Modern life is stressful and  40,000 million people have problems sleeping.   One stress I recognize and can do something about is something in the air.

Besides wearing an I Can Sleep...™ Eye Shade, I (Adrien the designer) sleep wearing a Silk Comfort Mask.  For this purpose I have three clean masks so I can change if I awaken during the night. 

Sometimes I wake up anxious.  I have learned to change to a Honeycomb Mask with carbon filter (beside my bed I keep a little box which holds a the sleep mask, a carbon mask and a cotton mask).  In 95% of these episodes,  with the carbon mask I am able to breathe deeply and comfortably fall back to sleep.  The other 5% are clearly related to a business or family problem that needs resolving.

From these episodes I believe there are times when something in the air~~I don't know what the wind has blown in from who knows where~~affects my breathing, makes me anxious and I wake up.  Practically speaking, if a mask makes a difference, I use it.

One episode was traceable.  About two years ago, a little after midnight I awakened with a splitting headache, very unusual for me.  I changed from silk to a carbon mask.  With the carbon I was able to breathe deeply and within minutes the headache subsided and I slept well.  From the local morning news I learned that around midnight there were five fires fifteen blocks south and southwest of where I live.   One fire was at a tire store so the air was acrid with burning rubber.  I checked the wind direction.  It was blowing our way.

Once in Berkeley, California, a thunder-wind storm was whipping the air.  I awakened coughing~~the kind of cough that indicated to me that my asthma was triggered.   I was wearing a silk mask so changed to a Honeycomb Mask with carbon filter.   It did not relieve my cough.  This was scary~~I was groggy from having been awakened and my rescue medication was across the room in my purse.  My Organic Cotton mask was by the bed so I tried that.  To my great relief, I could breathe with the cotton mask and slept.  To this day I don't know the cause and why only the cotton mask worked. 

A customer in Montana sleeps in the Cold Weather Mask during the winter~~not because she is cold.  She used to have a bloody nose because of the dryness in a heated home.   The silk-lined Cold Weather Mask has low resistance and provides just enough humidity so she can sleep comfortably.

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Last update 02/21/08       I Can Breathe! Inc.