Mindfold Relaxation and Blackout Sleeping Mask, Total Darkness with Your Eyes Open.

My fav travel accessory. I had one and couldn't find it so bought this one for a recent trip. On a plane, train, car, or a room without blackout blinds, if I put this mask on and put in some earplugs, I am guaranteed to fall fast asleep. It completely blocks all light but there are little holes in the foam for your eyes, so you can open them and still just see nothing but black. It weighs next to nothing and folds, so it's a travel essential for me.

I often work late nights and need to sleep past sunrise, which in my area can be as early as 2:20 a.m. in the summer! I got this to replace an old sleep mask that was sadly no longer being made, and found that this one was even superior to my old standby. I really can't say enough about it, and this is after using it daily for three years, traveling with it, and even running it through the occasional wash cycle! (It can come apart during washing, but is easily glued or pressed back together). But what makes this mask really special and effective, is that it not only blocks out all light (the first mask I've ever used to do that 100%), but also allows you to keep your eyes open. Now, uhm, I don't keep my eyes open while I sleep! But the point is, there is no actual pressure of any kind on your eyelids, like most or all other sleep masks. This makes for a totally comfortable night's rest, or just a moment to "duck out of it all" for example on a plane, while meditating, or whatever, because when adjusted right it provides total blackness. It also does an amazing job of helping me sleep when I have those seemingly endless moments of insomnia. When your eyes are open, but it's pitch dark all around you and you're lying down, it's amazing how fast your body gets the hint and signals your brain to sleep. So that's helpful as well: it makes me sleepy, then keeps me asleep by blocking out early morning light, or the eerie glow of all our modern electronic gizmos. When my old standby sleep mask went out of production, and mine had worn out, I tried a big handful of sleep masks via Amazon, searching in frustration for something that worked and helped me stay asleep. I almost passed on this one, because of the gimmicky name on the front. But I'm glad I took the plunge, as this mask is by far the best and the only one that is 100% effective, AND doesn't put pressure on my eyelids. I can't recommend it enough. Hope it works for you just as well as it works for me.

Completely blocks light, gives the sensation of total darkness, while being comfortable.

There is nothing I like about this product - it is cheapest, crappiest thing I have ever bought on this site and it is built to be defective. First, the "faceplate" material is hard plastic with SHARP edges that protrude over the foam - I assume this is to create the blackout effect. If you are a side-sleeper like me this thing will dig into your skin as you try to sleep. As soon as you turn to the side the protruding edge will force the whole mask to slip position, and the edges can then cut your face as you sleep. This is not only defective but absolutely a danger to sleep with. Who puts hard sharp plastic on their face before bed?!? What sadist thought of this????? Second, the "cushion" is the cheapest possible lightweight foam you can find. Think packing material, only thinner. This mask is literally just cheap foam glued directly to hard plastic. My kid could make it in arts and crafts. And the foam is what is in direct contact with your face - there is no material covering it at all. So if you wear creams to bed, the large pores in the foam will soak it right in. Try cleaning that out; this foam is so thin and cheap and poorly made it will just deteriorate the first time you try to wash it. The glue will separate. You can't wash this. So instead you have a soaked up foam petri dish of bacteria waiting to sit on your face for 8 hours a night. Disgusting. Finally, the holes that allow you to "open your eyes" seem to be cut to fit a child's face, not a grown person. I am a 120 pound female and this thing way too small to cushion my eyes properly. I can't imagine the fit on a grown man. It was so uncomfortable I had to take it off after only a few minutes. The sides of the "cushion" sit ON the edges of my eyes. It is literally impossible to sleep with this thing. Sure, I can open them and yes, it's total darkness, but that is only because the cushion is literally COVERING a portion of my eyes and the part that is not covered is staring at hard plastic. I can't imagine this thing costs more than a few pennies to make in China, it is truly overpriced garbage. I feel conned into buying it, I stupidly took the advice a podcaster I listen to and bought this junk over the eye mask I usually get - never again. If you want a truly comfortable mask that is washable, durable, well-made, extremely cushioning and comfortable, AND also allows you to open your eyes while you sleep, get the one I normally buy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KC5DWCC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It's a little pricier but worth it. I've also used this one below, which also allows room to open your eyes and is just as well made as the one above, but is the same price as this piece of "Mindfold" junk: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HVRNXZQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. You will be forever grateful I saved you from the junk that is this product..

Overpriced for such simple construction, it is foam glued to a piece of plastic. The plastic is strangely larger than the foam. The foam is perfectly soft and blocks out light well, but not recommended if you have a latex sensitivity. It is light and comfortable (except for the oversized plastic edges). This should be at most $5.

This is a great eye mask for relaxing the mind. The MindFold was actually created to be a sensory deprivation tool used for meditation. Hence the name "Mind"+"Fold". It's designed for relaxing the mind. This is how I use it. I do not sleep with it. So I cannot comment on it's use as a sleep mask. Here's a quick rundown of the pros and cons. Pros: * Capable of 100% light blockage * The foam is soft * The stretchable headband's Velcro doesn't connect at the back of the head * There's so much eye room depth, my eyelashes (which are long) don't even slightly touch it Cons: * While very deep, the eye cutouts could be a little wider * Light leakage can happen if it slides a little while using it * Needs to be fairly tight to totally prevent light leakage I've tried dozens of similar eye masks, the only other eye mask that I've tried that's a close second is the Bedtime Bliss. I have heard that the Tempur-Pedic Sleep Mask is the only eye mask that's as effective, but I've not tried that yet. Compared to the Bedtime Bliss, this is capable of blocking out all light, while the Bedtime Bliss only blocks about 90-95% of the light. For both me and my wife, the Bedtime Bliss had a large amount of light leakage near the nose, no matter how it was positioned or tightened. We have very different noses. My nose is large and pointy, hers is wide and short. The problem with the Bedtime Bliss is that, while it contours to a "human" face, it will only properly contour to a certain percentage of people, and for the rest of us, it just doesn't work right, but it is still much better than most of the other masks I've tried, except for the Mindfold. I have read complaints about the fact that the Mindfold is just a Velcro headband, attached to a flexible plastic eye shield, with foam glued to it. This is in fact what it is, but it is very effective nonetheless. The design is simple and it works very well. The Mindfold's thick foam contours to just about any face very effectively. That's why it works so well to block out light. While it's not memory foam like the Tempur-Pedic Sleep Mask is, the foam still works quite well for it's purpose. It would work with less force needed if it was made of the more expensive memory foams available. But that would jack up the price considerably. The Velcro strap is not a cheap strap. It's high quality stretchable Velcro. The strap is better quality than most. The Bedtime Bliss has a lower quality strap, and it is not replaceable. The Bedtime Bliss strap joins at the back of the head, so you always feel a lump on the back of your head when you lay your head flat on a pillow. The MindFold's strap is replaceable, so I could put a different strap if I wanted to. Also, it joins on the side, and not on the back, so you don't feel a lump at the back on your head. If you lay down with the back of your head on a pillow, it's very comfortable. You don't even notice the strap. Not so with the Bedtime Bliss. That's something I hate about the Bedtime Bliss. The flexible plastic eye shield is thin. You can easily flex it with your hands. This is intentional, and not done to be cheap, as some have suggested. It needs to be thin, so it can flex just enough to contour to your face to a certain degree. If it was a thick inflexible piece of plastic, it wouldn't work as well because it then wouldn't contour to different face shapes and sizes. I have heard complaints that the MindFold is not useful for side sleepers. I could definitely see that being the case. However, that is not it's intended use. Bottom line, this is one of the most effective light blocking eye masks you can find. If you're looking for a mask that completely blocks out light, that lets you open your eyes without your lashes touching it, then this is a great buy. The Tempur-Pedic Sleep Mask is also a viable solution, according to many other sources, but it costs 3 times as much. Nearly all of the other eye masks let in light. But if you're looking for a sleep mask for a side sleeper, try something else.

I've tried a number of these eye masks, and this is the only one I've found that blocks out all or nearly all light (at least for me). When sitting upright in meditation, it blocks out 100%, and when lying on my back, more like 98%. This is perfect for my purpose, which involves a kind of meditation on the "inner light" which emerges only in complete darkness. When focused on the inner light, which first appears as a kind of white or red visual snow, after 10-20 minutes it starts to emerge as blue or purple blobs, then more defined shapes. Some people report geometric patterns after that, but I've never gotten to that experience. Perhaps I will, thanks to this eye mask. This mask is not perfect however. The foam presses on my nose in a way that slightly restricts my breathing. It's a mild annoyance only for me though. And the mask itself is made of materials that I fully expect to degrade over a year or two. I'll be pleasantly surprised if that doesn't happen, but it seems to me like the foam will eventually fall apart, or come loose from the plastic. The velcro strap on the other hand is quite robust, and I can make the mask very tight on my head if desired. It is also not comfortable for side sleeping. Overall, I recommend this mask, especially for meditation or for sleeping on your back. It is rare to find an eye mask that actually blocks out 100% of light, at least for me.

I purchased 4 of these masks for myself and my family and we have all been using them for the last week. All of us utilize devices (I use an Oura ring my family uses Whoop) to track the quality of our sleep each night and this mask came highly recommended from a well known Podcaster so I thought we would try them and see the impact on our sleep scores. First impression was that the Mask seemed a bit bulky...much thicker than the cheap satin masks we were used to using (see pictures below...top mask in each photos is a standard mask and the bottom is the Mindfold). However, we all agree that the mask did an AMAZING job at blocking out light. None of us experienced a single ray of light when wearing these masks, even in well lit rooms. It is worth noting that my family all have different sized and shaped heads so I was very surprised that this mask worked for all of us. None of us found the masks to be very comfortable and all but my youngest found the straps to irritate the top part of the ear that connects to the head. To avoid this, we had to move the strap up higher on the head but it wouldn't stay there and would move back down as the night progressed. To prevent this slippage, we had to make the band fairly tight around the head which worked but was uncomfortable. The most unusual result of using these masks was a material drop in the quality of sleep that we all experienced every night since using the mask Remember, we use devices to track the quality of sleep (less deep and rem sleep plus an increase in sleep interruptions) so this drop in sleep quality was identified in all of our tracking devices and not just a subjective feeling (per my Oura ring, my sleep scores for the last year have been between 90-100 on a scale from 0-100 and since using the mask, I have not experienced a score greater than 80 - last night's score was 71 - my lowest since I started recording my sleep quality). This result was really surprising given that the mask effectively blocks out 100% of the light No other factors had changed that would impact our sleep so my hypothesis is that the uncomfortableness of the mask (strap and inside foam) ended up disrupting our sleep cycles. Going to play around a bit more with finding ways to increase the comfort of the mask and will post an update on findings.