Technology

People combine conservatism with the urge for innovation. When they want to sleep better, they do not want to sleep anywhere but on the moderately firm mattresses they are used to. Mattresses that create the comfort users are accustomed to have (almost) no mechanisms to influence the senses, helping them to fall asleep faster and sleep more soundly, to relax more effectively, to heal faster, to make love more pleasant. Beds, which are mattress supports, have no effect on users at all, except that they squeak under load, causing laughter or irritation.

 

Advances in technology have not changed the sleep problem: adults continue to sleep poorly on their familiar fixed beds, and their numbers are increasing over time. There are no safe sleep medications, so somnologists recommend learning to fall asleep using relaxation and breathing techniques.

 

Dreaming of sleeping like babies in the figurative sense - falling asleep quickly, sleeping without waking up, waking up rested and full of energy - adults have not thought about the real possibility of such a dream. Infants and adults sleep differently: infants in rocking beds, but adults in fixed beds.

 

Migraines affect more than a billion people in the world. Various chronic pain, anxiety and anxiety states, and panic attacks are experienced by just as many people. Completely safe medications do not exist, all medications affecting the brain, without exception, have adverse reactions. Therefore, doctors recommend a combination of medication and non-medication therapies: relaxation, special breathing, biofeedback methods, which can become more effective when used in conjunction with AVS.

 

We surveyed consumers in different countries about various non-pharmacological ways to fall asleep quickly, to get quality sleep without spontaneous awakenings, to get rid of and prevent chronic pain, migraine, anxiety and restlessness. We received the expected answers about the extreme importance of such ways, but the simultaneous inconvenience, difficult to achieve or low effectiveness.

 

After analyzing non-pharmacological ways recommended by physicians and used by users, we concluded that relaxation, which provides physical relaxation and reduced psycho-emotional tone, is a universal way to solve problems of falling asleep, sleep, pain, stress, anxiety, and more. But relaxation skills are difficult to achieve for most - they require adherence to rules and routines, a long period of training, persistence and determination to get results.

 

We realized that our task is to make relaxation comfortable, pleasant and effective for users. That is, natural and invisible, disguising it as a familiar rocking procedure, which has been a pleasure for people since infancy.  For this purpose, it was necessary to change the beds in order to keep their usual shape and size and radically change their functionality.

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We decided that the pleasure users get when using our bed should make a significant difference. We decided to influence the vestibular apparatus of users by providing them with the pleasure of rocking and a rhythm for breathing.

 

We decided to gently lull adults like babies in a rocking cradle, simultaneously with pleasant relaxing music or special sound and visual effects for fast falling asleep. We used a specially designed rocking bed and synchronous multisensory stimulation technology (SMSST), in which the main effect is on the user's vestibular apparatus, and the accompanying effects are tactile and audiovisual.

 

We drew on existing scientific research with results published in peer-reviewed scientific journals showing that vestibular stimulation reduces falling asleep time and improves sleep quality.

Restoration of breathing in sleep due to the formed conditioned respiratory reflex, in which the external stimulus is a synchronous effect on the vestibular apparatus and touch of the user, is a new, not used before method of normalization of breathing, counteraction to snoring and sleep apnea.

 

Peculiarities of physiology of the vestibular apparatus allow to apply this method of restoration of breathing of the user in sleep, without waking up the user. That is, having formed the habit of the user to breathe synchronously with the rise and fall of the rocking bed, and repeating it many times, it is possible to form a conditioned respiratory reflex as a reaction to the sensory excitation of the vestibular apparatus with additional tactile influence.

 

At occurrence of respiratory insufficiency of the user in a dream or at threat of its spontaneous awakening, the movable substrate of rocking bed will begin to carry out reciprocating movements, at the user “triggers” the formed conditional reflex - there will be a reflexive breathing in a tact of raising and lowering of the movable substrate of rocking bed. The breathing technology is called Bedy Active Breath.

 

The effectiveness of the formation of conditioned breathing reflex will increase if conscious breathing during reciprocating movements of the rocking bed will be accompanied by the production of pleasure hormones. In addition, raising the user's head by changing the shape of the mattress located on the movable substrate of the rocking bed, accompanied by a decrease in throat swelling and an increase in the respiratory passage, will also have a beneficial effect on the effectiveness of the formation of reflexive breathing.

 

A distinctive feature of Bedy Active Breath technology is the absence of special masks, jaw or peri-mandibular mouth guards, implants and other devices placed on the head or in the mouth, hoses and wires that make it difficult to turn over in sleep and reduce the comfort of the user in sleep. Bedy Active Breath technology dramatically improves the quality of sleep of users by eliminating the main cause of spontaneous awakenings - breath-holding, increasing the duration of deep slow-wave sleep N3, providing improved memory and cognitive abilities.

 

Bedy Active Breath technology is not effectively used with horizontal motion sickness along the longitudinal or transverse horizontal axis, and it is impossible to perform motion sickness simulation, excluding direct impact on the user's vestibular apparatus.

 

Ilya Voronin filed a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for “Apparatus and Method of Synchronized Sensory Stimulation”, in which he disclosed the principle of operation of a software and hardware complex of a rocking device with audio-visual influence, affecting the vestibular apparatus, vision, hearing and touch of a person falling asleep or asleep, the essence and principles of synchronized multisensory stimulation technology (SMSST), the essence and principles of Bedy Active Breath technology.

 

We used SMSST to pleasantly relax users in order to get rid of pain, anxiety, worry, negative psychosomatic effects, prevent migraine attacks and panic attacks. We hypothesized that SMSST could be an adjunct to medications, existing medical devices, or act independently, which would require research, objective evaluation, and unbiased results.

 

Beds are not just for resting and sleeping on. We hypothesized that SMSST would be useful for people to have sensual relationships. Developing optimal SMSST algorithms for different purposes is a completely new challenge. We know how to train our AI on focus groups using accurate contact detectors, medical devices for sleep measurement and electroencephalogram (EEG) recording to further determine SMSST algorithms based on the performance of non-contact detectors, without medical devices and appliances.

 

From a functional standpoint, we have expanded the list of senses on which relaxation effects are produced to achieve sleep, rest, relaxation, pain relief, migraine and panic attack prevention, or stimulus effects for sensory pleasures. We added to the standard audiovisual relaxation effects for achieving sleep, rest, relaxation, pain relief, migraine and panic attack prevention, or stimulating effects for sensory pleasures, vestibular effects and associated effects on the user's touch.

 

That is, we've made the sensory impact more effective because the human senses are only six, and we've engaged four of them and are thinking about how to use the fifth one, the sense of smell, effectively.

 

The proof is in the love people of all ages have for rocking furniture: rocking chairs, recliners and home swings sell millions of pieces worth billions of $US annually.

 

We didn't change anything about the mattress design because it's not our business, leaving the choice of mattress model up to the user. We envisioned that the mattress could be plain flat or packed with sensors, with adjustable shape, temperature or firmness or whatever.

 

People have always used their beds for sleep, sex, rest, relaxation, pain relief and preventing panic attacks and migraine attacks, but using a rocking bed with SMSST technology allows you to do all this with much greater efficiency that is fundamentally impossible to achieve with conventional fixed beds. Vestibular stimulation cannot be simulated or replaced by a smartphone app.

 

It's all about the human hormonal system: smooth rocking shapes the rhythm of breathing and triggers the production of pleasure hormones.