How do you sleep?

[MelissP]

Yes, enquiring minds (mine) do want to know. And there's a poll too ...
I'd like to correlate sleep position to the sex of the sleeper. Since the
sex of the sleeper isn't a simple either/or reply (at least not here ),
explanations are allowed. Also, any comments about how well you
sleep and lucid dream content will always be interesting. Also, what
effect (if any) do various meds and hormones have on your experience?

Mel

[Betsy]

I tend to do a fetal position on my left side although I'm not obsessed with it. It's not going to sleep that is a big problem for me...it's waking up!

I've got a great bed with wonderful linens on it and some mornings, I just don't want to leave it. All my big fluffy feather pillows help---during the winter months I stick a feather bed on there and a down comforter inside the duvet and it's like sleeping inside a big marshmellow. I end up keeping the window open some even if it's only 10 degrees otherwise it becomes a bit sauna like. During the warm weather, I take the feather bed off and use a thermal blanket inside the duvet. When it is really hot, I use just the duvet but the thermal blanket is good then because it draws heat away from the body. It's just something about wrapping myself in a blanket like that in the summer which tends to seem weird to me.

Dreams and the other questions, I think I'll wait on answering those for the time being due to other reasons I am still trying to figure out.

Betsy

[Clouds]

Lying on my left side is more comfortable, especially if I've eaten before going to bed, but it means I can hear my heartbeat coming through the pillow. As I drop off to sleep it really freaks me out, and then of course my heart beats harder, freaks me out more and wakes me up. I really can't stand heart beat sounds, but that's probably just me... so I usually end up lying on my right side to go to sleep, but some mornings I wake up lying on one side, some on the other. Usually when I wake up, my cat is snuggled in by me :)

Kate

[melonaide]

I have to sleep on top of a pillow with my arms around it more often than not....occassionally on either side holding a pillow and I can't sleep if it's quiet. I have to have white noise.

I lucid dream and all kinds of weird stuff that I won't go into cause I'm feeling abit lazy from what I took earlier to relax...but lately there's been nothing at all. Its like I'm not even sleeping. I feel almost exactly the same as when I went to sleep when I wake up. I think I'm either becoming sick or getting depressed.

[Ilulissat]

I sleep on a lazy boy type recliner. I prefer to sleep on my stomach, but I am a large woman, and since having my 2nd child, I still look like I am 9 months pregnant, and it is very uncomfortable to sleep on my stomach now.

I don't sleep well. I wake up several times during the night, mostly to pee.

I rarely remember my dreams. I do have bad or weird dreams. Not nightmares, just dreams about people being mad at me, people not liking me - those 2 come up often now that I am sitting here thinking about it.

[Fee]

Strangely, I seem to be able to fall asleep almost anywhere and in any position....I often find myself waking up in the night having fallen asleep in front of the TV on the sofa downstairs with all the lights left on and sometimes my PC too. Consequently I'm kinda tired the next day as well as annoyed about the unnecessary electricity costs incurred...gotta break out of the habit soon. I reckon the fallling asleep is due to my health issues mainly, on top of being a single parent and trying to cope with everything....

[MelissP]

I seldom sleep before midnight, even if I'm exhausted.
It's a holdover from the noon-9pm job schedule I used to work at.
At my bedside I keep some salt, bottled water, hydrocortisone,
estradiol and aldactone. W/o the cortisone and a mg of estradiol,
I'm too much of an insomniac to sleep at all. Depending on various
circumstances, I may wear earplugs and drift off to the sound of
my breathing. I'll often spend my last concious moments wishing.
I usually need the salt and water by 5:30-6:00 AM, then I drift off
for until about 8:30am (+/-) I usually get some memorable dreamings
on this schedule. The most insightful are ones I have during migraines,
they cancel my headaches and usually are amazing. When the morning
arrives, it usually takes me a few minutes to remember who I am and
where this place is that I find myself. And sometimes a few more
minutes to regain circulation in my extremities. Numb hands and
feet aren't too much fun. And so the daily cycle begins anew :-) :-(

[Betsy]

LOL...you don't want to know what is on my bedside table and I'm not sharing! None are prescription drugs however :whipg: Those all sit on top of my microwave.

Betsy

[MelissP]

LOL...you don't want to know what is on my bedside table and I'm not sharing! None are prescription drugs however :whipg: Those all sit on top of my microwave.

Betsy

Ok, we'll just have to imagine what's there. Aren't you lucky that we don't
have dirty minds :-)