Has anyone measured how loud highway noise actually is inside their bedroom?
I live near a highway, and I’m tired of people acting like traffic noise is just “background sound.” It’s not. It gets into your bedroom, your sleep, your mood, and eventually your whole routine.I’ve been using earplugs and white noise, and I’ve thought about trying sleep earbuds or sleep headphones at night, but before buying more stuff, I kind of want actual numbers. I want to know how loud my room really gets when trucks pass, when traffic picks up, and during the middle of the night when everything else is quiet.Has anyone here used a decibel meter or phone app to track bedroom noise levels? I know phone apps probably aren’t perfect, but I’m curious if they’re good enough to show patterns. I’d like to compare the noise with and without closed windows, white noise, curtains, or earbuds, just to see what’s actually helping.Part of me wants the data for my own sanity, and part of me wants proof that highway noise is a real quality-of-life issue, not just people being “too sensitive.”