I’m not able to sleep on my right side these days. Got a little boo-boo and so I have to either sleep on my back, or my left side.
On the surface it really shouldn’t matter but of course we all know it does. Based on my patterns of getting myself to sleep, I have to believe I’ve had the same body posture since I was In Utero. Literally. On right side, arms crossed over chest. Slightly fetal position.
No matter where I’ve had to sleep, I’ve done one of two things. Fallen asleep flat on my back and been pretty miserable, or slept on my right side. It just FEELS so weird, to fall asleep on the wrong side of my body.
I wonder. The human body is asymmetrical inside, just as it is outside. Do my organs feel a different kind of pull or do they sit in a really different way, because I’ve turned sides for once? As I lay there this morning, I just felt funky. Does the heart have a certain ‘lilt’ to how it sits in the chest? Do my intestines know which way aids peristolysis? Does the blood flow into my brain alter slightly, since my brain is resting on the other side of the skull for 5 or 6 hours?
Yanno when you just plain feel “off” ? How do you sleep, can you fall asleep in any position? And, why?
Since I sleep on the right side of the bed (frame of reference is lying on my back in the bed) if I assume a fetal posture it’s on my right side. If I happen to be traveling and the hotel bed is configured so that it’s easier to sleep on the left side, I’ll curl up on my left side. But normally, I sleep on my back with my head and shoulders elevated so I can breathe more easily.
This is eerie - I was thinking about starting a similar thread… :eek:
This articles says pregnant women should sleep on their left side. I thought that sleeping on the left was better for avoiding reflux, but I’m not sure. Anyway, I’m a side sleeper, usually on the left. Can’t sleep on my back.
When I lie down on a surface large enough to allow it (think king-size bed) I start on my stomach side. If it’s a narrower surface, it’s usually the right side, but sometimes the left.
I usually wake up on my back.
I’ve wondered what my sleeping habits would look like videoed (is that a word) and played back fast forward.
I have seen such videos of people being tested for dreams and REM’s and such.
I’m a tummy sleeper who had to learn to sleep on my left side during my first pregnacy. The resulting sleep pattern 17 years later is a sort of tummy with a serious left list. Left leg extended, right leg sorta bent at the knee. I can feel my right foot just below the back of my left knee. Two pillows both hands underneath them.
I had a surgery last year that meant I had to sleep on my back for the better part of two months. I was miserable. (I was more miserable if I “forgot” and leaned on the incision though.)
I’m a tummy sleeper too and like Abby I spent a lot of time on my left side while pregnant the first time. I’m pregnant again and back to the left side sleeping thing ugh And my OB explained that you get the best circulation if you sleep on your left side. I can only do it if I have lots of pillows to hug and keep me from tilting over onto my belly. (Although the sheer act of rolling onto either my back or belly is pretty painful right now so I wake right up!)
I have never been really comfortable sleeping on my back. It feels too exposed! When I was a teenager I had a biopsy done and had to spend 3 days (around the clock) on my back. That was awful.
I’m a stomach sleeper as well, mostly. Occasionally I’ll sleep on my left side, curled around a pillow.
When I sleep on my stomach, I have 2 pillows under my head - one very small and flat, but I just can’t sleep without it - and one on my left side. I’ll sort of hook my left arm over the side pillow and pull it slightly under my left side, but I’m still mainly on my stomach.
I sleep all over the place (right side, left side, back, stomach, hanging half off the bed, etc.), but I prefer sleeping on my back or on my left side.
When I was a kid, the right side of my bed was against the wall, and I was afraid to sleep facing the wall for fear that someone evil was standing on the left side of my bed without me knowing it. That’s how I developed a preference for my left side.
I sleep all over the place (right side, left side, back, stomach, hanging half off the bed, etc.), but I prefer sleeping on my back or on my left side.
When I was a kid, the right side of my bed was against the wall, and I was afraid to sleep facing the wall for fear that someone evil was standing on the left side of my bed without me knowing it. That’s how I developed a preference for my left side.
The side doesn’t seem to matter as much as making sure my body is facing to the outside of the bed. So in my usual left side of the bed position, I sleep on my left side. Sometimes gf and I end up switching sides (usually only when we are in a different bed or hotel) and then I sleep on my right side.
Not sure why I do it, but I think I feel confined if I sleep facing the center of the bed…
When I first climb into bed, I lie on my left side. After about 5 minutes I’ll roll over to my right side and fall asleep.
Sleeping on my back feels weird as I don’t know what to do with my limbs. Should my arms be at my side? Crossed on my chest? Straight out? Too complicated.
I am the same way as pipper. No matter what side of the bed it is, I have to sleep with my back to the center of the bed. Well, at least I start that way, and then during the night, I wake up so much I change my positions. But I will always start the process all over again with my back to the center.
I go to sleep on my back, but I often wake-up on my side, my stomach, or twisted and contorted in some terribly awkward way. I’m a pretty active sleeper.
I can’t go to sleep on my side, because my neck and shoulders always seem to get stiff - no matter what I do pillow-wise. But I’m perfectly comfortable on my back.
I either sleep on my stomach or either my left or right side (if it is a side, it is usually my left.) For reference, I always sleep on the right side of the bed looking up from foot to head. I enjoy sleeping on my back but I have a strange medical condition so that when I sleep on my back (and sometimes my right side) I get a strange sensation of a fist hitting me in the shoulder and a disembodied voice saying in my head “Stop snoring, roll over” Sometimes, in the last 9 months, the voice says “So help me if your snoring wakes the baby, you are staying up with him”. So that is why I sleep the way I do.