The idea of sleeping with ear plugs makes me nervous.
Pardon? 😁
I’m a fan, to a point where if I go away somewhere and forget to pack them I have a bit of a panic.
Variously: my partner is an occasional snorer; road traffic noise is a continual problem at home; hotels can be anything from external noise to the slam-slam-slam of a nearby corridor door to pissed people having no volume control at 2am; I’m typically late to bed and late to rise so others making breakfast with hammers at 6am can fall right in the middle of my sleep cycle; and so forth.
They don’t actually occlude all sound. You’ll still hear an alarm (or at least, I would, YMMV I guess).