My friends have just been roundly accusing me of snoring, but then said they are joking. I have no way of knowing if, in fact, I *do *snore, and it hasn’t come up before, so any big giveaway clues? Not getting anything obvious from Google.
Your significant other should know. Or, you can buy one of those voice activated recording devices and leave it on next to your bed a few nights, then listen to it the next day.
My wife lets me know that I snore. She does too
Since he doesn’t know for sure, I assume there isn’t one, or at least not one who spends the night. IME, they will let you know. :o
You will know from the bruises on your shoulder. 
I was going to say if you wake up with sore ribs, from your wife poking you in the ribs, you snore.
Do you wake up in the morning tired? Are some days grogry?
On a business trip with a colleague we got a two-bed room, and I found him sleeping in the bathtub in the morning. Infer from that what you will.
I could swear I sometimes hear my last snore on waking up. Does anyone else have that impression?
I have woken myself up snoring.
I know for a fact I don’t snore.
I stayed awake all one night to see if I snored, and I didn’t.
Seriously, I recently was dignosed with sleep apnea and now wear a CPAP at night, Best sleep I’ve had in years and I don’t keep my wife up all night with the racket.
How many nights did it take until you could sleep through the night.
Me was the first night. I use it even if the wife is not there.
First night here as well.
And I can’t even nap without the durn thing now.
I used to wake myself up snoring, but I cured it. Now I sleep in the other room!
Apnea/CPAP club here too. If I sleep without the mask I can feel the pummeling my soft tissue has taken.
The recurring dreams about choking, gargling, being strangled are a great clue.
Also when a whole plane of fellow travellers stares at you when you wake up from your nap is a pretty good sign. When you wake up and stop snoring they all curiously turn around to see if someone shanked you or something.
Come to think of it… maybe those dreams about being strangled were not completely dreams…
Years back, my girlfriend told me I snored, but I couldn’t figure out how much she was exaggerating, so I decided to find out for sure. I set the laptop on the nightstand, ran some software that only recorded when there was noise to record, and went to bed. I wound up with an 8 hour long audio file of nonstop snoring and a hefty dose of i-told-you-so.
Did you listen to the whole to make sure that it wasn’t just her making snore sounds for 20 minutes and then turning the recorder on?
Believe me, no one has any motivation for lying about your snoring. My husband and I do not sleep together any more and we’ve only been married for four years. I sleep on the couch and he could give 2 shits. I use earplugs, but they’ve made my inner ear so tender that I can barely wear them anymore. After eight years of this he finally went to a sleep clinic and will get the results back in a week or so.
I realize that this is not his fault, but I cannot believe that he is not being more proactive in finding a solution that will work for both of us. If I did something during the night that was causing my partner or spouse to sleep in another room, you can bet your ass that I’d do my damndest to come up with a solution.
As to your original question, if you live alone, why do you care?
If you have a spouse/partner and he tells you that you snore, either you snore or he doesn’t want to sleep with you.
As has been suggested, make a recording. What other answer do you need? Not trying to be bitchy, but it seems to me that it couldn’t be easier to tell whether or not you snore. Ask someone or record yourself. The end.
Yeah, that’s usually a couple of good signs. I have a husband, not a wife, but I still used to get the sore ribs…until I got a CPAP a couple of months ago. At the sleep clinic, I thought I’d NEVER get to sleep, but once I did, I was able to sleep very soundly, and awaken far more refreshed than I had in years. I hate the feeling of the mask, but I still use it.
BONUS! We now know the third word ending in -gry…grogry!
I taped myself one night with one of those voice-activated cassette recorders.
That’s how I found out I was sleep-apneic.
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I forget the exact words, but the sleep lab tech on duty said something to the effect that the mathematics they use to gauge severity of respiratory arrest pegged me as never alive to begin with. I don’t know if he was stretching it but I knew I had a serious problem at 30 years old.
The “results back in a week thing” is a horrible joke in this day and age of 4 gig processors. I went to my doctor to tell him I had sleep apnea, so six weeks later I arrive at my appointment at the sleep lab then three weeks later I “get the results” then another month before I get the CPAP machine. My own primary was so proud of himself that “he found” my apnea. I was paying 12,000 a year for that insurance plan.
Christ, that sucks! It seemed pretty hokey to me, from the beginning, but I’m at the end of my rope!