The Still Room
Long, quiet sound you can leave running for hours. Each one is named for the moment it is for, not for a promise about your body.
This is sound, not medicine. It is here for atmosphere and for sitting still. It is not medical advice, it does not diagnose anything, and it does not treat anything. If something is wrong with your body or your head, please talk to a doctor.
We make these here, in your browser. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is streamed. If you want a proper clinical frequency library, that is a real field with real practitioners, and CymaTones is one place doing that work. We have not copied their sounds and we are not pretending to be them.
If you are coming down from something. Some of these are named for that on purpose, because pretending it does not happen helps nobody. A sound is not a treatment and it is not a substitute for care. If somebody cannot be woken, is struggling to breathe, has a seizure, or is burning up, call 911. Florida has a law that protects people who call for help in an overdose. Stay with them.
988 is the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, by call or text, any hour. 1-800-662-4357 is the SAMHSA national helpline, free and confidential. Neither of those is us, and both of them are better at this than a webpage.
How to use it
- Pick one. It fades in over a few seconds, because a drone that arrives suddenly is a jump scare.
- Set a timer, or leave it on forever. It fades itself out at the end rather than stopping dead.
- It starts quiet on purpose. This often runs at night, sometimes while somebody falls asleep.
- It never loops. The layers drift against each other, so it does not land in the same place twice.
- Keep the tab open. Browsers stop audio in a tab you have closed.
Ordinary musical pitches
The tones underneath these beds are normal musical notes, picked because they sit well together. A fifth is wide and calm. A minor third is heavier. Two notes a few cents apart beat slowly against each other, and that slow beat is what makes a drone feel alive instead of flat.
That is the whole trick. No number here is claimed to do anything to an organ, and we are not going to start claiming it.
The colour on each one comes from its own pitch, folded up octave by octave until it lands in the range our eyes call visible. That is an old convention among musicians and painters, not a fact about physics and definitely not a fact about bodies. It is there so the room has a colour that belongs to the sound. Low notes come out warm, high notes cool.