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Matsushita Designed Sleep Room
wersh writes "Matsushita Electric Works has developed a room that helps people sleep. They've been letting their employees take 30-minute sessions in the room and so far, not one has failed to fall asleep, they claim. They plan to open the sleep room to the public next week and intend to start selling it in June 2005 for 30,000 USD."
Matusushita is a huge company who are probably Sony's main rival, they are of course the parent company of Panasonic and numerous other brands of electronics, they usually like to keep a low profile
what's in a name ?
For the FY ended 3/31/04, net sales increased 1% to Y7.48T. Net income totaled Y42.15B vs. a loss of Y19.45B. Results reflect increased sales in domestic and overseas markets, improved gross profit margins, lower interest expenses, and Y72.22B income related to the employees pension funds.
it's Matsushita, not Matusushita.
Anyway, as we know, hypnotists can make people fall asleep in seconds
Usually, this requires conditioning first. A hypnotist can make you fall asleep in seconds if they have had MINUTES first to condition you to fall asleep or have previously given you a suggestion under hypnosis to return to a hypnotic state ("sleep") when given a trigger stimulus.
From a company who figured out how to eliminate toilet paper
I have seen some of these in Japan, but was always too afraid to use them. However, a lot of people seemed to judging by the sounds coming from the toilet.
Have a fan going in your room or outside/in a closet. I have known many people that use this technique and everyone agrees this helps them fall asleep quickly. This will cost you about $20.00. Calm, white noise is the key to good rest.
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
We read about this in Psychology class. The textbook said that the schedule doesn't work long-term: even though you get more REM sleep, you don't get all of the physical rest that you normally get. It supposedly breaks down after about 2 months. According to my textbook. But they may be wrong. They're psychologists, after all. :-)
Took me three trys to get through it the first time. Now it's the one book I couldn't live without.
"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the deepest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies withing the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains, so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar."
Great stuff.
It really helps to know your Bible though. The whole book, right from the three famous opening words, is packed with Biblical allusions. "Call me Ishmael" sets up the entire tenor of the book, but only if you understand the reference.
In my case it probably doesn't hurt that I have an interest in whaling though. My mother grew up in New Bedford, I grew up with paintings of the Charles W. Morgan about the house, and one of its ship laterns is just across the room from me right now (it was partially stripped before being sent off to the Mystic Seaport and my Grandfather picked up a few bits of it).
If you don't have that interest I can see where it might drag in a few places.
And as I said, it did me three tries to get through it the first time myself, and I'm the sort that doesn't understand why most people these days have trouble reading works from the sixteen and seventeen hundreds.
KFG
Looks like you can't have an HTTP-REFERER to access it... you'll have to copy and paste the URL.
u nd s/1ACV01/12.mp3
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSo
Leave out the slashcode-induced space, of course.
I had but a simple dream, to destroy all humans.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=323076& Nr=3
From a danish newspaper
I used to have the same problem of city noise
disturbing my sleep. As I live in Europe
where people tend to have no aircon it also gets
very hot in the summer so that you have to open
whe windows in the night, what draws in only more
noise.
But after working in a third world city of 12m
for some time I learned to sleep with earplugs,
what solved all my problems. With them I can
sleep almost anywhere under any conditions.
Try AutoZen.
Does fuck all for me, but YMMV.