Embryonic Sleep Capsule

So I'm laying in bed, tossing and turning as usual, pressure points, too hot, too cold --

And the thought occurs to me, has anyone ever invented a salty, heated liquid bath for sleeping? It would mimic the womb, and should prevent not only uncomfortable positions but also maybe those dreams we all have where we need to move quickly and it feels like our arms and legs are restrained.

They actually have those. They're called aquariums.*














*Aquariums not recommended for people or other primates

Avatars don't count.

_Howard wrote:

Avatars don't count.

well they only have three fingers and a thumb. Like the Simpsons.

Don't you be demeaning the Simpsons, now.

Octal math is self-limiting.

You seem to be describing a sensory deprivation tank... like out of that film, Altered States when the main character takes some king of peyote and regresses into a pre-homosapien creature. The problem of course with an SDT would be salt saturation and turning over.

SAI2 wrote:

You seem to be describing a sensory deprivation tank...

Yes I suppose so.  There isn't any mention on Wikipedia however of using them for sleeping.

Googling "isolation tank" + "sleep" brings up this website.  Not very helpful.

I remember the movie Altered States. I thought it was a modern version of Jekyll and Hyde. I don't remember the peyote, however. Wonder why that is.

This idea came up again tonight. Just before bed I saw a commercial for a Sleep Number bed, or a Tempur-pedic bed, that showed the customer adjusting the temperature of the bed with a little thermometer.

They don't do that of course.

You can adjust the firmness of an air bed like the Sleep Number, but not the temp. On days like this, where the outdoor temperature is in the mid-eighties, it'd be kinda nice to crawl into a bed set to 78 degrees.

Which makes me question all over again: we spend ONE THIRD of our freaking lives sleeping. Why the fuck hasn't anyone's invented a waterbed which uses a gel the same density as the human body, with an aquarium pump & filter to cleans the body and carry away urine? That eliminates pressure points, and automatically adjusts to your body temperature?

I did a little more googling.

You can buy home hyperbaric chambers to put you in 95% oxygen at 1.5 atmospheres for $21,000. No fluid though.

You can rent isolation flotation tanks by the hour or buy a $179 monthly subscription for "unlimited use" (would they let you sleep in it every night? Doubt it.)

Every single person that ever lived sleeps at night, usually for eight hours. There would be a market for an improved sleep system.

Or would you become like an astronaut, and begin losing muscle tone under weightlessness?

For most of my life, up until I was in my 50s, I slept on my stomach with a very thin goose down pillow under my chin.  That pillow went with me everywhere because I couldn't sleep without it.  Hotel pillows??  Fuggedaboutit.  Those awful thick firm things I can't IMAGINE how anybody uses them.

I wore that pillow out, and have never been able to find a replacement.

Sometime in my fifties I switched to laying on my side.  I think it was for snoring and sleep apnea, which have been severe for years.

I toss and turn.  My ears get cauliflowered and I have to turn over because they hurt so bad they wake me up.

Can't sleep on my back at all, my throat closes off immediately.  Can't sleep more than an hour or two in any position.

Tried a CPAP a few years ago.  Just made everything worse.

I just ordered a couple of cheap down pillows from Amazon.  I'll cut them down to 6" wide and take 99% of the stuffing out.

Mike Lindell's "My Pillow" is a sham, a standard shredded foam pillow for $50. And he's a big Trump supporter.

Thinking about trying one of these:


Might help with apnea.

There's also beds designed for burn victims, which are fluid-filled to prevent scraping off new skin growth.



These also control the temperature. Probably gawd-awful expensive though.

https://www.medindia.net/news/healthwatch/regulating-body-temperature-in-a-burns-patient-88300-1.htm