Somnee Smart Sleep Headband Review: High-Tech Help
I fought With insomnia as long as I remember. I mainly tried all the sleeping pills on the market, in addition I need a sound machine, a sleep mask, a curtain of electricity failure and weighted blanket to start the process of trying to fall asleep. So I decided to try something new.
Before going to bed, from time to time for several months, I wear Somnee, a strip of portable sleep technology which aims to map the brain using EEG (electroencephalogram) sensors to provide individualized therapeutic stimulation to help promote sleep.
The rechargeable banner loads every night on a quay, with sticky hydrogel electrodes for the group which must be replaced every night. Nightly, I wore the Somnee for 15 minutes, where my brain was “mapped” using these EEG sensors and the Somnee algorithms to give a 15 -minute personalized therapeutic stimulation (in particular, tacs or an alternating transcranial stimulation) at bedtime.
Photography: Molly Higgins
Basically, constant and very low electric currents (1 milliampère at 5 to 10 hertz) provide stimulation to the brain via hydrogel electrodes on my forehead to evoke drowsiness and promote healthier sleep at night. Somnee claims that stimulation is personalized in real time, responding and changing according to the rhythms of my own brain, in order to make the brain optimal for a relaxing night. Portable technology is connected to an application (subscription required, see below), where you can monitor the “phase” of the session in which you are and consult the session reports, record your sleep journal and follow sleep trends over time.
Generally, I found myself falling asleep earlier the nights, I used the device, but not necessarily to remain deep asleep all night. I am skeptical about the personalization of electrical stimulation sessions, but Somnee managed to make me sleep. Although maybe not in the way the company wanted. Above all, I noticed that Somnee was an excellent way to improve my sleep hygiene, which means, remain coherent with a routine prior to the hour and promulgate wind practices to regulate the body to be ready for sleep.
“Neural synchrony”
Photography: Molly Higgins
Somnee uses sensors and algorithms to obtain a general card of your brain and offers a 15 -minute personalized electrical stimulation session. The same non -invasive electrical stimulation technique is used for everything, from targeted muscle recovery to more general disorders such as anxiety. The stimulation of the device reacts in real time to the brain rhythms of each individual to optimally balance “inertia, duration and depth of sleep”, according to the Somnee website.
