One of the things that gives parents the most terror of our children's nights is that they suffer from night terrors (redundancy). These are the moments when they suddenly wake up, sit on the bed and start crying without even opening their eyes, as if blocked, almost without hearing us, as if they were crying from the world of dreams and would not want to return to know the reality, that in which they are safe and safe from any evil.
This is what Andy Pista, one of the inventors of LullyWell, I had a twin sister who suffered night terrors. He thought he could invent a device that could help children avoid night terrors and, together with Varun Boriah, they created Lully, a device that sits under the mattress and emits a vibration that prevents the child from sleeping soundly. The great question, Is this useful or is it almost torture?
How Lully works
Lully is a circular device that is controlled from the mobile phone, with an application that turns it on or off, that emits a vibration powerful enough to prevent the child from going into deep sleep (they say 10 times higher than the vibration of a mobile).
To know when to turn on parents have to answer four questions about the child's sleep. Once answered, the application tells parents what time do they have to go to the child's room and turn on the device to start vibrating. This, as they explain, will be done at the latest at 23:00 hours (for that of "calm, you will not have to wake up at 2 in the morning"). Then the Lully turns on, which begins to vibrate, and the child is expected to make the first movement. At that moment it turns off again. This usually happens before five minutes pass, as they explain.
That is, for now the operation is completely manual, with parents who turn it on and off. In future versions, as they comment, they will try to do so in such a way that it is the device itself that turns on and off when necessary.
Useful invention or child torture?
Night terrors usually happen in the deep sleep phase (not the nightmares, which happen in the REM phase), which is the phase in which the body is more relaxed and in which it rests more. The Lully's mission is to prevent the child from entering that phase so that, directly, he cannot suffer the dreaded terrors. According to a study they have done themselves, the use of the device for a few weeks manages to drastically reduce the number of episodes:
Come on, that seems pretty promising. However, there are some issues to consider. To get started, the study has been done by them, so very reliable is not. In addition, it is not only interesting to know if the night terrors disappear, but to know how rested the child wakes up. Does it affect in any way the fact of not reaching the deep stage of sleep? Doesn't it make the child sleepy for the day? Because I say that if the deep sleep phase exists it will be for something.
On the other hand, is it really enough to vibrate a device before 23:00 so that the child does not have night terrors? As usually explained, the most common time they appear are between midnight and 02:00 in the morning. Apparently, once you turn it off, there are still a few hours left to get to that moment.
Finally, it is worth asking what are the night terrors? We know that the child wakes up in fear, crying, screaming, and that it takes a while to fall asleep again. We know that the cause is not very clear, but that they seem to be secondary to times when the child is sleeping poorly, is sick or is in tension because of a problem he is living.
They happen in childhood and as they arrive, they go away with time. All they need is a little bit of love until they go back to sleep and, over time, as I say, they stop happening.
My doubts in this regard, consequently, are linked to the effectiveness of the pot, because I do not know how much to make the device vibrate will serve something, they are linked to how it can affect the dream that when you are peacefully asleep something starts to vibrate below of you and they are linked to knowing that what you avoid (if it works) is the episode, but not the cause.
In case a child has many night terrors It is advised to be valued by a psychologistWell, you may be living in a time of great stress or tension. Solving the cause, helping you manage that stress, will diminish night terrors. Instead, using a device like this, the child will stop "turning on the alarm" that tells us that he needs us to do something for them.
Finally, add that if in the end the invention is useful and wake up a little is positive for the child, it does not take so much paraphernalia (which also costs 169 dollars). You get close to your son, you kiss him, you dress her again, you tell him how much you love him, you caress his hair and he just makes that movement that takes him away from sleep and brings him closer to the waking world for a moment.
I leave you with the video that explains how it works for you to judge yourself:
