Built for nurses who sleep when the world is awake.
Total blackout and built-in audio — for the full-daylight bedroom, the loud street, and a brain that won't clock out.
Customer reviews →Free U.S. shipping — order today and it typically arrives by August 10, tracked.
From the night-shift community
They're describing the problem, not our product — in their own words.
"All we want is to hibernate enough so we can prepare for another consecutive crappy nights."
— night-shift nurse, TikTok (1.2M-liked post)
"I resorted to putting tin foil on the bedroom window, and then covering with a black fleece blanket."
— night nurse, AllNurses forum
"I'm a nurse. I know what sleep deprivation does to the body. And I can't fix my own."
— nurse, AllNurses forum
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Here's why your bedroom keeps winning —
It's 2:58pm and the mower just made its second pass.
You did everything right. Down by ten, curtains pinned, fan on, phone dark. Four and a half hours — that's what the whole setup bought you before the day side of the world started up again outside your window. Now you're lying there, wide awake again, doing the math you've done a hundred times: tonight's twelve hours, against the sleep you just lost.
You've tried everything they told you to try.
Towels under the door. Cardboard over the blinds. The white-noise app turned all the way up — which mostly just gives the voices outside something to blend into. Melatonin that leaves you groggy at 7pm when you need to be sharp. You own a drawer of it. (Sound familiar? "I've tried blackout curtains, white noise, melatonin, you name it… somehow, I still wake up exhausted." That's a night nurse in a letter to an advice column, not our ad.)
Here's the thing: none of it was built for this.
Blackout curtains assume the light is the only problem. Earplugs assume the noise is. Every tool in that drawer was designed for someone who sleeps at night and struggles — not for someone doing the hardest version of sleep there is: full daylight, full noise, on a clock your own body is fighting.
Here's the part nobody explains.
If you can sleep fine on your nights off, it was never insomnia — insomnia doesn't check your work schedule. Around 2pm, your body fires a natural cortisol spike. It's your afternoon wake-up signal. For day people, it's useful. For you, it lands right in the middle of the only sleep window you get.
Tired and wired at the same time — in a way that doesn't make sense until someone names it. We call it The 2pm Cortisol Spike.
It's not a willpower problem. It's a timing problem. And it's why the answer was never another pill — it's blocking the two things that make that window unsleepable for you: light, and noise.
One object, made for one job.
Concave cups that sit over your eyes with room to blink, shaped to seal daylight from a bright room — including the nose-bridge gap where standard masks leak.
Round disc speakers on soft adjustable cords — you slide them to your spot, so the sound sits where you need it — not where the band happens to land.
Bluetooth to your phone. No app, no account, no subscription. Plays whatever you already fall asleep to. Controls on the band; your phone stays on the nightstand.
You're stacking three things that fight each other.
A mask that slides, earbuds that press in for seven hours, a fan that doesn't cover the 4am pager your brain invented. DaySomnia does the light and the sound together — set once, to your own spot.
"I need both — the blackout AND the audio. Nothing combines them without a tradeoff." — that's the whole reason this exists (a nurse on AllNurses).
You already pay for the workarounds
9:41am. Sun through the blinds. Neighbors awake.
Inside the cups: nothing. Just whatever you're playing, and the dark.
Individual results vary.Sleep on it for 60 nights. On us.
Try it for 60 nights, starting the day it arrives. If you're not happy with it — for any reason — we'll refund every dollar. No questions asked, and no need to send it back.
Keep the mask either way.Sleep-tech returns usually mean a two-week deadline and a return label. We give you three full rotations on your own schedule — and you keep the mask. Because that's how long real judgment takes.
This probably isn't for you if…
- You sleep fine. If you wake up restored in a bright room at 9am — save your $79. We mean it.
- You want a cure. DaySomnia doesn't fix your schedule, and it doesn't touch your cortisol. It's a blackout mask with slide-to-fit speakers: it blocks the light and covers the noise. That's the whole job.
- You won't actually wear it. It only works the nights it's on your head.
- You're a stomach sleeper who can't stand anything on your face. The contoured cups leave room to blink, but it's still a mask — and that's exactly what the 60 nights are for.
The details
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I'm a side sleeper — will the speakers hurt my ears? +
Will I still hear my alarm? +
What about the battery — will it die mid-sleep? +
Does light leak around the nose? +
Does it get hot? +
Will my partner hear it? +
Is there an app or anything to set up? +
Single or Duo? +
Shipping & what's in the box? +
If you read this whole thing nodding — if you know exactly which neighbor owns the mower — you already know.
We only make this, and we only make it for people who sleep when the world is awake. Individual results vary.
