nodpod Mineralized Silk Gentle Pressure Sleep Mask, Weighted Eye Mask

Man, I love this thing. This is the second one I purchased after an unfortunate incident between my dog and the first one I bought. The weighted nature of this sleep mask keeps your eyes closed and truly helps you fall asleep. I suffer from chronic insomnia - and it has really helped me. While you might thing the weight and fabric of the non-silk version would be warm, it's not. It's a gentle pressure and cooling combination that makes it where I can barely sleep without it. It is just the right amount of weight and thickness to block light without making you feel trapped. I love it. If you are one of those people, like me, who closes their eyes for 10 minutes and immediately picks up their phone, I *highly* recommend this.

i was so skeptical of these for the price, but i was so desperate for better sleep i decided to give it a shot. i’m so glad i did! i have a lot of sensory issues that often build up through the day and catch up to me at night when masking is no longer required, and the weight of this mask is comforting and blocks 100% light. i’ve genuinely slept better with this mask. it stays in place pretty well with the loop in the back, but it still slips off in my sleep (i am a very violent sleeper though lol). great value for the money, honestly; the fabric is buttery soft, BUT it can be a bit hot if you’re a warm sleeper.

I have a lot of fatigue and sleep issues, and I've tried so many things, such as sleep aids, magnesium supplements, white noise, etc, and I have found that a combination of a prescribed sleep aid along with this mask and a fan keeping me cool at night have vastly improved my sleep. I tend to move around in my sleep, and this will typically still be on my eyes when I wake up in the morning. The weight of it keeps my eyes closed and comfortable as well as provides a really relaxing pressure which helps me fall asleep a lot faster. I love the cooling side and this also really helps with migraines because it blocks out light and has a relaxing pressure. I hate sleeping without this now and I feel so well rested after using this.

Let me start by saying that I take many things to help me sleep and my sleep is still a mess (probably from all of the things). Anyway...I saw a video about a weighted sleep mask and came over to Amazon to look up the reviews. That led me to this different sleep mask than the video. I don't have expectations for products as most don't do what they say. Three nights in and I am shook with the results...enough to leave a review! It takes me FOREVER to fall asleep normally and I watch the hours tick by. First night, I enjoyed the weight on my eyes and fell asleep over and over quickly...but also waking up over and over. Once, I woke up with my mouth wide open and dry...gross, but I knew I had been knocked out for awhile and this was a new experience. Second night, I noticed my sinuses felt like they were draining and the pressure felt really nice. I slept well and my eyes even looked brighter the next morning, I actually looked rested (I am 47). Third night, I fell asleep fast and stayed asleep and woke up rested. It falls off in the night, which is normal, but it did the trick to get me to sleep! My husband teased me for all of the sleep things I do and take, only to need a weighted mask...so he is no longer with us. :) RIP. (J/K)

There's a lot I really like about it. The packaging, material and feel are all good quality. I enjoyed using it. However, I ended up returning it because even using it for side sleeping, the extra weight did a terrible number on my neck. For days after I started using it, I had awful neck pain when turning my head. I didn't realize that's what was causing it until I forgot to use my nodpod one night. It does a great job of blocking out light and is very relaxing to use if you have the patience to wait the 2-3 minutes for the weight to really kick in. Highly recommended for everyone that doesn't have a weak neck like me apparently.

This has significantly improved my sleep. It provides just the right amount of weight and completely blocks out light. The fabric is soft and comfortable.

I really love how it presses on my eyes; it’s so comfortable, soft, and helped me relax! Sleep like a baby. It adjusts so comfortably that I almost forgot the most important thing—it helped me with my migraine.

I rarely go so low as a three star, but I remember last year, in ‘23 coming across this new fandangle contraption that was supposed stay on my eyes as I sleep on my side. I am a wide sleeper, I sleep side, back, stomach, and side again. I rarely sleep in one position for too long. So the idea of it being weighted to help it “stay in place,” well… how can it be? Gravity would have to play a hand at this while I’m tossing and turned. But the reviews at the time all were great, and saying it does what it says. So shoot! Maybe it DOES work, so like Jack trading the cow for the beans, I bought the mask! The first few nights were that “honeymoon phase” where we ALL convince ourselves “it will all work out!” Or “this is great!” But, over the weeks, it just became annoying that I’d wake in the night having to find it, flap it BACK on my face and then go BACK to sleep because with weight such as it is, you grow used to that change in weight on your body, and wake trying to put right the difference. After a few months of THAT annoyance I discovered its “glory hole.” And shoved the one end into the tiny, and I DO MEAN TINY hole on the other end. There is VERY little wiggle room to allow for the mask to come in and out of that hole without allowing for it to end up stretching that hole, so I left it in the hole for a long duration of time. Pulling it as loose as I could, and then at night, tightening it by pulling the one end towards the other. But, I began to feel VERY overwhelmed by the weight of the mask on my eyes. Having covid it made my whole body’s nervous system become very heightened and alert of anything uncomfortable. Even slightly so, it’s grown VERY annoying as the little things I DID enjoy in life, suddenly became a MASSIVE uncomfortable thing to have on my body. Jewelry, never worn anymore, and I loved my earrings. But, THAT, is not what my review is about. So, because of that overly tight feeling around my head, and the weight on my face, I ripped it out of the hole. I’d gone back to try and have it laying flat on my face. But again it was that same problem of just sliding off in the night and not staying in place as I moved. I’ve given it another way of wearing it nowadays. I tie it like Ralph Macchio in the Karate Kid with his head piece. But, I try NOT to try too tie or too close to the head as the weight resting on my eyes is NOT a comfort for me as it might have been. It’s grown very heavy. It’s very intrusive and can be hard to fall asleep with sometimes because of that weight just LAYING THERE ON my EYES! I sometimes ask myself WHY I thought it was a good idea to torture myself like this!? I have used MANY other sleeping masks over the years as I find it hard to sleep with even the FAINTEST of lights. I was a kid who shared a room with a sister who needed the TV on, needless to say, *I* got to know the Chris Farley years BETTER then I did whoever was on in the current years, which, honestly, might have STILL been Farley! But back then they’d play SNL at 11 or whenever, and then again an hour and a half later. And *I* was awake for BOTH! I can’t sleep with nose or lights. So, as an adult, I KNOW how I can have control over these shortcomings. And I plug my ears with silicone and my eyes with a mask. But the others, elastic around the head wears out over time, making it looser and easier to fall off. The pillowing pad of the lining wears down to nothing almost, and it leaves you with not much of anything. If they’re designed on one side, it makes cleaning it, a nightmare! So make sure to wash off make up before sleep! So all of these things about the sleep pod seemed like it was checking OFF these problems. But, in time, it created its OWN problems. I can’t say, “don’t buy!” Or, “this is a waste of money!” Simply putting, THESE are MY experiences with this mask. And after finding so MANY articles on Buzz Feed TELLING people that they NEED to buy this, that it IS a MUST for sleeping. I decided that *I* needed to write a review. Because BuzzFeed has it SO WRONG! I would NOT call this a “MUST.” I’d call this an “experiment” in your sleeping adventures. As I don’t know if we ever really WILL find the “Perfect” sleeping companion. AND, what is right for ONE person, does NOT make it right for others. So, I JUST want to help other side sleepers who move back and forth to back, that it’s NOT effective at staying in place. And it’s not a good value, and honestly, I think it DID have a weird smell to it when I first bought it that I had to push through. I am having to do that NOW with a massage pad. It sucks how things that are MEANT to be “aiding” and “relaxing” can have SUCH unpleasantnesses to have to work through. So this WHOLE REVIEW is a shout out to us with sensory challenges, with sleeping peculiarity, and those who just are who they are. I HOPE this was helpful to you before you buy this mask. While this one ISN’T THAT expensive, it’s STILL $35 for A SLEEPING MASK! But worst still, they have a satin one, and THAT ONE is $65! And one of the things it tones is helping with fine lines. Which to ME is laughable as it looks like it has a different inner fabric like my velvety pod. So, HOW is that helping with the fine lines? I don’t know. I find SO MANY *BIG* promises from A LOT of products on here, and then I get it, and they fall short. They are like Bart who orders that film cell of Itchy, only to receive a PART of his arm! That’s how careful we have to be with the products we buy. And why I’ve grown VERY careful with my reviews AND READING them! Because returns are NEVER fun! So I DO hope that this helps you guys in making an informed decision. That said, after ONE YEAR, it’s still in “new shape,” so for THAT, I give it the higher rating. Because I don’t know WHEN I’ll have to replace it. But, IF this was one with elastic, it’d already have had to be replaced twice over.

As a side sleeper this has been a game changer for me, I no longer need to use blockout blinds. Nice and soft, it does slide off but I just put it back on.

I absolutely love the Nodpod weighted sleep mask! It’s super comfortable and really helps me relax at night. The gentle pressure feels so calming, and it blocks out light perfectly without feeling tight or bulky. I also love that it has a warm side and a cool side depending on what I need. It stays in place really well, and I’ve definitely been sleeping better since I started using it. Total game changer for my nighttime routine!

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Helps me sleep well nice weight and easy to carry around

Best product purchase ever but wish I got a darker colour. White lets too much light through.