Dodow - Sleep Aid Device - More Than 150.000 Users Are Falling Asleep Faster with Dodow!

Are you part of the countless individuals who have found themselves tossing and turning, desperately seeking slumber's embrace? Look no further than the revolutionary Dodow sleep aid device! With over a million satisfied users, this ingenious little gadget promises to be your personal lullaby, gently guiding you into the land of restful dreams. 🌙 At first glance, the Dodow might seem like a simple device, but its elegance lies in its simplicity. By projecting a soothing blue light onto your ceiling, it becomes a mesmerizing metronome, synchronizing your breath with its rhythmic pulsations. Inhale as the light expands, exhale as it retracts – a seamless dance that lulls your mind and body into a state of tranquility. 🌿 But Dodow isn't just a pretty light show; it's a masterful conductor of relaxation. By gradually slowing your breathing from 11 to 6 breaths per minute, it taps into the magic of heart coherence, rebalancing your autonomic nervous system and ushering in a state of sublime rest. It's like having a personal yoga instructor whispering sweet nothings, guiding you towards blissful slumber. 🧘‍♀️ Now, let's address the elephant in the room – those pesky intrusive thoughts that seem to amplify the moment your head hits the pillow. Dodow ingeniously creates a diversion, occupying your busy mind with a simple yet captivating task. You'll be so focused on synchronizing your breath with the soothing light, those restless thoughts will quietly dissipate, leaving you in a state of serene tranquility. 😌 But what about the skeptics who argue that they can practice breathing exercises without a fancy device? Fair point, my friends. However, Dodow understands the human psyche and the challenges that come with self-discipline. It takes the guesswork out of the equation, providing a structured, effortless routine that requires minimal effort on your part. No more struggling to maintain focus or worrying about timing – Dodow has got you covered. 🙌 Created by insomniacs for insomniacs, Dodow is a testament to the power of innovation and the relentless pursuit of a good night's sleep. With its soothing blue light, gentle guidance, and user-friendly design, it's no wonder this little device has captured the hearts (and sweet dreams) of over a million users worldwide. 💤 Embrace the lullaby of Dodow, and bid farewell to sleepless nights. Prepare to wake up refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready to conquer the day with newfound energy and clarity. Sweet dreams await, my friends! ✨🌟

The first question is: does it work? Yes, yes it does. At least, it works for me. The principle is pretty simple and well proven - regulating your breathing helps to induce relaxation. You time your breathing to the device and you'll soon nod off to sleep. It gives you something to focus your attention on and the enclosed booklet (I got one in English) gives a few more tips too. The next question is - is it worth the money? Getting a good night's sleep is invaluable, so from that point of view it's definitely worth it. On the other hand, the hardware is pretty simple. There are no fancy optics to make the spot grow and shrink, it just makes the LEDs brighter and dimmer. No doubt a lot of research and development has gone into making this device, it seems to be made of quality materials and it does what it claims, but £44 seems an awful lot of money for three LEDs, a micro controller and some batteries. Having said that, psychology is weird so if they cut corners on manufacturing and sold really cheap nobody would believe it would work - and that includes you, no matter how rational you think you are. It's not perfect though. The light actually appears fairly bright if you dim the lights before bed as I do, and there's no way to alter the maximum brightness. The batteries are jammed in pretty tight; they come pre-installed and should last a while, but eventually you'll need to change them and it won't be as easy as you might expect. The manual is careful to explain that you shouldn't touch the touch sensor part when changing the batteries, but given the entire top is touch sensitive that could be awkward. While it certainly helps you get to sleep, it doesn't make you go to bed in the first place. It's 0:55 and I have work in the morning. Why on Earth am I writing reviews on Amazon? And you, what are you doing reading it? It's late! Go to bed. If you can't get to sleep, come back and order this pretty little gadget to help you get some much needed kip.

Using this dodow has been an absolute game changer for me. I have phases where my sleep is significantly disturbed due to the stresses associated with providing an intense caring role within the family. In times of heightened stress, I find it hard to mentally switch off and can feel very anxious at night with a horrible sense of impending doom. Once in this cycle, I can go weeks on end with a very disturbed sleep pattern. The dodow was suggested to me by a therapist and has been such a fantastic tool for me to use. The light that radiates on the ceiling is calming and soft, and quite quickly calms my breathing down to a rate that is conducive to falling asleep. I find that I’m preoccupied with looking at the light and so I forget about the worries of the day and instead, pay attention to my breathing. I use the longer setting which requires me to do a simple ‘double tap’ and I find that eventually, whilst the light is still pulsing, I turn to my side and fall asleep. I would definitely recommend this device - I was dubious when it was first recommended to me but actually, simple sometimes works and if anything can help to earn anyone some well needed sleep, it’s definitely worth a try!! It’s nicely packaged, has an attractive simple design and comes with batteries. It takes minutes to get started without much brain power involved, which is absolutely necessary when you’re sleep deprived!

I had seen the bad product reviews on Amazon but thought I would give this a try. I get to sleep pretty well but something to destress and relax before sleep is a nice idea. The item is nicely packaged, reminiscent of Apple products and there is a small wad of instructions covering lots of European languages. The Dodow comes complete with everything you need to get started including 3 AAA batteries. The Dodow consists of a small coffee coaster size disc around 1cm deep. The top is 'touch sensitive' and from the top there are the 3 blue LEDs that create the blue light on your ceiling. There are no switches or any other controls and there is exactly the problem. There are minimal instructions, on/off, 3 light settings and 8/20 min programme; simple enough you might think, not so. All issues from what I can make out span from the 'touch sensitive' controls, this is not smart phone touch sensitivity far from it. The instructions make reference to 'tapping' the top of the device to control but a gentle tap is insufficient, as is a touch, somewhere inbetween is the sweet spot. It also employs some time sentitive controls eg 'tap and hold for 3 seconds', sometimes this registers other times not, or its just faulty. Generally the Dodow is a let down, looks great but terrible controls. And not worth trying it out for the hassle of having to return it.

Even before using this product I was aware of the usefulness of breathing exercise as a form of meditative relaxation to aid sleep and often found this a useful way to combat insomnia. This little unit helps to achieve this by giving you a non-intrusive light aid. I have used it several times and found it to be reasonably useful in maintaining breathing, especially as in the dark it is easy to lose concentration. It would be perfect for me if you could somehow direct the beam as having my bed-side in a corner means that the beam is kind of squashed between the walls and ceiling. That could be solved by moving the unit of course, but as I said it would be great if there was a way to direct the beam so I didn't have to. All in all quite a nice unit but at the end of the day it's basically just a pulsing light. You could probably get an app to do the same thing on your phone. I do think it's quite expensive for what it is and I'm not entirely sure it's worth the money. I suppose it depends on your personal taste and ease of access.

After having this for around 8 months now, this Dodow is still in great use. I initially purchased it for myself but the wife had started to suffer from a nasty spell of insomnia. After trying a few different locations in the bedroom we ended up placing our Dowdow on the chest of draws at the opposite side of the bedroom of the bed. It admits a blue light on the ceiling which is very easy on the eyes and very easy to follow. It took the wife a few days to get used to the technique of using it but from there on she loves the Dodow. A few months ago I had an operation on the eye. When in bed I was finding that due to the required recovery position I was forced to be in, my mind would just end up racing all night. So I then decided to use the Dodow again. Even though I had a completely blurred eye I was still able to follow the light technique with no issues. After a day or two I again found my mind to stop racing and that I was finding it a lot easier to fall asleep again. This has worked great for the wife and I, where we have recommended this to family and freinds

2020 was something of a massively life affecting year for myself & my wife, we went through quite a lot of difficult life circumstances all of which had a huge bearing on the quantity & quality of sleep we were having. We'd both fallen into a horrible routine of going to bed, being unable to fall asleep for hours & when we did eventually fall asleep we'd literally get a broken 2-hour sleep and be awake again - just until it was time for the alarm to go off. We'd tried multiple fixes - including making changes to the bedroom, buying new bedding, listening to podcasts (which did help a bit!), trying 'guaranteed' breathing techniques (it didn't work - so not guaranteed!) & various other online suggestions, but nothing seemed to work... so after spotting the Dodow device & reading through the reviews it felt definitely worth a try, even if the results did sound quite mixed from person to person. When it arrived the unboxing did feel quite a treat - it's beautifully packaged, comes with simple instructions & everything you need to get going... we placed it on one of bedside tables and begin to try the breathing methods focusing on the dot that the device produces - for us the light was fine, it isn't supposed to be a pin-sharp projector device, more a fuzzy low light, basically something to focus your attention on and lower (and deepen) your breathing in unison with. The first night was relatively successful - we fell asleep quite quickly & we were over the moon.... granted we didn't stay asleep all night, but small steps and all that! Sadly, it didn't continue on previous nights... I think the fact we were probably that tired on night 1 the device had a false 'win', as no matter how many times we tried it, it just didn't have the same effect... gutted really as we thought it would have been just what we needed. Admittedly we had a LOT going on in our lives around this time & maybe our expectations of what it could do was way above what it should have been... we were exhausted with simply not being able to go to sleep & hoped this would be the miracle cure. We persevered with it over a month, but it just didn't work for us, so sadly we had to return it. My conclusion is if you're lightly suffering from lack of sleep, perhaps due to anxiety reasons or something where your breathing needs to be a little more relaxed & you're struggling to do this on your own then you might get some positive joy from using this - whereas if you're really in the thick of some nasty insomnia then you might get similar results to me.

I've suffered with insomnia from such a young age around 6 I believe. I have tried and tested everything possible even sleeping tablets and industrial strength benzodiazepenes (which I would like to stop taking at some point) therapy, cbt and everything in between! Last week I ordered this light machine along with a lavender spray and an alarm clock that wakes you up more naturally. I decided I finally had to sort out some kind of routine and give 'sleep hygiene a go'. The first night using the dodow felt a little strange and unnatural. It weirdly made my ears pop but I persevered for almost an hour and was still wide awake BUT I felt so so relaxed. I managed three hours that first night. Second night I popped the machine on and again my body felt very relaxed but my brain was very much awake, still four hours sleep was better than none. Third night of my sleep hygiene routine and I realised it was yet again my brain stopping me from sleeping so once the dodow had turned off I continued to say the words inhale/exhale in my head whilst breathing 'normal' I feel like this distracted my brain enough to not overthink and switch off. I slept for an amazing 5 hours or so. Fourth night I did the same again kept repeating the words inhale/exhale after the dodow had switched off. My sleep that night (logged by my fitness watch) 6 hours and 56 minutes!! I am so amazed that something so simple would actually help in what feels like a battle to switch off my brain. Obviously it is early days but for me switching all screens off 1 hour before bed, dimming the lights down low then reading with a milky hot chocolate (the tea didn't taste too nice) before heading for bed really helped. I spray my pillow spray and settle down with my dodow. If I do not fall asleep twenty minutes after the machine has turned off I simply go to another room read again for half an hour and repeat. Also going to bed and getting up at the same time is important to get a good routine. I don't usually leave reviews and I think this is the longest one I have ever written and all just to say this little light is pretty amazing! Hope this helps someone who understands the struggles of insomnia.

Does nothing at all but a blue light, straight to trash

I suffer from anxiety and I really struggle when I go to bed. I have tried breathing techniques but this makes it so much easier. It really helps to concentrate on your breathing and helps to create a calmer mind leading to falling asleep much easier, even with what’s going on in the world right now. I am so happy I decided to try this. I highly recommend.

Comme beaucoup de clients , je me suis dit pourquoi ne pas essayer cette méthode. Depuis un mois maintenant que je le pratique je peux mieux vous en parler. Quelques conseils : oublier votre propre façon de respirer relax pour vous caler uniquement à l’exercice de la lumière bleue. Oui, je sais au départ c’est déroutant on trouve que ça va trop vite, on ne visualise pas forcément bien le halo de lumière tout cela mérite un apprentissage mais personnellement je suis conquise par cet article. Il faut une petite période d’adaptation, et surtout, surtout , lire le tout petit livret qui est fourni avec, ça prend cinq minutes mais tellement essentielles si on applique les conseils. Je n’avais pas de problème pour m’endormir, c’était lors de réveils nocturnes que ça se compliquait où le rendormissement pouvait prendre des heures. C’est surtout sur cet élément que j’y trouve mon compte, je me rendors sans problème. Résultat au matin je suis plus reposée et mes journées sont de fait plus zen. Sans médicaments, la tête et le corps vont mieux et c’est bien cela l’essentiel n’est-ce pas ? Inconvénient (petit) Le compartiment à piles peut être difficile à manipuler, attention à bien installer les piles telles qu’indiqué, le prix également heureusement j’ai pu l’acheter en promotion à 33 €. Avantages : cela ne gêne pas le conjoint, vous pouvez régler 3 niveaux de densité de la lumière et régler le temps sur des cycle 8 minutes ou 20 minutes (perso je choisis 20 minutes, 8 ne m’allait pas)tout ça par petites pressions tactiles. Vous pouvez vous endormir avant la fin vous ne serez gêné en rien, la lumière s’éteindra toute seule. Je n’ai pas de table de nuit mais je l’ai installé en biais sur la tête de lit en le bloquant dans son emballage (voir photos) ainsi il est bien stable. Dernière précision : luttez un peu contre les premiers engourdissements lors de l’exercice, en effet je confirme ce qui est écrit que cela peut être un faux signal du départ de la nuit, en faire un peu plus longtemps est préférable car plus efficace sur la durée. Également des fois, l’esprit vagabonde et on perd alors le bénéfice du dispositif, je me reprends rapidement et ne me reconcentre que sur le visuel et ma respiration c’est sacrément efficace. Je vous souhaite par avance le même résultat. 😊Si mon avis a pu vous être utile…😉

Aufgrund der beim Kauf noch kaum vorhandenen Bewertungen war ich zwar skeptisch, habe aber im Vorfeld die Bewertungen auf der Hersteller-Homepage gelesen und darauf vertraut, dass diese seriös sind. Artikel als "Blitzangebot" gekauft und somit 10€ gespart. Inzwischen habe ich gesehen, dass er auch etwas günstiger angeboten wird. Der Preis war / ist in meinen Augen gerechtfertigt. Die Materialien sind hochwertig und das Gerät macht einen soliden Eindruck! Außerdem fließen in den Preis ja auch noch die Entwicklerkosten mit ein. Meines Wissens handelte es sich auch um ein Kick-Starter Produkt, welches dann erfolgreich in die Serienproduktion ging. Das aber nur am Rande. Ich selbst hatte lange Zeit wirklich massive Einschlafstörungen. 2-3 Stunden im Bett hin und her wälzen waren vor der Zeit des Kaufes keine Seltenheit. Über die Kick-Starter-Kampagne bin ich auf Dowdow aufmerksam geworden, leider war diese bereits abgelaufen. Dann habe ich Dowdow im Angebot von Amazon entdeckt, jedoch aufgrund fehlender Vergleichsprodukte und Erfahrungen lange gezögert - bis sich der Artikel unter den Blitzangeboten befand. Dann habe ich einfach aus Neugierde und in der Hoffnung auf Hilfe zugeschlagen. Übliche Entspannungsverfahren, Hausmittelchen wie Kräutertee, heiße Milch mit Honig etc. waren bis dahin bereits "abgefrühstückt". Chemische Einschlafhilfen, sprich Medikamente, kamen nicht in Frage. Nun also Dowdow. Logischerweise hilft Dowdow nicht von jetzt auf gleich. Das steht aber auch genauso in der beiliegenden Beschreibung des Produktes! Auch Dowdow erfordert - wie auch Entspannungsübungen - ein wenig "Training" im Vorfeld. Hierfür gibt es aber auch den 20 min. Modus am Gerät. Hat man lange genug trainiert, kann man auf den 8 min. Modus wechseln. Das Prinzip von Dowdow ist recht einfach - dennoch sehr effektiv. Es handelt sich um ein sog. Lichtmetronom, welches bei entsprechender Handhabung (wie gesagt - Bedienungsanleitung lesen!) dazu führt, dass die Atmung sukzessive vertieft und verlangsamt wird. Entspannung über eine vertiefte und verlangsamte Atmung zu erreichen ist nun nicht wirklich die "Neuerfindung des Rades per se". Aber man muss das für sich selbst auch irgendwie hinbekommen. Dowdow hilft einem hierbei! Mir hat Dowdow dabei perfekt geholfen! Es hat ungefähr eine Woche gedauert, bevor ich vom 20 min. Modus auf den 8 min. Modus runterschalten konnte. Meine Einschlafzeit konnte ich sukzessive von 3 Stunden auf eine normale Einschlafzeit von 10 bis max. 20 min. reduzieren! Ich persönlich sehe das als "Experiment erfolgreich geglückt" und "Investition hat sich gelohnt" an. Nach ca. 2-3 Wochen war ich so an den Dowdow Rhythmus gewöhnt, dass ich noch nicht mal mehr meine Augen offen lassen musste, um das Licht bewusst zu betrachten. Irgendwann habe ich schon nach 1-2 min. Training die Augen zu gemacht und konnte den angenehmen Lichtschein (blau) durch die geschlossenen Augenlider noch schwach wahrnehmen. Das hat zum Einschlafen super ausgereicht. Keinesfalls ist es so, dass das blaue Licht unangenehm oder störend, geschweige denn aggressiv im Sinne von TV-Licht etc ist! Auch verschiedene Aufstellpositionen habe ich ausprobiert, so dass das Licht eine max. Entfernung von Dowdow zur Decke von ca. 2m hatte. Wie es sich im Altbau mit bis zu 3m Deckenhöhe verhält, kann ich nicht sagen, aber bei einer Entfernung von 2m war der Lichtpunkt klar und scharf abgegrenzt zu erkennen. Alles in allem hat es ca. 4-5 mon. Training gebraucht und seitdem steht Dowdow - zwar "offline" - neben dem Bett, steht jedoch für weiteren Gebrauch in stressigen Phasen jederzeit zur Verfügung. "Offline" bedeutet für mich jedoch Erfolg auf ganzer Linie! Mir hat Dowdow geholfen und daher danke ich dem Entwickler an dieser Stelle für eine wirklich innovative und hilfreiche Idee!

I bought this for my husband who has had great difficulty sleeping since being deployed to Afghanistan in 2008. For over 10 years he struggled with sleep in the worse way possible. I’m always keeping an eye out to see what’s available as far as sleep aids go. Needless to say, I’ve bought everything. When I saw the Dodow I thought “what the hell, why not.” When it came, I looked at it not knowing what to expect. That night we both used it, my husband was asleep in minutes! That hasn’t happened in the 10 years we’ve been together! I don’t know what kind of magic these guys put in there, but this little device is literally heaven sent! Buy it, it is worth it!