Not many of us consider the small external issues surrounding the bedroom before getting a good night’s sleep. We do have a favorite pillow, a preference in bed mattresses, and perhaps a mild habit like listening to music or reading a chapter of a good crime novel before going to bed.
Some of us have bed partners who go to bed at a different time then we do.
But many of us rarely consider artificial light, even in small amounts.
In January of this year, a study reported in an article on WebMD.com, linked the effect artificial light has on melatonin production. Melatonin is a natural chemical triggered by the pineal gland in the human brain that induces sleep at night time.
The study, citing findings by researcher Joshua Gooley, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, first stated that artificial light after dusk and before bedtime may reduce sleep quality:
“On a daily basis, millions of people choose to keep lights on prior to bedtime and during the usual hours of sleep,” Gooley says in a news release. “Our study shows that this exposure to indoor light has a strong suppressive effect on the hormone melatonin. This could, in turn, have effects on sleep quality and the body’s ability to regulate body temperature, blood pressure and glucose levels.” – Read the full article at WebMD.com
Eyemasks – Seeing the Trend Before it Became Popular
Since 2001, Hemisyncforyou.com founders have been actively using and promoting the beneficial Hemi-Sync audio process along with eyemasks as a natural enhancement to overcoming sleep issues.
While conducting our own anecdotal research on eye masks in house gave us some insight into the factors related to poor sleep, we started to find simple ways to optimize the Hemi-Sync listening experience.
Over the period of 10 years using eye masks we realized how effective they were for heightening the listening of audio programs. Also we noticed how the Hemi-Sync® sound process was more effective for listeners with sleep issues (and other applications) when light is blocked from the face and more importantly, the eyes.
This early drive led us to the Sleepsonic brand Eyemask as a perfect companion to an audio technology like Hemi-Sync, along with the Sleepsonic Pillow.
We know Hemi-Sync helps to trigger balanced brainwave activity effectively occurring within the listener’s reticular formation. The listener may or may not become aware of when the process starts to work, but since the listener is more susceptible to the sound process when in a focused state, the eyemask first seemed like just a supportive accessory to getting focused.
But as a sleep aid, as we have just learned from WebMD, with external light being a factor on the chemical processes behind sleep, so too can a brain’s firing pattern for sleep be enhanced when external light is effectively blocked and melatonin production is increased.
If a user can become more susceptible to a beneficial coherence of brainwave activity while induced by Hemi-Sync signals, than the elevated melatonin levels supported by a dark environment without disturbances of artificial light make an eyemask or “sleep mask” a more vital accessory in the brain entrainment process.
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Please note: Unlike other sleep devices in the marketplace for assisting in sleep, the Eyemasks offered by Hemisyncforyou.com are not made of plastic, but made of fine fabrics and are made in USA .