How do you sleep? Back, side, stomach, other? (1 Viewer)

[Otis]

This is a sleeping pole. Whatcha got?

 

[Otis]

Also, a question: is any one way to sleep healthier than the others?  TIA 

 

[bigmarc27]

Side 60% / Back 40%

 

[AAABatteries]

I start on my side and that’s how I sleep most of the time.  I’ll occasionally wake up on my stomach.

 

[Otis]

Also can we all agree that anyone who sleeps on their back is a complete weirdo or a vampire?

 

[AAABatteries]

Also, a question: is any one way to sleep healthier than the others?  TIA 

They tell you to sleep on your side - helps you fatties to not suffocate.  

 

[jamny]

Mostly on my side, sometimes on my back. 70/30 probably.

 

[urbanhack]

Many combinations except straight on my stomach or back.   I like on my side with belly slightly facing down with one knee/leg bent and the other fully extended 

 

[DaVinci]

I used to sleep mainly on my stomach until I had jaw surgery in the mid-90s. Even over 20 years later, the pressure that sleeping on my stomach puts on my face is uncomfortable. I sleep mostly on my back now.

 

[sublimeone]

Used to sleep on my stomach until a chiropractor convinced me that doing so was exacerbating my neck issues. It took a couple of years to convert to a back and side sleeper. 

 

[sports_fan]

Laying down

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Also can we all agree that anyone who sleeps on their back is a complete weirdo or a vampire?

I literally cannot sleep that way. I do it only if I want to stay awake.

 

[snogger]

Also can we all agree that anyone who sleeps on their back is a complete weirdo or a vampire?

IMO, It's those that sleep on their stomach that are the ones..

As for me .. 80% sides, 20% back. 

 

[mr. furley]

Also can we all agree that anyone who sleeps on their back is a complete weirdo or a vampire?

i sleep on my back with a pillow under my knees

best i've slept in years

 

[Long Ball Larry]

On top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.

 

[Hov34]

On top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.

My Eyes!  The googles do nothing!!

 

[Hov34]

No "next to your wife" responses?  Maybe this board is maturing.

 

[AAABatteries]

Like a baby*

*drool on myself and occasionally #### my pants 

 

[EYLive]

Also can we all agree that anyone who sleeps on their back is a complete weirdo or a vampire?

People that aren't obese or fear choking on their overweight tongues have no problems sleeping on their back.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Mix of back and side

occasionally I’ll fall asleep watching TV and sleep sitting up 

 

[comfortably numb]

On your mom

 

[Long Ball Larry]

My Eyes!  The googles do nothing!!

Hey hov, that jacket makes you look like a real homosexual.

 

[snore]

I use a cpap and have started converting to back sleeper (after years of being a side/stomach sleeper). Have a rotator cuff impingement also which makes it tough to sleep on my side. 

Getting old is a pain...literally. 

 

[ChiefD]

Body pillow.

Money.

 

[gianmarco]

Sleeping on your stomach is not good.

 

[tri-man 47]

i sleep on my back with a pillow under my knees

best i've slept in years

I've historically been a side-sleeper, but some recent issues with a pinched nerve or something have forced me onto my back.  When seeing a chiropractor and, in that office, a masseuse, I was  told that the above is ideal - on the back with a pillow under the knees.  Apparently you're not using any muscles this way, so everything gets proper rest.   

 

[Nipsey]

Stomach. It's what I did in the womb and that's pretty much it.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Back. My wife says I sleep like a dead person with my arms folded across my chest.  

So you are the weirdo who chose 'other'?

 

[ffweasel]

90% back & 10% side.  Up until I was in my early twenties I slept primarily in the fetal position. 

 

[krista4]

Many combinations except straight on my stomach or back.   I like on my side with belly slightly facing down with one knee/leg bent and the other fully extended 

  +1

 

[mr. furley]

I use a cpap and have started converting to back sleeper (after years of being a side/stomach sleeper). Have a rotator cuff impingement also which makes it tough to sleep on my side. 

Getting old is a pain...literally. 

name checks out

 

[badmojo1006]

Other-whichever way the dog will let me

 

[mr. furley]

I've historically been a side-sleeper, but some recent issues with a pinched nerve or something have forced me onto my back.  When seeing a chiropractor and, in that office, a masseuse, I was  told that the above is ideal - on the back with a pillow under the knees.  Apparently you're not using any muscles this way, so everything gets proper rest.   

for the past... decade i've really struggled getting comfortable. or wake up with a really sore back & neck. just awful. nothing worked.

happened across a random facebook or reddit or buzzfeed article somewhere that said to try this method out. the first night i didn't budge an inch or wake up once. felt fresh as a daisy in the morning. 

going on 2 months of just great sleep. back to waking up before my alarm. feel rested. no more pain.  it's crazy.

 

[Ranethe]

95% side, 5% back. Of the side portion, about 75% left side. Haven’t slept on stomach since I was a kid.

i don’t have a link but I read a few weeks ago some article about a study that identified various benefits to side sleeping, depending on which side was dominant. Can’t remember the specifics though.

 

[[scooter]]

By writing silly little love songs.

 

[The General]

Sleeping on your stomach is not good.

This is what I was told. Bad on the back.

 

[loser]

No, because I do.

Ok weirdo

 

[brun]

i sleep on my back with a pillow under my knees

best i've slept in years

pretty much the same for me

 

[-OZ-]

Poorly

With a CPAP

Mostly on my side

 

[fruity pebbles]

You know this place has gone downhill when there’s a poll on sleeping position.

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

We got a hot tub about a year ago.  I like to sit in it for like 10 minutes before bed.   I have never slept better.  Doesn't matter the position because in less than 10 minutes after lying down I am completely out!  

 

[James Daulton]

100% back.  You side sleepers are letting your guts all compact on one side of your ample bellies.

Ungood. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

I basically form a cocoon.  Sleep on my left side with blankets folded/tucked between my knees.  Will wake up on my back occasionally, but then go right back to the cocoon. 

 

[El Floppo]

Also, a question: is any one way to sleep healthier than the others?  TIA 

I've been told sleeping on your back is better for your spine.

I sleep on my stomach, because how important is your spine anyways.

 

[ShamrockPride]

I said other. I'd say I'm at like a 45 degree angle, like 50/50 on my side and my stomach.

 

[AAABatteries]

I've been told sleeping on your back is better for your spine.

I sleep on my stomach, because how important is your spine anyways.

When you’re spineless?  Not very.

*this was unnecessarily mean but too obvious to pass us - please forgive me 

 

[KCitons]

What is the "other" option? Hanging upside down? Standing? Sitting in a chair? (My grandfather slept in a chair the last couple of years he was alive)

 

[Ignoramus]

Mostly stomach and it's horrible. Wish I could be a ba k sleeper.

 

[pecorino]

After hanging out in Krista’s Beatles thread for the past several weeks, I can’t help but look at the title of this one and start humming John Lennon’s acerbic tune of the same name. Who sleeps in one position anyway? Roll Over Beethoven, I’m So Tired.

 

[Otis]

Mostly stomach and it's horrible. Wish I could be a ba k sleeper.

Actually what got me thinking of this. I sleep often on my stomach with my arms folded under my head/pillow, and I have been deceloping shoulder and upper back issues. Thinking maybe this isn’t helping.