Support area
Sleep and recovery
From a twenty-minute wind-down to a full overnight. Tapers to silence. Nothing wakes you up.
For bedtime wind-down, sleep onset, returning to sleep after a night-time wake, settling the worry that you won't sleep, resting when depleted — and **a full overnight up to eight hours** for continuous sleep-supportive audio across the night. The listening is built to slow the body down, quieten the loop, and hand you to sleep without forcing it. Sessions taper to silence rather than re-orienting you. There's no wake-up at the end. The session is built to be left running.
Who this is for
Concrete situations, not diagnoses.
Pre-sleep wind-down on a routine night
Sleep onset when racing thoughts won't settle
Returning to sleep after a 3am wake
Worry about sleep itself
Daytime rest when fully depleted
Continuous overnight audio across a full sleep cycle
What listening looks like
What you'll actually hear, in order.
For sessions under four hours, the composition runs pink-noise substrate, sustained drone bed, and breath-paced movement at roughly 0.1 Hz. For sleep onset specifically, open-loop pink-noise pulses can be scheduled into the windows you're most likely asleep in — a conservative approximation of the closed-loop slow-wave-stimulation studied in sleep labs. **Past four hours**, the body chain collapses to a single long sustain carrying the pulses, with a brief gateway (if headphones) and a sleep-handoff close. No in-session cues — you're asleep. Audio tapers to silence and stops.
What the evidence supports
The evidence, graded honestly.
The closed-loop pink-noise stimulation literature is the mechanistic anchor — Ngo et al. 2013 (Neuron), Papalambros et al. 2017, Wunderlin et al. 2021. We deliver this open-loop and label it accordingly: we don't measure sleep stage and we don't claim sleep-stage targeting. The receptive-music evidence base for pre-sleep wind-down (the Jespersen Cochrane review on music for insomnia) supports adjunctive use. Full citations at /science.
Read the full evidence grading at /science →Which techniques are involved
Which techniques the wizard reaches for here.
Every session in this area combines the following techniques. None is mandatory; the wizard adapts based on your length, whether headphones are in, and what you said you'd like to hear. Each has its own page on /methods.
What we don't claim
Where the listening stops being our claim to make.
Soundscaper is supportive listening, not insomnia treatment, not a sleep-aid medical device, and not a substitute for sleep medicine. It doesn't treat clinical insomnia. We don't claim closed-loop slow-wave stimulation, memory enhancement, or sleep-stage targeting.