I have to have some weight of covers on me, and need music (can’t sleep in too quiet a room). Also a chronic insomniac in general, and tend to be a side-sleeper (my neck can be a bit touchy after several car accidents, and being a side-sleeper makes selecting a pillow tricky).
I have to rub the tops of my feet on the bottom sheet. I don’t consciously do it, it just happens. I’m 40 years old and I’ve done it for as long as I can remember. I just recently found out this is something my Mom does too. I know this isn’t an observed behavior I picked up from her. I had my own room and we were not allowed to go in our parent’s bedroom.
I am also unable to turn over to the right. I can only turn to the left. I roll like a hotdog on one of those 7-11 warming machines. If I’m on my left side and want to turn over on my back, I cannot simply roll 1/4 turn to the right and be on my back. I make a 3/4 turn to the left to get there.
My fall asleep position is on my left side, but mostly on my stomach, left leg extended as far straight down as possible, heels up so I can rub my foot on the sheet, and my right knee jacked as far up toward my chin as possible.
I take melatonin, staying up and browsing the internet for awhile afterward until I feel its effect, and sleep mainly on my stomach with my face lying sideways on a pillow with my arms cradling the pillow. Occasionally I’ll sleep on my side with a pillow between the legs, but I never sleep with my back to the bed (corpse position). I guess I like to keep my face down where all of the bed bugs live. I play music at low volume on my radio with a one hour snooze to help mask my tinnitus. Lately, I always wake up between 3 to 6 AM when the melatonin wears off, then nap a few hours during the day to make up for the lost sleep.
When I fall asleep while reading I have to have my ear covered, too. (In bed I read on my side.) Lots of times when I’ve settled down to watch something good on TV, I eventually can hear myself snoring but can’t wake up enough to stop. I’ve also noticed that a sufficient amount of drool is necessary for this process.
I sleep best with white noise, which I don’t think is that uncommon. I can sleep on my right side, but not on my left.
I used to be able to sleep only on my stomach, usually with my head turned to the left. I couldn’t sleep on my back. Now, it’s almost the exact opposite.
I slept cuddling a stuffed animal until I was 36 years old and moved in with my now-husband.
You know how most people will shift positions while sleeping? Apparently, I don’t. I’ve had several woman tell me that they’ve watched me sleep and they’ve never seen me roll over, shift positions oreven twitch a muscle.
I sleep on my side. I start on my right side - but don’t fall asleep while on my right side. I lay that way for a while, while my body relaxes. Then I switch the left side and fall asleep.
I have to have a fan running constantly while I’m sleeping. If the power goes off, I wake up when the fan dies.
I fall asleep on my side and can roll to either side or my stomach, but I’ve never slept on my back.
If I’m going to use pillows, I like them to be fairly flat and at right angles to each other on my right side. Sometimes I’ll just throw them on the floor, and I never use a pillow in hotels. They are generally too squishy and my head sinks down and it feels like I’m suffocating.
I hate the linens at most motels - I travel with my own pillow [I use one of those j-shaped ones with the sort of space for my ear on that side] blanket and sleep sack.
I like the room to be on the cold side, and to be snuggly warm in bed. I need to have at least 1 arm outside the covers.
I need some form of noise in the bedroom - tv, radio, even a loud fan.
Light level is unimportant. I can sleep in broad daylight or total black.
I can not lay on my back to sleep. I am a side or stomach sleeper, tending to side sleeping.
I hate inhaling someone elses breath - I have to face either away from them totally, or be spooned against their back. Face to face is right out.
My family has a few weird sleeping quirks.
My mother has a temperature regulating quirk that I find my oldest daughter doing in her sleep (which is interesting). She will always have her toes of one foot out of the covers and the hotter it is in the room, the more leg is showing.
My youngest daughter is going to end up with a frozen bra one night in college if I don’t break her of the habit of needing perfect quiet to sleep in before she leaves for a college dorm in a couple of years. Shes goes so far as to have half a dozen pillows stacked on her head over her ear with a little tunnel for fresh air to her nose.
As for me, I need relative quiet when falling asleep but once there, I sleep like the dead unless someone whispers, " Mom" (you can peel me off of the ceiling after that), I hear an outside door open/close, or I hear any kind of choking/gagging/coughing noise (maybe it’s the mom/nurse in me?).
Interesting topic. 
~MD
I sleep walk.
Sleep on my right side, two pillows under my head. A third pillow on my feet. If I’m using more than one sheet/blanket, they’ll be placed in a graded fashion - if the first is up to my neck, the second will be up to my waist; if the first is up to my waist, the second will be up to my knees. What’s important is that the lower down you get in my body, the warmer and heavier it is.
Oh, and I sleep with a t-shirt on my face. It has to cover my hair, right eye, and right cheek up to the corner of my mouth, while leaving my nostrils and mouth exposed. A sleep mask is not an adequate replacement.
I have sleeping issues.
I have to have a body pillow, or in a pinch, a couple big pillows. I sleep on my side, and use it/them on whatever side I’m facing. I pretty much lean on it. My ex didn’t like it, and when she found out I slept that way, she told me either it goes or she goes. I told her I could live a lot longer without her than I could without sleep. That’s not the reason she’s my ex - she relented on the subject of the pillow.
You simply do not fuck with a person’s sleep. Sleep is basically all that keeps me from killing people. Seriously, it’s REALLY damn important to your mental health. If I go a week without sleep, someone’s gonna die. They won’t deserve it, but that’s just how it’s gonna go.
I hate sleeping with top sheets, especially if they’re tucked in. I feel too confined. I sleep with just a comforter at home. My husband has a separate comforter because I like to tuck mine in under my sides, leaving my feet free.
I’m another one who has to have white noise–usually a fan running. I can eventually fall asleep if I’m tired enough and there isn’t any, but it’s not a pleasant experience. Fortunately, I discovered during a recent 10-day stint in a college dorm that there’s an app for that.
I have to be sleeping on my side, which isn’t weird. More unusual is that one arm has to be under a pillow, and the other the other is usually gripping blankets and tucked somewhere near the underside of my chin. Most weird is that I inhale sharply to plug my ears before I sleep. It dampens ambient noise and is much less bad for my ears than earplugs.
Also, until recently I’d never managed to sleep with music. I did manage to recently when I was on a red-eye from Anchorage to Phoenix after almost no sleep the previous night. Normally, though, that sensory input is too distracting for a number of reasons.
I am a terrible person to sleep with. I talk, drool and snore loudly in my slumber. My husband tells me I fart on him frequently, also. I have to sleep on my back, and hate top sheets. My husband also tells me I am a phenomenal blanket hog. If he’s not in bed with me, I tend to tuck subconsciously my entire length. He untucks one side to come in bed, and he has to touch me, or I wake up in a panic because I’m not sure who’s in the bed. Seriously, I sit straight up and yell.
When I was in high school, I had my first sleepover that I shared a bed with someone other than my parents or grandparents. She said, STOP TAPPING YOUR FOOT. turns out, I rock myself to sleep that way, and never noticed. Ca-ray-zeee!
I have to be surrounded by pillows. My bed is against the wall, so when I sleep on my left side (my preferred side), my back is to the wall. I have a body pillow behind me, then I have my regular pillow under my head, I’m hugging my big throw pillow, and I have two other pillows – one against my stomach, and one between my knees. I hate having my knees rub against each other – it almost feels painful, even.
Yes, I’m weird.
Tip for those sharing beds and having arguments over cover hogging: getting a top sheet and blanket (or whatever you like for covers) one size larger than your actual bed (e.g. if you have a full, use a full fitted sheet with queen top sheet and blanket) helps a LOT.