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How do you sleep?

How do you sleep?

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85% of the time, I have to be on my left side to fall asleep. Very rarely, if I'm tired enough, I can fall asleep in any position. But I suppose most anybody could.

I do find myself waking up most mornings on my stomach...and I must roll back on my side to go back to sleep. 😛
 
iBlue said:
I don't even have breathing for a reason. It's a total mystery to me why I can't sleep on my back. I will lay there for hours and my mind won't shut off. Then I finally get sick of it and roll over and go right to sleep. WTF is that about?
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I'm exactly the same. I think I'm actually more comfortable on my back, but for whatever reason I won't fall asleep that way.
 
I sleep on my stomach but kind of lean to one side, switching between leaning to the left or to the right every once in a while.
 
If my lower back didn't hurt after a half hour, I'd sleep on my stomach.

Otherwise, kind of a 3/4 angle, on my right side more or less. With my arms over my head/face.
 
iBlue said:
I disagree. It's accuracy that makes you work for a good cause. Recoil thrust is for sissies. 😛
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Hey, I'm braver than you think. My bed is a loft bed, 7' high @ the mattress top. I'm one ill-thrust and/or (more likely "or") one-roll-too-far away from the ER any given night. 😱

Now as for accuracy, the more energy I expend, the more exhausted I become, the less accurate I am. So for the sake of the other party, I try to keep things efficient, so I can be on my "B" game longer. (Let's face it, I'm no "A" leaguer, except for in imagination land)

So yes, recoil is a requirement I find beneficial, and my memory foam fails there... Even though I'm probably still alive today because of that foam, and/or my "B" game. 😉
 
I have no defined position of sleeping but sometimes I sleep really good on my left side,Whats up with that?

And how did a discussion on sex start on a sleeping thread?
 
appleguy123 said:
There probably isn't a better time to post this than 5 AM. 😀 I cannot sleep unless I'm on my side. I actually feel more comfortable on my back, but I can't sleep in that position.
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Exactly the same as me... The only time I can sleep on my back is when I'm already half asleep.
 
appleguy123 said:
Link to the pillow you use? At home I use a memory foam bed. Love it to death.
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It was a gift from my girlfriend a few years ago, I'm not sure what brand it is, but I believe it came from Macy's. It's a full length body pillow filled with memory foam chunks. It's amazing, I used to get really uncomfortable pressure points on my knees and I'd always wind up bunching up the blanket to use as a body pillow. Perfect gift. 🙂
 
sviato said:
Sleeping on your back is supposedly better, but it's also more difficult to fall asleep in this position.
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... and worse for breathing, or better for snoring, depending on your point of view. It kills me to lay on my back for very long.

Melrose said:
If my lower back didn't hurt after a half hour, I'd sleep on my stomach.
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...that too. And then there's the neck problem as well.

InvalidUserID said:
On my back...

...naked.
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Male or female?
 
For years, I've struggled with sleep. OK, make that a lot longer than a few years, but the last few have been pretty bad.

Due to an entirely different set of circumstances (leg cramps - I've had them for a long time now, decades), there came a recommendation to add potassium to my diet. So, I started to eat a couple (or more) bananas each day, a baked potato, etc.

Once I did that, the sleeping has become pretty good. Not excellent mind you, but a radical improvement from where it's been for the last few years.

Yeah - I know - anecdotal. But the timing is so completely spot on and the results so good, I'm comfortable in aligning the two for myself.

I've also found that some societies (Thailand, IIRC) actually espouse eating bananas as a treatment for insomnia - so maybe it's not K, but something else that comes with... dunno. But it's worked for me so I thought I'd share.
 
It takes a few hours for me to fall asleep if I'm not drunk so I change between left side, right side and stomach several times. I think I finally fall asleep on my stomach most of the times. With one arm straight up and under my pillow - which makes it completely fall asleep as well. This often makes me wake up since it doesn't follow my movements and becomes stuck in weird positions that hurts.

One very usual scenario:
I wake up in the middle of the night with one of my arms missing. I eventually realize it's under me. So I roll over, my arm hanging about like it was dead, and then I try to position it correctly with my other arm. Sometimes both arms have fallen asleep. Then I lay there with two useless limbs that can not be moved. This mostly happens right when the alarm is going off, of course. I hate the sound so I immediately want to turn it off but no arm is working. Finally I manage to "swoosh" one arm up onto the table and then the real battle begins; forcing my sleeping fingers to press the snooze button. It's always so so close but at the same time a million miles away. One morning I laid like that for up to two-three minutes, trying my hardest to push the damn button whilst getting more and more annoyed by the sound. I'm telling you, being me is the very definition of awesome.
 
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