But technology is coming to the rescue! At Ascendum, we are constantly curious about the newest tech innovations on the market, and there are some truly exciting tech solutions created to help people fall asleep, track their sleep, or just sleep better. Here are a few of our favorites.
Want to know which night you slept the best? Which nights did you snore the most? Sleep Cycle will not only track how you slept each night, it will also give you weekly statistics. As Sleep Cycle takes in your sleep patterns, it correlates that data with external factors and your daily habits, helping create a complete picture of what influences your sleep. The app also has music, meditations, and stories to help you fall asleep.
This cute little device is backed by 13,000 studies on cardiac coherence breathing, a method of slow and controlled breathing that synchronizes with your heartbeat cycles.
“Cardiac coherence is a stress and emotion management tool used [and is] one of the simplest and most effective techniques for fighting against anxiety.”
- Dr. David O’Hare on Dodow’s website.
So how does it work? With a single touch, Dodow will project a soft light onto the ceiling. It will sync your breathing to the light as it expands and contracts. That’s it! The machine will turn off by itself, allowing you to sleep soundly.
This headband is like something out of a sci-fi movie. The Muse Headband uses advanced EEG technology to track your sleep. While wearing it, you can utilize immersive sleep soundscapes to help lull you to sleep. The Muse uses real-time brainwave feedback to understand which sounds help you feel relaxed. When you do fall asleep, the headband continues to track your EEGs to create a complete view of your sleep and brain activity.
The SomniResonance is a small, lightweight piece of wearable sleep tech that helps you fall asleep, and stay asleep, by delivering weak electromagnetic pulses. According to their website, “The process of falling asleep, staying asleep, dreaming, and awakening generate their own specific pattern. By mimicking the normal frequency patterns of the brain in the process of falling asleep, the SomniResonance® SR1 gently encourages the brain to fall asleep.”
The Fisher Wallace Neurostimulation Device doesn’t just treat insomnia but anxiety and depression as well. The device is wearable, attaching to the temples, and is meant to be used for 20 minutes once or twice a day, perfect for multitasking while you watch an episode of your favorite show or scroll social media. Each time the device is used, it stimulates the brain to release the neurochemicals needed to help users get a good night’s sleep. Fisher Wallace is so confident that this will help with sleep and other mental health issues that there is a thirty-day money-back guarantee.
