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19 relaxing websites to calm your mind

Calm corners of the internet for when your head is too loud. There is rain on a window, a slow endless drive, sand to draw in and soundscapes tuned for focus or sleep.

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  1. 1. The Quiet Place Project

    A few small pages that ask you to stop, breathe and close all your other tabs for two minutes.

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  2. 2. A Soft Murmur

    Mix rain, waves, wind and coffee shop noise into your own background soundscape.

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  3. 3. myNoise

    Background noise generators with a slider per frequency band, so you can tune rain or a distant train to mask exactly the sound your room has too much of.

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  4. 4. Rainy Mood

    Rain and thunder, looping forever. The original ambient noise site, and it is still running.

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  5. 5. WindowSwap

    Ten minutes out of a stranger's window, somewhere in the world. Uploaded by whoever lives there, with the birds and the traffic left in.

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  6. 6. Silk

    Draw symmetrical, glowing, silk-like patterns that look far better than your actual drawing skill.

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  7. 7. This Is Sand

    Pour coloured sand into dunes with your cursor. Meditative in a way no productivity app manages.

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  8. 8. Slow Roads

    Drive an endless, procedurally generated road through forests, deserts and coastlines. No goal, no score, just the road and some music.

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  9. 9. musicForProgramming();

    A long-running series of mixes selected specifically for staying in flow. No talking, no ads.

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  10. 10. Ambiphone

    Ambient music + sounds for work, study and relaxation

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  11. 11. City Walks

    Long walking videos through cities, beaches and night streets, with the street sound left in. Pick a city and wander.

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  12. 12. Zoomquilt

    An infinitely zooming painting, hand-assembled from panels that loop seamlessly forever.

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  13. 13. Tabletopy

    A soundboard for tabletop game nights: tap for tavern chatter, dragon roars, creaking gates or a crackling torch, and layer ambience and combat music under your session.

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  14. 14. Messenger

    Deliver letters around a tiny, hand-crafted 3D planet and chat with whoever you bump into. A small, gentle web game.

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  15. 15. Little Alchemy 2

    Start with air, earth, fire and water and combine them into hundreds of things, one discovery at a time. A calm puzzle you keep coming back to.

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  16. 16. Pomofocus

    A clean Pomodoro timer in a tab with a short task list. Start, work, take the break it gives you.

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  17. 17. Floor796

    A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups

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  18. 18. SomaFM

    Listener-supported internet radio out of San Francisco: forty-odd hand-curated channels, no adverts, running since 2000. Groove Salad has outlasted most streaming services.

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  19. 19. Are.na

    Collect and connect images, links and text into channels. A calm, ad-free alternative to moodboards.

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What websites help you focus?

myNoise and A Soft Murmur build background soundscapes, musicForProgramming has long focus mixes, and Pomofocus keeps time.

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