r/Eyebleach • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '21

Vibrating Bed

https://gfycat.com/defiantwarycopperbutterfly

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u/Dragon_girl1919 Aug 12 '21

You kind of have to. It is so soothing.

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u/Channa_Argus1121 Aug 12 '21

Random fact: Cat purrs can improve bone density and promote healing, due to their frequency of 25 to 150 hertz.

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u/whoami_whereami Aug 12 '21

To clarify: there's a study that suggests that purring might promote bone growth and healing in the purring cat itself (https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.4777098)

Vibration therapy for humans is a real thing (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4458848/ for example), in fact that's one of the reasons why the study linked above thinks that purring might serve a self-healing function in cats, however the vibrational energy that a purring house cat produces is far to low to have a significant effect on a human that's much more masssive and heavier than the cat. The vibrations used in vibration therapy are more around the "standing on a big subwoofer" level that makes your whole body visibly vibrate.

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u/Channa_Argus1121 Aug 13 '21

Interesting. So, they’re basically using giant, mechanical cat throats, I guess.