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Best Mattress Under $1000 (2026) — The Tier List | Sleep Made Simple
Four out of five mattress complaints on Reddit name the same flaw.
Read more →Rick's sleep data, Dr. Chen's annotations, and the protocol that's always evolving.
Four out of five mattress complaints on Reddit name the same flaw.
Read more →A phone app and a $50 machine are not the same.
Read more →Rick on perfect data and imperfect sleep: a 92 readiness score on the night he slept 4 hours. What the numbers mean and what they miss. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick on the seven interventions Dr. Chen recommended in 2022 and the four he actually implemented. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick on Dr. Chen's paper: what Rick's case contributes to sleep science, when the conference is, and how Rick plans to prepare the night before. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick on the Eight Sleep protocol upgrade: the 4-degree temperature change that moved sleep onset 8 minutes. The Oura data before and after. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick on what the first 90 days of Oura Ring data revealed — and the gap between how he thought he slept and how he actually slept. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick on first sleep tracker data: what the Oura Ring showed in month one. The metric that surprised Dr. Chen and the one that didn't. Sleep Made Simple — 2022.
Read more →Two thousand dollars for a mattress cover. Let's run the actual math.
Read more →Rick on the magnesium glycinate trial: 30 days, daily HRV tracking, what changed on day 12, what Dr. Chen's notes said. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick on the mattress experiment: 90 days on three mattresses, Oura Ring data for each, and what the numbers said vs what Rick felt. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick's mid-year sleep data review: readiness up 28 points since 2022, still tired, the one intervention he hasn't tried. Dr. Chen's current theory. Sleep Made Simple — June 2026.
Read more →Rick on Protocol Version 1: the first systematic sleep protocol, what it included, what the first month of Oura data showed. Sleep Made Simple — 2022.
Read more →Rick has spent four thousand dollars trying to sleep. Three things worked.
Read more →Rick on the origin of his insomnia: 2019, what happened, the first thing he tried, and the Oura Ring he would not own for three more years. Sleep Made Simple — 2025.
Read more →Rick on six months of Oura Ring sleep debt tracking — the pattern, the variables, and the single change that reduced it. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick on five sleep supplements tested with Oura Ring data. Two worked. Three showed no significant effect. Not medical advice. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick on 30 nights at 68 degrees versus 30 nights at 72 degrees with Oura Ring tracking. One number surprised him. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick on the pillow problem: the third pillow this month, what the cervical alignment data showed, and what Dr. Chen said about pillow optimization. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick on things he hasn't tried: CBT-I on the list since 2022, a $40 light therapy lamp, and the July protocol that includes both. Sleep Made Simple — May 2026.
Read more →Rick on when Dr. Chen started taking notes: the session that changed from treatment to research. What was in the file. Sleep Made Simple — 2023.
Read more →Rick on white noise machines: the frequency comparison, the Oura data across 14 nights, and the machine that moved the number. Sleep Made Simple — 2026.
Read more →Rick optimized for it. Still isn't sleeping.
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