Deep pressure from a weighted blanket triggers your nervous system to relax and shut down unnecessary micro-movements, letting you fall asleep faster and sleep deeper. One user saw sleep onset drop from three minutes to two and a half minutes with uninterrupted nights.
Bulletproof radio, a state of high performance. So when you came out in 2018 and said I have these non toxic things, I'm like, I'm really interested. So roots in autism for sure. But I don't have autism or Asperger's, at least not anymore. My kids don't have it. But it still changes sleep. What changes in sleep do people see from weighted blankets?
The changes in sleep that people see are. It becomes faster and easier to go to sleep. So oftentimes if you put this on, there's a very subtle but sudden physical physiological response that happens. So the body innately starts to just relax and let go. And so there's something happening in there with the fight or flight reflex that trigger that so often we're really holding onto. And it's active all day long. The pressure on the body is letting you know that it's safe to relax. That fight or flight response. So it's this sort of overwhelming yet subtle, gentle relaxation response that happens and people will report that slip into sleep. It's this effortless slipping into sleep very, very quickly. So there's that aspect of it. However, we also get feedback from customers that used to wake up two, three, four, five times a night either to go to the bathroom or they just toss and turn. They're now sleeping solid through the night without waking up at all. So you're sleeping more deeply through the night while you sleep. So it's faster going to sleep and deeper sleep and higher quality sleep.
The way I look at it is that there's all these different systems with different goals in the body. And the emergent behavior at the end of the day is okay, our body works, but there's micro movements that happen all the time that we're not even aware of. And they take energy. But it's systems within the body, unconscious systems, that are sort of saying, what can I do? What should I do? What can I get away with? And eventually we notice something maybe. But I think that it's a similar effect to a squirming puppy. And anyone who's listening has ever held a puppy, like a really young puppy, you pick it up and it's just like a ball of wiggles. And then you just hold it and after maybe a minute you hold it from it just goes bleh. And it just melts. And you can rub its tummy and its tongues hang out and it's like in this altered state kind of. And I think that we're doing that to these subtle movement systems in the body that are making us toss and turn. There's no use to it. But the body's always doing an energy equation. And it's like, hey, you know what? I would have to expend a lot of energy to move now. It's not worth moving now. Therefore, I'll shut down this system in the way that it should be shut down anyway. And so you're getting sort of a cleaner, I'm asleep perspective on it. And I now, every night, at least when I'm not traveling, which is always, thank you, pandemic response, in that case, I, I always sleep under the baloo. And I, I really notice that same thing. It's faster to go to sleep now. It takes me two and a half minutes, not three minutes. I don't have a problem going to sleep. But you put it on it. You just.
