Not exactly as great as I thought it would be
I will say that the light feature is neat. My kids did like that very much, and had a bit of fun picking out what color stars they wanted the first night we used it. However, the sounds, aren't that great. For starters the volume on some of the sounds is way too loud even on the lowest setting. It gets super loud but doesn't quite lower to a comforting level that acts as a 'white noise' type of sound. Not that birds chirping is white noise, but turned down low enough it's a great filler sound for little ones that have a hard time falling asleep in an otherwise super silent room. The sound that we have used with this is the birds chirping. Any other sound either bothers my kids or scares them (to be honest). My children are 5 and 7, and have active little minds, so have a hard time settling down at night. I myself need some sort of 'noise' to sleep be it a TV set on low volume or the A/C running or music playing softly, so I thought this Dream Tones sound therapy machine would be great, esp with the built in night light projection. The sounds it plays are (off the top of my head)- Rain, heartbeat, birds chirping, crickets, ocean waves, running water/stream. The birds are what I assume they are calling &#34;Forest&#34;, the &#34;Summer Night&#34; are the crickets and &#34;Babbling Brook&#34; is what sounds like running water to us. The thing that gets me is that some of these sounds are irritating to even me, and since I can only turn them down *so* far I cannot take the edge off the sounds.<br />The chirping birds &#34;Forest&#34; is the only sound my kids are okay with and seem to drift off to very easily. The other sounds vary in response from my children.<br /><br />Ocean Waves- Sounds more like a nasty thunder storm and scares the living CRAP out of my 7yr old daughter.<br /><br />Crickets &#34;Summer Night&#34;- has a horrible metallic echo sound to it in the foreground and it's a noise that really hurts our ears.<br /><br />Heartbeat- well it is a heartbeat, but it's not that fabulous swooshing soothing sound you hear on some of those infant teddy bears that you place in the cribs of newborns, it's an actual BEAT like a creepy horror film beating heart sound that scared the living daylights out of my 5yr old son....and  well, ME! That baffles me, wtf was Conair thinking? Have they not seen those infant heart sounds bears? ((shivers at the creepy heart sound))<br /><br />Babbling Brooke- the ony thing this sound was great at was making my kids need to pee every 10 mins. It sounds more like someone left a faucet on than a &#34;babbling brook&#34;.<br /><br />Rain- same as babbling brook, only it also freaked them out cause they don't like rain storms.<br /><br />Birds Chirping- the only tolerable sound, if you don't mind listening to chirping birds on a constant 10 second loop. It would honestly annoy the living crude out of me if I was using this thing, but my children seem okay with it. I do wish you could turn the volume down more because the SHARP chirping carries out of their room, down the hallway and into the living area...it's that loud even on the lowest setting.<br /><br />So basically it's a really good night projector that makes annoying sounds that either scare your kids or make them need the facilities and is so loud the whole house has to endure the 10 second loop. I'm going to keep looking I suppose. Great idea- as it's portable, battery operated so no cords to mess with, has a great star night light projector, and is compact. It's just the sound execution is awful!
Rating: 2 stars