for a family with a new infant, and they introduced me to the Marpac SleepMate in their nursery. If you haven't heard a white noise machine before, I'm not quite sure how to describe the sound... Maybe imagine a quiet vacuum cleaner? Or maybe a cross between a "hiss" and "whoosh"? Anyway, it has a very soothing womb-like sound that helps their son fall asleep and prevents him from hearing his parents move around the house after he's in bed. Needless to say, I fell in love! I went home and immediately bought a SleepMate for myself. The unit is small and neutral color, and definitely doesn't look out of place in an "adult" bedroom. You can adjust the tone/texture of the sound by twisting various parts of the unit, and I was easily able to find a setting that my boyfriend and I both liked. The SleepMate was worth every penny because it has drastically improved my overall quality of life. I actually feel rested when I wake up every morning, because I am usually able to sleep through the entire night uninterrupted. I don't notice background house noises any more or get woken up my roommate's TV - and it even covers up pet noise! (My cat had developed a nasty habit of lurking right outside my bedroom door and meowing insistently at around 4:30 a.m. - but he's given up, having realized that his yowling no longer produces the desired effect because I can now sleep soundly through all of his complaining.) I have to admit, I've become so addicted to the white noise that I even bring my SleepMate with me when I travel. In fact, I've raved so much about this product that my parents and sister all bought SleepMates, and my boyfriend got me a 2nd unit for our guest bedroom this Christmas. One quick tip - I've noticed that on certain hard surfaces, the SleepMate produces a secondary low-pitched reverberation - but this disappears if you simply place a soft cushion underneath the unit. ** NOTE - I bought my 1st MarPac SleepMate in November 2008, and it's still going strong. I recently moved from a relatively quiet subdivision to an apartment in the city that has a LOT more traffic noise - I had to turn my SleepMate to the louder (II) setting, but it still manages to drown out mostly everything. Every now and then a particularly high-pitched ambulance siren or a really loud, thumping bass gets through, but overall the SleepMate is still letting me sleep soundly!

I bought this two years ago, but didn’t put it into use until the last 6 months. In my last apartment, I was living with roommates, and bought a Dohm to mask disruptive noise while I slept. I was so used to a quiet ambience that I couldn’t sleep with it. I put it in a box and didn’t use it again. In my new apartment, I’m living alone, but I quickly learned living here that the walls are thin, I can hear a lot from outside, and I can hear my downstairs neighbor clearly. Additionally, a mysterious hum started emanating from somewhere in the neighborhood at night that started driving me crazy. In comes my barely-used, tucked-away Dohm. Admittedly, using it for the first several nights was uncomfortable. I was not at all accustomed to falling asleep with any sort of noise. It would kind of annoy me, actually. Then, in my annoyance, I would get angry that I had to use a noise machine at all. Then I would start wondering why I didn’t just live in a cottage in the countryside isolated and insulated from everything so that I didn’t have to deal with any noise at night and sleep in peace and I cried myself, finally, to sleep. Anyway, one day, my neighbor was being a bit loud and I wanted to sit in relative silence while I read, so I sat on my bed and turned on my Dohm on a whim. While I read, I got a message from my neighbor saying “sorry you had to hear that.” I had no idea what he was talking about. Apparently, he had gotten into an argument with his visitor and knew that they were being loud enough for me to have heard; I hadn’t heard a thing. This experience gave me a new appreciation for the Dohm. I realized that it really did mask significantly loud sounds and that, if I opened my mind to it, I could find a lot more peace at night. I just had to allow and accept this fan sound as a part of my sleeping environment. For the next few nights, I adjusted the sound until it felt just right for my ears. When I found the sweet spot, it was very comfortable sleep for me. While at first I would turn it on and off when I slept and woke up, I started keeping it on all day and all night a few months ago. This sound, for me, is now an integral part of my sleeping environment and is, in a way, a source of comfort for me because it’s kind of a symbol of peace and security now. Long story short, while it can be difficult to adjust to, the Dohm considerably lessens the perception of disturbing noise and is conducive to restful sleep and inner peace. Additionally, the design is attractive and the controls are simple and user friendly.

Works great for sleep, sounds just like a fan. The reason I gave 4 stars is not because of the product, but more due to Amazon. The first machine we received was obviously a return - open box, finger prints. My thought is, I just spent $50 on this thing, the machine should be in mint condition! So, Amazon sent us another, and wouldn’t you know, although it was in a sealed box, the machine was separated at the bottom and had to be clicked into place; plus, this also had fingerprints all over it. Just said forget it and kept the first one we bought. So, buyer beware, maybe consider purchasing straight from the manufacturer if you can. That way, even if a machine has been returned, I’m sure the manufacturer will do a much better job and making sure the machine looks brand new before shipping it back out again.

This actually works for me. I am a light sleeper & in the last year, every little thing wakes me up so I have not had a good night sleep. I was desperate to find SOMETHING other than a sleeping pill so I tried this….& it actually works! I've been using it for a couple weeks now & have had a big improvement - I feel more rested & alert during the day. I do not wake up as often - maybe once or twice & I fall back asleep quickly. A fan going in the bedroom always helped me sleep better except for the blowing, getting too cool & drying the sinuses. This DOHM solves those problems. You can adjust the amount of sound - there is a lot of adjustability. I find it works best for me on the 1 setting & all the ports closed down - so the most quiet. I put it in a corner of the bedroom, far away as possible from the bed. Another benefit I was not even thinking of….when we have guests at our small cabin, you hear when someone gets up in the night, snores, coughs, etc. I put this DOHM in the hall between the bedrooms & turned it to a medium sound level & everyone slept better! It blocks out all those sounds - kind of a simple miracle. I'm buying a second DOHM to leave there. This unit is assembled in the USA & the person who assembles it, signs their name on the bottom tag. So if you are looking at a cheaper version of this, keep that in mind. You are keeping someone employed here in the USA & this is a well built unit! It does not get hot & it's heavy so I assume the inside motor is not a piece of junk.

The Marpac Dohm DS, known as the best white noise machine since 1962, is a dual speed sound machine that generates soothing white noise and masks unwanted sounds to create a sense of calm and relaxation. Many people, young and old, have been using & recommending the Marpac White Noise Machine to achieve a better, more restful night's sleep for many years. White noise sounds like rushing air and is perfect for adults, children, and babies who are having trouble sleeping. Continuous white noise machines are also commonly used in office environments to mask out distracting sounds, improve concentration, and increase privacy. The Dohm has evolved over the years to make it the world leader in personal white noise machines & features two power levels as well as the ability to adjust the tone and volume of the white noise generator. While turning on a fan or keeping the air conditioner running can produce a constant "hum", these devices typically produce sound in a repeated pattern, which is distracting in itself. Plus, a ceiling fan or air conditioner does not mask out unwanted noises from neighbours or the street. A white noise machine is a much more effective alternative and provides the perfect background noise for sleep. The Dohm, formerly known as the Sleepmate sound machine, is a small, lightweight and portable white noise machine, which makes it the perfect travel companion. You can easily take it with you to create a calming and peaceful environment. Commonly used for office privacy and sound masking of conversations in adjacent rooms. If you do not want someone to hear conversations inside a room, you simply place it directly outside the room so people will hear the white noise, not the conversation. Creating the consistent smooth sound of rushing air to help control unwanted intermittent or continuous noise from; Traffic Nearby Conversation Noisy Neighbours Dogs Barking Perfect For: Helping Babies Sleep Partners of Snorers Shift workers Apartment living Day Care Centres/Nurseries Doctor Surgeries Loud Office Environments Tinnitus Sufferers Unlike digitally created white noise makers, the Dohm DS produces a natural white noise, the most popular white maker that produces a singular sound of rushing air. What About Baby & White Noise Machines? Many a parents sanity (& sleep) has been saved simply because of white noise machines for babies. White sound machines produce a calming effect on babies. Have you ever found the sound of the vacuum, hair dryer or washing machine has a calming effect on your baby, especially if they are unsettled? Ever wondered why? Babies are used to muffled noise in the womb, when they are born into the world it is a huge audiological adjustment. Wombs are noisy little homes and newborns are used to sounds, they are easily startled by sudden loud changes in noise become startled them from their sleep. The Dohm-DS operates at 60 dB, the same volume as normal conversation, making it an extremely safe, natural and effective sleep aid that is not in any way damaging to hearing.