I sleep on the left side of the bed. My wife sleeps on the right side, next to the wall. This is so she can’t easily get up and run away when I want to give her “The Business”.
I don’t have a compass, nor do I sleep with anyone else, but I do sleep facing the wall. Always. My bed was moved away from the living room wall because the noise kept waking me up, so the headboard is now at the oposite end. This confused me for a while, since I could no longer face the wall and sleep on my right side…I learned to sleep on my left side, which according to The Haunting Of Hill House, will cause my heart to give out faster which is ok by me since I don’t plan on being very elderly anyway.
Okay, I guess I confused the issue by saying north south etc. I wasn’t talking about magnetic or compass direction… I was just trying to make it easier than saying the “left” or “right” side of the bed, because those can change depending on your frame of refrence (i.e. standing at the foot of the bed, or sitting up in bed).
So I was trying to imply that if you devised an entirely new set of refrence, saying the pillows were the north pole and the foot of the bed was the south pole, did you sleep on the west or east?
but I realize that that has flaws too, because again, frame of refrence can change that…
so okay, you and your partner are lying on your backs in bed, is your right shoulder touching his/her left, or is your left shoulder touchign his/her right?\
Anyway, I already thwart my theory, since I am female and sleep on the “west” side, the right side, or the my-left-shoulder-to-his-right-shoulder side…
however you see it!
Oh, and to answer a question posed previously. I am in Southern Oregon! Are you a fellow Oregonian?
Casey Primate
Mr. Killdare and I have switched bed sides a couple of time, depending on who has the misfortune to be the first one having to give and who therefore must sleep beside the alarm clock.
Right now, if the pillows are north, I’m east and he’s west.
Whoa, you’ve completely confused me now, CP.
Ok, from the beginning: I sleep on the west side in real coordinates, which is east in your pillow=north system. My gf and I switch every now and then, though.
When we’re at her mother’s house, I usually sleep on the east side, which happens to be to the west in your coordinates.
Yes. Live in Newberg and work in Portland. If you’re curious about other Oregon Dopers, most of us, from the Portland area anyway, are represented in this thread. There’s also a Doper in Ashland, but I’m having a ‘senior moment’ and can’t remember the name. Ah yes, Gadarene.
Anyway, as to the OP, by your definition I would be ‘west’.
Man. West side.
I currently sleep on the “east” side of the bed. Back in my college days when I had a bed made from shoving two twin beds together, I slept on the “west” side. However, both times I was closest to magnetic north. Kind of odd, that.
I have slept on both “west” and “east” sides of the bed, either by the rather confusing convention suggested here or by magnetic direction.
The reason: my wife gets much hotter than I do while sleeping, so she always sleeps on the side of the bed closest to the windows. That way she stays cooled and I, who likes to have lots of covers around me, stay warm.
East/west don’t matter to me. I just want the side that’s farthest from the alarm clock and telephone. Let HER answer it if it rings in the night.
Female, and if the pillows are north, I sleep on the east side of the bed.
My alarm clock is on that side. If I’m sleeping by myself, I’ll wander all over, but if my SO is staying the night, I’m an eastern girl.
female, and, since the bed is backed into the wall on the north (pillows) and east (looking down at bed from top), i sleep on the west side. it’s got a faaaaaaaan, a nice cool faaaaaaaaaaan, such a wonderfully cooling faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan…
yes, i’m eating lots of candy. how did you know? 
in taiwan, it gets reeeeeally hot.
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you should ask, if you’re a male, do you subconsiously pick the side of the bed you sleep on with your woman, or is there some sort of logical reason why you pick the side you do?
There have actually been studies about this – why one would want to study it is beyond me, but hey.
I personally, without thinking about it, sleep on whichever side of the bed is closest to the door of the room. They (the researchers) say that this is because being the dominate person (physically) in a relationship you are protecting your partner since you will be the “first line of defense” if someone breaks into your home or comes into your bedroom unknowingly.
Funny, now that I think about it, my pillows are indeed north of the bed and I sleep on the east side.
You rang? 
I used to be in Ashland; now I’m in law school in D.C. My family still lives in Brookings, though. Casey, what part of Southern Oregon?
To keep this post on-topic: West side for me.
I (female) sleep with my left shoulder to his right.
I like to be near the window, which, in decent weather, I like to keep at least a little bit open.