# Is it physically possible to hear yourself snore? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 22, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291 "2003-04-22T12:11:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/21 "2003-04-23T15:41:16Z")
I can snore at will and can hear it so that’s proof positive that one can hear oneself snore. In fact, I’m hearing myself snore right now as I type this. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/22 "2003-04-23T16:11:36Z")
Maybe Controvert can “snore at will” but I’ve never met or heard of anyone else who could. So, here’s a semi-hijack (distinct but related question): WHY can’t most people snore on purpose, or while awake? And, for that matter, why do some people snore while sleeping? What happens? Does snoring serve some kind of natural purpose, or is it just one of those thoroughly useless quirks our species is stuck with, like ingrown toenails? ---
**Author:** ![bradwalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@bradwalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bradwalt)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/23 "2003-04-23T18:02:49Z")
I can snore on purpose , while awake. And it’s not a “cartoon-imitation” snore, but a seemingly exact recreation of what my palate, nasal passages, throat do in an unvoluntary (asleep) snore. Here’s a strange observation, I snore more when I’m on an airplane or in an hotel room, than I do at home in my bed! Has anybody else experienced this anomaly? ---
**Author:** ![hulkish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@hulkish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hulkish)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/24 "2003-04-23T20:36:55Z")
how bout this: sometimes I can feel my eyes in rem sleep. if I am meditating my eyes will start moving erraticlly. I have no control ever my eyes it kind of tickles. if I try to meditate a little deeper my brain feels numb and I feel like I am falling, then I feel like I am going to puke and force myself to come out of it…wierd huh? ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/25 "2003-04-23T21:45:03Z")
I have had the situation where I have been almost asleep and I start snoring…I have to be on my back and have my head tilted back a bit for this to happen, but I have had that happen more then once. Now normally I don’t try to sleep on my back because it’s rather uncomfortable, so I don’t (think) I snore that much regularly. It is a rather bizzare feeling to know that loud buzzsaw noise is you rather then some other person. Keith ---
**Author:** ![ronenfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@ronenfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ronenfe)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/26 "2016-05-24T18:21:20Z")
It happened to me recently a few times, that I wake up during a snore and when i’m already waken up I finish the one snore and hearing it. It seems like I only do a one snore which wakes me up. It doesn’t feel like I was snoring all my sleep, but I can’t know that. Logically it is, but I never knew I snore. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/27 "2016-05-24T18:24:56Z")
I too wake myself snoring…but only every thirteen years. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/28 "2016-05-24T18:30:46Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Yes, I have heard myself snore - starts off as some other noise in a dream; maybe a dog barking, maybe a voice, then it changes gradually into the sound of me snoring as it wakes me up. Well, how can you be so sure that you _actually_ were snoring? Maybe you only dreamed it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/29 "2016-05-24T18:33:19Z")
I’ve heard myself snoring, and it’s been confirmed by the very annoyed person in the same room…and sometimes in the next room. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/30 "2016-05-24T18:55:01Z")
I started snoring during my cataract surgery, only to be awakened by the doctor yelling “Focus!” ---
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/31 "2016-05-24T23:24:59Z")
Before I got my CPAP machine if I went to bed extremely tired and slept on my back I have woke myself up. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/32 "2016-05-24T23:28:56Z")
If I start to fall asleep while wearing my hearing aid and start to snore it will wake me up ! LOL! I can’t hear myself snoring unless I have my hearing aid on. ---
**Author:** ![Nansbread1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Nansbread1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nansbread1)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/33 "2016-05-25T15:34:19Z")
> [@bifar](#): > > Mr bifar is going through a snoring patch right now. It’s driving me mad. One night in particular I was nudging him every five minutes or so, ‘cause that usually stops him for a while. After about an hour he gets up and asks ‘Why are you nudging me? I’m trying to get to sleep.’ He claimed he couldn’t have been snoring because he had been awake the whole time. My opinion, of course, was rather different. :rolleyes: Its not a snoring patch. Its a life long affliction. Once the throat flaps have loosened there is no going back. I have snored when awake and watching TV. Maybe my breathing had become so deep and rhythymic even when awake that they rattled the flaps. I was surprised when i heard it and realised how loud it was. I have also woken myself up with my own snoring. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/34 "2016-05-25T16:04:38Z")
This is a 13-year-old thread but…yes, I hear myself snoring all the time. On top of that, sometimes in a dream I am trying to talk but I can’t be heard over the noise, and the noise is my own snoring. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/35 "2016-05-25T18:17:59Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Well, how can you be so sure that you _actually_ were snoring? Maybe you only dreamed it. My wife has corroborated it (in some cases, it was not the just snoring that was waking me, but also her elbow in my ribs) ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/36 "2016-05-25T18:26:50Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > I’ve actually woken (sp?) myself up because I was snoring so loud! Me, too. So embarrassing! (But less so than choking on your own drool after falling asleep in the middle of a lecture… :eek: ) ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/37 "2016-05-25T18:40:55Z")
> [@Nansbread1](#): > > Its not a snoring patch. Its a life long affliction. Once the throat flaps have loosened there is no going back. > > I have snored when awake and watching TV. Maybe my breathing had become so deep and rhythymic even when awake that they rattled the flaps. I was surprised when i heard it and realised how loud it was. > > I have also woken myself up with my own snoring. Apparently singing can strengthen the pharyngeal muscles sufficiently to reduce snoring. > **[The Cure For Snoring Is...Singing?](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/cure-snoring-singing-180949408/?no-ist)** > > Choir director Alise Ojay's vocal exercises have been shown to work throat muscles that help silence the snorer within ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/38 "2016-05-25T18:50:40Z")
Let’s say you’re trying to pay attention in class, but your eyes are so droopy that you just have to rest them. You take a micro-nap ant the first thing you do is snore and snap yourself awake to make sure others don’t know that you’re sleeping in class. They know. ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/39 "2016-05-27T17:21:58Z")
At one point in my life, I discovered that by lying on my back, I could go to sleep easier. At the same point, I discovered that when I fell asleep while lying on my back, I was almost always immediately awakened by the sound of snoring. I was sure that it wasn’t me, but there was no one else to blame. Then I discovered that I don’t snore when sleeping on my side. Then, when I got married, I discovered that I DO snore while sleeping on my side; it just didn’t wake me. ---
**Author:** ![jmwatts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jmwatts/32/17348_2.png) [@jmwatts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmwatts)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291/40 "2016-05-30T17:19:32Z")
I know this is a zombie thread, but just wanted to post the anti-snoring solution that worked for me. > **[GMSS \> Good Morning Snore Solutions](https://goodmorningsnoresolution.com/)** > > |||| You wear this little rubber mouthpiece in your mouth, and the big nipple type thing sucks your tongue forward. When your tongue is in this position, no more snoring. It’s very simple and extremely effective. You can see for yourself how it works. Try to make a snoring sound, and then stick your tongue out a bit. Toughest part is getting used to it and actually keeping it in one’s mouth. I usually wake up to find it somewhere in the bed or on the floor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-physically-possible-to-hear-yourself-snore/170291.md?page=3)