Sleeping styles and habits

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T also like the room to be dark and usually have a window open or at least a fan going. I like the air flow. I sleep on the left side of the queen size bed as the bf takes the other. I start out with two pillows but usually one gets tossed. Sleep nude but if it gets cold all I need is my head covered. Funny thing is that my right foot shakes as I fall asleep too. My bf, who claims to love me, says that i snore.
Me?! Really?! I don't think so.
 

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Sleep paralysis is fairly mysterious. It is a disruption in the normal stages of sleep. Somehow right before you fall into actual sleep, you stop, roll back a stage of sleep to where you are conscious again but with a strange twist. You can't move a muscle let alone utter a word! The next thing you feel is sheer terror, a black nefarious force is hovering above you and you cannot even scream for help or an evil presence is simply sensed in the room and there's nothing you can do to protect yourself. All people who experience sleep paralysis experience the same thing. This sleeping disorder is the basis for a large percentage of alien abduction stories. People experience these night terrors and go see a psychiatrist who refers them to a "trapped memory" specialist. These specialists use a very controversial regressive hypnosis that has been accused of planting memories rather than recovering them. I have experienced sleep paralysis but never alien abduction that I know of... those trapped memory specialists are all phonies as far as I'm concerned, but the night terrors are the scariest shit I've ever experienced in life.
 

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I like to go to sleep all snuggled up, but invariably wake up on my back with my legs apart.

I can sleep just about anywhere though, at any time of the day. I once spent a perfectly good night in the open, no covers on the side of a tank.
 

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We have a firm queen size bed and pillows.The room is kept cool and a window open for fresh air.I normaly go to sleep snuggled up to my wife,but wake up on my back.She says I snore and I know she does,last one to fall asleep is a rotten egg!!!
 

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G,

I'm not sure, I removed the tags over a year ago... and can't remember, I do recall they where kind of expensive, but that's about it....

I too require a fan, I've got a ceiling fan, and it's enough, it's not one of the good silent ones, so it creates white noise and the all important air movement.

Sleeping naked is okay for me, but my body temperature is a little lower than average,(96.6º) so cuddling in my sleep is almost impossible. shame too, I love cuddling.

Tripod,

I've experienced that a few times, but it was in the morning for me, not at the begining of sleep, hasn't happened in years, but man, talk about scary!
 

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Sorry to hear you have a snoring problem too Gisella. Is it you or your partner who snores? My wife's snores less since she lost weight. I think that is a big factor, but she doesn't have very good nasal passages. Too narrow.
 

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More thanks to everyone.:wink:

*Riven - Thanks, yep my ex snoores like a machine and he too has respiratory problems and narrow passages...
 

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I sleep in a king size bed with the A/C at 73 a fan on a stand pionting at me on hi, with two ancient fether pillows. I wear a nasal mask for Sleap apnea and I put it on after taling to the wife for a few minutes. I either sleep nude or in boxer briefs and my wife like to have a night light on so we do. It does not bother me.
 

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Gisella said:
More thanks to everyone.:wink:

*Riven - Thanks, yep my ex snoores like a machine and he too has respiratory problems and narrow passages...

My wife used to suffer (probably still does) from sleep apnia - she stops breathing for a few seconds, or minutes, then starts again when the adrenalin kicks in, or because I'm poking and shaking her, whichever comes first. Hells Bells! Try sleeping with that! :eek:
 

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I am a clinical insomniac.

However, when i DO sleep, it's on my side (either one works fine) with a pillow between my legs and one for me to snuggle with my arms. The room can't be too dark, but neither can it be too bright... in my current apartment there is a streetlight outside the window that provides perfect brightness. Also it must be COLD. 65º F is usually perfect. If it's summer the AC is on as high as it goes... in the winter the window is open. I also need some background noise... usually i'll put Enya on very low.

Lunesta is also very helpful!

Oh, and for all my pickiness, i sleep better with a warm body next to me.. expecially if he's cuddly.
 

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Riven650 said:
My wife used to suffer (probably still does) from sleep apnia - she stops breathing for a few seconds, or minutes, then starts again when the adrenalin kicks in, or because I'm poking and shaking her, whichever comes first. Hells Bells! Try sleeping with that! :eek:

Wow..is very scary Riven, we think they will die when sleeping and we are going to awake with them dead but than we can not get restfull sleep bcause of the noise and we kind of be 'alert' all nite..I was exausted by the time I have to awake until decide sleep in the sofa, until he decide go to doctor. What he never did.
 

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I sleep with the fan on. I have to have Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (a radio program on the AM dial.) on at night. I sleep with one light near my bed on (but with all other lights are off) but with the covers over my head.

Wintertime, I love to pile on the blankets. Same ritual.
 

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Good Topic

Finally got a decent size bed (king) so I can stretch out a bit more. The mattress is a step down from the firm and still new so I am breaking it in.

Still have the pillow that my mom used in college and I now use in college. Its down with not much left. You could scrunch it up to the size of a roll of toilet paper I think.

I like to sleep on my side, usually right, facing the wall. One arm under the pillow under my head, the other in front of my body. One leg is usually straight down and the other forward a bit. I like the room warm but not hot, I like my big down comforter and use it year round.

Sometimes I find that I sleep on my back, legs spread a bit and arms off to the side. This is pretty comfortable but only happens once a week or so.
 

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Lady Englander latex foam matress with wool/silk top. very firm side sleeper pillow for me. Memory foam pillow for spouse. Summer weight feather blanket with duvet cover, no topsheet, flannel bottom sheet in summer, 600count cotton in the summer. I usually add another comforter on top in the winter for my side.

The bedroom is all window floor to ceiling on 3 sides to the idea of curtains is a non-issue.

I start sleep on my left side facing the window, but by midnight i'm usually on my stomach, pillow pushed away, and my right knee up as high as I can get it. With hubby gone, I sleep smack in the middle of the bed with cats on one side, dog on the other and on my back snoring as loud as I please. :D We spoon when it's really cold but he says i'm a radiator and too hot to sleep next to.

Night terrors are pretty common with hubby home, but he's a real doll about it and never once has slunk off to sleep elsewhere. Sleep paralysis is almost every night while he is gone. Tried sleeping pills but I had terrible side effects from them.
 

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I have the AC on for hours in the bedroom before we go to bed. We have a ceiling fan above the bed the size of a cruise ship propeller and it stays on all night (still not acclimatised to the sub tropical climate after moving here from Scotland a year ago). I have to sleep on my right side with right arm fully outstretched.

I can turn out the light and be asleep before the room gets dark - no exaggeration! I slept through a hurricane one night on holiday in the US. Back in Scotland our house was struck by lightening one night which blew up all the phones and electrics. Paul had to shake me awake. Guess I am not a light sleeper. :biggrin1:
 

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Gekko said:
Night terrors are pretty common with hubby home, but he's a real doll about it and never once has slunk off to sleep elsewhere. Sleep paralysis is almost every night while he is gone. Tried sleeping pills but I had terrible side effects from them.

I used to distinctly remember hearing a strange terrible sound that seemed to precede the paralysis. The last time it happened was in the winter at my ex-girlfriend's house when I didn't have the fan on. After that I started to listen to my Voyager I recordings on repeat throughout the night, and I haven't had a night terror since. That has been atleast 4 years ago. I used to attribute it to some type of frequency interrupting my normal sleep patterns, and the shaped white noise generated by a fan or those recordings, masked that frequency. I thought this might be of help Gecko.
 

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My partner and I both like to have some background noise (I prefer a fan, actually, but he likes our "nature sounds" CD, so we usually listen to crickets as we fall asleep...) I'm surprised to see how many here have to have the feet uncovered to fall asleep, my guy is like that.

We usually spoon, with him in front of me and my arm draped around him and across his chest - until he says, "I love you, my little furnace, but you're too hot... get away from me!"
 

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Gekko said:
OK, so what is a Voyager 1 recording? is that the old gramaphone record they made and sent into space?

Man, that is awesome that you know that, that's called the golden grammaphone that contained stuff from the earth's culture. The recordings I am talking about are actual electromagnetic vibrations within the range of human hearing. They contain:

1. The interaction of solar wind with the planet's magnetosphere.
2. The magnetosphere itself.
3. Trapped radio bouncing between the planet and the inner surface of it's atmosphere.
4. Electromagnetic noise within space itself.
5. Charged particle interactions of the planet, it's moons, and the solar wind.
6. Charged particle emmisions from the rings of certain planets.

These were collected by six sets of instruments:

1. Magnometers
2. Plasma Detectors
3. Low Energy Charged Particles Detector (LECP)
4. A Package of seven telescopes to analyze Cosmic Ray Nuclei
5. Two 10 meter whup antennas to listen for planetary Radio Emmisions
6. Plasma Wave Detectors

The recordings are from a box set and there are 5 or six discs in all. I use the 3rd one which has the smoothest dynamics. Awesome shit!!!!!!!!!!
 

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Fascinating stuff Tripod. I suppose I should have a look around for it, it's worth trying out. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why your sleep issues would be resolved by listening to drums, opera, shakuhachi, and bagpipes. Seemed to me that might actually induce night paralysis and terrors. :tongue:

Found it! "Symphonies of the Planets" is the official title and no longer in production.