If you sleep next to someone who snores, you already know the walk. It starts around 2 a.m. You lie there for a while, hoping it settles. It does not. So you pick up your pillow and go to the couch, or the spare room, or the far end of the house. Some nights you lie awake until the birds start anyway.
Nobody is the bad guy here. Your partner is asleep and has no idea. You love them. You just cannot sleep next to them, and a few nights a week has a way of turning into most nights. The separate bedrooms start to feel like the plan.
We read more than two thousand posts written by people in exactly that spot. The same few sentences kept coming up.
I want to sleep next to him.
I wake up with them in my hand.
If I lie on my side, it hurts.
Most of them had tried earplugs. Many had given up on them.
The earplugs were never built for lying down
Here is what those posts have in common. Most earplugs were made for concerts, workshops and flights, where you sit upright. They stick out past the opening of your ear. That is fine on a plane. In bed, it is where the trouble starts.
Lie on your side and the pillow presses the part that sticks out into your ear. That is the ache that wakes you at 3 a.m. Or the pillow levers the plug loose as you turn over, and that is the plug you find in the sheets at 7. People blame their ears. The ears were fine. The plug was built for sitting up.
So we chose one that sits inside the ear
Vesper is a small, round silicone earplug that sits inside the bowl of your ear. Nothing sticks out past your ear for the pillow to press on or catch. There are four ear tips in the box, because ears differ, and a hard case so the pair stays together.
We want to be straight about what it does. It turns the snoring down. It does not make it disappear, and no earplug does. What it is built for is the part the others got wrong: still being in your ear at 3 a.m., with your head on the pillow, next to the person you love.
The alarm question
The most common reason people give for not wearing earplugs is the alarm. Every ear and every alarm is different, so we make no promise about yours. Here is the honest way to find out: try them on a quiet night first, a Friday or a Saturday when nothing depends on it. If you need to hear a baby at night, talk it through with your partner before you wear them.
What it costs, and what it costs to wait
One Vesper kit is $39.99: a pair of earplugs, four ear tips and a hard case. Other low-profile sleep earplugs sell for about $50. The partner pack is two kits for $59.99, one for each nightstand or one for the overnight bag. Bought separately, two kits are $79.98.
Shipping is free and tracked. Orders ship from our supplier’s warehouse, so allow 7–14 days for delivery.
Then sleep on it for 60 nights, counted from the day it arrives. If you’re still on the couch, email us and you get your money back. Used earplugs cannot be resold, so you keep them. Every email to support@vespergoods.com is answered personally by the president of Vesper.
Every week you wait is another week of walking to the couch at 2 a.m. The test costs you nothing but the first night.
Both buttons: 60 nights to decide.
P.S. Your side of the bed is still there. Put the first pair in on a weekend night, find your tip, and see how the snoring sounds from your own pillow. If you’re still on the couch after 60 nights, you get your money back.
© Pedrada Labs LLC dba Vesper. Vesper earplugs are a comfort product for sleep. They make no claim about any condition. The italic sentences above are taken or shortened from public posts by people who have never used Vesper.