While the whole technology surrounding us made us more stressed and constantly watching screens gave us the insomnia we are facing, the same technology wants to deliver a "cure" for sleep deprivation. And one has to pay, say 350€ for those headphones... For that money, one can get a lullaby whispered on their ear while resting their head on a woman bossom. Friend of a friend gave the tip...;) Joking aside, I am still interested about that technology described in the article. Sound patterns and brain vawes...

Huge wireless headphones that should make you sleep...not a very good idea. They're completely oblivious of how the human nervous system works, and how it responds to relatively excessive EM bursts like Bluetooth. And the damn thing's snooping on you while you're asleep. @anticupidon it's '70s tech. It's the same tech they tried to sell you to grow bigger bal...errr brains on CD in the '90s...cassette (nice free extra noise from those) during the '80s. It's the tech level of driving babies around in your car to get them to sleep. The step further than that is to just put a frequency in one ear, a slightly different frequency in the other and the resulting frequency mismatch corresponds with a certain brain wave frequency (so alpha/beta etc). Bob Monroe's Hemi-Sync tech and Dane Spotts' Mind Tech are prime examples. Another guy figured out it's all the radiation from the Milky Way that's interfering with our brains, so that explains why ancient prophets/oracles had the best results when tripping inside a cave back in the day. When solar activity is really high that also has a shielding effect, but the sun itself then interferes. But that's all about the human brain interacting with the Zero Point Energy field, and not just our nervous system having to unwind. Marconi Union made Weightless to really, really relax ... best to listen to that instead of buying the €350 headphones. Weightless even has a high anxiety reduction effect, apparently. [youtube=sYoqCJNPxv4]

Hard pass. I'll stick to falling asleep with Hans Zimmer playing over my rather expensive sound system/speakers.

Irenicus:

Hard pass. I'll stick to falling asleep with Hans Zimmer playing over my rather expensive sound system/speakers.

Just give me that 1.25/sec tick (mountains)

Personally, I think I'd have a harder time sleeping wearing a pair of bulky headphones. But, I also don't have insomnia to begin with.

‘Always-on’ technology is driving chronic problems with sleep. Now classified as “a public health epidemic” by the CDC (Centre for Disease Control), 1 in 3 people in the UK are affected by insomnia (NHS Choices) with 50% of Brits reporting struggles with sleep (Mintel).

I find this confusing... The CDC is an American organization (that being said, it'd be spelled as "Center", not "Centre") so why would they have statistics on Brits? Maybe they do, I just find it weird if that was the case. The British equivalent is the PHE, but that wasn't mentioned.

Coming from someone who is dealing with insomnia--and has tried just about every other remedy, it only takes rolling over once to have you chucking these across the room. I mean, I'm sure they factored this into the design, and I'm sure anyone can learn to sleep with these things on, but I feel like nine times out of ten we end up creating our own sleeping issues one way or another. I mean, I met one insomniac who was over 300lb's and chugged energy drinks to stay alert. Are you sure you tried everything? So yeah, suppose you do eventually do learn to sleep with these on? What now--are you going to have problems falling asleep whenever don't have them on? I don't know--I feel like sleep is a complex ecosystem--you disturb one facet, and suddenly you require $350 headphones to fall asleep.

schmidtbag:

Personally, I think I'd have a harder time sleeping wearing a pair of bulky headphones. But, I also don't have insomnia to begin with. I find this confusing... The CDC is an American organization (that being said, it'd be spelled as "Center", not "Centre") so why would they have statistics on Brits? Maybe they do, I just find it weird if that was the case. The British equivalent is the PHE, but that wasn't mentioned.

Hmm... well you could read it that way...however the comma, prior to the data for the 1 in 3 in the UK is called out and in parentheses is the source separately from the CDC so it is not being claimed the UK data is from the CDC. That's some hardcore nits. ‘Always-on’ technology is driving chronic problems with sleep. Now classified as “a public health epidemic” by the CDC (Centre for Disease Control), 1 in 3 people in the UK are affected by insomnia (NHS Choices) with 50% of Brits reporting struggles with sleep (Mintel). You had to work a bit to make that confusing. You even cited the misspelling of the source for the info you later somehow conflated as referring to the UK. 😎 https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2015/hm_2.html Using the Sleep Genius app, Horowitz says, requires only a stereo system or sleep-safe headphones. Next is simply choosing one of three music selections—Renewed Universe, Dreamscapes, or Tranquility—setting the alarm (or the timer, if you only need help falling asleep), and then turning out the lights. 0$$

@Texter thanks for the Marconi Union. It works, calmed me and put me to sleep. Best thing in the last weeks...