Singing Pillow Meant To Lull Soldiers To Sleep

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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia-Montenegro -- How do you help a big, burly infantryman catch some "Z's?" Sing him to sleep.


Danish researchers have created the MusiCure pillow. It's a nice cuddly pillow with a microchip and speakers inside.


The researchers said the pillow can help soldiers from Kosovo to Iraq to relax and fall asleep. The speakers play sounds of birds chirping and soothing music from acoustic instruments.


According to the scientists, their pillows could join rifles, flak jackets and helmets as part of a GI's basic gear.

Danish peacekeepers are testing 10 of the pillows in Kosovo. A battalion surgeon said the singing pillows are in high demand.

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[Rolfing up a Storm]

I have a stereo with a sleep timer that serves the same purpose. I like to listen to neo folk music like Nature and Organisation. It puts me right to sleep.

[Starr]

I have never understood how people can sleep or actually fall asleep better with a tv or music playing. That would drive me insane. I have to have total silence and complete blackness if I am going to have any hope of falling asleep.

[Atlas]

I fall asleep while watching a movie so often, I guess it's because I watch them in my bed... Fortunately it never happen while I was browsing phora.org. :)

[Ace Rimmer]

I seem to fall asleep easier if I am really interested in the movie and eager to see it to the end.
If there is something on which is not of my interest I can not fall asleep at all.

I hate this.

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I fall asleep much faster if I have some sort of background noise. Usually it's coast to coast am on the radio,the kooky tales of UFOs, ghosts, and aliens colour my dreams with many weird experiences.

I don't like dead silence, because I usually have ringing in my ears. Such a problem would no doubt be shared by soldiers in war, whose eardrums are pounded by loud noises.