DREAMHELMET  trivia:
Believe it or not!!

The DREAMHELMET sleep mask was actually "dreamed up" by its inventor, Jim de Cordova, in 1998, while sleeping on a sailboat. He awoke while dreaming about the DREAMHELMET  and sketched the first plans before the vision faded from his mind.


Used as a pillow     

Worn "pharaoh" style

The DREAMHELMET  is the first and only combination pillow, sleep mask, and sound block device ever to be patented in the United States.

The sleep masks for the first experimental DREAMHELMET  prototypes were made using blackout cloth left behind by the Lorimar Productions camera crew after filming a movie at a property in Los Angeles owned by de Cordova.  The name of the movie was Heat From Another Sun, starring Robert Forster.  The building itself was owned before de Cordova by the well known actor and comedian, Joe E. Brown, who once performed at the Schubert Theatres in New York.

   
Used as a muff - connect mask and strap to inside Velcro strip

Jim de Cordova's great-great grandfather Jacob de Cordova, along with his brother, Joshua, founded the main newspaper of Jamaica, The Gleaner, in 1834; it is still in business - the oldest independent newspaper in the Western Hemisphere. Jacob went on to explore, and make the first accurate map of, Texas, serve in the Texas Legislature, and own more than a million acres in Texas, including in the county where President George Bush's ranch is now located.  Jacob founded the city of Waco, Texas, among many other exploits. Waco's main bridge across the Brazos River was built by the same company that built the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.



Leather 'N' Lace DREAMHELMET  line prototypes


Jim de Cordova is related to the famous late Hollywood producer, Fred de Cordova, through their Jamaican family.  Fred produced The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson and  later worked with Jay Leno. Fred was originally from New York City where he was a friend of the Schubert (theatre) family.

On January 4, 1999, a woman actually fell asleep on the stage of  The Howie Mandel Show  wearing a DREAMHELMET sleep mask,  given to her as a  birthday gift by actor and comedian Howie Mandel.  She had to be awakened to go back to her seat to see the rest of the show .  Howie's studio was in the same building in Burbank, California, as  that of Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. Jim de Cordova grew up and went to school in Burbank. 

The DREAMHELMET  can -

  • Be the perfect unique gift for the person who has everything
  • Be the perfect gift for someone hard to shop for
  • Be the perfect gift for someone who is awakened by light or sound
  • Be a pillow
  • Be a money belt
  • Be a muff
  • Keep your hands and forearms warm
  • Help you sleep better and longer at home
  • Let you sleep while someone else in the room wants to read or watch TV
  • Let you sleep on airplanes, trains, buses, etc.
  • Be a familiar and trusted sleep aid you can carry anywhere - like your old Teddy Bear
  • Save your life or that of someone you know by letting a drowsy driver have a refreshing nap anywhere along the road                                                                                                                                                
  • Let you get a good night's sleep while sleeping outdoors or camping by:  
  • Providing an attachable pillow
  • Greatly reducing heat loss from your body
  • Keeping mosquitoes off your ears and most of your face
  • Letting you sleep well past sunrise

"HiPockets" money belt - pillow - sleep mask - sound blocker - muff! 

Don't leave, or stay, home - without it!


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