The ‘relax’ setting offers the same warmth, only with an undulating vibration that focuses on the temples and the orbit – just above the brow bone.

But the biggest perk for both of these settings is the bio-feedback. A little chip on the inside of the goggles reads your pulse and plays it back to you in vibrations to bring hyper-awareness to your body. I no longer just feel myself calming but actively hear it, and it’s impressive how fast my heart rate lowers as I sit and breathe with the goggles strapped to me.

On a day when I wake up with a pounding headache, the massage setting seems to either work away the pain or distract me enough from it. Either way, I feel better for wearing the goggles.

Things are different in the ‘sleep’ mode. There’s no stimulating heat, just vibrations focused around the temples.

As I sit in bed with heavy eyes, I again feel the tension slowly melting out of my face. While the goggles are programmed to shut off after 15 minutes, making them safe enough to fall asleep in, I don’t think I’d be able to nod off in the kit because of the noise of the vibrations. But I can imagine that they’d make for a pleasant pre-bed ritual, especially during anxious times when there’s too much distraction for a simple meditation.

“SmartGoggles are the latest wearable tech promising better wellbeing – here’s what happened when I wore them”