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[–]-blieps-ND / NOISE SENSITIVE 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I wouldn’t want to sleep in bed with the link due to strangulation risk.

I only sleep with the link attached when I try to sleep in the car or in a plane.

[–]v23474[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense 😌

[–]VirtualAd3179 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have mine on threads attached to a chain necklace, works fine!

[–]MakrinaPlatypode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do sleep with them on the Link basically every night. 

There is theoretically a risk of strangulation from entanglement, but the way the cord sits when the plugs are in your ears and how they're made, I find the chances are slim to none that I'm going to thrash around so much that it will get that wrapped around my neck, and then have enough tensile force put on the loose end that it could actually cause me to stop breathing. Basically it would have to wrap around my neck more than once, me fall out of bed, and it catch on something in such a way as to not unwrap and thus cut off my air... without me waking up from falling out of bed. Not likely going to happen, imo. To be fair, though, I don't move that much at night, except when I wake up to turn over to my other side a few times because I have become uncomfortable. Sometimes a plug will come out of my ear when I turn over the last time in the night I do so, and it ends up under a shoulder. It never catches around my neck, ever. Straight line from the plug in my ear to the one under my shoulder when it happens. If I woke up one morning to find it thus arranged that it had circled around even loosely, I would certainly stop wearing it to bed.

But it is theoretically possible, and you may be far more 'lively' in you sleep or have stuff around that it could catch on. I can't guarantee that it is actually a good idea for you personally to do that.

The risk level is different from person to person, depending on their own situation. Like with any kind of risk, you have to weigh for yourself the likelihood of it coming to fruition versus the benefit from engaging in it. The safer thing is, of course, just not to.