Sleep Well: History of The Paperclip (Deep Sleep Therapy)
About this episode
This episode explores the history and technical details of the paperclip as a sleep aid for racing minds.
Sleep well to a boring, deep voice — an alternative to sleep stories and deep sleep therapy. This ASMR sleep aid is for relaxation, insomnia relief and racing minds that need to fall asleep. Tonight, escape the analytical noise of the modern workspace to find comfort in the static, unyielding wire loops of early office standardization. This episode features an objective, technical audit of the late 19th and early 20th-century paperclip patent index—examining the geometric parameters of the Fay, Wright, and definitive Gem designs. We bypass an overactive, racing mind by walking through cold-drawn wire tensile strengths, torsional bending tolerances, and the automated mechanical synchronization of early wire-forming machinery. Deeply Unimportant is a sleep ASMR sleeping aid for minds that need structure to drift off. An alternative to CBT therapy, it employs a form of what sleep scientists call cognitive shuffling that can overcome mind racing thoughts at night. No whispers or fairy tales; just an ordered, structured, boring voice of a real life former newscaster reading material that doesn't matter. This version of the show is ad-supported: ads play at the beginning of the…
People in this episode
Host: Dallas Kachan
Topics covered
- sleep therapy
- ASMR
- relaxation
- insomnia relief
- paperclip history
- cognitive shuffling
Keywords
- sleep stories
- deep sleep therapy
- paperclip patent
- cold-drawn wire
- tensile strengths
- mechanical synchronization
Sponsors
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Books & works: Sleep Well: History of The Paperclip
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