The Mission

Peace with every decibel and what this means in practical terms for you:

• Noise reduction while working, using public transport, travelling, meditating and just getting on with your life, which will help with increasing focus and productivity while decreasing levels of stress and anxiety;
• Sleep anywhere like a bear;
• Ear protection from water while swimming.

We also believe that animals, birds, bugs and insects need some peace too. This is why with each purchase of the Morpheus earplugs you will be helping our mission of supporting the wild life, whose aim is conservation and preservation of wildlife and biodiversity. So let's make a real positive impact together!

Why MORPHEUS Earplugs?

The modern world can at times be hectic and overwhelming. Most of us are surrounded by human activity and its inherent noise 24/7. So many of us dwell in busy urban settings, commute using public transport, or work in open space offices. We have all probably encountered noise nuisance as well at some point in our lives.

Then, for a lot of people, noise pollution of a greater scale is real. It is defined by Encyclopaedia Britannica (in the brilliant article written by Jerry A. Nathanson) as unwanted or excessive sound that can have deleterious effects on human health, wildlife and environmental quality. Noise pollution is commonly generated inside many industrial facilities and some other workplaces, but it also comes from highway, railway and airway traffic and from outdoor construction activities.

Loudness is measured in decibels (dB and the normal human ear can detect sounds ranging from 0 dB (hearing threshold) to 140 dB, with sounds between 120 dB to 140 dB causing pain (pain threshold). Therefore, noise can be more than a mere nuisance and at certain levels and durations of exposure can cause hearing loss, raise blood pressure and pulse rates, cause irritability, anxiety and mental fatigue, negatively interfere with sleep.

What however, few of us probably realise (and we certainly never did, so thank you Jerry!) is that “noise pollution also impacts wildlife. A wide range of animals, including insects, frogs, birds, and bats, rely on sound for a variety of reasons. Noise pollution can interfere with an animal’s ability to attract a mate, communicate, navigate, find food, or avoid predators and thus can even be an existential threat to vulnerable organisms.”

We are constantly bombarded with unwanted noise of various levels. In fact, as I’m sitting here typing this on a Saturday morning in the kitchen of my mid-terrace Edwardian house in SW London, my daughter is chatting to me while watching some reels on Instagram, my next-door neighbours are playing with their young daughters in the garden, another neighbour is mowing his lawn, a fly is buzzing trying to find its way back out into the garden,  at least two airplanes a minute are flying over the house and of course, I can also hear traffic of the nearby road and a tube train every now and then… and don’t even get me started on a cute little snoring Frenchie snuggled next to me. My concentration is thinning, and my focus is certainly dwindling until I locate my trusted pair of Morpheus earplugs and put them in my ears, making that creative little voice inside my head a bit louder and more confident.