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When you're lying in bed, what position do you usually find yourself in?

I tend to fall asleep fastest if I take up a right-facing fetal position. Once I'm there though everything goes pretty crazy; sometimes I wake up sprawled sideways across my bed with my head facing more towards where my feet ought to be.

What about you people?

I'm too groggy to notice. :(

When you're lying in bed, what position do you usually find yourself in?

I tend to fall asleep fastest if I take up a right-facing fetal position. Once I'm there though everything goes pretty crazy; sometimes I wake up sprawled sideways across my bed with my head facing more towards where my feet ought to be.

What about you people?

I sleep all too often without! :(

On my left side so as to avoid sleeping on the approximately 2 lbs of metal holding my right leg together! Sigh.

Depends.
If I'm knackered I just roll over onto my back and fall asleep...in fact I've even done that on my front, especially on sofas. In class it's bolt upright.
Normally I curl up though and end up stretched out by morning, usually on one side.

When you're lying in bed, what position do you usually find yourself in?

how the fuck should i know?? :p i'm asleep...
(i do however generally lie on my left side (or whichever side faces the wall) when trying to get to sleep. i wake up in all sorts of crazy positions tho.)

i hate going to sleep - it takes ages to finally fall asleep and sleeping itself is a waste of time. i usually have to wait till i'm incredibly tired - falling asleep standing up kind of tired - till i go to bed, otherwise i just lie there for hours and sometimes don't really sleep at all :(
heh, that's why i'm usually here till 3 or 4 in the morning :)

You know, I've never actually taken the time to give a shit since 1987, which ended about two weeks before I was born.

i sleep really easily, especially if i drown a few puppys beforehand

I favor sleeping on my side, with my top leg curled and my bottom leg straight out. As I have a left hip replacement and a few pounds of metal holding my right leg together (both thanks to a drunk driver...please don't drink and drive), I can't lay comfortably for long on either side and spend the night rolling over...and over...and over...

Sprawled out on my front, but usually wake up sprawled out on my back.

Phish comes to my mind...

"When you're there, I sleep lengthwise
And when you're gone I sleep diagonal in my bed..."

I like to have the wall in my back, though, or at least lying in a "secure corner". Also never touch the ground, there are sharks there!
Aside from that my position is varying.

If my back is aching, I am stretched out, if not, I am curled together. In both cases I wake up in any other position, though.

Fran

I hadn't slept in the fetal position since I can remember, except that recently I noticed that I've started doing so (and giving myself bruises on my thigh with my elbow - ouch!). I know the reason though - I'm at an anxiety-provoking transitional time of life right now... so I expect that once I'm settled I'll go back to sleeping on my side with one leg bent. :)

Damn. I thought this was a John Lennon thread. I'll leave this to all you narcoleptics.

I haven't slept for the past 2 days, I'm going insane.

I could make a novel on how I sleep.

On the Couch
Typically I curl into the fetal position facing the back of the couch. Also my right arm is wedged between the verticle cushions as to alliviate the lack of space. Also due to the fact that the fabric is unbearable I usually still have all my cloths on. Rather than using two small pillows, I just fold one in half. That has become one of my sleeping trademarks. Blanket is usually not present.

In the Chair
In my big black carinthian leather chair I find myself most comfortable. Normally I'm laying across the chair using one arm for a pillow and the other to raise my legs (Very comfortable). At some point during the night I usually stretch my legs out onto the ottaman. Blanket is optional.

In my Bed
Ah my Queen Sized bed matches no other when it comes to comfort. On an average night I sleep fully stretched out facing away from the wall. Sometimes I grab every pillow in the house and sleep right up against the corner of the bed and the wall. If the window is wide open I'll pass out within five minutes, unless its hot out of course. Then there's the two large German Sheppard situation, this is like a double edged sword. It can be VERY comfortable if the two huge dogs don't get stubborn and decide they can take up the whole damn bed. However if they want to take up the whole bed, nothing can change their mind. Blanket is usually present.

On the Floor
Very rare, but still do it.

Also in the rare occasion that I sleep walk...
On the Table
Outside in the hammock, IN DECEMBER
On the Dryer
On the Counter
In the Bed of the Truck

However I can fit into the space the cats have left me. Since my latest surgery they have been insisting on curling up around me, as if to make sure I don't dissappear for two weeks again.

Damn. I thought this was a John Lennon thread. I'll leave this to all you narcoleptics.

John Lennon? How do you mean?

I haven't slept for the past 2 days, I'm going insane.

Son, I haven't had a nights sleep since 1999!

John Lennon? How do you mean?


The name of this thread.

I have real problems actually getting off to sleep but I sleep on my left/right side (depends how I feel really). I can't sleep on my front or back though, I just lie there unable to sleep

The name of this thread.
I thought it was at first, too but it's still interesting...

I usually wake up sprawled out on top of my wife even when It's not on purpose...

Right foetal but I have been know to wake up on the carpet outside my room in my boxers. 'tis unfortunate if it happens when my sister's friends are over - waking up almost nude, sometimes hanging out of my shorts with a bunch of uni students standing over you (occasionally kicking you to wake up) is not a fun thing to do.

Right foetal but I have been know to wake up on the carpet outside my room in my boxers. 'tis unfortunate if it happens when my sister's friends are over - waking up almost nude, sometimes hanging out of my shorts with a bunch of uni students standing over you (occasionally kicking you to wake up) is not a fun thing to do.
oo... my worst was sleeping at my wife's folks house when our water wasnt working and I woke up nude in their hall with her entire family laughing at me.

Right foetal but I have been know to wake up on the carpet outside my room in my boxers. 'tis unfortunate if it happens when my sister's friends are over - waking up almost nude, sometimes hanging out of my shorts with a bunch of uni students standing over you (occasionally kicking you to wake up) is not a fun thing to do.

I've done that, except my sister's friends aren't what you'd call "desirable". I just flipped them off in took a shower.

uhm, I fit a few of those. I sleep on my left side though. But I also sleep sittingdown all the time, sometimes I sleep while sitting against a wall or a tree with my arms crossed on my knees and my head on my arms. I have slept standing up before. Although the I can never sleep in cars, moving or not, I just can't.

I voted "Right-facing fetal position" but I will face away from the door wherever it happens to be.

Sleep is for those without coffee. Coffee good. Mmmm. Coffee.

On my front. taking up most of my double-bed (and I'm not big)...

I generally sleep with my eyes closed. So I don't see what angle or position I'm at.

Well mostly i Toss and Turn(Sickos get out :mp5: ) then stay on the left foetal position.

But i hurt my shoulder on Saturday and whenever i raise it then move it backwards past 5 degress then lower it i get this massive pain at the top of my ribs and once it made a terrible crack.
Damn it hurts.
So now ive been sleeping on my back.
It eased the pain but raising it is like twisting an ankle.
Aerou your a Nurse almost fix me. :(

Here is a trick sleep on your back with an arm over your face when you wake up your arm will be a dead weight and it is the freakest and most annoying thing to wake up to. ;)

I usually go without sleep for a very long time, then tend to collapse wherever I am and fall asleep.

Fetal position on either side. Ocassionally on my stomach. But nothing short of general anesthetic will make me sleep on my back. I'm a dangerous sleeper too. I kick, scream and punch in my sleep. Even broke my toe once. Though it did succeed in waking me up.

there was a study I read about once that found that humans tend to align their head with a specific point, based on magnetic north. Not always north, but they tended to sleep with their heads faced one direction, and when ever they weren't in that position, their sleep wasn't as deep. Don't know what ever happened to that study, though I bet it has to do with the iron in the human body and how ever we react with the magnetic fields around us. Just thought I would share.

I myself tend to sleep on my side, starting on my left arm, then rolling onto my back, and then rolling onto my other side. Then after my back is done kicking my arse, I fall asleep. I have a back injury that causes the muscles of my lower back and my neck to remain tight all day long, so I have to get them relaxed. Though other times its, pop a muscle relaxer, lay down, feel numbness come to body and out like a light.

My sleep position often varies. Usually, I'm flat on my stomach, one hand under the pillow, and the other, well, I don't need to tell you where. :D

I also sometimes sleep in the fetal position, facing to my right. I rarely face the left because the nerve damage in my right ear often causes me to hear high pitchd tones, the ones that were commonplace in my childhood nightmares.

Right Fetal. These are my reasons.

I face right, because the wall is on my left. Paranoia dictates my position in this case. When I was younger, I was in a different room, so I slept to my left. It all depends on where the wall is in relation to me, my window and my door. It's odd but it's what I do. It might have something to do with the ley lines in my house (since in both cases, it is facing north) or magnetic field stuff, but that is kinda shifty and unexplainable, so I stick to the facts; I'm paranoid, the position of the door and window dictates in which direction I sleep.

As for fetal. I could overclock my computer for several hours straight and it wouldn't melt anything, that's how cold my room is. I sleep in the fetal position, because otherwise it would take me an hour to warm up my dead to a tolerable temperature.

I just lay on my back, stare at the ceiling, and wait drift off. Laying on my side is not an option, since (for some weird reason) the nostril on the side I lay on will stop letting air in. Then I can't breathe right, and have to shift over to the other side, and then back when that nostril closes. So, if I want to sleep well, I'm on my back.

The only other thing I have to do to sleep is sleep in such a way that I can see the door or a window in the room I'm in. I don't know why...... :confused:

Left fetal because that way I can keep an eye on the cupboard in my room. My cats like to come into my room at 1am and pull the door of it open, so I need to be able to see whether it's the blasted cats or some psycho with a knife that's making that scary creaking noise.

It's annoying, because to lie on my left I have to have my back to the only window in my room which doesn't lock. 'Yay'. Needless to say, I spend a lot of time hiding under the blankets.

So yeah, fetal left, curled around my teddy (which isn't a teddy at all, but rather a 12-year-old Simba-from-the-Lion-King stuffed toy who's been all around the world with me). Sometimes I really, really can't sleep, and so I curl up in the same position, but up the other end of the bed, with my head where my feet would normally be. That sometimes helps.

/rambling. This is what happens when I don't eat during the day... I become insane. Or possibly insaner. *shrugs*.

I just lay on my back, stare at the ceiling, and wait drift off. Laying on my side is not an option, since (for some weird reason) the nostril on the side I lay on will stop letting air in. Then I can't breathe right, and have to shift over to the other side, and then back when that nostril closes. So, if I want to sleep well, I'm on my back.

The only other thing I have to do to sleep is sleep in such a way that I can see the door or a window in the room I'm in. I don't know why...... :confused:
I know, paranoia. It is probably among 75% of the population that has a set sleeping position, we're so scared that we look out into our room, or look at the entry points so we know what's going on very fast if we hear something.

I have very unusual sleep habits. I rarely ever sleep for consecutive periods of time unless I’m with someone else (I’ve yet to figure that out) and even then, it’s rare that I’m ever fully asleep. I have gone for several days without sleeping, and though I’m deadly tired I can never seem to put it away. If I sleep into an REM state (which is very rare), the position I wake up in is a varied and often very unusual one. Also, I am capable of sleeping in some very strange places. It seems that when the sandman finally arrives, he cares not for making sure that I am in a place worthy of suitable repose. I have slept, among other places; in sawdust piles at the sawmill when on break, in a lawn-chair on a beach at five in the morning, face down on the deck of my old apartment, half-in and half-out of my bed in a kneeling position, and when I was a child – for some reason I enjoyed unconsciously getting out of bed and climbing under it to sleep. Yeah – I was always a little weird. :p

I have very unusual sleep habits. I rarely ever sleep for consecutive periods of time unless I’m with someone else (I’ve yet to figure that out) and even then, it’s rare that I’m ever fully asleep. I have gone for several days without sleeping, and though I’m deadly tired I can never seem to put it away. If I sleep into an REM state (which is very rare), the position I wake up in is a varied and often very unusual one. Also, I am capable of sleeping in some very strange places. It seems that when the sandman finally arrives, he cares not for making sure that I am in a place worthy of suitable repose. I have slept, among other places; in sawdust piles at the sawmill when on break, in a lawn-chair on a beach at five in the morning, face down on the deck of my old apartment, half-in and half-out of my bed in a kneeling position, and when I was a child – for some reason I like to unconsciously get out of bed and climb under it to sleep. Yeah – I was always a little weird. :p
That sounds like me. I'll do things like wake up laying on the table in my living room, or slumped against a wall, like I just leaned there and collapsed as I fell asleep. But when I'm sleeping with someone else, I tend to sleep absolutely normally.

Hey, that's almost a good excuse to...
*trails of pondering wonderful scheme*

That sounds like me. I'll do things like wake up laying on the table in my living room, or slumped against a wall, like I just leaned there and collapsed as I fell asleep. But when I'm sleeping with someone else, I tend to sleep absolutely normally.

Hey, that's almost a good excuse to...
*trails of pondering wonderful scheme*
Haha, well - I have to admit I've never thought of using it as an excuse - but now that you mention it! Hahaha! *evil looks crosses face*

Poll reminds me of a bad Pick up line...

Do you sleep on your stomach... Can I?

I sleep on my left side, facing the wall, mostly stretched out... I'd probably sleep completely stretched out, but my feet would hang off the end of the bed...lol

This very rarely changes... In fact, the only other option is sleeping on the other side, and that only occurs in the event that I can't sleep on my left side (for whatever reason), or I am incredibly tired, and happen to be laying on the right side... I simply can't sleep on my stomach (it feels too "smothering", I suppose)... I can sleep on my back, but it happens so rarely, that I can only vaguely remember it... I do know that it only occurs if I am dead tired...

I also have to have a blanket, regardless of temperature (although I prefer it to be cool or even cold in the surrounding environment)... I think this one can be chalked up to that paranoia thing... I don't like sleeping uncovered (subconsciously)...

And this blanket has to be tucked between my legs... I can't stand to sleep with my legs touching each other, but I always sleep with them lined up directly on top of each other... So, I have to put the blanket (or a pillow, sometimes) between them to keep them seperated...

If I'm having trouble sleeping (which intermittently happens), I will roll over to the other side periodically (to relieve the soreness from laying in one position too long), but I have to roll back to my left side to try again to fall asleep... Repeat as needed...

I also have to have a cool pillow... If I'm taking too long to fall asleep, and my pillow gets too warm, I will flip it over to the cooler underside... Repeat as needed...

And once I'm asleep, I'm asleep... I don't move... I used to when I was younger, but for a long time now, I wake up in exactly the same position I fall asleep in... Regardless of the method of waking, or how long I've been asleep, I invariably wake up just the way I fell asleep... Of course, I can't be positive of what's going on while I'm asleep, but I find it difficult to believe that I somehow manage to end up exactly where I started before I wake up, no matter how or when that occurs... Therefore, I am fairly certain that I just don't move...

I'm also an incredibly sound sleeper... To illustrate this, the smoke alarm went off one morning (someone burning breakfast or something), and it didn't wake me up... And the thing is in the hallway, right outside of my bedroom door (which is always open)... This is a slightly frightening prospect, but hopefully if a real fire were to occur, it would succeed in getting me up...lol

However, change in the light will wake me fairly easily... Simply turning on the bedroom light is often enough...

I prefer to sleep with my left arm under my head (the pillow in between), but my arm has become prone to falling asleep when laying this way... And due to my lack of motion, this effect is pronounced to the point where I will wake up with an arm that is not only immobile, but is also in pain... And not the usual tingle of a once-sleeping appendage, but a dull, aching pain... So, I've had to give up that habit for fear of doing permanent damage...lol

And there you have it... The above has very little variation... When sleeping in my own bed, it never changes (unless something forces a change, like the really bad sunburn I had last summer...lol) When sleeping anywhere else, I adpat it as best as the situation will allow, trying to remain as close to it as possible...

I start out in the left facing fetal position and then alternate between that and the right facing fetal position. Eventually, I end up on my stomach with my arm under my pillow....outstretched, and then of course -I wake up with my arm being numb. I also sleep with one of those long body pillows between my legs and arms. If I dont have that thing....I dont sleep-at all. I take it everywhere.

Naked.

No time for sleep. Homework and GTA calls

I get to sleep after several hours. I can't get to sleep unless I make a concerted effort to stop thinking so much (being an obsessive thinker, round and round in circles means it can take a lot of time (usually about 1-2 hours minimum) before I fall asleep

I tend to sleep facing the wall in my room, but it's because I have so many small l.e.d lights in my room it's like facing a small city, and I can't be bothered unplugging them all. Usually I just lie flat on my back and face the wall.

how the fuck should i know?? :p i'm asleep...
(i do however generally lie on my left side (or whichever side faces the wall) when trying to get to sleep. i wake up in all sorts of crazy positions tho.)

i hate going to sleep - it takes ages to finally fall asleep and sleeping itself is a waste of time. i usually have to wait till i'm incredibly tired - falling asleep standing up kind of tired - till i go to bed, otherwise i just lie there for hours and sometimes don't really sleep at all :(
heh, that's why i'm usually here till 3 or 4 in the morning :)

i totaly agree i dont evn kno how i sleep bcuz im...well asleep,
but i have woken up pside down O_o

On my belly

On my belly
But how does that work?
I sleep on your belly!
:D

How do you sleep?

During the day, in a coffin.
w00t 1500

I alternate between straight/fetal position, but always on my left side. Hmm.

During the day, in a coffin.
Heh, that reminds me of when I was younger and went to a summer camp...
My skin is really really pale and I occaisonally wake up with my arms crossed across my chest. The clincher was that since my jaw is too small, my incisors grew in wrong and look vaguely fang-ish...
I need to have surgery to correct my teeth problems, and after that they'll look even more fangish too.

So, everyody thought I was a vampire or something, and I scared the wits out of this one kid by accident and felt like shit for two weeks because he ran away and tripped and fractured something in his leg, and I couldn't apologize to him since I couldn't get anywhere near him...

That's today's random story.

-snip-
no no, im not a vampire, vampires are make believe, just keep that wooden stake away from me

no no, im not a vampire, vampires are make believe, just keep that wooden stake away from me
Damn.
:(

Left, usually fetal. I'm deaf in my right ear and i find it very hard to sleep without something coming close to total silence. For the same reason i almost always have my left arm under the pillow to form a harder surface against which to press my left ear.
I also strongly favour total darkness (my curtians have blackout material in to keep out light) - there's nothing better than total oblivion for sleep :)

Bizzarely i can sleep just about anywhere, which seems initially contradictory. I need to be on my left but when i have no choice i'll drop off amonsgt noice/discomfort/light quite well. It's only when i'm in my own bed and have the possibility of total darkness/blackness that i cant sleep without it. Sometimes i even have to unplug my clock. Strange :/