Weighted blanket - what size?

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Does anyone here personally use a weighed blanket as a way to help them sleep?

I "invented" this the other night after watching the Temple Grandin movie, and discovered a ton of people have beat me to the punch. Which is awesome, because I can order one.

They generally recommend making it the width of the mattress, but I wonder if that would feel too small to me as an adult.

Anyone have one?

Standard advice says 10% of the users body weight plus one pound. Mine is considerably less that that though, and it still does the job (it's 7lbs and I'm usually around 110-115lbs). Mine is a single, but apparently so people find a queen or king size blanket more comfortable, especially if the plan to use it while sleeping.

They're very calming. One thing though - You get very warm underneath there!

Thanks - but I'm looking for info specifically on width. (I've got the weight part down.)

Is yours the exact width of your mattress, or wider?

I think I need one. That, or a very heavy blanket. What if I just filled my duna up with rice?

Well i share my bed with my dog, it full fills the same purpose... well not really my dog peressistanly refuses to sleep on the floor ... the weighted blanked argumentation is far more favorable.

The first time i read about the hugging machine was in the Big Bang Theory episode, when Lennard told that he ones had build one to compensate for his emotionally absent mother.

Hello I use one an it is the best thing in the world. My boyfriend had it specaily made for me. I llove it and you will love yours. Mine is the width of the matress and wish it was a bit bigger but I love it anyways. it should be 10 % of your own body wieght. I hope you enjoy yours

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Mine is 11 pounds and the size of a twin-size sheet. I made it myself because I know that buying one is a lot more expensive, even though it was probably one of the more annoying sewing projects I've ever done.

If you are going to lie under it rather than simply wrapping it around you or draping it over your lap, you pretty much need a proper blanket-sized one. Smaller, and it's just irritating.

I would make it wider than your mattress so if you move around in the middle of the night you won't wriggle out from under it.

i like mine being wider than the mattress. about 1-1.5 foot hanging down each side of the bed.

They also make weighted wraps, and lap pads, and I just discovered (Stuffed animals!) you can make your own, but either way it can be expensive. I'm going to make or get one soon.


I have a question: what happens if I lose weight (I have been over the last two years, and have a little more to go, about 30 pounds) and I've already gottem a blanket? will the weight be bad and wrong, and I have to get a new one?

personally i love those Satin bound wool blankets they are comfortable at night the satin on the side of the blankets are so sunggly at night

anybody else like Satin bound blankets on their bed when its a cold night ??

My blanket is the width of my mattress (full), but the maker of my blanket distributed the weight unequally. Most of the weight runs the mid-line of the blanket. This becomes irksome during the night because I change position often and constantly have to adjust the blanket.

This is funny. I have not heard of this before, but I have slept under heavy blankets, bolsters, dense pillows and other kinds of weights for years. It is hard to get the balance between weight and not being excessively warm, which is hard in summer and sometimes hard for a sleeping partner who does not like the weight. I find that a large, heavy pillow on top of (my half) of the duvet is pretty comfortable.

The only thing I like about the cold is that I can use my huge, heavy, down comforter I love it so much.
In the summer I just accept my fate and don't sleep very well...

I've only heard about them since frequenting this site. Like you I find I sleep better under a good weight of sheets, blankets and quilt provided I don't get too hot. I get squashed to sleep.