Review of the CES Microcurrent Sleep Aid Machine (with White Noise Insomnia Improvement Feature)

Recently a palm-sized sleep aid device (sleep aid machine) has appeared on the market, claiming to use the CES microcurrent recommended by medical experts, allowing users to shake off insomnia troubles, enhance sleep quality and fall asleep faster, even making people look better and feel full of energy all day.

Well, the last time I saw a similar advertisement was for the white noise machine (noise-canceling sleep aid machine)[1]. It is the same trick: an effect that can only be produced at laboratory level, sold to your home for a cost of a few dozen dollars at an IQ tax price of over a thousand.

These CES sleep aid machines, which look no different from toys, give off a slight tingling sensation of being shocked as soon as you place them in your palm. In merchants’ legends, this can promote sleep. Countless consumers deeply troubled by insomnia open their wallets, hoping only for a comfortable night’s sleep.

What Is CES Microcurrent?

But CES is actually the English abbreviation for “Cranial electrotherapy stimulation.” As the name suggests, it is a medical procedure that uses electrode pads similar to EEG detection to discharge in a coordinated manner at several positions on the outside of the skull, changing the intracranial electrical conduction effect to produce a therapeutic effect.

In fact, this kind of research is still at a very early, rough stage, and can only collect brain feedback by stimulating different response areas to statistically derive possible medical conclusions. Even different people may produce different reactions, let alone simply shocking your palm.

In other words, if the palm-sized sleep aid machine sold on the market really has a miraculous sleep effect on you, it means your brain is located in your palm.

In reality, the current that shocks you is simply flowing from the conductive metal plate at the center of the back of the sleep aid machine, through the surface of your skin, and back to the conductive metal plate on the outer ring of the back. That unnatural sensation just makes you mistakenly believe that a current is really entering your body and producing some magical chemical reaction.

CES + White Noise Dual-Effect Sleep Aid?

Some vendors are even quicker on their feet. Knowing that simple microcurrent stimulation alone might not make you buy in, they combine a cheap single speaker, play some low-quality, royalty-free simple music, and then call it a CES microcurrent and white noise dual-effect sleep aid machine.

Ding-dong, are you tempted?

Further Reading

1. The Fallacy of White Noise Machines (Noise-Canceling Sleep Aid Machines) Improving Sleep Quality