The pod can transport a bed from pan to igloo and back. And, interestingly, it may do this differently for each side of the bed. So, each night, I’d dial my personal weather system to “+2,” while the guy sleeping next to me — an igloo enthusiast and usually my rival in an endless AC battle — got the “-3” of his dreams. Now neither of us tried to put our thermostat case before the other; Quietly, simply, we pressed the buttons and parted ways. If the popular Scandinavian sleeping method encourages a couple to use two different duvets to achieve better comfort, the Eight Sleep Pod is an electrified version of this idea that also lets you preserve some of the outdoors. appearance For aesthetic reasons or out of solidarity for nosy house guests peeking into the bedroom.
But I soon learned that different does not necessarily mean equal. While my partner was napping in bliss, I always felt too rushed or too tired; No amount of manual or autopilot temperature-tweaking can get my REM time into the “optimal range.” Sometimes I think I got a good night’s sleep and my Sleep Fitness Score tells me otherwise. Sometimes the pod failed to log my data, confidently claiming I was “away last night”—a glitch with the sensors, a customer-service representative told me, though this explanation didn’t mitigate the awkwardness of being told by an object that I was not in my home and bed and body.
“How’d you sleep?” my partner often asks me in the morning, bright-faced, as if he’s just returned from a year-long alpine spa retreat.
“Not very good,” I sigh, receiving pitying eyebrows in response.
“Okay,” I finally lied.
“Fabulous,” I said that morning when I felt positively vampire-like, the red pools of dilated capillaries in my eyes having dried up.
How would he know it wasn’t true? Sleep, fundamentally, is not a thing worth sharing like a work meeting or a French restaurant or a Marvel movie. It’s not possible to inhabit another person’s consciousness, let alone their unconscious – and, while we’re at it, it’s not possible to fully understand your own unconscious.
