Restful Rain: Rain Sounds CD [Digital Sound, CD]

Pure White Noise® (Author) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Format: Digital Sound, CD
• Label: Pure White Noise®
• Run Time: 73 minutes
• ASIN: B000RWAF60
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,190 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #15 in Music > New Age > Environmental
  • #56 in Music > New Age > Relaxation

Editorial Reviews

73 minutes of a Soothing Gentle Rain Shower. One of our most beautiful and effective CDs for sleep and relaxation from Pure White Noise. A very relaxing and soothing CD to melt away your stressful day and help you relax and get to sleep. Listen to the sound of the gentle rain mixed with just the right amount of pure white noise® for a truly tranquil experience. Soothes babies and helps ease colic symptoms. Babies settle down and relax with the "Restful Rain" CD. Great stress reducer for Mom and Dad, too. The perfect non-drug sleep aid to help you relax and fall asleep. Play "Restful Rain" at bedtime and drift off to a very peaceful and relaxing place to alleviate insomnia and sleeplessness. 73 minutes. Note - Our CDs are now packaged in earth friendly recyclable cardboard jackets. It is environmentally irresponsible for us to use the outdated petroleum intensive big bulky plastic CD jewel cases in a web based retail environment. Thank you for joining us in our efforts to become more earth friendly. * Note: To provide you better customer service and faster shipping, all CDs purchased from Pure White Noise are now packed and shipped to you by Amazon.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dear lord, this thing actually works!!!, February 15, 2008

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MisterHorsey (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Restful Rain: Rain Sounds CD (Audio CD)

I live in an apartment across the road from a backpackers/youth hostel as well as a park. Because of the warm weather in Australia, every night the students, who are in their late teens early twenties and mostly from across Europe, congregate outside the hostel, or worse, over in the park (which is actually outside my window) drinking and carrying on. I've been suffering for weeks having to sit through their loud and drunken carousing and flirting (in terrible english, they're too busy drinking all night to concentrate on their studies!).

I've called the hostel, council, environmental protection authority and the police and no-one really wants to do anything about it. Because of the layout of the street, my apartment bears the brunt of the noise, as well as a couple of neighbours, but other places aren't so badly affected.

It only occured to me that white noise might be a temporary solution to my problem. So I went out and bought a fan, which was great, but also a bit of a nuisance because of the constant wind. Another problem with the fan was that it wasn't actually loud enough (!) and the volume couldn't be adjusted. Also, I'm a bit concerned about how much energy the fan would use being on all night.

White noise generators don't seem to be easily available in Australia so they're not an option.

So I took a punt and bought this cd and its absolutely fantastic. I was playing it for a few moments and thought to myself that it was good, but the backpackers probably weren't out tonight so there was no way of knowing how truly effective it was. So I stopped the cd to see if they were out tonight and instantly I heard screaming and shouting from outside. I looked out my window and sure enough there were about 10 backpackers congregating around a park bench drinking. So the cd has proven itself to be able to block out the noise really effectively. At such a small outlay its tremendous value for money.

As for the sound of rain on the cd, well, its a lot more intense than usual rain. Its a bit like a torrential downpour. I was concerned that it would be a monotonous roar of white noise, but it does have very slow rhythms to it like a real rainy spell would. It can be turned up surprisingly loudly without being too disturbing, though of course it may prevent you from doing other activities like listening (carefully) to music or watching television. And its definitely restful listening to the rain rather than having my brain chasing around the shouts and squeals of post pubescent tourists all night.

Anyway, this cd has preserved my sanity for a while. You can probably sense the relief in my review! As for the noisy backpackers, I'm still going to be moving out as I'm not sure I can really live with a simulated rainstorm at all hours of the day. Anyone looking for a flat mate in Sydney??????

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Title Says It All, April 17, 2008

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Alan Kaufman (Charlotte, NC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Restful Rain: Rain Sounds CD (Audio CD)

When I was a child, my room was bordered on 2 sides by large windows. At night the upstate New York air was cool and refreshing. I would sleep peacefully. The only thing better was when it rained (and rained). The sound of this rain soothed me to sleep. When I would wake up during the night, the sound of the continual rain would lull me back into dreamland.

Through the years I have been seeking a record/cassette/CD which emulated this wonderful sound. The closest I ever found was accompanied by boring "new age" music. (Question: What do you get when you play New Age Music backwards? Answer: New Age Music!)

This wonderful, digital recording (with discretely added "white noise")
is the closest thing to "being there" that I have ever heard, or rather, experienced. It is almost 3-dimensional, as you can hear (especially with headphones) the rain hitting various surfaces at the same time. The rain sound is warm and fully textured and...it lulls me to sleep within minutes. Because of it's length (well over an hour of continuous rain), I can wake up and go peacefully back to sleep. I haven't tried it over speakers, but I'm sure it would make for a very relaxing atmosphere.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected, April 21, 2009

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M. Yoho (Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Restful Rain: Rain Sounds CD (Audio CD)

This was not what I had in mind. After you listen for 5 minutes or so it begins to sound like radio static. There is not enough variation in the sound. It is constant pouring rain. There is no other noise. No distant thunder or anything, just constant pouring rain. If you want something just to make noise this is OK for that, but I had more soothing sounds in mind when I purchased the CD. Not worth the price I paid.