According to a sleep survey of 1,466 adults and a parallel survey of 1,093 Americans suffering from chronic sleep loss, conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center, a Sound machine may be just as helpful as taking prescription drugs.
They surveyed people who had used some kind of insomnia treatment on at least 8 nights in the previous month.
They were asked about what they'd tried and how often it helped.
From the 12% who had used prescription drugs, 75% said that they helped most nights.
However nearly the same percentage, 70% of the people who used a sound machine reported getting relief.
Bearing in mind that $3 billion was spent on prescription sleep aids in 2007, it would seem that a sound machine would be a safer, less expensive solution to sleep better.
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