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[NotoriousREV]

Have any of you freaks tried a weighted blanket to help you sleep? Praise for them seems to be universal, but I just thought a review from a real person (or as close as it gets on here, anyway) would be good.

I normally don’t have trouble getting to sleep, but wake 90% of the time in the night for an hour or two. Recently, I’ve started having trouble getting to sleep (been trying for 2 hours tonight, have given up for now).

[dinny_g]

Haven't heard of weighted blankets but I could have used one at 02:00 last night when my brain was still firing on all cylinders. Yawning, exhausted physically but wired.

Pity I missed this (I try to stay off my phone no matter how late I'm awake) - we could have a nice little chat. I'm sure you'd have really appreciated a chat with Dinny_G at 2 in the morning...

[Gavin]

Harder to get any angle with your elbow Shirley?

[V8Granite]

Have any of you freaks tried a weighted blanket to help you sleep? Praise for them seems to be universal, but I just thought a review from a real person (or as close as it gets on here, anyway) would be good.

I normally don’t have trouble getting to sleep, but wake 90% of the time in the night for an hour or two. Recently, I’ve started having trouble getting to sleep (been trying for 2 hours tonight, have given up for now).

I watched the Joe Rogan Podcast with Matthew Walker and I’m now getting an average 7 hours a night. I went a whole month on 2 hours a night which was when the wife gave me a kicking and said to do something more to get reasonable sleep.

Watch the podcast, read the book and then decide what you think will work.

I work through problems in my head, listen to a YouTube video called Buckethead Chill and don’t look at a tablet or phone for at least an hour before bed. I think part of it is being a bit more determine after seeing all the terrible healthy problems from a lack of sleep and part of it is just trying things I previously thought I needed to sleep.

We have a heavy blanket, probably 5 kilos or so, and I found I fell asleep well but as I’m a fidgety sleeper I woke up a lot as I shifted about. Also I end up cooking.

Dave!

[Jimmy Choo]

I've heard good things about the weighted blankets but not used one.

Are you still running? I find that if I'm mentally exhausted but not physically exhausted, I struggle.

[Richard]

They’re a bit expensive, with a strong possibility of being crap. Also, I often get to warm at night, so sleep with the lightest duvet available anyway. Not sure this would help me

[ZedLeg]

My missus got one recently and it has noticeably improved her sleep, she slept for 12 hours the first night she used it. It's not a heavy one and it's made of a sort of cotton jersey material so she says it's more comfortable than a duvet for her.

[NotoriousREV]

I've heard good things about the weighted blankets but not used one.

Are you still running? I find that if I'm mentally exhausted but not physically exhausted, I struggle.

I need to start running again. I felt so much better in so many ways when I was. Things are complicated in my head right now. I'm not OK, but I will be.

[dinny_g]

I need to start running again. I felt so much better in so many ways when I was. Things are complicated in my head right now. I'm not OK, but I will be.

All of that - home you get Ok soon Rev...

[NotoriousREV]

Cheers Dinny. We'll have that 2am chat some time

[dinny_g]

Ideally in person and onto our second bottle of Irish Single Malt - we could put the world to rights... (<---- Not a grooming attempt... )

[Jackleg]

Cheers Dinny. We'll have that 2am chat some time

That really will mess up your head!

[NotoriousREV]

I didn't think it was a grooming attempt..but I do now

[JLv3.0]

Well this thread is going off the rails right about now, isn't it.

[Nathan]

Reading with interest, I don't get to sleep or remain asleep very well.

Without prior knowledge of weighted blankets I have always wrapped the duvet around myself like a swiss roll or added second duvets and blankets for weight.

And found sleep impossible in warm climates where you make do with a sheet.

[NotoriousREV]

Reading with interest, I don't get to sleep or remain asleep very well.

Without prior knowledge of weighted blankets I have always wrapped the duvet around myself like a swiss roll or added second duvets and blankets for weight.

And found sleep impossible in warm climates where you make do with a sheet.

As a kid I would almost suffocate myself I'd wrap up so tightly, and as an adult MrsREV gets well pissed off because I have a technique where I end up in a roll with the duvet tucked under me (not a sex technique!). Even I don't know how I do it.

The finest scientists on Earth are yet to devise a sheet I can't drag off the bed every night, or a pillow I can't utterly destroy in a matter of weeks.

[dinny_g]

Well this thread is going off the rails right about now, isn't it.

[Swervin_Mervin]

What sort of duvet and pillow do you have at the moment?

[Nathan]

As a kid I would almost suffocate myself I'd wrap up so tightly, and as an adult MrsREV gets well pissed off because I have a technique where I end up in a roll with the duvet tucked under me

Thats it

Reading around these weighted blankets it sounds a little faddy, BS affiliated marketing ad-copy, but I am desperate.

And something to help me actually breath through my nose.

[NotoriousREV]

What sort of duvet and pillow do you have at the moment?

No idea on the duvet. Just a normal one?

With pillows I've tried everything from the cheapest shite off the local market, to very expensive memory foam. They just end up as a mishapen lump after a few weeks that won't return to anything like a pillow shape.