Does your significant other/partner/husband/wife...

[iSaint]

I've shoved her off the bed before cos I tried going to sleep for two hours one night and couldn't. Pillow/blankets of head, turning up white nosie maker, plugging ears... nothing worked.

When I was traveling with work once, I shared a hotel room with a new recruit. He snored so godamn loud that I ended up pelting him with loose change just to get him to roll over.

Whenever I'm put with a roommate, my first questions is 'do you snore?'. If so, I move. Once I came in late and there was a pair of earplugs on my pillow. I knew this couldn't be good. I was gone in sixty seconds.

 

[lem0n]

I don't snore but I've been known to whimper, laugh and giggle while I'm sleeping because I always wake up in the middle of it... It's like
*hahahahhaah
*wakes up with mouth open
puzzled for 3 seconds: "What the hell am i laughing about?"
*roll over and go back to sleep
it's kind of creepy to wake up with your mouth wide open laughing

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

I usually end up storming out of the room with pillow, cat and spare blanket in tow, headed for the couch.

That would not have worked for me with my ex, Chewey our dog slept downstairs - an he snored too!

 

[sethypoo]

Nope, she's as quiet as can be. Positively divine to sleep with, in fact . Her name's Tara, and she's member on these boards, but she never posts. I started a "Tara's PowerBook G4 Fund" thread for her awhile back.....no one believed she existed, I got flamed like mad, and the thread was Wastelanded, but she did get that PowerBook G4 and she does exist! Great, now I'm rambling.

 

[iRachel]

One of my college roommates was a teethgrinder. Her doctor gave her some sort of mouthguard-type thing to wear that was supposed to stop the grinding (and protect her teeth, if she did try to grind them), after a few nights of wearing it she somehow managed to spit it out while sleeping and started grinding away! She was afraid to wear it again after that - I think she thought she might swallow it by accident or something.

 

[iBlue]

YES and it drives me completely insane!

Great pair we are Insomniac light-sleeper meets narcoleptic snoring and kicking factory. Cruel joke, isn't it? I've quite seriously smacked him with my pillow on my way out of the room. (once I kicked him, HARD) the lucky bastard falls back to sleep in 5 seconds flat.

It is underestimated how devistating that sort of thing can be - alienated out of your own room by a piggy sleeper. <sigh>

p.s. nothing helps in this case. (he sleeps on his back no matter what and drinks too much. big causes right there. things he refuses to change, so I get to suffer for it)

 

[true777]

I actually enjoy it when boyfriends snore *lightly* -- the regularity of it sort of lulls me to sleep like ocean waves.

One male friend (not boyfriend) had such a bad snoring problem that he had some lumps in his throat surgically removed (not tonsils -- what's the word I'm looking for?), and it worked like magic. He told me snoring was gone 100%.

 

[iGary]

So he comes hom last night with a buckwheat pillow that forces him to sleep on his back (not advertised like that, it just does) - he thought it would make him snore less...

I guess I shouldn't complain much, he tried.

Between him and the cat last night, it's a wonder I am not up on murder charges this morning. He sounded like he was suffocating all night and the cat was scratching the closet doors wanting food at 2 a.m.

 

[iGary]

Great pair we are Insomniac light-sleeper meets narcoleptic snoring and kicking factory. Cruel joke, isn't it? I've quite seriously smacked him with my pillow on my way out of the room. (once I kicked him, HARD) the lucky bastard falls back to sleep in 5 seconds flat.

I usually slam the door on the way out, but that scares him too much and he wakes up a sniveling mess.

Mind you, we get along wonderfully otherwise, but I think I am going to have to haul him off to the doctor after 7 years of this.