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A restaurant corner at night in heavy rain: strings of lights along dark windows above parked cars on a wet street.
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Heavy Rain on Umbrella | 1 Hour Rain Sounds for Sleep and Study | ASMR

Autumn · Rain · 1 hr 5 min · September 2022

Not a walk — a standing-still. Heavy rain on an umbrella, held outside a local restaurant strung with lights, while a thunderstorm rolls through and now and then lights up the night sky. The notes do not say where, and this page will not guess; it is one spot on one wet pavement, and that is enough. An umbrella in heavy rain makes a particular sound, more drum than shelter, and the recording is an hour of exactly that, looped, in binaural audio — the drumming close overhead, the storm working at a distance until the thunder arrives and sits under it for a moment, lower than the rain. The restaurant's lights hold their glow the whole time, smeared a little by the water. The notes call it background noise for studying or falling asleep to, and it is, made honestly: one storm, one umbrella, one hour.

Video poster: A restaurant corner at night in heavy rain: strings of lights along dark windows above parked cars on a wet street.

Best with headphones — the audio is true binaural. Watch on YouTube (recommended on TV).

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