Get covert with a good book.
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Some Very Good Reasons:
People have needed a better way to hold books ever since there were books. Overhead in Bed turns the simple act of reading upside down. Other than lifting the book to turn the page, the only muscles involved in hands-free reading are the eyes.
The Overhead in Bed Viewing Platform supports: books, smartphones, eBooks, tablets, anything that’s flat and fits on the board.
[There's a remote control for the Kindle smartphone app (curiously, Kindle doesn’t provide one for its devices), and voice control accessibility in apps.]
Ventral up, smartphone overhead with cordless earbuds make for effortless viewing and listening to quality entertainment products in text and video. It's like being alone in a movie theater. In bed.
It's always the simplest solutions [umbrellas, velcro, the mute button...] that are high-impact and improve our enduring lot in life. The paradigm-effect of Overhead in Bed is freaky 'n uniquey. Something metaphysical happens to the mind when we look up. Looking up subtly stimulates wonderment, playfulness and creativity. Drifting clouds, the leaves on a tree, the stars in the sky, a book in stationary free-float.
Best viewing is straight up, not at a pillowed angle. Hook the back of your skull to the edge of the mattress and pull down for some light neck traction.
Breakfast tray
As a form of affirmative therapy, it’s a cure for claustrophobia.
You're still reading under the covers after lights out like when you were a kid only it's different this time.
Even the best sleeping masks let in light. The slightest slip of light affects the expression of melatonin. As a light-free loft, Overhead in Bed potentiates sleeping masks for complete darkness even in a glaring light filled room. We recommend MindFold [foam is better than fabric]; earplugs minimize noise; a light spritz of essential oil onto the fabric induces a mood, all of which coalesce into full relaxation. Muscles disengage then the mind disengages, facilitating the onset of sleep, something particularly helpful for night shift workers who need to rest in the daytime.
InstaCave: Overhead in Bed is kinda like a flotation tank without the water, an anxiety-reducing refuge far from the madding crowd, a meditation sanctum where sound-tech like hemi-synch through ear buds tickle the pineal to assist transcendence. [If you want to boost this, consider taking fermented skate liver capsules, they decalcify the pineal gland.]
It's cozy, like a seventeenth century status symbol canopy bed which were said to ward off evil, blocking out incubusses and succubusses. Consider yourself royalty.
The fabric chamber locks out drafts, drifting dust motes, floating pathogens, second-hand cigarette smoke, highway exhaust, and a bed partner's flatulence. It’s literally exclusive.
OHIB with Drape eliminates the external stimuli of unnecessary light and the peripheral array of *stuff** in a room. Earplugs eliminate ambient noise. Supine, relaxed, and hands-free, this pruning of sensory distractions hyper-tunes perceptual sensitivities and increases mindfulness which then empowers a fuller processing of what descends to the viewer from the book or the smartphone beaming at her in free-float through clear-as-air acrylic. Reading is tete-a-tete. An author can sell a million copies of a novel and each reading is 1-to-1 unique. Inside the canopy of Overhead in Bed, there's the reader and the author and nothing else. Overhead in Bed’s free-standing, light-free chamber amps the intimacy and timelessness of the deep-reading experience: you'll find that literature became tastier in the two hours you thought were ten minutes.
New Calm: the light-limiting chamber enhances reading-viewing-listening-meditating-sleeping-imagineering, stretching your thoughts to their limits. Welcome to infinity.
Like standing at the Grand Canyon, one has to experience Overhead in Bed to feel the paradigm-effect of something completely different.
It's solo. This is the other singularity.
Free your mind [from concentration-dissipating interference] and the rest will follow.
When we refer to your bed as the place where magic happens, we’re not being facetious. You spend a third of your time in bed. Now you’ll live half your life here.
*In an article on de-cluttering one's space, psychotherapist Dana Dorfman explains, “When the visual field is cluttered, the brain must ‘sift through’ everything and weed out interfering stimuli. … Studies show that people experience a significant decrease in the stress hormone cortisol when items are removed, helping you to feel more stable, clearheaded, and relaxed ….”
**According to Marie Kondo, doyenne of de-cluttering, mess = stress: “Get rid of clutter … and you will send a clear message of calm directly to your brain.”
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“Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night.” ~ Hans Christian Anderson’s 1841 “The Sandman”.
"The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
from "How many of us still read a book in bed?", a column by Howard Jacobson in the 4nov17 Guardian: "… there's an intimacy in bedtime reading that might have something to do with pillows and sheets but is more about what happens when you move your eyes across a page ... a person reading in bed gives off an aura of achieved calm."
"Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and that, because it takes place between the sheets in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden." ~ Alberto Manguel
“Nothing good happens out of bed.” ~ @sosadtoday
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