Mark Zuckerberg builds sleep box to help wife, Priscilla sleep better

The engineer and inventor has created a light box to help his wife, Priscilla, who is the mother of his two children, sleep better at night.

He noted that she always had to wake up to check the time, in order to go and check their kids, but sometimes, when she woke up before the set time, she would be so stressed out that she would not be able to fall back asleep.

So he invented a light box to help her sleep better.

He writes: “Being a mom is hard, and since we’ve had kids Priscilla has had a hard time sleeping through the night. She’ll wake up and check the time on her phone to see if the kids might wake up soon, but then knowing the time stresses her out and she can’t fall back asleep. So I worked on building her what I call the “sleep box”.

“It sits on her nightstand, and between the hours of 6-7 am it emits a very faint light — visible enough that if she sees it she’ll know it’s an okay time for one of us to get the kids, but faint enough that the light won’t wake her up if she’s still sleeping. And since it doesn’t show the time, if she wakes up in the middle of the night, she knows to just go back to sleep without having to worry about what time it is. So far this has worked better than I expected and she can now sleep through the night.

“As an engineer, building a device to help my partner sleep better is one of the best ways I can think of to express my love and gratitude. A bunch of my friends have told me they’d want something like this, so I’m putting this out there in case another entrepreneur wants to run with this and build sleep boxes for more people!”

See his post below:

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