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It depends! Pressure can feel comforting to me depending on the context; I love when my cat is laying on me, or cuddling up with my partner. But when it comes to sleeping, I don’t really like pressure on me, just feels too restrictive.
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Well I certainly wont turn my cat away but I can’t sleep either way.
I mean weighted vests do exist in real life but are usually aimed a kids, like so many autism things tend to. Actually just looked it up weighted vests seem to be sold for “training” as well.
Yep, the training is called rocking. I had a friend who used one while hiking, its cool cuz it has a bunch of small metal plates that you can put on and take off to adjust the weight so you can work your way up
Beware for real life application though. https://youtu.be/zOoY8kKRg4Q
I do everything with my weighted blanket. It’s constantly on me.
I’ve tried a weighted blanket that my friend has for anxiety - and it was too much for me, I almost throughout the year just have the cover without the duvet itself, just so I have some kind of cover.
It doesn’t also help that I sweat abnormally so I have to be careful to end up into a puddle in my sleep
I feel like mine has been bothering my back lately, might be a change in activity level though. I do find the weight comforting and think it helps me sleep deeper.
You can link a regular poll if you prefer one of those.
Personally, I like the coziness, but not so much the heat/restrictiveness. So more the idea of the blanket than the actual blanket.
I can’t sleep without my weighted blanket. Even in summer. We just compensate by having a large fan blowing directly onto the bed for me.
I’m writing this from under a weighted blanked and I like it here :3
(It is a bit weird when you want to turn around in your sleep, but it calms me down a lot and helps me to have deeper sleep)
I tried a weighted blanket once and never stopped. I had to travel for work and told myself it was silly to bring it, but then had a hard time sleeping without it. I added makeshift weight to my bedding - all the hotel towels, extra blanket, fake couch rug thing, and vowed I’d just travel with heavy luggage from now on.
I like having extra blankets on the bed, but I can’t stand weighted blankets. I tried my friends weighted blanket and I was like, get my out of this thing! It was too heavy, felt like I was being smothered.
Same, I really hate it. It’s like a low-key panic feeling for me when I try to move around beneath it
It depends. I have a weighted blanket that I really like, but it comes with some drawbacks. Since it’s so heavy, repositioning it is extra effort that wakes me up. It’s also a pain to change the sheets on the bed. Still, I think the benefit of being under the outweigh the drawbacks.
However, I definitely do not like feeling restricted. So, if the pressure is restricting, like someone death hugging me and not letting me move, I’m not going to like that at all. I need to have the option to get out of it immediately, even if I don’t need to get out of it immediately.
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Depends on my level of stress. For high stress levels I like weighted blankets, for moderate stress levels I imagine a dog could be great (I’m not allowed to keep one in my flat), for low stress level a standard double blanket is nice.
