LectroFan High Fidelity White Noise Machine

One minute I hear it and wonder how I'm going to fall asleep with this hiss. And then the other minute, I've dropped like a rock and it's the next morning. I read until I'm sleepy or sometimes until I'm asleep and then I have to wake up because I'm sitting up in bed. So I compose myself for sleep and lie down again. But getting back to sleep often is not easy. And I wake up again, not because I have to go to the bathroom. I just wake up because. I'm still falling asleep as I read but after I compose myself for sleep, I stay asleep. No more waking up again in the middle of the night and then going back to sleep. I live in a condo complex with the cars parked right up to the curbs by the windows and private roads running through it. A few trees but nothing that really dampens the noise of traffic and parking and car alarms going off in the middle of the night. Inside my condo, noise leaks from above and somewhat below, but mostly from above. It's not my neighbors' fault. We're all pretty considerate about noise leakage, but you can't get rid of footsteps and other sounds of living that leak through the ceilings. I've worn ear plugs every night for years. Then I read about this thing and bought it and it came overnight. I wondered how something with these sounds that were rather intrusive could solve this problem. But I found a sound that was the least objectionable and turned it on. I could still hear my upstairs neighbors but much less. I could still hear the floor and their footsteps but not as much. I couldn't really hear their voices as much either. Anyway, next thing you know it's morning. I notice as I wake up that I can't hear the machine sound. But then I become fully awake and I can hear it again. So I turn it off. A remote would be nice for that, but can't have everything. It's been two nights and my sleep hasn't been disturbed by ANYTHING. I've slept right through the night, have fallen asleep incredibly fast - and earlier - and haven't woken up mid sleep. It can take me awhile to fall asleep because I'll hear every sound, creaking, the outside hall door, skittering in the walls, whatever. And it makes me anxious. But for some reason, and somehow, this little hissing machine gets rid of all that. And I have slept soundly and uninterrupted. No more earplugs!