THIM: the True Insomnia Short Circuit?
29 Jan 2024 6:15 PMRosemary ClancyThe THIM device can re-train your brain to fall asleep faster in as little as 10 hours. The seeming paradox? It's via sleep deprivation.
Incredible but true, are the clinically proven results with the THIM wearable sleep retrainer: asleep 30 minutes earlier, 67 minute increase in sleep duration, 28 minute reduction in wake time - achieved by waking you repeatedly as you fall into sleep?
Falling asleep, repeatedly, can condition you to sleep better, and increase your sleep efficiency (where your total sleep time matches your total time spent in bed). This is the premise in Intensive Sleep Retraining, pioneered by Flinders University academic Professor Leon Lack, now imbued in a wearable device you can use at home. You no longer have to stay overnight in a sleep lab to benefit from this sleep conditioning program.
Imagine, 40 practices at falling asleep in one night! Rock-solid evidence that your brain will get you into sleep. The THIM delivers these sleep practice trials during the first hour of your bedtime (after which you enjoy a long nights rest).
The wonderful part about this ISR treatment (researched over 10 years at the Sleep Research Laboratory at Flinders University, South Australia) is that patients who were conditioned - even longterm - to be fearful about falling asleep once per night, got to practice falling asleep multiple times a night. Sounds counterintuitive? But once you get a lot of practice at falling asleep, you can see just how robust your brain's sleep self-regulation is. Result: potentially resolved insomnia in as little as 10 hours: so, no weeks and weeks of the Time in Bed Restriction that insomnia patients shrink away from! Perhaps this is the genuine insomnia short-circuit that legions of sleepless were looking for, when they got stuck in a sleeping pill habit instead?