Why do I sleep better using NightGuard?

NOTE: This is NOT a commercial!

I sleep so much better with deep sound with vivid detailed dreams since I started using NightGuard®.

But why? Perhaps somehow the NightGuard calms my nerves so I can sleep better? May the placebo effect in action?

Dentists have been telling me that I need protection for my grinding teeth for a long time. Finally I paid $600 to get a NightGuard fitted for my mouth.

When I first tried it on at the dentist’s office it was very uncomfortable and I thought that I just blew $600 as I will likely never wear it.

On the way home I noticed that I actually grind my teeth nearly constantly. Perhaps it has something to do with the “anxiety problem” that family practice doctors told me that I have (and I refuse to take dugs for).

Anyway, a few days later my wife asked how I like my NightGuard? I lied and said that it’s OK even though I didn’t even try sleeping with it.

Guilt of lying and waisting the money drove me to actually try it. I thought, “Here goes a sleepless night”. But I quickly dropped off into the deepest sleep that I can remember. Such a wonderful dream in which I had conversations with several fictitious people that my brain just made up.

Since then I’ve really look forward to going to bed with my NightGuard.

Do you use a NightGuard?

What is your experience using your NightGuard?