Solution

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.