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LostInSpace
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 Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject: Pressure vests/weighted blankets |
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| Has anyone ever tried a weighted blanket or pressure vest? I have a lot of trouble sleeping, and I've finally decided to get a weighted blanket, since I like having weight on me, like multiple blankets or even large books (or cats!). I've thought about looking into pressure vests as well, since I do fidget a lot when I'm working, and have difficulty sustaining focus. As an experiment, I tried wrapping a sheet around myself as tightly as possible, and I really liked how it felt. It was hard to get the pressure even though, so I could only feel it in certain places, which is why I thought an actual vest might be better. Has anyone else had any similar thoughts or actually tried these things? |
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LadyMacbeth
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like a good idea.
*investigates*
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| I always wondering if their good too. I also have many problems sleeping, and I use two matresses, sheets, 4 pillows and a body pillow on top of that, and my cats too! I find I sleep better then I use to. I too want to know if it is good also? |
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Claradoon
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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I have finally saved enough for my weighted blanket, and I've ordered it! I have no doubt that it makes for a great sleep. The suggested weight of the blanket is 10% of your own weight + 1 lb. That's for starters. Some people want more.
When I sleep unweighted, I toss & turn and the bedclothes are all tangled when I wake up. Also I sleep in fetal position.
With a lot of weight on me (blankets, books, pets, etc.), I sleep flat on my back and when I wake the bed is hardly disturbed. In other words, I sleep like a log.
The vest - I haven't checked that out but I don't doubt it. That'll be my next thing to save up for.
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KimJ
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When I was a kid, I slept with a bunch of heavy blankets, pajamas and socks, even in hot summer. This kept fan/air conditioner breezes off of me. Now I don't need them and actually like a very light sheet in summer, a single blanket in winter. I don't wear heavy pajamas anymore.
When my son was in preschool, they tried putting a weighted vest on him and he didn't like it. It was too unnatural. We did use heavy blankets for a while but now he sleeps with a sheet too and hardly wears clothes in the day. |
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misspuff
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Is piling on the blankets an Aspie thing or something?
I used to really like putting stuff on the bed (books, pillows, blankets) while I slept, but I thought that was just normal. Either way, when I lived in SoCal I had to break that habit. When it's 25'C out, even at night, you gotta sleep in the buff with no blankets or DIE. |
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LostInSpace
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| misspuff wrote: | Is piling on the blankets an Aspie thing or something?
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It has to do with craving deep pressure. That's the need Temple Grandin addressed when she built her "hug machine". |
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richie
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Claradoon wrote: | I have finally saved enough for my weighted blanket, and I've ordered it! I have no doubt that it makes for a great sleep. The suggested weight of the blanket is 10% of your own weight + 1 lb. That's for starters. Some people want more.
When I sleep unweighted, I toss & turn and the bedclothes are all tangled when I wake up. Also I sleep in fetal position.
With a lot of weight on me (blankets, books, pets, etc.), I sleep flat on my back and when I wake the bed is hardly disturbed. In other words, I sleep like a log.
The vest - I haven't checked that out but I don't doubt it. That'll be my next thing to save up for. |
Uhh.... Where did you get your weighted blanket? |
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Claradoon
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I'll tell you as soon as it comes true. It's not the Dreamcatcher site.
I just woke in a sweat because I've seven blankets on me - even with the a/c at 67F, it's too hot. The weighted blanket would be made of cotton and it would "breathe", as they say.
Stay tuned. 
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| I guess this also sort of explains why as a kid when I would sleep, I liked to wedge myself up in between the wall and my mattress. The pressure of the two objects together for some reason I felt was comfortable. I guess it was sort of like those "cow squeezer" things that they put the cows in while they are milking them, and it supposed to calm them down. |
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girl7000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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I find that pressure helps to calm me too. I cannot sleep unless I am under my heavy duvet, even when the weather is really hot.
Lying under my duvet is also really helpful when I feel upset or anxious.
I have thought about trying a weighted vest, but the only thing is that I don't think I'd like having weight pressing down on me when I am standing or sitting.
I would really like to try one of those hug machines.
Has anyone else tried them? |
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Graelwyn
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| My mother would always say I was mad when I would still be sleeping under a duvet in the middle of Summer but I hate having nothing on top of me when I sleep. I find a heavy cover comforting. Never realised it was an AS thing. |
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LadyMacbeth
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| AV-geek wrote: | | I guess this also sort of explains why as a kid when I would sleep, I liked to wedge myself up in between the wall and my mattress. |
Haha! Oh wow.. I did that too! I thought it was just me! I can't do that now as the bed is in the middle of the room and it drives me mad. So I end up curled with the duvet wrapped around me tightly. We have two blankets because I have to have all of me tucked in.
I remember thinking when I was little, "I can't keep doing this what will happen when I'm sleeping with my husband" and stuff like that. Tried solidly to train myself out of it. It never worked. So the question "what will happen?" The answer is "you're stuck with it love!" 
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| I could never sleep with a bed in the middle of the room.,..ack. Always has to be against a wall on at least one side. |
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LostInSpace
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Graelwyn wrote: | | I could never sleep with a bed in the middle of the room.,..ack. Always has to be against a wall on at least one side. |
The best is when it's wedged in a corner, though. |
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