Exactly this. Every time I have surgery, my family agrees to be my caretakers. I had to recently sleep on my mother's couch for a week after my last double carpal tunnel surgeries. My little sister and her fiancé stayed up til 5am every night, giggling and listening to music and playing video games. Using this method I basically couldn't hear them. Add on a running fan and put a weighted eye mask on and I conked out quickly.

Learning how to insert earplugs correctly makes them work 10x better. This combined with over the ear nose cancelling headphones is the best combo that I've found so far.

You pull up on your outer ear a little to straighten the ear canal, then roll the earplug between your fingers to squish it and make it narrow, insert it, and hold it there for a second until it inflates slightly and stays put.

The classic, flat 3M earplugs also work much better than the fancier-looking bullet shape ones

cant be worn for long earplugs stretch and headphones crush your hear will be painfull after like 2 hours