How do you sleep? (semi silly poll) - Page 2

ruth1304 · 06-11-2009, 04:31 PM

The only time I had a serious problem at work was when I was given a 50 page document about the technical details of how various investment bonds worked and the tax rules and regulations surrounding them. (It was my first week and they didn't have much for me to do!)

I kept finding myself nodding off and then waking up suddenly. Luckily the desk next to me was empty, and no-one said anything so I don't think they noticed.

columbus · 06-11-2009, 04:31 PM

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Snort, brrrp!

krisk · 06-11-2009, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ruth1304

The only time I had a serious problem at work was when I was given a 50 page document about the technical details of how various investment bonds worked and the tax rules and regulations surrounding them. (It was my first week and they didn't have much for me to do!)

I kept finding myself nodding off and then waking up suddenly. Luckily the desk next to me was empty, and no-one said anything so I don't think they noticed.

*snicker* yeah, when you jerk up your head and find a trail of drool following you, you know it's pretty bad!

ruth1304 · 06-11-2009, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by krisk

*snicker* yeah, when you jerk up your head and find a trail of drool following you, you know it's pretty bad!

The snoring's a bit of a giveaway too!

krisk · 06-11-2009, 04:37 PM

fortunately I don't (or so I'm told) snore

DixieGal · 06-11-2009, 04:39 PM

Where's BadGoodDeb? She and I have had many conversations about how much we love to sleep. Maybe not many. Probably 3.

I love to sleep. I love it so much that I wake up wishing it were time to go back to sleep for another night. I wish I were asleep right now. And even better is a big bowl of icecream before bed. I love it more than donuts.

ruth1304 · 06-11-2009, 04:41 PM

Apparently I don't snore yet, but my gran is the only person who sleeps in any house she stays in - the loudest snoring I have ever heard! And I've met so many people who claim not to snore and then you go on a camping trip with them and everyone in the field can hear them! If I was going to start snoring it would definitely be somewhere like the office where no-one would ever forget ...

GraceKrispy · 06-11-2009, 04:43 PM

A year or so ago, I realized that I only suffered from nightmares when I slept on my back. I suffered from a lot more nightmares before I realized that. Although I don't always get nightmares lying on my back, it seems much more likely. The few times I've had night terrors (is that what they are called? sleep paralysis kind of stuff), it's always been on my back. I decided that sleeping on my back opens portals to hell or something. I am a gatekeeper. Or, it could be that it inteferes with proper circulation or breathing or something. I think I read something about the latter...

ruth1304 · 06-11-2009, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

A year or so ago, I realized that I only suffered from nightmares when I slept on my back. I suffered from a lot more nightmares before I realized that. Although I don't always get nightmares lying on my back, it seems much more likely. The few times I've had night terrors (is that what they are called? sleep paralysis kind of stuff), it's always been on my back. I decided that sleeping on my back opens portals to hell or something. I am a gatekeeper. Or, it could be that it inteferes with proper circulation or breathing or something. I think I read something about the latter...

I can't sleep on my back unless I'm really ill. Now I have a proper reason for it!

krisk · 06-11-2009, 04:46 PM

wow Grace! that's just bizarre!

ruth, I don't think I tracked there

Alphapheemail · 06-11-2009, 04:57 PM

I love to sleep, but god i feel like its such a waste of time!!! I could be on MR or clobbering something in my apt! i don't have any problems sleeping, im just qwirky in the things i have to do before i go to bed.

-i have to triple lock all my doors ( I unlock then relock)
-i keep a flash light on at the base of my bed pointing under the bed ( habit from childhood... i was severely petrified from stepping on the floor once all lights were out... so my dad came up with that plan...and no worries i use the crank flash light!!)
- i need all doors leading to my room closed but not locked in case of fuego!!!( i have a wierd set up for an apt...)

and of course i sleep with my reader... and i snuggle with my significant otter... but not for too long...

@grace.... im so sorry to hear about that!!! sleep is the time for you to relax, not to be scared #*&@^less!!!
i know u have pro0bably heard this... but have u tried melatonin?
that stuff knocks me out like an anthropomorphic log....

Verencat · 06-11-2009, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

I love to sleep. I love it so much that I wake up wishing it were time to go back to sleep for another night. I wish I were asleep right now. And even better is a big bowl of icecream before bed. I love it more than donuts.

ARRRGGHHHH me too! I agree for the ice cream before going to bed, and for the sleeping all the time!!! Sleeping as gotten to be such a luxury with time...
And I just think my face looks better with pillow lines on it!

Quote:

Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

A year or so ago, I realized that I only suffered from nightmares when I slept on my back. I suffered from a lot more nightmares before I realized that. Although I don't always get nightmares lying on my back, it seems much more likely. The few times I've had night terrors (is that what they are called? sleep paralysis kind of stuff), it's always been on my back. I decided that sleeping on my back opens portals to hell or something. I am a gatekeeper. Or, it could be that it inteferes with proper circulation or breathing or something. I think I read something about the latter...

Same thing for me!!! Every time I woke up screaming, out of breath or in such a paralizing fear I had to leave the light on for a week, it was because I was sleeping on my back.

A few months ago, I woke up because I was feeling something pulling the life out of me from my brain...and I couldn't move, I was there, lying on my back, crying, trying to scream for help (tough luck, I live alone). I think it lasted at least 15 minutes, but it seemed so much longer... the following nights, I couldn't even go to bed, I slept in the living room, until I finally asked a friend to come sleep over a few times, just to make me feel safer...

It worked, but the friend happened to need a place to crash and stayed for a whole month, so, to make everything simpler, I don't sleep on my back anymore!

krisk · 06-11-2009, 05:02 PM

I would have been in a bad bad place if that were me! when I blew out my knee I had to sleep on my back with a bunch of pillows under my leg. actually at first I slept on the couch and I put my leg up on the back of the couch. I was 6 weeks no weight bearing at all. the way the leg brace fit, I couldn't sit very well and had to be at least in a semi propped position

Verencat · 06-11-2009, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by krisk

I would have been in a bad bad place if that were me! when I blew out my knee I had to sleep on my back with a bunch of pillows under my leg. actually at first I slept on the couch and I put my leg up on the back of the couch. I was 6 weeks no weight bearing at all. the way the leg brace fit, I couldn't sit very well and had to be at least in a semi propped position

There is no problem when I'm in a 45 degree angle, it doesn't affect the breathing - it even allows you to breath better, that's why I sleep that way when I have a cold.
But lying flat... I shiver at the memories (note the plural: it happened many times, not just that one!)

vivaldirules · 06-11-2009, 05:15 PM

For some reason, I've found myself sleeping on my back a lot - and dreaming that I own a water bed. Not sure why.

Oh, look at the cute otter!

View Poll Results: How do you sleep?
foetus	25	37.31%
yearner	10	14.93%
log	10	14.93%
soldier	10	14.93%
freefaller	17	25.37%
starfish	9	13.43%
in a coffin	4	5.97%
standing up	4	5.97%
in a recliner	2	2.99%
hanging like a bat from a tree	2	2.99%
under the cat	8	11.94%
on top of the cat	2	2.99%
wherever the dog lets me	12	17.91%
in the dog house	1	1.49%
spooning	10	14.93%
as unspooned as possible	5	7.46%
who needs sleep!	9	13.43%
however the cat lets me	5	7.46%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 67. You may not vote on this poll

06-11-2009, 04:41 PM	#22
ruth1304 Addict Posts: 394 Karma: 1546 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Bristol, UK Device: Waiting for a kindle!	Apparently I don't snore yet, but my gran is the only person who sleeps in any house she stays in - the loudest snoring I have ever heard! And I've met so many people who claim not to snore and then you go on a camping trip with them and everyone in the field can hear them! If I was going to start snoring it would definitely be somewhere like the office where no-one would ever forget ... Last edited by ruth1304; 06-11-2009 at 04:48 PM.

06-11-2009, 04:57 PM	#26
Alphapheemail .a ribbon around a bomb. Posts: 639 Karma: 4334 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: sigh... ny Device: PRS700	I love to sleep, but god i feel like its such a waste of time!!! I could be on MR or clobbering something in my apt! i don't have any problems sleeping, im just qwirky in the things i have to do before i go to bed. -i have to triple lock all my doors ( I unlock then relock) -i keep a flash light on at the base of my bed pointing under the bed ( habit from childhood... i was severely petrified from stepping on the floor once all lights were out... so my dad came up with that plan...and no worries i use the crank flash light!!) - i need all doors leading to my room closed but not locked in case of fuego!!!( i have a wierd set up for an apt...) and of course i sleep with my reader... and i snuggle with my significant otter... but not for too long... @grace.... im so sorry to hear about that!!! sleep is the time for you to relax, not to be scared #&@^less!!! i know u have pro0bably heard this... but have u tried melatonin? that stuff knocks me out like an anthropomorphic log.... Last edited by Alphapheemail; 06-11-2009 at 05:00 PM.*

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06-11-2009, 04:31 PM	#16
ruth1304 Addict Posts: 394 Karma: 1546 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Bristol, UK Device: Waiting for a kindle!	The only time I had a serious problem at work was when I was given a 50 page document about the technical details of how various investment bonds worked and the tax rules and regulations surrounding them. (It was my first week and they didn't have much for me to do!) I kept finding myself nodding off and then waking up suddenly. Luckily the desk next to me was empty, and no-one said anything so I don't think they noticed.

06-11-2009, 04:31 PM	#17
columbus Wizard Posts: 999 Karma: 5487540 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: In my own imagination. Device: Sony Prs 650, 505	ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Snort, brrrp!

06-11-2009, 04:37 PM	#20
krisk Wizard Posts: 2,148 Karma: 8229 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: on the road again Device: kindle	fortunately I don't (or so I'm told) snore

06-11-2009, 04:39 PM	#21
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	Where's BadGoodDeb? She and I have had many conversations about how much we love to sleep. Maybe not many. Probably 3. I love to sleep. I love it so much that I wake up wishing it were time to go back to sleep for another night. I wish I were asleep right now. And even better is a big bowl of icecream before bed. I love it more than donuts.

06-11-2009, 04:43 PM	#23
GraceKrispy It's Dr. Penguin now! Posts: 3,909 Karma: 4705733 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: (USA) Device: iPad mini, Samsung Note 3, Sony PRS-650 (rarely used now)	A year or so ago, I realized that I only suffered from nightmares when I slept on my back. I suffered from a lot more nightmares before I realized that. Although I don't always get nightmares lying on my back, it seems much more likely. The few times I've had night terrors (is that what they are called? sleep paralysis kind of stuff), it's always been on my back. I decided that sleeping on my back opens portals to hell or something. I am a gatekeeper. Or, it could be that it inteferes with proper circulation or breathing or something. I think I read something about the latter...

06-11-2009, 04:46 PM	#25
krisk Wizard Posts: 2,148 Karma: 8229 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: on the road again Device: kindle	wow Grace! that's just bizarre! ruth, I don't think I tracked there

06-11-2009, 05:02 PM	#28
krisk Wizard Posts: 2,148 Karma: 8229 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: on the road again Device: kindle	I would have been in a bad bad place if that were me! when I blew out my knee I had to sleep on my back with a bunch of pillows under my leg. actually at first I slept on the couch and I put my leg up on the back of the couch. I was 6 weeks no weight bearing at all. the way the leg brace fit, I couldn't sit very well and had to be at least in a semi propped position

06-11-2009, 05:15 PM	#30
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	For some reason, I've found myself sleeping on my back a lot - and dreaming that I own a water bed. Not sure why. Oh, look at the cute otter!

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