Where and how do we sleep?

[Todash]

We've had some sleep-themed threads lately, so it got me wondering: where and how do we all sleep?

For me, where: a king-size sleep number bed topped with thick memory foam, a heated mattress pad (in winter), and nice sheets. How: flat on my back, five minutes after I switch off my lamp, I am a granite rock dropped into the deepest, darkest well. I wake in precisely the same position, bedclothes undisturbed.

[mustangclaire]

It can sometimes take me a good hour to drop off, or longer. Always on my front. I know this sounds bad but I can't STAND going to sleep "cuddling". In theory I like the idea, in reality, after 5 mins I'm thinking "God it's hot/really want to move my leg/scratch my foot"... given the other half can drop off in about 7 seconds (I HAVE counted) it's like being enveloped in a dead weight. I also wake having seemingly not moved, with covers in place. And apparently I'm a REALLY quiet sleeper.

[atomicinchworm]

My husband can go from having a conversation with me to dead asleep in 5 seconds. Depending on the day, it typically takes me 30 minutes on a good day to several hours. I am also a restless sleeper and toss and turn and take blankets off and put blankets back on throughout the night. I also normally sleep like the dead; I rarely dream. If I fall asleep easily, I wake easily. It's really dumb.

[staropeace]

I sleep around.

[Autumn Gust]

It's a threesome for us every night: hubby, me, and Fluffy, our sixteen-year old cat. We deliberately downsized to a full bed from a queen--we call if "forced snuggling." We're both tall-- he's 6 ft. and I'm 5 ft. 11-- but slender, so it all works out. Cozy flannel sheets in cold weather and old-fashioned crisp cotton sheets in summer. No fancy bedspread, though, due to surprise discoveries of cat vomit from the aforesaid Fluffy.:smile2:

[kingricefan]

Side sleeper. Can not sleep on my back, ever. Makes me feel vulnurable. Mattress is a queen size pillow top and sheets with at least three hundred thread count. (I get mine on clearance at TJ Maxx!) On top is a heavy quilt (in winter), followed by one to two blankets. My black cat has to be either between my legs or laying next to one of my legs.

[GNTLGNT]

....my beloved is like many of you girls....hardly budges, and can flip the covers one teensy bit and the bed's made...me, the bed looks I've been slaying zombies and wrasslin' gerbils while I snore...anybody needs wallpaper stripped, just give me a buzz and I can 40 wink it away!...:10_002:

[tenngolfer]

King size pillow top, very comfortable; sheets, and comforter. I sleep well, and a few years ago when I traveled for business nearly every week I learned to make myself sleep on demand. When the jet engines started cranking up, I was out of it snoozing away. I also attribute a good nights sleep to daily living. I cut off my caffeine intake at noon, I toss and turn if I do not. When dealing with people or business decisions, I often use the thought of how well will I sleep tonight based on my actions, and encourage those working for me to do the same (which my hope is that it leads to better moral and ethical decision making, giving the benefit of doubt, and going the extra mile to develp folks and business relationships). Complex issues occasionally keep me starring at the ceiling at times, but I pray about it and things seem to work out. I sleep on my back and sides, more on sides, but I have to rotate shoulders every couple of hours, as they start to hurt if I lay too long on one side (I assume this is old sports related injury kind of things).

[Ayko]

I'm easy. Sleep fine on my belly just as well as on my back or side. I usually sleep in two parts three or four hours twice with a half or full hour break usually around 2:30 am unless it is one of those nights that just get started at 2:30 am. Daytime sleeping I do through without a break and naps I enjoy once in a while. Very large beds are for me and having just one is not my style. At least four or five.

[Shasta]

I can sleep anywhere, any time, and place but the majority of my sleeping is as follows:

On a queen pillow top memory foam with a memory foam pillow, right side of the bed. I read on my right side, then flip to my left, then right before falling asleep flip back to my right. Each time I have to adjust the sheets so my cat can get against my stomach. I pull the comforter up over my ear, but not enough to cover my nose.

I begin the night with a husband and his cat but within a few hours they always move to the couch.

I tend to do a lot of flipping back and forth durning the night. Sometimes I will get get crazy and lay on my back or stomach but not very often.

[blunthead]

I sleep around.
PM me.

[blunthead]

Someone asked me how I slept. I said, 'I made a few mistakes.' - Steven Wright.

It's just me and the animals. I like sleeping while the TV's on low, so I sleep in a recliner in the living room. I can't sleep on my back I assume primarily due to sinus issues (I'd drown), and I turn from left to right frequently before finally drifting off, and then begin loosening nails via snoring, or so I'm told. This is why it's just me and the animals.

[Out of Order]

PM me.

:clap:

[Todash]

I pull the comforter up over my ear, but not enough to cover my nose.

Oh, I forgot to mention that part. I don't do it exactly the same, but: the comforter comes up right under my chin. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES can any other part of my body except my head be uncovered. And I wear a sleep mask. I started wearing it because my husband will straight flip on the light in the middle of the night (can you believe that happy crappy?), but now I've become accustomed to the feeling of it.

[Shasta]

Oh, I forgot to mention that part. I don't do it exactly the same, but: the comforter comes up right under my chin. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES can any other part of my body except my head be uncovered. And I wear a sleep mask. I started wearing it because my husband will straight flip on the light in the middle of the night (can you believe that happy crappy?), but now I've become accustomed to the feeling of it.

Where'd you get it? I totally want one because I like to sleep with the windows wide open but that is not so fun when the morning light comes bearing in.

And of course (because we're twins) I can't sleep with anything uncovered either. It makes it REALLY awful in the summer because we don't have air conditioner.

[atomicinchworm]

Oh. I sleep with 4 or 5 different blankets (in a specific order. I like some of the individual blankets warming abilities but don't like the way they feel on my skin) because I can't sleep unless I am cocooned in warmth. I also cannot have my neck or face covered because I feel like I am suffocating. My husband frequently puts a blanket over his face and I just want to pull it off of him, because it makes me feel a little squicky.

I wake up frequently with Kramer on my stomach or in between my feet and Percy sleeping on my neck, kneading my face with his tiny pointy claws. o.O

[blunthead]

...I pull the comforter up over my ear, but not enough to cover my nose...Just how low are your ears?

[staropeace]

:rofl:
Just how low are your ears?

[Shasta]

Just how low are your ears?

It's all in the positioning of the comforter. It takes talent and practice.

[mustangclaire]

I forgot to mention, our boy is 9, and he's only JUST started staying in his "big boy bed" all night. He'd come up about 2.30 and i'd blearily get up and get in the spare bed.. When i did that, for some strange reason, I'd have to have a teddy bear and hug it right into my tummy, heaven knows why. But now, he quite happily stays in his bed and i don't think i'll EVER get over the novelty of climbing into bed and blissfully knowing I don't have to get out of it till the alarm goes off. EVER. I didn't force him in the end, my husband and i reakoned by the time he was a teenager we'd struggle to get him OUT of his bed and just kept saying "it's a phase"....

[gniknehpets]

Great thread! I'm a flip flopper. Left side, right side, face buried in pillow, on my back and start all over again. I'm not much fun to sleep with because of all the flopping around. Um, well, that really didn't come out the way I meant it. :blush: We are talking about SLEEPING, right?

[TheInterloper]

One eye open and a gun beneath my pillow...

[kingricefan]

Oh. I sleep with 4 or 5 different blankets (in a specific order. I like some of the individual blankets warming abilities but don't like the way they feel on my skin) because I can't sleep unless I am cocooned in warmth. I also cannot have my neck or face covered because I feel like I am suffocating. My husband frequently puts a blanket over his face and I just want to pull it off of him, because it makes me feel a little squicky.

I wake up frequently with Kramer on my stomach or in between my feet and Percy sleeping on my neck, kneading my face with his tiny pointy claws. o.O

Kramer from Seinfeld and Percy from The Green Mile????? ;-D

[kingricefan]

Great thread! I'm a flip flopper. Left side, right side, face buried in pillow, on my back and start all over again. I'm not much fun to sleep with because of all the flopping around. Um, well, that really didn't come out the way I meant it. :blush: We are talking about SLEEPING, right?

I'll be the judge of that! ;-D

[atomicinchworm]

Kramer from Seinfeld and Percy from The Green Mile????? ;-D

Haha. Kramer was a random name (It was between Kramer and Cosmos. I think I talked to Todash about the names and she suggested those; he was named Tubby when she had him. I don't actually remember my thought process in naming him). I've never actually watched Seinfeld save maybe a couple of episodes. It does fit him though, so Sure! Yes. Seinfeld. lol

Percival was the result of the hour drive home after adopting him. My husband decided that he would have a name before we got home, so we shot names back and forth for an hour straight. That is the one we settled on.

His proper name is Sir Percival Hissyfeather, Esquire. My husband is a weirdo.

[ZMeister]

You people make me sick! [All you blessed sleepers]
Sleep has always been an issue with me for as long as I can remember. I have a daybed with a horrible mattress [can't be helped, too broke right now]horrible, cheap sheets with a lousy thread count and two cats who are capricious head-butters. I'm a tosser and turner but when I do sleep it's on my side, fetal position, hands tucked under my chin.

My thing about sleeping is that I have to have a cover of some sort, even in sweltering heat. Plus, I need to be wearing socks. [even if I'm wearing nothing else!] Which I kick off during the night when it gets too hot, or else they're drooping half on-half off my feet.

I have horrible sleeping patterns. My body seems to think there's 25 hours in the day and so I'm constantly rotating when I sleep: sometimes at night, other times from noon till evening and other times all day long. It's never normal.

My brain freight trains during the night and often keeps me awake with inane chatter and other times with good story ideas. If I hope to get single wink of sleep I have to get up and write.

My body feels miserable and fatigued during the day, but when 9PM rolls around my eyes go "bing!" wide open. My fatigue leaves and I start to feel "normal" as opposed to "like crap"

I've tried for years to stick to a schedule but my body [and brain!] have their own agenda.

[SHEEMIEE]

...butt naked on top of the duvet, with the fan oscillating top to bottom chillin' me buns, and a pillow to drool on.

[do1you9love?]

Love this thread!

I sleep on my left side with a flat pillow under my head and a full body pillow hugged up and between my knees. This doesn't vary. However depending on the season, I have different needs. I'm quite warm blooded, so during the night I turn into what my hubby likes to call his "little furnace". Seriously, you could cook an egg on my shoulder if I am sufficiently covered. :biggrin2:

Summer time, I must have at least a sheet, but will often stick my leg out to cool down. Winter time, I have a sheet and a quilt. Start out with it up to my ears with nose out (I get ya Shasta!) but as I begin to warm up, that may change and leg may also need to come out for a bit. Oh and the ceiling fan must be on every night of the year!

Sweet dreams all! (by the way, I looked thru all the new emoticons and didn't see a sleeping one??:dunno:

[Shasta]

His proper name is Sir Percival Hissyfeather, Esquire. My husband is a weirdo.

My cat's name is Mathilda Lynn Boxcar. What are animals for if not for giving awesome names that you'd never give your kids? Well, that and love.

I still think SK's cat name, Speedy Tomato, is the best name for an animal ever.

[Shasta]

You people make me sick! [All you blessed sleepers]
Sleep has always been an issue with me for as long as I can remember. I have a daybed with a horrible mattress [can't be helped, too broke right now]horrible, cheap sheets with a lousy thread count and two cats who are capricious head-butters.

As soon as you can get a better mattress. I bet it would help.

[Todash]

Where'd you get it? I totally want one because I like to sleep with the windows wide open but that is not so fun when the morning light comes bearing in.

And of course (because we're twins) I can't sleep with anything uncovered either. It makes it REALLY awful in the summer because we don't have air conditioner.I'm pretty sure it was this: http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Essentials-Escape-Luxury-Earplugs/dp/B003CGPT28/

[Shasta]

I'm pretty sure it was this: http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Essentials-Escape-Luxury-Earplugs/dp/B003CGPT28/

They have a princess pink! Rad. This is going on my birthday list.

[Jojo87]

If I am very tired I fall asleep easily and sleep like a dead until my alarm clock on my cellphone wake me up.
But sometimes I have very hard to fall asleep and that happen if something good have happen or something I have to
do the next day that it's important, I can lay in the bed couple of hours without getting sleep. And if I have to wake up early I
can wake up middle of the night many times to watch how many hours I have left to sleep before I have to get up.
Usually I sleep on the side, sometimes on the back. I have a big comfortable bed with a new mattress and a warm
quilt that I use wintertime. During summer time if it's hot I use a bed sheet or a thin quilt.

[Neesy]

Love this thread!

I sleep on my left side with a flat pillow under my head and a full body pillow hugged up and between my knees. This doesn't vary. However depending on the season, I have different needs. I'm quite warm blooded, so during the night I turn into what my hubby likes to call his "little furnace". Seriously, you could cook an egg on my shoulder if I am sufficiently covered. :biggrin2:

Summer time, I must have at least a sheet, but will often stick my leg out to cool down. Winter time, I have a sheet and a quilt. Start out with it up to my ears with nose out (I get ya Shasta!) but as I begin to warm up, that may change and leg may also need to come out for a bit. Oh and the ceiling fan must be on every night of the year!

Sweet dreams all! (by the way, I looked thru all the new emoticons and didn't see a sleeping one??:dunno:

:24:
Click on the little box that says "more" - here's a drooly one :m_nap: (u cheeky monkey u!)

[polishmehappy]

I sleep on a plain queen size mattress.
If it weren't for drugs I would never sleep. Ambien is a God sent on an empty stomach.
I dream everytime I sleep, even during rare naps.
I talk in my sleep. I snore. I make gestures.
I sleep on my belly and bend my leg over to the side forming the number 4. I scrunch my face on my pillow, which gives me deep sheet marks more often than not.
I hurt when I sleep. My bones hurt. Sometimes I can't move right away when I wake up. I sort of roll out of bed one inch at a time.
My dog, a shy Yorkie, sleeps with me always. He tells me when I have been asleep for too long.
I'm a messy sleeper. I don't know how the dog puts up with me.

[FlakeNoir]

I most often sleep curled up (in the foetal position, minus the thumb :biggrin2:) on my left side. I absolutely can't fall asleep if I'm lying on my back, it makes me feel too vulnerable. (I used to have horrendous nightmares about having my throat and wrists cut when I was a kid... :eek2:but that's for another therapy session. lol)

[AchtungBaby]

I sleep on queen-sized bed (and since it's just me, I LOVE the room to move around! ha!) with four pillows, and 1-4 blankets on me - depends on how hot or cold I'm feeling before going to bed. I have to have something going such as a fan, or I cannot sleep. Complete silence drives me nuts. I usually sleep on my side, but I've woken up on my stomach with my face buried in my pillow a few times. Haha.

[blunthead]

...butt naked on top of the duvet, with the fan oscillating top to bottom chillin' me buns, and a pillow to drool on.
Gee, thanx for the visual.

[tenngolfer]

King size pillow top, very comfortable; sheets, and comforter. I sleep well, and a few years ago when I traveled for business nearly every week I learned to make myself sleep on demand. When the jet engines started cranking up, I was out of it snoozing away. I also attribute a good nights sleep to daily living. I cut off my caffeine intake at noon, I toss and turn if I do not. When dealing with people or business decisions, I often use the thought of how well will I sleep tonight based on my actions, and encourage those working for me to do the same (which my hope is that it leads to better moral and ethical decision making, giving the benefit of doubt, and going the extra mile to develp folks and business relationships). Complex issues occasionally keep me starring at the ceiling at times, but I pray about it and things seem to work out. I sleep on my back and sides, more on sides, but I have to rotate shoulders every couple of hours, as they start to hurt if I lay too long on one side (I assume this is old sports related injury kind of things).

Since it is the weekend, I thought I would also mention weekend napping. I love to do this with a football or basketball game on that I am not seriously into, on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. They usually don't last very long. Usually on the couch or in a lazy boy recliner down in the "man cave" my son and his friends created down in the basement before he went off to college a couple of years ago.

[Samantha_]

Since it is the weekend, I thought I would also mention weekend napping. I love to do this with a football or basketball game on that I am not seriously into, on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. They usually don't last very long. Usually on the couch or in a lazy boy recliner down in the "man cave" my son and his friends created down in the basement before he went off to college a couple of years ago.


Hey, not just a guy thing! :) Cubs game (sorry to Chicago fans), golf, or a "can't catch up" boring football game! I call that a good, restful, weekend!

[ZMeister]

As soon as you can get a better mattress. I bet it would help.

Or perhaps what I need is a solid pine box with six feet of dirt on top of it. xD j/k. Yeah, I want a sleep number mattress.

[Todash]

Or perhaps what I need is a solid pine box with six feet of dirt on top of it. xD j/k. Yeah, I want a sleep number mattress.
Recommended: The Comfortaire brand over Select Comfort. Select Comfort is nice, but they spend a lot of money on ads, and guess who pays for that? ;-D We've had a Comfortaire for years; very happy with it.

[GNTLGNT]

...when rednecks go sleepy-bye...

http://www.galaxyblend.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/funny-sleep-16.jpg

[fljoe0]

I sleep better with my new sheets

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[staropeace]

I sleep on my right side because I am afraid it will strain my heart if I sleep on my left. I sorta blame Uncle Steve for that. I remember he said something about doing this years ago and it stuck in my head. I wish I had an option but nosireee, I keep thinking my heart is gonna get lop-sided or flattened.

[fushingfeef]

I cover my entire head with the blanket and leave just a little bit open near my nose to allow in fresh air. I've been sleeping this way since childhood.
I never spontaneously fall asleep unless I'm sick. Sleep time has a big pre-sleep ritual for me. And once I wake up, no matter how early, I have a hard time getting back to sleep.

[Shasta]

Since this thread started I have been having a hard time sleeping. I think all of you jealous non-sleepers jinxed me!

[kingricefan]

Since this thread started I have been having a hard time sleeping. I think all of you jealous non-sleepers jinxed me!

Oh, so it's all of our fault???? Sheeeesssshhhhhhh, take some personal accountability!! It's not our fault you lie awake at night thinking about all of us and how we must look sleeping in our beds.........:hahahahaha:

[Patricia A]

I sleep like a rock. I could sleep through nuclear warfare. My bed is a biscuit, and I am butter.
I will start out on my back, reading or watching TV, or both, then when I turn over on my side, it's all over. I always take a moment before I drift off to say thank you, don't know why, or to who for sure, it just feels right.

[Shasta]

Oh, so it's all of our fault???? Sheeeesssshhhhhhh, take some personal accountability!! It's not our fault you lie awake at night thinking about all of us and how we must look sleeping in our beds.........:hahahahaha:

As soon as I blamed you all I slept like a rock. Ah, how well passing the buck works! :pighope:

[Sepia and Dust]

A few years ago, I got the Beloved a body-length overstuffed pillow that she could snuggle with when I wasn't there--her artificial Sepia, you might say.

Later, I began putting the big pillow between us at night so that I wouldn't damage her with my flailing head and elbows. Evidently, I growl in my sleep.

These days, our puppy-monster takes on the role of giant-fluffy pillow:

[Lily Sawyer]

My ablutions ready me for sleep. They signal my internal body clock that sleep will happen soon.
Once I'm in bed, I start off on my back. Then both sides get slept on. Sometimes I awaken on my stomach (with sheet creases from the pillowcase, and dang, at my advanced age, those are hard to get rid of before noon), but more often than not I awaken on my right side.

I must have a limb out for temperature control until my body temp lowers enough for me to want all the covers. Flannel sheets saved my ass during the winter in California. They're a must-have for me now. I love sleeping on old, washedwashedwashedwashed silky high thread-count sheets in the summertime, especially if they're white. Can't sleep with socks on, except under extraordinarily cold circumstances. Nightshirts made out of modal and cotton feel best, but I'll sleep in only my undies if it's too warm. I don't mind white noise, but light has got to be blocked. One pillow; two if I have a cold or flu. Queen beds are great: enough room for two to be both intimate and comfortably apart.

[Chuggs]

I'm in queen size next to the love of my life. Position wise, I'm all over the place.

[Shasta]

Position wise, I'm all over the place.

Poor love of your life!

[Todash]

A few years ago, I got the Beloved a body-length overstuffed pillow that she could snuggle with when I wasn't there--her artificial Sepia, you might say.

Later, I began putting the big pillow between us at night so that I wouldn't damage her with my flailing head and elbows. Evidently, I growl in my sleep.

These days, our puppy-monster takes on the role of giant-fluffy pillow:Back in the early days of our relationship, my dearest had been used to sleeping alone. One time I moved slightly and startled him, and he threw his arms out to his sides (sort of like you do if there's a kid sitting next to you in the car and you have to slam on the brakes), and connected with my nose. Fortunately there wasn't a lot of force behind it as it was just an alarm reflex, but still, OW.

[Debbie913]

I sleep on a king size waterbed. Only one I've seen mentioned here! I sleep by myself and somehow manage to take up the whole bed. I can not sleep on my back. I sleep on either side or my stomach. When on my side, I have a pillow I put between my knees to keep my lower back from hurting. Don't know why, but it helps. I have to have a blanket or cover of some kind even when it's hot. I no longer require that every bit of me is covered, but most of me has to be. When it's really warm, one foot out can cool your whole body! Oh, and I don't snore or drool. :) Now, if I could figure out how to sleep longer than three hours at a time, or more than about five hours a night....

[tenngolfer]

I had a king size waterbed right out of college, and sometime after marriage upgraded the mattress with the technology that kept improving on waterbeds. It was very comfortable. We changed it out for a convential bed when we moved out of the country for about 4 years, and never thought about getting another one, as they are somewhat of a hassle to set up, especially in a bedroom upstairs.

[Todash]

I sleep on a king size waterbed. Only one I've seen mentioned here! I sleep by myself and somehow manage to take up the whole bed. I can not sleep on my back. I sleep on either side or my stomach. When on my side, I have a pillow I put between my knees to keep my lower back from hurting. Don't know why, but it helps.
Speaking as one who is married to someone with chronic back/sleep problems who does the same thing, it helps because it keeps your legs and hips in a more neutral position, which in turn keeps your spine aligned rather than twisted.