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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Lifestyle and Entertainment => Topic started by: brendan on April 08, 2008, 05:44:09 pm
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What things do you do to your pillows or bed in order to get a good nights rest...share your stories!
Examples:
*Flipping your pillows to get to the cold side
*Hand/arm under your pillow
*Fear of feet out from under covers
*Fear of limbs off the bed
*Sleeping backwards
*Building pillow and blanket forts
*One leg out from under the covers
*Not being able to sleep with or without sox
*Pillow folding
*pillow between the legs
*closet door or bedroom door opened or closed
*drooling
****And much much more...
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I lie on my side and sometimes I need to put a pillow between my knees because I don't like the feeling of my knees touching because they're rather bony. I also need to sleep on a very thin pillow (or sometimes without a pillow) and I prefer complete silence and darkness and definitely closed doors. I find it's also better for me to have a shower before going to bed because otherwise as soon as I lay down all I do is think and I can't get to sleep (so I think in the shower instead). When I'm asleep my mouth needs to be slightly open and I can't be cold (which is why I sleep on a single bed with a double sized doona). I think that's all.
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Hmmmm.....
I nearly always sleep on my side with my hand between my 2 pillows.
I find it extremely difficult to sleep if my bedroom door is shut but can't sleep if my wardrobe doors are open.
I also tend to swap which side I'm lying on several times before I even fall asleep (probably due to the fact it normally takes me quite a while to actually fall asleep after going to bed).
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I have to have my feet poking out from under the covers when I sleep. It just feels better that way - I can't sleep with my feet under the doona :P
I go to sleep faster if it's completely quiet and dark. Like Eriny I need a really flat pillow or my neck feels kinda sore in the morning. When I'm asleep I tend to toss and turn alot so I usually wake up in a totally different position to the one I feel asleep in. Also have had reports of kicking around when I'm asleep, which pissed my cousin off when she had to share a bed with me when we went on a family holiday! :P
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my body ended up rotating the other way when I woke up. Only happened once in my life.
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Ah i normally curl up with my hands under my head lolz ^_^
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I don't sleep.
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*Mammoth admission*
I've got a blanket/cuddle cloth I've had since....god....I was 7 or so :) If I'm staying somewhere else and forget to bring it it's much harder to get to sleep
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any droolers!?
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any droolers!?
Yeah a little bit, but only when I'm just lying in bed musing.
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I have to have my feet poking out from under the covers when I sleep. It just feels better that way - I can't sleep with my feet under the doona :P
WTF? I can't sleep if I do that.
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1. Must be warm. Usually this is not a problem at all but when Melbourne weather goes from uber hot -> uber cold sometimes I need to go get gloves/socks out. xD
2. Must not be too hot. This usually comes from when I close the door for some reason (eg lights on when going to sleep - normally I leave it open so cats can come in and out) and I wake up in the morning at like 5 and then thats it.
3. Must be sleeping on the side which makes me face the door/way to get out. I have discovered that it is not simply 'I sleep on my right side' because when I've been away on school camps etc I've noticed that I *never* face the wall unless I'm ridiculously tired in which case it doesnt seem to matter, but that doesnt happen too often.
I also somehow manage to turn new pillows into major flattened wrecks within a week. I much prefer new pillow high-ness but I've gotten used to icky flatness because I squish them all xD
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LOL. I dare not to reveal my methods to get a good nights rest.
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I NEED a cold pillow. I struggle to sleep if it isn't. I keep rotating & flipping pillows to ensure it is cold. Lol.
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LOL. I dare not to reveal my methods to get a good nights rest.
Lol, are you insinuating what I think you're insinuating?
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i cry about how depressing my life is
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3. Must be sleeping on the side which makes me face the door/way to get out. I have discovered that it is not simply 'I sleep on my right side' because when I've been away on school camps etc I've noticed that I *never* face the wall unless I'm ridiculously tired in which case it doesnt seem to matter, but that doesnt happen too often.
I do that too :)
If a light's on in the hallway I'll face the wall for a bit before swapping back.
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I sleep on the ground, under staircases and on park benches. I slip newspapers under my clothes to keep warm. This is life as a student for some of us. =P
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LOL. I dare not to reveal my methods to get a good nights rest.
he looks at pictures of UoM i betcha
music/radio works, or i just stay up to ridiculously late hours and fall asleep without complaint
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LOL. I dare not to reveal my methods to get a good nights rest.
Lol, are you insinuating what I think you're insinuating?
;)
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How I get to sleep:
1. Have a thin and hard pillow - big fluffy pillow annoy the hell out of me.
2. Put one of my hands underneath the pillow.
3. Sleep on my side - will toss and turn for a while
4. Doona pulled up to my chin and over my ears (long habbit from when I was a child - I was scared of bugs crawling into my ears in the middle of the night).
5. Mouth open - I just can't breathe through my nose when trying to get to sleep.
6. Daydream for a long time :)
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Do you breathe predominantly through your mouth?
I assumed everybody was a "nose-breather" until I noticed my brother had his mouth open rather a lot; for him to shut his mouth would feel like me pinching my nose
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Do you breathe predominantly through your mouth?
I assumed everybody was a "nose-breather" until I noticed my brother had his mouth open rather a lot; for him to shut his mouth would feel like me pinching my nose
Not sure. I quite often had colds when I was younger (and still do) so... maybe? I think it's just when I do exercise (which is never), I have a cold or if I'm going to bed when I breathe through my mouth. And if I'm breathing through my mouth, I try to make it appear as if I'm not breathing through it :)
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PROTIP: You all have OCD.
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Do you breathe predominantly through your mouth?
I assumed everybody was a "nose-breather" until I noticed my brother had his mouth open rather a lot; for him to shut his mouth would feel like me pinching my nose
Not sure. I quite often had colds when I was younger (and still do) so... maybe? I think it's just when I do exercise (which is never), I have a cold or if I'm going to bed when I breathe through my mouth. And if I'm breathing through my mouth, I try to make it appear as if I'm not breathing through it :)
I was *exactly* the same actually. Doctors found that I had a deviated septum and had a septoplasty (straightening of the septum)+ turbinrectory (resection of the turbinates)...breathing through the nose far from perfect, but it's improved a lot since surgery!
Mouth breathing is not common for me anymore (I used to do it all the time, among other forms of parasomnia...talking in sleep, droolage, snoring...)
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I was *exactly* the same actually. Doctors found that I had a deviated septum and had a septoplasty (straightening of the septum)+ turbinrectory (resection of the turbinates)...breathing through the nose far from perfect, but it's improved a lot since surgery!
Mouth breathing is not common for me anymore (I used to do it all the time, among other forms of parasomnia...talking in sleep, droolage, snoring...)
Hey, you're cool! I had deviated septum too, plus nasal polyps. I couldn't breathe through my nose whenever I lied down, but I was fine when standing up, which was really odd. This resulted in extremely strange sleeping patterns, like sleeping bolt upright, and standing up in the middle of the night while asleep...
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I usually fall asleep straight away..
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I was *exactly* the same actually. Doctors found that I had a deviated septum and had a septoplasty (straightening of the septum)+ turbinrectory (resection of the turbinates)...breathing through the nose far from perfect, but it's improved a lot since surgery!
Mouth breathing is not common for me anymore (I used to do it all the time, among other forms of parasomnia...talking in sleep, droolage, snoring...)
Hey, you're cool! I had deviated septum too, plus nasal polyps. I couldn't breathe through my nose whenever I lied down, but I was fine when standing up, which was really odd. This resulted in extremely strange sleeping patterns, like sleeping bolt upright, and standing up in the middle of the night while asleep...
Heh...yeah. Did you have the surgery too (I assume with polyp removal in the same hit) ?
The surgery / recovery process is NOT FUN IN THE SLIGHTEST. So I would advise anyone contemplating any corrective surgery to weigh up if the benefit in getting better sleep outweighs the pain / annoyance that's likely to hang around for a month or so ('normal life' starts about 1-2 weeks after surgery).
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i either knit or watch discovery channel to bore myself to sleep
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WTF THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL IS MADZZ. I always watch it (apart from CNBC as well)
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Hmmmm.....
I nearly always sleep on my side with my hand between my 2 pillows.
I find it extremely difficult to sleep if my bedroom door is shut but can't sleep if my wardrobe doors are open.
I also tend to swap which side I'm lying on several times before I even fall asleep (probably due to the fact it normally takes me quite a while to actually fall asleep after going to bed).
Haha wow, all of these apply for me. :P