Why do people sleep better when it's raining?

White noise. Also the temperature is cooler.

It’s usually cooler here when it rains, so in summer, that will help me sleep better.

My room stays darker for longer when it rains. That helps me to sleep.

And yes, the noise of the rain on our metal roof is very soothing. I do find that a very relaxing, pleasant sound, so I’m sure it helps me sleep.

Is that some sort of statistical fact? People sleep better when it’s raining?

The rain wakes us up around here usually. Especially, if it starts in the middle of the night, and even more so if there is thunder that comes along with it.

I’m going to guess rainy evenings help you go to sleep because darkness comes sooner.

Only true if you are indoors.

SOME people.

Depends on what type of rain. A steady pitter patter is all good, but in Tornado Alley, if it goes to storming hard, I stay up half the night watching weather reports. That white noise you refer to can turn into a freight train sound with no notice.

Us Brits must sleep through the entire fucking summer then…

Sorry for generalization. “Most” people I know, sleep better when it’s raining. Also, I wasn’t referring to thunderstorms.

Because rain can be lovely and comforting (to be inside)?

Speaking for myself, I think I sleep better with rain because I feel a comforting connection to the natural world around me. Meditation with rain and ocean waves is also good. Also I grew up in a rainy place, and I associate rain with comfort (when in a dry place not being rained on myself).

And yes, it also drowns out the contrast there otherwise might be between silence and noises, which could otherwise get my attention while sleeping.

It is so common I wonder if it’s something biologic. Fewer predators out in the rain, maybe, so you can relax a little?

@NomoreY_A I don’t. The bad storms are the coziest. The thunder shaking the house. I love it!

My subconscious mind tells me I’m in a cozy, dry cave when it’s raining outside and it makes me sleep better. It feels somewhat like I really have at some point in another life been living in caves and felt very safe. Oftentimes, I’m not even awakened by thunderstorms. I feel very happy when it rains at night.

Thuderstorms don’t wake me up either. If the sirens go off Rick wakes me up, then we lay there in bed, feeling for it to decide whether to make a run for it or not. Most of the times not. We just go back to sleep.

I think it’s almost like a fire. It’s relaxing. I think there’s something subconscious, that tells me that the habitat is being well watered, and will be healthy, with plenty of food to eat. Maybe. ....

Yes, and many of our predators are hunkered down too. It’s like a peace filling the world.

@MrGrimm888 In my parts, it tells me the creeks are up, turn around, don’t drown.

You haven’t lived in the Midwest for very long, have you @NomoreY_A. You keep bringing up these mundane, standard, every-spring-events like they’re special or something. Are you not used to them by now? Or did you just move here?

Don’t think I’ll ever get used to them, @Dutchess_III – don’t like tornadoes, flooded road ways, lightning like no body’s business. Last year, an experienced Deputy Sheriff, who should have known better, drowned when her squad car got swept off a low water crossing into a raging river. Dangerous crap, nothing mundane about it.

How long have you lived here?
I’ve lived here since 1968 and in all those years I’ve only seen one tornado. In 2004 Rick and I chased one. I got to watch it form from the beginning. We were watching the clouds spin tighter and tighter and faster and faster and then Rick said, “Here we go!” and a beautiful white tornado dropped down. It was breath taking. Awe inspiring. The only one I’ve seen.
People all around us on that dirt road, parked in their cars, sitting on the hood, drinkin’ beer, watching the show!

Most of my life in Central Texas, but I’ll never get used to it or like it. Drinking beer on the hood of a car in a tornado? Are you out of your mind??? Chasing tornados is like chasing Great Whites or enraged bulls.

LOL! Well, you aren’t IN it! You’re watching it. You can SEE it! It’s not like you’re driving around with your eyes closed!
I was in Texas one horrible spring for a couple of days. Damn sirens going off every 15 minutes. At one point I was stuck under an overpass with a thousand other cars, mainly to protect us from the hail.

Yo, Toto – I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more. Or Arkansas, either!

Well I’m still in Kansas.

So you say… wait ‘till them crazy flying monkeys get after you, that’ll learn you to avoid tornados.

Can’t really avoid them. Just hide if you get scared enough! Which I have a handful of times.

That begs the question, hide from what? The flying monkeys or the tornado?

The tornado. There are no flying monkeys. Only flying cars. FINALLY we have flying cars!

I think I’d rather take my chances with the monkeys.

Me too. If I had a choice.
Sometimes I’d look around our mower shop with all the blades and saws and chainsaws and chains on the wall and just shake my head. I never did figure out just what I would do!

Geesh… well whatever the hell else you do, keep your hubby and kiddos and grand kiddos the hell away from that mower shop! As the wise guy said, keep your head when all around you are losing theirs. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

Lol! Exactly how was I supposed to keep hubs away when it was HIS dream and he was the mechanic!? But it’s long gone. 10 years. Now. And good riddance.

Cool – I love a happy ending! And don’t tell me its gone with the wind, I’ll have nightmares about freakin’ tornados.