♪ Do you like Piña Coladas ♪
♪ And getting lost in the rain ♪
That's how it makes me feel.
Hello, my name Merle and I have been
having a lot of trouble sleeping.
I go to bed and I just lay
and I think about all the things that
are going on in the world.
I had a night where I didn't fall asleep till 6:00 AM,
it was awful.
In the past, I have tried to use a weighted blanket
for my sleep troubles and it worked really well.
Then I felt like I didn't really need it anymore.
A friend of mine was having a lot of trouble
sleeping so I let her have it.
And I'm not just gonna go ahead and be like,
"Give me that back."
I did see something online,
it's called a weighted blanket for your eyes.
The fact that I could just go straight to the source,
straight to the eye, is really appealing to me.
So I'm gonna try it out for seven days and
see if it improves my sleep.
So I think it arrived, without further ado,
let's just get into this.
(crackling sound)
I'm really hoping this is it.
Otherwise it'll be a late night Amazon
purchase that I don't remember.
Oh, rubber gloves that I ordered.
It's not the sleepwear.
This looks like the package.
Oh, I was correct, the Nodpod.
The weighted blanket for your eyes,
gentle pressure equals better sleep.
Here she is, okay
right off the bag, it looks like a quadruple
ravioli, why are there four eye pads?
Maybe it's like to put the pressure on the outside
of your head too.
Who the hell sleeps like that?
Tell me that please, if this is what I'm
gonna look like when I put this thing on,
it's gonna get a five star review.
First night trying this thing out, I've realized
now that there four eye pillows in case I turn my head.
So let's give this a shot.
I didn't fall asleep again until like 3:00, 3:30
maybe 4:00, I don't even know.
The mask like fell off, I think at the middle
of the night.
It felt nice when I had it one, but it didn't
really help me fall asleep.
So far not convinced.
But I'll try it again tonight.
It's night two, trying these on.
Yeah, here goes nothing.
You know, it feels like
cool, very cool, the beads are very like cold.
Which feels nice and relaxing.
And I gotta say, I'm not seeing the hype so far,
feels really relaxing but my issues
are deeper than that, I think I'm gonna need
more than just the eye pillow but I mean,
I'm gonna keep trying it out.
I also like to sleep on my side,
and this makes it pretty difficult.
- When I think of health, I think of three pillars,
you know, there's diet, there's exercise,
and the huge one is gonna be sleep.
For the body, I know there's a big thing about
these weighted blankets.
Sleep is individualized, but
I'm not gonna go with a weighted eye mask to
be the magical piece of the sleep puzzle.
- It looks very serene.
You look like you're at a spa.
- Would you like to try it on?
- I'm very well, thank you.
- I think you should try it on.
Ready?
- I mean, I sleep with eye masks on all the time
so I don't think it feels too bad.
Though I think it is fairly heavily to move around
much as you sleep, can you?
- No, I can't.
- I think if it's strapped to my head and I was
able to like roll around in my sleep with it,
I'd use it.
- I'm gonna take it back now.
- Take it back, take it back.
- I'm trying.
- Take it back though, take it back though.
- Oh, I've woken up again, the thing is not on my eyes.
It's not here.
- Oh, here it is.
- Oh, I need some sort of a strap.
It does relax me.
The cooling effect is nice and I push on it harder,
cause I don't think the weight is enough.
I don't think I'm using it incorrectly,
I think it just isn't for people that move in their sleep
which I imagine is a lot of people.
Cause raviolis are up to snuff.
- They do look like raviolis.
- I think there's more anxiety tied into my
sleep problems.
And a heavy eye mask isn't gonna solve that.
While it may be nice for someone who has toruble
relaxing before bed, I m sure it would be helpful
but for more serious cases, I don't think
it's a good solution.
It just doesn't do enough.
It's not a miracle cure for me.
I gotta confess something,
I feel like I've been unfair to the nNdpod.
I've got it fastened in the back now,
that helps a lot.
I'm getting the hang of it, I think I have it on
to the right tightness, so that when I roll over
it stays on.
I got like a decent nights sleep last night,
I still wasn't asleep till like 2:00 but
that's kinda normal for me.
Feeling a little more positive, we'll see.
Also just a fun little bonus, look at this,
I'm in a work mode, I'm cleaning, I'm dusting,
I'm vacuuming, I'm cleaning.
I'm on the couch.
Oh my God, there's a bag.
I woke from an okay nights sleep,
it wasn't amazing, it's hard to tell
of it is the Nodpod's fault and how much of it is my fault.
I sometimes think that my issues with sleep
are bigger than this Nodpod can handle.
I experience a lot of anxiety at the moment
with everything that's going on in the world
so I'm working to try to control those anxious
thoughts but it's tough time to kind of judge
the Nodpod cause there's a lot going on in my brain,
I will say, it's still comforting, it's still
soothing but it's kind of hard for me
to put the Nodpod over my eyes and ears
because my anxieties making me feel like it's
unsafe.
I feel less intimidated to put it over my eyes
during the day time.
I might take a nap today.
I rest confidently in my review, which is that
this Nodpod is nice but it falls off even
when it's fastened tightly.
I would think of it as like a napping tool
more so than a sleep aid.
If you have like chronic sleep issues,
it's not gonna solve them.
That's that.
- When we talk about the pandemic and sleep,
it seems like one thing that we've been missing
quite bit of is structure.
Whether it be dropping the kids off at school,
going to work.
We don't have those anymore.
There is a lot of stress.
One of the things we recommend is to develop
something we call, "worry time."
(gentle music)
If you have a thought that seems to always
jump in your mind at night, come up with a
plan of what you can do.
Try to do something peaceful, quite and calm
before going to sleep.
(gentle music)