Noise damaging our health

We have incredibly loud neighbours. The children scream and yell all the time when in the garden. Their garden is very long, if the children play down there, the parents will shout and yell to get their attention. Oh, and they have a dog that barks and barks. I dread weekends and school holidays.

We lived for a while near an airport, neighbours would carry on a conversation when a plane passed over but all you could see was their lips moving, the noise of the plane completely obliterated all other noise but the neighbours really didn't seem aware.

AuntieE - yes this is interesting - where we live there are bright lights outside since January on all night for security.
We have blackout blinds, heavy curtains, anti glare film on
the glass, still the light penetrates, birds singing all night.
We have eyemasks too, but still our sleep is disturbed.

Can you provide links to any articles which may provide relief?

Noise too of course, sudden, loud hard noises ie car doors slammed at 2.13 am, or this week we. noticed, heavy planes flying low overnight wake us. We are in an area of airfields.
OH woke startled, ‘are we at war?’

We can become acclimatised to noises its true but screeching screaming! children never, hard wired as we are to sounds of distress and alert, that we are instantly adrenaline fuelled, as in young women in the road late at night, screaming, are they high spirited or in mortal danger.
Screaming without fear should be an offense, it is certainly offensive (to ears)

/ meant to say, heavily laden planes, flying low, is unusual so wake us,
- they are not passenger planes which fly high above us here soundlessly

Regular noises can often be ignored as they have a pattern to them, but odd noises at irregular times are often more difficult to ignore. I dont sleep very well due to my back problems mostly but I have the wonderful J S BACH to cheer my day. So if I am awake very early the Bach before 7 (about 10 to 7 am ) gives me an opportunity to "restart" my day, and ignore what went before. It is always calming and cheering for me. So again at night, if I cant get off to sleep , more Bach is my answer to many things, so I "Take one Bach!" at any stressful time and it is my go to on all occasions. Fortunately there are so many different pieces to listen to , I never get tired of his music!

We moved to a new estate in a town and it’s so much quieter than when we lived in a village!

I hate noise but often I find other people consider me odd for being like this. I’ve known instinctively that it’s bad for you, for years. It’s the best bit of news today and needs to be taken seriously.

I, too, hate light pollution and try to turn all lights off, especially outdoor lights. Darkness is natural, necessary and healthy.