# How do you know if you snore? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 28, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004 "2008-12-28T23:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lo-Slung_Denim)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004/21 "2008-12-29T12:02:10Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > 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. I care because I sleep very badly, and I may have found out why. I have no means to record myself but I will investigate this option, perhaps borrow something. It’s probably not necessary to divulge my complicated relationship status, suffice to say I don’t regularly share a bed with the same partner. When I do, I will ask him. Other signs seem to be there though. I’m always tired when I wake up and I regularly go for weeks with sleepless nights until I cave and glug down some NightNurse to get back in to a good pattern. Perhaps I should have been more clear in the OP - when I said it hasn’t come up before I meant that no partner has ever mentioned it, and neither have my friends. We tend to bunk up together reasonably frequently - on holidays, when staying at each other’s places etc, and in ten years of us being friends no one had ever mentioned it. I don’t know why they would say it then say they were joking - although this does tend to pass for humour in my friendship group. What I was really wondering was if there is a dead giveaway like a sore throat, or, as **Snnipe 70E** said, you wake up snoring. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004/22 "2008-12-29T12:14:11Z")
[QUOTE As to your original question, if you live alone, why do you care? .[/QUOTE] Well I live alone and I know I snore 'cos Eccles the cat, smacks me in the chops to wake me up. Says he can’t sleep for all the racket ---
**Author:** ![Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lo-Slung_Denim)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004/23 "2008-12-29T12:27:27Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > [QUOTE > > As to your original question, if you live alone, why do you care? > > .[/QUOTE] > > Well I live alone and I know I snore 'cos Eccles the cat, smacks me in the chops to wake me up. > > Says he can’t sleep for all the racket Perhaps I should get a cat, or otherwise wait until I inhale a spider, I’m sure he will let me know! ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004/24 "2008-12-29T12:36:42Z")
> [@Snnipe\_70E](#): > > I have woken myself up snoring. I have woken myself up snoring _in science class_. :o And an ex-girlfriend once poked me in the ribs and told me to stop snoring when I had still been awake reading, listening to her apparently trying to fell a redwood tree. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004/25 "2008-12-29T13:08:31Z")
When I was a kid, and shared my room with my brother, I found out the hard way that I snored. Since then I have frequently heard myself snoring while I was asleep, which is such a bizarre experience that it wakes me up, and confuses the hell out of me for a few seconds. I only snore when I am sleeping laying on my back. If I’m on my side or belly, both my more usual positions, I don’t believe I snore then. Though I have no definitive proof of that. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004/26 "2008-12-29T13:11:23Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > … an ex-girlfriend once poked me in the ribs and told me to stop snoring when I had still been awake reading, listening to her apparently trying to fell a redwood tree. Don’t you know that wives & GFs never snore themselves? It is always you! ---
**Author:** ![Dahu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahu/32/3416_2.png) [@Dahu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahu)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004/27 "2008-12-29T14:31:14Z")
> [@ntucker](#): > > I set the laptop on the nightstand, ran some software that only recorded when there was noise to record, and went to bed. I’m curious to know if I snore now. Can anyone recommend somewhere to get hold of this software? ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004/28 "2008-12-29T16:53:38Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > 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. I’ve never understood this. The person who snores should be the one who moves. I used to have to sleep in our guest room all the time. Now that I have a CPAP, I’m allowed to sleep with my wife again. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004/29 "2008-12-29T17:31:46Z")
> [@ASAKMOTSD](#): > > Don’t you know that wives & GFs never snore themselves? It is always you! My ears tell me differently. But, of course, when you dare _tell_ them so, you get that look. You know the look. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004/30 "2008-12-29T17:36:20Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Since then I have frequently heard myself snoring while I was asleep, which is such a bizarre experience that it wakes me up, and confuses the hell out of me for a few seconds. > > I only snore when I am sleeping laying on my back. If I’m on my side or belly, both my more usual positions, I don’t believe I snore then. Though I have no definitive proof of that. Same here. I always hear myself snoring in my dreams and often the dream is about how I can’t be heard over that racket. Then I wake up and am eerily surprised by the quiet. I also only snore on my back, which drives my parents nuts when I visit them and fall asleep on the couch. Oops! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-if-you-snore/479004.md?page=1)