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Biohacking your sleep

The use of a sleep mask whilst you sleep has been clinically proven as a useful tool for ‘biohacking’ your sleep quality. Biohacking involves making small changes to your lifestyle (in this case, your sleep routine) to promote improvements in health and wellbeing.

A ‘good night’s sleep’ according to the National Sleep Foundation is 7 to 9 hours a night of continuous sleep which helps to ensure you can cycle through all four sleep stages:

Awake - the time spent in bed whilst not sleeping, plus any periods where you wake up during the night

Light Sleep - light sleep help guides you into a deeper sleep - it is the time in which your heart rate slows & your muscles relax

Deep Sleep - during deep sleep your body promotes muscle repair & your blood pressure drops

REM (rapid eye movement) sleep - this is the stage at which your brain benefits the most - respiration & heart rate increases and studies show this is where your memory, learning and problem-solving improves. This is also the stage in which we dream

A simple way to ‘hack’ your sleep is to use our Dr Harris Sleep Mask to block all light out. Studies show that a good quality, light-blocking sleep mask acts as a shield to this light, which in turn will help you to get to sleep quicker and avoid having your sleep interrupted by light.

CurrentBody sleep study: The results

In Spring 2022, we asked 12 CurrentBody customers to participate in a sleep study using our Dr Harris Anti-Wrinkle Sleep Mask. Each participant was asked to track their sleep for five consecutive nights (using their smart watch device) without the sleep mask, then follow the same process whilst sleeping using our Sleep Mask.

67% of all participants saw an increase in the time spent asleep. Denise, one of the participants, found a significant change before and after using the mask. “The first two nights I wore the mask I really noticed the difference. When I woke up in the morning I felt like I had slept straight for hours”.

Average REM sleep of all participants improved by eight minutes per night. Manjet, who’s REM sleep increased by 20 minutes on average per night, found that she woke up “refreshed for the day ahead”.

Read more about the sleep study here in our article > Evidence that the Dr Harris Anti-Wrinkle Sleep Mask really does improve sleep