For as long as I can remember, I’ve had trouble sleeping through the night. I’ve tried taking supplements, cutting down on screen time before bed, and changing out my sheets to the softest and most lightweight ones I could find. I’ve even been to a sleep specialist.
And while some of these things have helped me out a bit, it’s still pretty rare for me to fall asleep within an hour of getting into bed, and I almost never sleep through the whole night without waking up a few times. I’ve tried white noise machines in the past, but I never found one that I truly stuck with. That changed, however, when Snooz sent me its new Breez 2 bedroom fan and white noise machine.
I was immediately intrigued and excited to try it out, since my boyfriend swears by his Snooz original white noise machine—he says it’s the only thing that helps him sleep in his first-floor, street-facing apartment in midtown New York City. Plus, I’d just put my AC unit in storage for the fall and winter and desperately needed some airflow in my bedroom, so I thought, why not give it a shot? Long story short: I’m really glad I decided to try it out, and I’ve been using it every night for the past few weeks.
What makes this different from your typical white noise machine is that you can separately control Breez 2’s fan and sound, so you can use both at the same time or just one or the other depending on your needs. For example, I don’t need the white noise on during the day, but I keep the fan on to have a nice breeze going. At night, I’ve been using both, but once it starts to get a bit colder, I may just need the white noise without the fan.
And speaking of the fan, I’ve been quite pleasantly surprised with its power, considering it takes up less than a square foot. This thing actually blasts a breeze of cold air across my whole room (granted, I have a shoebox bedroom in a flexed Manhattan apartment), not just a little puff of air one foot in front of the fan. And without the white noise on, the fan makes a smooth whirring sound that’s not too loud, so if you do want a pretty quiet space, you can certainly achieve that.
When it comes to the controls, Breez 2 really sets itself apart from your typical fan or sound machine, thanks to the Bluetooth-connected app on my phone that makes it possible for me to adjust it from wherever I am (within Bluetooth connectivity, of course)—which means I can control it while I’m in bed and don’t have to get up in the middle of the night just to change the settings. I can turn the fan up while I’m under the covers. I can turn the volume down without even sitting up.
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