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 SNORING DESPERATION

What is

AMetasonophiliA (AsP)

Ametasonophilia (ASP)  is a medical term derived from Latin and Greek which means " being attracted to constant sounds).   ASP allows a person to sleep during a noisy environment.  To allow a person to sleep the person in the sleeping state cannot anticipate the next noise event nor be exposed to a change in noise volume, frequency or pitch. 

A sleeper can sleep through noise as long as the noise has a long period between noise events and as long as the person has trained themselves on the length of the period to the next noise event.  A long period between noise events will break cyclic noise action which is one event that will wake a person from a sleep.

  Ametasonophilia (ASP) was seen during World War 2 when soldiers would spend many days in the fox holes defending our county in battles.  Every soldier would have to sleep sometime during their stay.  This is where the Ametasonophilia (ASP) was observed time and time again.  It was documented that a soldier could sleep soundly during heavy shelling for hours at a time but when the shelling stopped the soldier would wake from his sleep.  Shelling in battle has a specific sound.  The soldier became use to the specific constant noise and would not try to anticipate any cycling of the noise.  The soldier’s sleeping state subconscious would learn that the constant noise from the shelling was ok to sleep through as long as the amplitude or frequency did not change or the noise did not stop.  The stopping of the noise would signal the soldier’s subconscious that a change was taking place such as a change in battle conditions.  When the shelling stopped, the soldier in his state of sleep would start to anticipate when the shelling would start again.  When it didn’t start again, the soldier would wake. 

Ametasonophilia (ASP) has several factors that affect whether a person will wake. Although noise amplitude is not necessarily a factor in waking a sleeper, duration, cyclic action, type of noise and a person’s subconscious identification of a noise will effect if a person wakes.  If a person knows that a specific noise means to wake, their sleep state subconscious will tell them to wake to the noise.  A few example of this phenomenon is an alarm clock and a smoke detector. 

An example of the complexity of Ametasonophilia (ASP) can be seen where people live next to a train track.  Depending on how close a person lives to a train track determines the amplitude of the noise the train will make as it passes the resident.  The period is the time that transpires between each time the train travels past the resident.  Some residents can have a train pass once a night while others may have many trains passing a night.  After a few nights exposure to train noise, a person’s sleep state subconscious will learn that this noise does not mean to wake up.  They will also learn the period between train noises is of long duration and that the noise event will end in a given time.  Since the period is long between train noises, the person’s sleeping state subconscious will not be exposed to a cyclic action and thus the person will not wake.  The person can sleep through the train noise because the noise is not a short period cyclic action and the train’s amplitude, frequency and duration is the same for each event.

Snoring desperation uses the Ametasonophilia (ASP) phenomenon to eliminate the short period cyclic action of a snoring sound.  Snoring desperation changes the cyclic action of an individual's specific snoring sound into a constant sound by filling in the void time between a snore with the same snore sound.  This results in a constant snore sound which generates Ametasonophilia (ASP) for a person and allows sleep.