Morphée

I don’t usually write reviews, but this product sure does deserve one. I bought this to help bring down my anxiety/stress levels as they feed a debilitating condition. I have to say that the Morphee is something incredibly special. If you’re familiar with hypnotherapy, it literally includes the same sessions right here in this beautifully designed unit. The voices are soothing, it covers all aspects of breathing control, visualisation, relaxation, meditation as well as being a sleep aid. The music is beautifully composed, immersive and varies as it plays (none of that mp3 silliness). Even the nature sounds have depth and are hyper-realistic. In short, I’d say that this is well and truly worth the money. The in-built sessions are endless and you can fall asleep to this and it’ll turn itself off. It would make a perfect gift for anyone suffering from stress, anxiety, panic, trauma and sleep deprivation. A very, very clever (and as I said, seems to be based on real therapy), gem of a creation. Update 26/01/25 I waited several years to purchase the English (multilingual) version of the more portable ‘Morphee Zen Pebble’ too and, for the same reasons as the above, that’s just as fantastic for bringing down anxiety naturally. Just as easy to use. I had thought that it would play all the same music as the original, but was surprised to find that the makers had designed it with new music and hypnotherapy sessions (I’ve said before how they use classic hypnotherapy techniques, which makes both units well worth the money!) catered to relaxing, rather than falling asleep. There’s one new piece of music that takes me straight to a New York coffee shop (Relaxing Music: No. 9 ‘Letting Go’), and that’s my absolute favourite for my office lunch breaks (the device allows you to ‘save’ from your favourite within each therapeutic collection, so you know where mine starts now!). Don’t worry if you don’t have a big imagination for the music collection. Just listening is wonderful enough and really brings your heart rate down. The ‘Immersive Journeys’ collection really paints a picture and takes me back to beach holidays! So, yes to the original ‘Morphee’ for help falling asleep and for combatting general stress/anxiety. Yes to the ‘Zen Pebble’ for calming moments on the go and anxiety therapy.

I think this is a great product; it works. It looks great, I’m really pleased with it but it could be better: 1. The main issue I have is there is no way to turn the volume down lower as when I listen to the voice only settings there is silence and suddenly the voice starts again just as I’m dozing and it makes me jump out of my skin if I am listening on my earphones! I like listening on earphones so I don’t disturb my partner and the sound is better with earphones, but the thunderstorm stops being relaxing when you can’t turn down the volume and there is a big crash of thunder as you are dozing off, which is a shame because it’s so lovely to listen to, it really is 3D sound. 2. No option to the nature sounds or music along with the voice guided mediations (for reason listed above) and also I find it more relaxing to have the nature sounds in the background with meditations. It does have the nature sounds for one of the breathing/cardiac mediations and I find this the best one for me. 3. No binaural beats. There are frequencies that really help with promoting sleep and certain relaxed state brainwaves and I would love to have these as a white noise option. 4. Speaker could be better. This is the reason I use my earphones.

I had my doubts when I ordered this item. I usually take 1 to 1 1/2 hours to get to sleep. I do not want to take sleeping tablets so I thought I would give this a try. It is easy to use and very good looking. I have been using it for two weeks and it seems to do what it says on the tin. It has knocked about an hour of my getting to sleep time. I am very pleased with it. Would recommend.

The idea of a non-screen based sleep aid is great, including the meditation sessions, but its execution is poor. My unit had a battery issue for which I took off one star as it only lasted an hour, but even had this not been the case there are many other issues. As many people had noted, perhaps they had received a used item, which seems to be common for this product. I thought I might have received such an item even though one poorly placed security tab was on the box. I took off one star for the poor speaker quality. I bought another sleep aid unit like this for £17 (this was £63 at the time), and that unit offered a headphone jack and a speaker quality as good as this one. Another unit I bought for £30 from a different manufacturer also had a much better speaker. The speaker on this device was barely serviceable. I took off one star as even had I not received a defective unit, battery is 3 1/2 hours at best and the sessions last 20 minutes at most. My cheaper units have battery life ranging from 12-36 hours and the sessions can be 30 minutes, an hour, 8 hours or even indefinite (until the battery exhausts). Compared to this item, 20 minutes is not enough for me to fall asleep and the battery life even had it been working optimally is poor, especially compared to other cheaper units. I took off one star as the range of sounds offered were not broad enough. There are a lot of guided meditations but you may not like either the male or female voice offered. The one I received had an American female voice even though other units have a British one. I didn't find the meditations useful to be honest. I much preferred listening to the sounds, of which there are few. I only really liked the fire crackling sound and the tinny speaker was poor quality so the sound quality was barely serviceable. So I am paying £63 to listen to the one sound I like on a tinny speaker on a unit with a defective battery. There were several other issues I had with my unit, I only mentioned the more prominent ones of note. Since sleep is important, I toyed with the idea of buying this again having returned my unit, but decided against it. The other cheaper units I have from other companies are far superior to this overpriced ineffective product.

I was really looking forward to this purchase after reading reviews including one by the independent. Unfortunately the product didn’t live up to the expectations from the reviews. The speaker wasn’t great to start with and sounded dull not what was expected from something that cost almost £80. The meditation programmes missed some ambient back sounds also and just involved someone talking. Both the male and female voices weren’t the most relaxing either. The build quality was lovely and was very pleasing to look at but if you’re wanting something with a bit more zing there are other apps which have more choice.

Bought for my 79 year old Mother who has suffered with insomnia for 20 years, has always had to fall asleep with the radio on low volume. This has worked for her from the first night she used it - she loves it because of its aesthetic look and ease of use for a non technical person.

This is the most fantastic relaxing device I have purchased for ages. Listening to the nature sounds through headphones is like actually being there, especially the Japanese storm. In the sounds of the Night, I would have loved to have had the sound of cicadas instead of crickets, which personally I think is far better, but this is a minor quibble. I have not explored it fully yet - but the reason I have only given it four stars is because I felt the glossy manual was lacking in two important things. I suffer from post-viral fatigue and brain fog and I would have welcomed a diagram pointing out the function of every button (no matter how simple) like most other manuals. Also there needed to be either the option to purchase a charger or information on which charger to purchase. Neither was available. Which led to massive confusion. I wasn't even sure if the charger had been left out of the box when I discovered only a lead. This is something the manufacturers could so easily rectify. For me The Morphee gets five stars. Not the manual. J.U.

The look attracted me at first then I like what I read. The aesthetic didn't disappoint, the wooden case is beautifully smooth and tactical. I bought it for me but I've used it more with my elderly poorly mum who can get very agitated the Parisian Burmese cat purring can work wonders. The sound quality is pretty good too.

Lovely product, but very disappointed that switch has broken after 6 weeks, considering the amount I paid for it. Switches look metal but are actually plastic