1. Solution ideas for "Noise Pollution as Cause of Sleeplessness"
1 wear headphones to bed
2 install soundproof floors, walls, ceilings
3 install extra thick carpets and curatins
4 sublet to a person who does not have very good
hearing
5 play stereo very loudly right before bed, so that when
you turn it off, room seems quieter
6 build a soundproof dome over your bed
7 wear a hat with ear flaps to bed
8 sleep in a noisy public space for several nights, until
your own home seems peaceful
9 hang a sign out the window requesting neighbors to be
quiet
10 hire an intimidating person to scare the neighbors into
being quiet
11 put a sonic shield on the outside of your home to reflect
the noise back to where it came from
12 offer to clean the neighbors' yard if they promise to
keep it down
13 buy noisy neighbors a new house
14 buy a very bright spotlight that is triggered by noise,
aim it at neighbor's house
15 dig a huge hole and move your whole house
underground to mute sound
16 send a package to neighbors anonymously that
contains a TV remote with all of the buttons removed
except the mute button
17 stock up on NyQuil - the best sleep elixir!
18 buy yourself a new house
19 move to a remote island
20 channel noise to povide electricity to your house, so
you will not resent it, but appreciate how much money it
is saving you
21 Keep a video blog about your experiences
22 petition to get sound ordinance passed in your
town/neighborhood.
23 puncture your ear drums so you cannot hear anything...
ever.
24 Analyze the noise and figure out the time when the
noise is at a minimum and then sleep at those times.
25 Never remove your earwax so it gets so thick you
cannot hear anything.
26 Build a bunker under ground and sleep in that.
27 Move to outer space.
28 Pay people to figure out where all the noises are
coming from and eliminate the noises.
29 Start a business that specializes in helping people get
good night sleeps through the removal of noise
pollution and use your own experience as a starting
point.

2. 30 Plant lots of trees around your house to buffer the
sound.
31 Get hypnotized to not hear the sound.
32 Only sleep every other night so you are so exhausted
you cannot stay awake.
33 Hire a boxer to knock you out every night.
34 Grow your hair out in such a way that it covers your
ears and makes it difficult to hear the noise while you
sleep.
35 Just forget about the noise.
36 Start a support group for people who have the same
problem and then work with them to find solutions.
37 Freeze time and then sleep while time is frozen.
38 Pray and ask God to remove the noise or help you
sleep with the noise.
39 Put yourself in the shoes of your home and
neighborhood. Try to imagine what it must be like if
someone is trying to sleep while you are trying to be
noisy and how frustrating that might be. Use this
paradigm shift to eliminate the problem.
40 Use magic to get rid of the noise.
41 Kindly ask whomever or whatever is making the noise
to stop.
42 Invent a noise extinguisher and use that where
neccesary.
43 Wear ear plugs
44 Use a white noise machine
45 Meditate with a focus on the noise itself
46 Install double pane glass
47 Install noise dampening foam in room
48 Exercise a ton during day to build up sleep debt, so you
won't be woken by noise
49 Request that neighbor turn down the noise
50 Move to a quieter location
51 Recognize that you may habituate to the noise and it'll
then cease being a problem
52 Play a louder noise inside the room, like a Tibetan bowl
sound
53 Go to bed at a different time
54 Go to bed in a different location in home
55 See if you can befriend the noise, thinking of it as a
'teacher' helping learn calm, peace and relaxation
56 Take a sleeping pill
57 Tune your attention to the quality of the noise itself: is it
consistent, intermittent, long, short, high pitch, etc
58 Determine if you can hear the start, middle and end of
any given noise
59 Negatively hallucinate the undesirable portions of the
noise
60 Focus your listening on just a certain range or pitch of
the noise

3. 61 Write up a short story using the various noise inputs as
inspiration
62 Focus your attention on your body instead, through
doing a body scan in your mind's eye
63 Write up story that makes humorous the once irritating
noises (i.e., make it comedic to point of absurdity)
64 ask a DJ to mix all the sounds in a relaxing and calm
music
65 develop a soundproff headphone that shakes at wake
up time
66 start reading a very long and sad book at bed
67 install soundproof windows
68 ask for a meeting with the neighborhood to discuss and
find out solutions
69 develop meditation techniques and create mantras with
the noise
70 change your sleep time and start to work during the
night
71 play louder music in the bedroom
72 put a fake water fall in the bedroom
73 practice a very extenuating activity few hours before
going to bed
74 take advantage to increase sexual activity with your
wife/husband
75 watch TV with sleeping timer on
76 create a sound buster pillow
77 drink passion fruit juice before going to bed
78 create a flexible bed that "hugs" all your body and
"open" at a specific time
79 Sheep counting App for IOS, Android and Windows 8
80 start to study a new language at night
81 hire massage services
82 start doing a crash course on creativity at venture-lab
so you don't have to sleep anymore
83 just forget about the noise. It's just inside your head
84 Record the noise, and see if you can backward
engineer the noise to its constituent parts; then make a
short story for NPR radio on what you find
85 Install an advanced noise cancellation (audio) system
in your room
86 Get a noise-cancellation head-phone for yourself
87 Call the police, complain about the violation of a noise
ordinance
88 Meditate and find your inner peace so you can tune out
all the noise
89 Change your schedule so you can sleep when the
noise is at the lowest level in the day (e.g. sleep during
the day time)
90 Hire a mafia to take care of the noise problem for you
(they will know what to do)
91 Travel around the year so you won't sleep in your room

4. 92 Turn on a noisy machinery in your room (e.g. motor,
generator or fan) so all you can hear is the noise of that
machine
93 Spread a rumor that your neighborhood has been
polluted by radiation so all your neighbors will move
away and no one dares to come closer to your home
94 Use a time travel machine to transport your home to
10000 years ago when no one lives in your
neighborhood
95 Buy a used space suit from NASA and wear it to sleep
as your pajama
96 Download a free app from app store to help you sleep
better (http://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-
body/10-free-iphone-apps-help-you-sleep-better-
tonight)
97 Speed $2 to buy a pair of ear plugs from your local drug
store
98 Nyquil + sleeping pills + alcohol
(there is a chance you may never wake up :-()
99 Hire a psychologist to hypnotize you and make you
believe all the noise is only a dream, not a reality, then
your sleep will not be affected by it
100 Create an artificial stormy weather in your area so it's
always thundering and rainy and you will notice the
noise anymore
101 Take a gene therapy to alter your DNA so that you can
be permanently immune to noise when you sleep
102 Hire the dream experts from movie Inception to put you
into multiple tiers of dreams so your sleep will not be
disturbed by noise
103 Spend lots of money to find the best sound-proof
engineers in the world to design a sound-proof system
for your room
104 Travel to Emerald City and ask the Great Wizard of Oz
to solve the noise problem for you
105 Create a webisode where you investigate the story
behind each sound comprising the noise
106 Record the noise, go to recording studio or similar,
engineer and modify the sounds to create an album of
music, perhaps creating an entirely new genre of music