{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5764","number":"5764","name":"Jason Page","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-28T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-19T04:00Z","body":"I ask HHS to study shielding against extremely-low-frequency fields that reach a sleeper from below, including fields that may be targeted, and to publish which materials and placements actually reduce that exposure. In the nights beginning September 20, 2026, I woke with a feeling of hopelessness and despair that was present before the thoughts and dreams that agreed with it. A copper–nickel mesh cloth left the feeling unchanged when I used it as a cover. The same cloth was associated with relief when it lay under my back, between my spine and the bed. The trial was subjective and unblinded. I have no magnetic-field measurement of those nights. People I know in Florida described a similar feeling on waking over roughly the same week. I cannot tie their reports to my room. The published work I consulted, Adey and the Loos patents, does not report hopelessness. It does report that weak fields in bands overlapping sleep-related rhythms can reach physiological systems at levels that do not heat tissue. A thin conductive cloth is not a shield against a slowly varying magnetic field. Families have no tested guidance for a source under the bed (ground / terrestrial based.) That is the gap.","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5764","tags":["sleep-cognition","research-evidence"],"source_hash":"85079c3b913e80d10dbd935f6098f9ed80d3e10d86414e4f662781b2bb08aa65","slug":"sleep-cognition-comment-5764","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5764","body_sha256":"d0c80f6dff3596f1fb08ce870bb85b2caaff1b8f9d78f98bcf085e4f4b1b42c5","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"research","topics":[{"id":"research","evidence":"I ask HHS to study shielding against extremely-low-frequency fields that reach a sleeper from"},{"id":"neurological","evidence":"September 20, 2026, I woke with a feeling of hopelessness and despair that was present before the thoughts and dreams that agreed with"},{"id":"directed","evidence":"s that reach a sleeper from below, including fields that may be targeted, and to publish which materials and placements actually reduce t"},{"id":"electricity","evidence":"I ask HHS to study shielding against extremely-low-frequency fields that reach a sleeper from below, including fields that may be ta"}],"summary":"Requests research on low-frequency fields reaching sleepers and shielding placement, describes subjective relief with cloth beneath the back, and explicitly notes missing measurements and unblinded observations.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-28T16:50:58Z","review_method":"Full comment-text review with exact source evidence; attachments not reviewed","review_source_sha256":"2eb25b22dc1978d9335410e6fa3df1294eef9f7ad7e7f519eddf53c57b54ca8b","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"forum_topics":["research","neurological","directed","electricity"],"primary_topic":"research","forum_title":"Requests research on low-frequency fields reaching sleepers and shielding placement, describes subjective…"}