ASMR | Which Sleep Products ACTUALLY Work? I Tested Them!

ASMR | Which Sleep Products ACTUALLY Work? I Tested Them!

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all right well let me just say it would be silly if this experiment was not sponsored by the one and only helix helix sleep is a premium mattress and bedding company that makes products to fit your needs and it's conveniently shipped right to your door i got my helix mattress so long ago years at this point and i sleep on it every single night it is incredible ben loves it i love it sateen loves it and we have a second one in the guest room amazing reviews so already when i received my helix mattress many many moons ago i realized an incredible increase in my sleep quality i absolutely love the helix mattress and it was made for me so i took the helix two-minute sleep quiz and you should do it asks you a bunch of questions about your sleep preferences whether you're a side stomach or back sleeper whether you have any back pain if you like your mattress firm soft etc etc and it matches you with the best mattress it was shipped right to my door i was able to unbox it myself you tear it 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description box below or just go to helix sleep.com gb get up to 200 off your mattress thank you let's go hello everybody it's jv and today we're doing um like con like youtube creator content type content i'm very excited i don't think i've done a video like this i actually don't know when the last time i have according to the cdc website 70 million americans suffer from chronic sleep problems i can pretty much guarantee you that trouble falling asleep is of no stranger to anybody who's in the asmr community that's for sure recently i was actually diagnosed with adhd and generalized anxiety disorder both of which cause or a symptom of them or sleeplessness so i've been dealing with sleeplessness and trouble falling asleep for as long as i can remember my mom was really great with bedtime she put us to bed at the same time every night she did really good sleep habits and yet i still had trouble especially at the older and older i got and i guess the more independence i had my brain was just constantly going i could never fall asleep but eventually as we all know i stumbled onto asmr about 10 years ago and although i definitely still have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep asmr is like my answer it's just distracting enough and it's pleasant and it makes you feel good and you're focusing on this thing but it's not keeping you awake it's actually helping you drift off that's why i made my own channel because i love this community so much i love everything that asmr is about and i love how it can be used to help people fall asleep even though that's not technically the purpose of asmr the purpose is the tingles i guess but so many people might think majority of people use it for sleep reasons so all the time i've seen a lot of like sleep products and they come into my email all the time and i realize that the sleep industry is massive the global market for sleep aids and technologies is expected to reach 84.9 billion dollars by 2021. that's a lot of money spent on sleep and i just contributed to it i bought a bunch of things and i want to see if these will actually work what is effective and uh are any of these worth buying but i want to isolate each one and see if there's a significant difference or change by using any one of these products so i'm going to be filming myself for the next seven nights and each of those nights i'm going to be using something different i don't want anything that i know interrupts my sleep to affect this so i also won't be drinking alcohol for the next seven nights either just to make sure i won't be taking any sort of melatonin or like benadryl or anything that like would cause my sleep to be different the first night is going to be my typical night my favorite thing and it's actually a little bit like a combination it's a product and it's asmr so i'm going to be using my sleep phones i've bought a million pairs and they've sent me quite a few pairs as well i'm not sponsored by them but they did give me an affiliate code after i asked them because i was like listen i am i am unintentionally selling so many of these things because i talk about them all the time but i would love to you know maybe make my own so these are the sleep phones they go over your head and they have flat speakers so you can lay on your side if i don't have my sleep phones to watch my asmr i know that i have a much harder time falling asleep so that'll be the first night that's tonight the next part of my experiment has to do again not sponsored my whoop strap so the whoop strap is a like a health band tracker like an apple watch or fit my fitness whatever that but this one tracks your sleep in a very interesting way but it can tell me when i fell asleep my time in bed so hopefully this should help me track when i fall asleep i did go on to my community tab and i asked a bunch of you what products you have purchased to help you sleep and i think that i was able to capture the majority of those ideas in the products that i ended up purchasing and that i'm going to use so tomorrow night i did get myself a weighted blanket night three i have a little bit of a different kind of blanket it is the hug sleep sleep like a baby um sleep pod swaddle blanket night four a lot of people are talking about their like sound machines their light machines but this is the doodah and what i think it is is a light that goes on your table you're supposed to breathe in and out with the light and it's supposed to make you fall asleep really fast night five a lot of people talked about scents so candles lavender spray so i got the deep sleep pillow spray i'm gonna spray my pillow and i'm gonna see if i fall asleep faster night six sleepy tea so this is almost like medicine but i think we're not gonna count it it's like a supplement it's herbs what do we think this is my proposition we will see how it goes all right see you tonight so all right since this is a vlog about sleeping that's i've been charging them all day to make sure that they're ready put that in and then like this is the power button and once i turn this on it will bluetooth connect the strap that i'm wearing um told me i need about eight and a half hours of sleep we're gonna see if we hit that um but i am going to like start my sleep session on the whoop app and then also start a timer just on my phone in case i happen to like catch when i'm falling asleep i don't know so today in terms of asmr i think i'm going to go to visual sounds one i was watching one of her videos today on the computer and it was giving me mad tingles then i was watching some angelica and a little bit of asmr planet so shout out to all three of y'all okay i think that's it that's like everything i can think of anyway good night good morning everybody it is now day two of our sleep study also i apologize i'm definitely going to be like whispering and soft speaking through this whole thing so let's talk about the first night this is more of this is more of my control i guess so we're putting it in like a study terms i will say i was like determined to fall asleep this time so i didn't like scroll on other social media i didn't do anything else other than like look at the asmr that i was watching and fall asleep so i did end up watching visual sounds one as i was like opening my youtube app i also wanted to give a shout out to miss manganese asmr um asmr alyssa and tiptoe tingles because those three were the immediate artists that also popped into my head i'm like okay well if i can't find a video that i want to watch i'll probably go to these channels so i just want to take the time to say i often fall asleep to their videos as well but tall as asmr fast asmr many many many videos i had the option of watching i think there is room for me to do a whole other separate type of video to see which type of asmr makes me fall asleep the fastest but that's for another day so the video i fell asleep to last night i'll put it up on the screen here was visual sounds one asmr the sleep smith so it started off with some breathing techniques and i tried to like follow them as much as i could which is kind of hard when you're laying down and i was like oh my gosh i'm so worried like because i'm like overthinking this i'm not gonna be able to fall asleep [Music] five minutes and i recognize that i started to get like pretty tired eight minutes in i started like dozing off 12 minutes in i had fallen asleep and like woke up a little bit so i was like okay it took me about 12 minutes to fall asleep and i like just closed my eyes again so i think it took me 12 minutes to fall asleep then i match this information with my whoop strap findings this morning because i set the sleep tracker on it did track how long it took me to fall asleep and it told me it took me 12 minutes so i do think that i can trust the whoop app to tell me how long it takes so jen wonderful video thank you so much for the sleep smith it worked i was out i can't believe how long we make our videos nobody watches the end my recovery was 71 i was well rested slept for eight hours and five minutes which is 10 longer than my recent average well done day one is complete let's talk about day two tonight we will be sleeping with god the weighted blanket now i try to look up some studies about um weighted blankets i honestly didn't find much it's definitely seen in therapies and things like that to reduce anxiety is to have like pressure points like weighted things it's again almost like being swaddled like a baby and we're gonna see that again tomorrow with the product that i bought but this weighted blanket was sent to us and we can't remember from whom so i also don't know how heavy it is i think it's between 10 to 15 pounds so ideally you're supposed to have 10 of your body weight which yeah if it's anything over 15 pounds it might be a little too heavy for me but like anything between 10 to 15 would be just fine this is all i'm going to use tonight to fall asleep no asmr allowed i'm very nervous i have no idea it will help me fall asleep faster but i guess that's why we're trying it so let me know if you guys use weighted blankets does it actually work do you sleep with them or is it just for when you're feeling like you need a little bit of anxiety or stress relief because i feel like my sleep is sometimes controlled by like anxious feelings or my anxiety just like not letting me relax fully maybe a little bit like it will help i'll see you tonight okay so we're trying weighted blanket tonight i will update you on how this very weighted blanket goes good evening everybody it is gb it is now night 3 i forgot i had to vlog this morning about how last night went the weeded blanket um it was really interesting i really struggled to go to bed without asmr my anxiety definitely kicked in i was like i can't just lay in bed and fall asleep but like this man falls asleep every night in like five seconds so i was really nervous i was like screaming you know when you're like i know what i'm doing just me 26 years old okay just me first of all i realized that the weighted blanket is definitely more effective if you're under your regular sheets as well when i was just using the weighted blanket it wasn't heavy enough it didn't have that much of it like an effect the sensation of the weighted blanket did help me so because i was nervous to fall asleep and you know just lay there i'm focusing on the weight it did help it really did help but i fell asleep in nine minutes compare that to 12 minutes to asmr technically i fell asleep with the weighted blanket a few minutes faster however like my quality of sleep in numbers was fine it was perfectly comparable to the asmr sleep but i felt like it was of lesser quality i had bad dreams it wasn't necessarily comfortable to sleep in all night i got up an hour earlier than i usually do and i just felt like my quality of sleep last night wasn't the best i preferred the night before my personal findings for the weighted blanket is that i would use it to relax and de-stress but not necessarily to fall asleep anyway it did go better than expected because i didn't expect it to go well at all but i fell asleep in nine minutes so i bet you're wondering what are we doing tonight what are we doing tonight while something very similar my friends we are swaddling ourselves like a giant baby are you ready for this here we go the hug sleep and sleep like a baby i'm ready welcome to sleep pod inspired by deep touch pressure therapy sleep pod helps you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer once inside the specialized fabric will stretch and compress applying gentle calming pressure around your body it can take a few nights we recommend using sleep pod for seven to ten night no probably up 24 hours okay so you can release your feet as well okay let's try this there she is in all her glory there she goes doing her own thing yeah this is a sack of shame wow that is a full there she is reporting live from the sleep sack it kind of just feels like when you are tangled up in your sheets and you need to like kick them free i hate this i understand the concept but this is a terrible idea [Music] sateen welcome to night four [Music] good evening all it's jb welcome back to another night time to talk about last night i use the sleep sack as you saw and the experiment failed i did not sleep through the whole night in my sleep sack to be fair they did say you had to give it like a good like weeks test how there are a few fatal flaws pros the pros were the material was very soft as for the cons one is that it forced your knees like your your knees [Music] you know what knees are it forced your knees to be pressed together and i found that sensation very uncomfortable i think my ankles were pressed together too because like when i took off the sleep sack and at like 5 a.m my ankles

hurt like the point of contact but i did not like my knees pressing together i usually sleep with like one leg up and one leg straight you know i wouldn't go so far as to say that there was a swaddling effect because it wasn't tight enough it more just felt like when your sheets like a fitted sheet was like stuck on you it didn't give that really that compression feeling i did wake up um maybe like an hour and a half after falling asleep and i had subconsciously taken my arms out already and then again the sleep sack didn't last until morning i also have a confession that i don't really want to say because i'm embarrassed about it but for science i must tell you perhaps the worst con of all with the sleep sack is that it traps in odors and bakes them just so that it becomes hazardous and so for that reason i will never be using the sleep sack again i did not like the sleep sack okay then i want your um suggestion do now fall asleep faster or do i do the this works deep sleep pillow spray oh i like the pillow spray i'm afraid i'm going to be allergic to it here is our deep sleeping pillow spray with sleep comes beauty oh okay so it's telling me that if i sleep i will be beautiful use that bedtime to help fall asleep more quickly and improve sleep quality now considering we already have three nights of data about how fast it's taking me to fall asleep which is 12 minutes nine minutes and nine minutes we will be able to tell whether this is a truth or a lie very quickly so it is essential oils lavender vetivert [Music] and chamomile thank you spray your pillow or bed cover before you go to sleep i do need to read the ingredients imagine if i just sprayed like sesame oil all over my bed a little unboxing for you all okay may cause an allergic skin reaction good good good i don't want to do too many sprays oh she's off to fall asleep oh my gosh it's working already it smells good i'm a little nervous i sprayed too much i went a little overboard as always as i always may all flip my pillow over that'll be good and hopefully i don't [Music] have an allergic reaction i'll be fine goodnight good evening children it's gb welcome back to another night of chibi ghost sleep tonight we are doing the the do dao [Music] you ready miss sateen are you not ready this is the doodle designed by insomniacs fall asleep better but let me just actually open it here all right we have some information i'm gonna have to blur that but i have an access code to the sleep platform so we're taking sleep into 2021 here baby thanks for using doodle as a form insomniac i know that sleep is a big real pain in life and even though dude how's not a miracle product we truly believe it could be an amazing tool to help you fall asleep faster me at asmr reading the booklet will really help oh my gosh i have to read a booklet here's the device 8 minutes 20 minutes tap the touchpad once to activate the eight minute mode doodah will project a ring of blue light on your ceiling open your eyes and look at the blue light gently synchronize your breathing with the light breathe with your lower abdomen abdominal breathing remain passive do not try to sleep this exercise is designed for those who think too much the objective is to create a diversion to occupy your mind with something far less stimulating than your thoughts like asmr okay so i'm gonna be thinking in my head inhale exhale this is gonna send me to a panic attack i can feel it all right let's give it a go i can't get it to work i can't get it to work what am i doing wrong okay i cannot get it to work so i have to go try different batteries come on let's go let's go get batteries [Music] it was the batteries so this is what it looks like it gets brighter brighter brighter and then it gets dimmer and you can see on the ceiling it just looks like that it's like a very faint yeah i don't have the brain capacity for this all right night four five i think this is night five so this is the nighttime tea that i'm going to try it's from puka infused for up to 15 minutes i'm gonna drink this watch asmr and see how that goes and then we'll do a whole rundown of the products tomorrow uh while we wait for the d to steep i'll give you the rundown of yesterday first of all i am definitely coming down with something which is unfortunate but i can not really self-speak that well i apologize secondly i have realized the error of my ways by kind of reflecting back on the last couple of days that i've been filming this is that we have put someone who does not like to go to bed in a situation where they have to go to bed so i have been putting off going to bed until i'm very very tired because i'm so nervous about going to bed without asmr we are learning a different kind of science at this moment however i do have opinions about each of the items last night was just the most egregious of my errors i like dreaded like the meditation aspect of it so i waited until i was really really tired to like turn it on and i couldn't get through the eight minutes which is what you're supposed to do as you're supposed to do it to like make yourself tired to go to sleep which that is a lot of discipline okay that's a lot of discipline for someone who has time so if the face changes it starts fast and then it gets slower and starts to start breathing slower and slower it was hard to know what the light was doing i don't know if i needed to change the brightness settings i ended up turning over going to sleep and that was the other problem is that i am a side sleeper and you have to lay on your back to look at the ceiling and so i was uncomfortable so i did not use this device properly i think it is a meditative device if someone doesn't want to be watching screens or things like that like it's good especially if you are a back sleeper or you're comfortable on your back but it just didn't work for me last night anyway but to me i think it's user error slash user preference when i checked my whoop status this morning it told me that i fell asleep in a minute which could not possibly be true ben's stomach is rumbling i'm doubting the validity of the last night's data it was very quick though because i was very tired but i would think i lasted at least three minutes a week looking at that light and then another minute or so like turning over and then i was like no i should try and i was like no go to sleep okay so tonight we are having tea and asmr and then tomorrow we'll do a short breakdown although i'm sure you've got most of the content you need of all the items whether i'd recommend them the ones i'm going to use in the future and that'll be that this is like i would say a mediocre first attempt at me trying to do content like this if i do another one in the future i will probably plan a little more gbl go wash my face satine cynthia you've been with us this whole journey you should be here at the end as well what did you think about all the sleeping all the sleep items that we did [Music] no comment so here i am and we are going to talk about the wrap-up of this experiment now what i set out to do and what i actually did were two very different things i think that much is clear firstly i really thought that i could impartially and objectively test these sleep items i forgot a very crucial very big personality trait of mine which is i hate going to bed i shouldn't have forgotten about that aspect of myself what happened was is that i started to go to bed later and later as i dreaded trying a new sleep product i was falling asleep very quickly i suspect it might be because i was going to bed quite late and i was very tired if i were to do this again it would have to be where i'm in a place of self-discipline where i would get into bed before i am tired and see if these products would make you tired and fall asleep that being said i do have thoughts and feelings on each product that hopefully this video won't be always it'll be have been fun to watch firstly to absolutely no one's surprise my favorite was the asmr i actually think i would prefer the most listening to asmr on my phone speakers um i did enjoy having my ears free on the other nights but the sleep phones are too convenient to pass up especially because ben and i share a bed and he is very very sensitive to light and sound so i have to wear headphones but basically it was the best experience from start to finish probably because it's what i'm used to asmr is entertaining and comforting and relaxing at the same time obviously i think it took me a little bit longer to fall asleep because i was taking the time to enjoy the video as well so the first night granted it was the first night so i was like kind of like nervous it took me 12 minutes and then last night when i used asmr to help me fall asleep it took me seven minutes the other nights were all seven i think it was like seven probably about three to seven minutes to fall asleep which i think is like average second night the weighted blanket i would not use the weighted blanket again to sleep however i will appreciate the fact that i have a weighted blanket the next time i feel anxious and i just want to chill out in my bed and feel very comforted so the weight of like it was good one thumb up about the third night our sleep sack unfortunately this was a fail for me i did not like it was not comfortable my knees hurt and i almost started a biohazard moving on i may use this for potato sack races down the road but unfortunately not for me the next night was kind of mvp the underdog this was the underdog the deep sleep pillow spray from this works i have to give it to them this does work i'm going to try to find an affiliate code because i'm i feel good about this spray um i will absolutely be using this in conjunction with asmr anytime i just want like a little extra some something i was surprised because i thought it would be very overwhelming and instead the scent was like literally perfect and i think it helped it was just soothing so well done two thumbs up the next night was the doodow unfortunately i think i would have to play around with the settings but i don't see myself using this um to me it serves a similar purpose as asmr with less so if you really don't want to have your phone if you don't like the audio aspect of asmr like you just need a visual again if you are a back sleeper if you are super into meditation breathing exercises if that appeals to you this definitely might be for you unfortunately none of those things are true for me meditation has always been very hard for me i do like breathing exercises [Music] i can see why it would appeal to a lot of people my personal thought is if you already watch and enjoy asmr you probably wouldn't like this but maybe it would be a good gift for someone so i will give them that it's like a real it's a good alternative definitely but i wouldn't uh i probably wouldn't use it again last but not least last night i did do the sleepy tea along with the asmr and it was great it was such a lovely experience because i don't really go out of my way to like make my night super relaxing usually i am forcing myself off of my computer exhausted and again forcing myself to wash my face throwing myself into bed i'm a giant toddler however taking the extra time to like make myself like a hot tea the taste was really nice it was really soothing and relaxing and i just felt happier going to bed definitely would recommend treating yourself with the hot relaxing tea every once in a while it was a perfect partner to my asmr last night i did watch asmr kenshi i'll link it okay that is it for this video let me know what you thought about it if you made it this far i don't know a big shout out to dennis for editing this one i hope you guys learned a little something or maybe you just you know in case you were curious about any of these products or we're thinking about adding something to your nighttime routine i hope you all sleep very very well thank you guys so much for watching and i'll see you in the next video

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