How do you get to sleep!?

[droodles]

i cry about how depressing my life is

[memka]

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.

[avogarbro]

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

[Mao]

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

[AppleXY]

LOL. I dare not to reveal my methods to get a good nights rest.

Lol, are you insinuating what I think you're insinuating?

[Rietie]

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

[bubble sunglasses]

  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

[Rietie]

  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

[Fitness]

PROTIP: You all have OCD.

[excal]

  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...)

[jess3254]

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...

[RD]

I usually fall asleep straight away..

[excal]

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).

[beezy4eva]

i either knit or watch discovery channel to bore myself to sleep

[AppleXY]

WTF THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL IS MADZZ. I always watch it (apart from CNBC as well)