Earplugs - good or bad idea?

[Hobopelican]

I have never tried sleeping with ear plugs but I am a very light sleeper. For those that use these does the pressure on your ear canal bother you? Do you cut them shorter for sleeping? Seems like they would drive me crazy but I may have to give them a try.

Really a personal thing, Doesn't bother me a bit, but drives my wife crazy. Best to try 'em and see how you do.

[T- Minus]

I have them, and pack them, but rarely ever use them. For me the foam plugs either fall out or get knocked out, the rubber stopper plugs stretch out my ear canal after about a half-hours time and hurt. So I use the ones you can shape for your ear found at Walgreens for swimmers. But those work to well, I can hear my hart beat, and the silky lightning of the hammock fabric as I shift, and roll about, and seems to be louder than most night noises. So I tend not to use them often. I also like to have some sort of situational awareness to be safe, but really when I'm asleep the world is dead to me till its not. But knowing me as soon as I don't take them I will need them, want them, and wish I had them.

[RecReator]

I love hearing the sounds of nature around me, especially in rainy or snowy weather. Ever hear a lone wolf howl in the middle of a cold winters night? It's music to my ears.

[OneClick]

I can hear my hart beat

LOL I was starting to think I was the only one.

[Pondjumpr]

I never used foam earplugs until last year. I was hunting in a camp that had a small cabin and two of the four of us snored really badly. The first night, I hardly slept. I would even wake them periodically hoping I could beat them back to sleep. it never worked out.
The second night, I used earplugs and it helped a lot. I still heard the alarm on my phone and feel like any loud noise would have still been noticed.

Fast forward to now and over the past year, I have slept in tents and hammocks several times and have used earplugs often. Using them yields better sleep for me and is definitely worth using them IMO.

[Montexan]

I hate plugs, but they will get you the sleep you need if you're dealing with high winds and have a hard push the next morning.

I also found headphones a necessary item in Alaska Summers, where a symphony of birds chirp until they pass out from exhaustion and then another set of birds continue the movement.

[somniferous]

I work in loud environments all the time so I'm always using ear plugs at work. I tend to only use them camping if I'm near other people who snore. Usually if I'm hiking sleep isn't a problem because by the time I lay down for the night I'm exhausted.


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[RotalSnart]

I never camp w/o my earplugs, or my Lab/Shepherd/St. Bernard/Springer Mix.....she's chased two bears out of my campsites so far this year!

[wanderlustman]

Great idea if you can forget about the feel. Silence is not underrated when it come to getting quality REM.

[Nighthauk]

My only problem with them is when you get use to them and then forget them. You hear every little sound and it keeps you awake.


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