Relax Away Your Stress With Amazon’s One-Day Deal On Gravity Blankets

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Tara BellucciNews and Culture Director
Tara BellucciNews and Culture Director
Tara is Apartment Therapy's News & Culture Director. When not scrolling through Instagram double-tapping pet pics and astrology memes, you'll find her thrift shopping around Boston, kayaking on the Charles, and trying not to buy more plants.
updated Feb 13, 2020
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If you’re one of the many people who suffer from stress and anxiety, one recent trend wants to weigh you down—in a good way. Weighted blankets have become all the rage for their ability to help stressed-out humans relax and drift off to sleep easier, but their added weight often means they’re pricier than your average throw blanket. Thankfully, one popular brand—Gravity—is on sale at Amazon for one day only.

We wrote about Gravity’s successful Kickstarter campaign in 2017, including the positive news that “there’s quite a bit of research on how weighted blankets can reduce the stress hormone cortisol and boost sleep hormones serotonin and melatonin, making it easier to calm down and drift off.”

And even if you don’t suffer from anxiety or trouble sleeping, it sounds just plain nice. Inside its (soft, removable, and washable) outer cover, the blanket is filled with poly pellets that represent seven to twelve percent of your body weight, which is meant to feel like a solid hug—basically swaddling for adults.

We actually had some Apartment Therapy staffers test out a weighted blanket and give their first impressions:

If you’re looking for total relaxation, the makers of Gravity blanket have also created Moon Pod, a “zero gravity” beanbag meant to deliver “full body weightlessness.”