Normal sleep cycles should always appear in a specific sequence, however poor sleep habits, lifestyle factors and other circumstances can disrupt healthy sleeping patterns. Over time, your brain can forget the correct sequence and this is where difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep can take hold.
SleepHub® works by playing pure tones that we call ‘sleep sounds’. These are psychoacoustic sounds with sinusoidal waveforms to be exact! Exclusive to SleepHub®, sleep sounds emulate the waves created by the brain during sleep cycles to help you fall asleep and improve your quality of sleep. SleepHub® sleep sounds will guide your brain through the sequence of healthy sleep cycles, so you get the quality of sleep you need in a consistent and optimal way.
Regular and repeated use of your SleepHub® will help to retrain your brain to produce the right sleep sequence and restore sleeping patterns naturally.
How SleepHub® works
1. Scientific sounds
Positioned beside you as you sleep, SleepHub’s® high-quality audio speakers play scientifically developed sound waves. The sleep sounds emulate brain activity that occurs during healthy sleep cycles.
2. Brain retrains
SleepHub® sleep sounds will help you fall asleep and guide you through natural sleep patterns, improving sleep quality and correcting poor sleep habits.
3. Practice makes perfect
Regular and repeated use of your SleepHub® will help to retrain your brain to produce the right sleep sequence and restore sleeping patterns naturally.
4. Sleep is optimised
Good sleep, over time, is very powerful. Reaching a level of optimised sleep will not only bring a wealth of wellbeing benefits to your everyday life, but cognitive and physical health benefits too.
Forming good habits: Sleep training with SleepHub®
With increasingly demanding lifestyle and circumstantial life events, our brain can gradually fall out of sync with natural sleep cycles. Our brains can actually ‘forget’ the correct sequence of sleep cycles and sleep stages. This is when sleep issues, such as insomnia, begin to develop and poor sleep habits can set in.
The SleepHub® Sleep Sound serves as a training aid to help you form new healthy sleep habits, addressing sleep issues for good.
The neuroscience approach
Our brain has two hemispheres – the left and right. When you experience repetition of an action, behaviour or stimuli, the fibers in the central part of the brain are strengthened. Whole brain synchronisation is improved as your brain passes information back and forth between each side. This strengthening of the brain’s connections is just like muscle growth and is called neuroplasticity.
Neuroplasticity is essentially the process of training our brains and the organisation of neural pathways. When we’re learning something new or forming a habit, new neural connections are made in our brains.
The benefits of whole brain synchronisation can include an increase in overall mental health, enhanced cognitive performance and problem solving ability, better memory and creativity and less anxiety.
Studies suggest that the REM stages of sleep play an essential role in strengthening the brain’s ability to memorise information and good sleep can support this. Therefore, getting better sleep can yield better learning results and improve your memory.
Neuroplasticity and SleepHub®
In the same way that poor sleep can be learned over time, the good news is that good sleep can be re-learned! The best way to break any bad habit is with repetition of a good one. Reverting to your natural sleep cycle is like training for any sport – the more often you let your brain ‘practice’ getting back into natural sleep patterns using SleepHub® the better your experience will be.
Clinical trial of SleepHub®
As part of its development, SleepHub® was tested with a cohort of individuals who had been experiencing established insomnia for a period longer than three months, and who were not taking sleep medication. The positive responses from this trial provided evidence using a validated patient reported outcome tool, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) that SleepHub® can re-train the brain to revert to natural sleep patterns. Some of the results from this study are:
- 92% saw a positive sleep improvement with an average, per night;
- 155 minutes more time asleep.
- 76 minutes less time awake.
- 55% reduction in number of times waking up.
The story of how SleepHub® came to be
The SleepHub® journey began by looking for a ‘non-drug’ based cognitive enhancer to help students improve learning and increase their intellect and lucidity.
We knew that certain types of music can have a powerful effect on a listener’s mood so we explored why that was and what music – if any – could help with our project. Once we had found certain musical passages, we then investigated further into what, in particular, was having the effects we were seeing.
From there, we realised that – through sound alone – we could change an individual’s ‘state’, such as fully awake, drowsy or fully asleep. The SleepHub® technologies were developed from further research into sleep and all of its complexities. The more we understood sleep, the more fully we realised that we could apply the research that we had undertaken for students and employ that to help people who have difficulty sleeping, and help improve quality of sleep.
