According to the American Sleep Association 50-70 million US adults have a sleep disorder. Insomnia is the most common specific sleep disorder, with short term issues reported by about 30% of adults and chronic insomnia by 10%.
Dr. Boes at the University of Iowa has invented a multimodal sensory stimulation that can be used to augment sleep without medication. This technology uses concurrent blinking lights and auditory clicks that generates coherence brain oscillations and causes sleepiness.
This method can be delivered using a number of different modalities or devices such as via an electronic device (a TV or iPad) or through goggles or a virtual reality headset or a sleep mask.

• The augmenting sleep can be delivered by using different electronic devices.
• Does not have the side effects of medicine-based sleep augmentation.