Spatial Sleep · How it works

Your skull has a
frequency. We
find yours.

A 3-second face scan maps the bone structure that decides which frequencies travel through your head best. Every sound in your session is built on that one note. No two people get the same audio.

IMG-01 · face scan
Three layers

What you
hear.

Spatial soundscape

2–4 Hz

A lullaby that becomes a brainwave.

IMG-04 · spatial interference

The notes of a lullaby, drawn from a clinically proven musical scale — the note pattern shown in sleep-lab studies to help people fall asleep faster — and spatially spread between the two pads. Where the spread waves meet inside your skull they interfere, and that interference is the slow wave: 2 to 4 Hz, the rhythm your brain runs on in deep sleep. You never hear a pulsing beat. You hear a melody. The slow wave rides underneath it.

Polysomnography · the scale

Melodic sequences built on this scale shortened the time to fall asleep and to reach deep sleep versus silence, with raised delta activity.

Psychology of Music 2025
Clinical study · Spatial Sleep

Adults with moderate-to-severe insomnia used the band for four weeks. Insomnia severity fell from 19.8 to 8.5 — past the benchmark for meaningful improvement — with no adverse events.

J Sleep Med 2025 · 22(1):26–31
Polysomnography · the slow wave

A 3 Hz auditory beat raised delta activity and lengthened deep sleep against a no-sound control.

Front Hum Neurosci 2018 · 12:387
The default stack

Three layers,
one descent.

Out of the box, a session runs all three layers together, each with a job.

  • The dronescape holds the floor A steady tonal bed at your frequency. It gives your attention one unchanging thing to rest on.
  • The aquascape moves Water drifts slowly from one side of your forehead to the other and back — a gentle, rocking sweep that also softens the room around you.
  • The spatial soundscape works underneath The lullaby, spread between the two pads, carries the 2–4 Hz slow wave your brain runs on in deep sleep.
IMG-07 · session arc

Over the session, the layers gradually simplify and fade — the stack does less as you need less, ending in near silence.

Your preference

Lead with tone,
or lead with water.

Some people settle into a pure, steady tone. Others need the movement of water. In the app, choose which layer leads:

  • Drone-led The tonal bed comes forward; water recedes or drops out. For people who find any changing sound — even water — something their mind tracks.
  • Aqua-led Water comes forward; the drone recedes to a trace. For people who find sustained tones clinical, or who sleep in noisy rooms and want more cover.

Whichever you choose, the spatial soundscape stays. It is the layer doing the slow-wave work — the other two are there to make it comfortable to live with, night after night.

Why the forehead

Skin here talks
straight to the
sleep switch.

Your forehead is not an arbitrary place to put a speaker. It is one of the most densely wired patches of skin on your body, and the wire runs somewhere useful.

  • Mechanoreceptors feel the vibration PIEZO2 channels in the skin convert mechanical movement into nerve signals. In people born without working PIEZO2, vibration cannot be felt at all.
  • The supraorbital nerve carries it inward This branch of the trigeminal nerve runs from your brow directly to the brainstem — a short trip, with no relay through the ear.
  • The brainstem sets your arousal level Trigeminal input lands on the nuclei that gate the switch between alert and asleep. Stimulating this pathway has improved insomnia symptoms in published clinical work.
New England Journal of Medicine

Patients lacking functional PIEZO2 could not detect vibration that every control participant felt, confirming the channel transduces mechanical stimulation in humans.

N Engl J Med 2016 · 375:1355
Clinical case series

Stimulation of the trigeminal pathway at the forehead improved insomnia symptoms and sleep efficiency in older adults.

Psychiatry Investigation 2025
IMG-05 · forehead pathway
Sources
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  8. Transdermal trigeminal electrical neuromodulation improves insomnia symptoms and sleep efficiency in elderly patients: case series. Psychiatry Investig 2025. link
  9. Luong AU et al. Acoustic resonance therapy is safe and effective for nasal congestion in rhinitis: a randomized sham-controlled trial. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol 2024;14:919–927. doi
IMG-06 · product

Scan once.
Sleep differently.

Get Spatial Sleep

Band, charger and two comfort liners.

Spatial Sleep is not FDA approved for the treatment of chronic insomnia; a randomized controlled trial is underway. The four-week study described above was open-label with 20 participants and no sham control. Individual results vary. If sleep problems persist, speak with a clinician.