r/Firefighting 19h ago

General Discussion Sleep aids and weighted blankets

So not to long ago I made a post about how terrible I slept at the fire station and have tried multiple different things to try and make my sleep better. I recently tried a weighted blanket for one night. We woke up for a call at 3 am and I decided to to try out the blanket that night. Usually most of us cant go back to sleep after waking up from a call like that later in the morning. It took me a while but when I finally did go back to sleep I slept past shift change and that has never happened. Years of searching just to discover a weighted bink bink would solve it.

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u/i_exaggerated 13h ago

When I learned my weighted blanket was meant to help people with autism, life made a lot more sense. 

I love that thing.