Review of the Dream Sipper for Snoring
The Dream Sipper is a silicone tongue trainer you use during the day with a glass of water. It is meant to teach your tongue to rest on the roof of your mouth and to strengthen your soft palate. As of October 2026, it showed as sold out on the maker’s page, so check the Dream Sipper page before you plan around it.
The idea behind it has real research behind it. The Dream Sipper itself has not been tested in a controlled trial that we could find. That difference matters, and the rest of this review explains it.
What Is the Dream Sipper?
The Dream Sipper is an oral therapy device with a tongue bulb and a sipping straw. You use it while awake, not at night. It is made of medical-grade silicone, and the maker says it is dishwasher safe and free of BPA.
You press the bulb up against your tongue and sip water through the straw. The press is meant to train your tongue to rest up. The sipping is meant to work the soft palate instead of your cheeks.
Does Tongue Training Reduce Snoring?
Exercises for the mouth and throat, called myofunctional therapy, do show some benefit. A systematic review and meta-analysis found that myofunctional therapy reduced snoring in adults, judged by both questionnaires and sleep studies. A randomized trial in CHEST by Ieto and colleagues tested oropharyngeal exercises on snoring too.
The evidence is weaker than the marketing around devices suggests. A Cochrane review of myofunctional therapy for sleep apnea found moderate-certainty evidence for less daytime sleepiness, but very low-certainty evidence for snoring frequency. It also called for larger, longer trials.
In short, exercises can help, but they work over weeks to months and the research is on exercise programs. It is not on this product.
What We Got Wrong Before
This post used to say that scientific studies prove the Dream Sipper works in one week. That was too strong. The studies we found test exercise programs, not this device, and none promises results in a week.
It also said a CPAP machine brings the tongue out of the throat. That is not how CPAP works. CPAP keeps the airway open with air pressure.
We have also removed a claim about babies and breastfeeding. We found no source for it.
How to Use the Dream Sipper
Fill a glass with plain water and place the Dream Sipper in it. Sip the glass through the upper mouthpiece, alternating tongue-bulb presses with soft-palate suction.
The maker’s instructions do not say whether it is safe with liquids other than water. When I tried it, I used plain water only.
My Experience With the Dream Sipper
It took me a while to learn the swallow. The hardest part was relaxing my cheeks, which sounds easier than it is. The device helps because it gives you something to push against.
After about a week of daily use, my tongue wanted to rest higher in my mouth. I can’t say that stopped my snoring, and I wouldn’t expect it to in a week.
Keep your night device if you already use one. Exercises are a slower fix, and a mouthpiece works the same night you put it in. Our guide to anti-snoring mouthpieces covers the options.
When Should You See a Doctor?
Loud snoring can be a sign of sleep apnea. If you gasp, stop breathing or feel exhausted during the day, see your doctor first. A tongue trainer is not a treatment for sleep apnea.