How do you sleep at night?!?!

[Groucho Valentine]

I have a 6 month old... so flat on my face in a puddle of my own drool.

[mcanadiens]

Apparently, I go from side to back to the other side and vice versa several times through the course the night. Sounds exhausting, but I actually sleep pretty well and usually wake up pretty refreshed unless I'm worried about something. 

[iacas]

1 hour ago, Golfingdad said:

Random amusing side note:  I looooooooooove my wife, but no matter which side of the bed I'm sleeping on, when I'm on my side, I'm always facing towards the outside of the bed away from her. 

I tend to do this too, but only when she's awake. When she's asleep, I can face her, but only if I'm a foot or two away. When she's awake, if I turn to face her, she'll roll away because she doesn't like me breathing on her.  So when she's awake, I've trained myself to face away from her.

1 hour ago, krupa said:

With great difficulty.

I read in bed for at least an hour.

I've read that doing things in bed (except sex of course) like reading or watching TV is actually bad for sleep habits because you're training yourself to do things other than sleep in bed.

If I don't fall asleep within about 15 minutes, I get up and do something else for a bit. I try to avoid screens, because they seem to wake me up even more, but I'll do something else like read, or lie on the couch facing away from the TV and the sound very low, or whatever. Or I'll (try to) wake the wife up to see if she wants to do… anything.

I'm not saying I'm right. I read it long ago when I would occasionally have trouble falling asleep. I may not even remember it correctly. But "only using the bed for sleep" seems to work for me. HTH.

P.S. I too have a Tempur-Pedic mattress and pillow. I have since I was 23.

[DeadMan]

I'm a stomach sleeper. So is my wife. And my son. Which is probably a little odd.

[Jeremie Boop]

I used to sleep on my side or stomach, but as I've gotten older I've found that I tend to sleep on my back most of the time. That is when I'm able to sleep, I have a lot of trouble sleeping through the night.

[dennyjones]

1 hour ago, RandallT said:

We've noticed that she typically sleeps on the side of a bed closest to the door. If that side is also closest to the bathroom, then it's 100% certain. Works for hotels, any time we're a guest while visiting somewhere, the homes we've lived in.

This!   I get what is left over!     

I sleep on either side, depending upon which shoulder feels better.   I don't sleep well.   I fall asleep quickly but wake after about 4 hours and then somewhere in a slumber I get out of bed several hours later.

We don't read or have a TV in the bedroom but do run a fan year around for background noise.   

Edited January 5, 2017 by dennyjones

[14ledo81]

I voted stomach, but it is more like an angle with one leg straight and the other one bent up to hold the angle.

[Gator Hazard]

2 hours ago, CarlSpackler said:

Before I got married I slept on my back. Apparently I snore when sleeping that way, so my wife jabs me until I roll over onto my side.

Early on with my wife there was a night when I was sleeping that she kept jabbing and punching me in the side. Elbows, fists, etc. I remember being like WTF but was too tired and out of it. The next morning I inquired.

Me: "why were you practicing your kung fu on me?  You kept beating me up all night". Her: "you wouldn't stop snoring and I was trying to get you to roll onto your side."  Me: "Did it ever occur to you to wake me up and just ask me to sleep on my side because I was snoring? My side is sore"  Her: "uh, no. *giggles* Sorry". 

I'm not sure I fully believe her, she was probably getting me back for something I don't know I did. 

I sleep on my side, my ribs thank me for it. 

[krupa]

1 hour ago, iacas said:

I've read that doing things in bed (except sex of course) like reading or watching TV is actually bad for sleep habits because you're training yourself to do things other than sleep in bed.

Too late.  I've been reading in bed for the past 41.5 years.  

[Patch]

4 hours ago, Big C said:

"On top of a pile of money, with many beautiful women."

Anyone?

On a few dollars,  and side by side, with one beautiful woman for the past 45 years. 

I sleep on my side. Actually both sides. It's a breathing issue with me. I usually fall asleep around 11pm, and get up around 5am most days. I have been living on 5-6 hours sleep a night for so long, it's my norm. 

[Hatchman]

On my side, but not very well.  A flip flopper.  Just got the "My Pillow".  So let's see what happens.

[Ernest Jones]

Hanging upside-down in my batcave. 

[woodzie264]

So now I know a lot more about people I've never met than I ever thought I would....

start out on my back, but wind on my side

[iacas]

5 hours ago, dennyjones said:

We don't read or have a TV in the bedroom but do run a fan year around for background noise.   

I like a fan, too, for the slight noise and the stirring air. Even in the winter I sleep on top of the covers a lot. My wife is usually approximately 125,000° F at night, somehow. I think I can boil eggs on her skin. Feels like it, anyway. An ex-girlfriend had a habit of waking me up in the middle of the night to check on me to make sure I wasn't dead. Apparently I can get fairly cold to the touch at night.

4 hours ago, krupa said:

Too late.  I've been reading in bed for the past 41.5 years.  

It's not too late. Change. Try it for a few months. Read elsewhere until you're tired.

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Kinda related: my kiddo would often sleep with my wife until I came up to bed. Sometimes she was so slow waking up to go to her bed I would basically wake back up and then be unable to fall asleep quickly. So now she has to sleep on the other side of the bed when she falls asleep with my wife, and then I can at least get in bed quickly after going upstairs, and without having to stand there.

[CarlSpackler]

3 minutes ago, iacas said:

I like a fan, too, for the slight noise and the stirring air. Even in the winter I sleep on top of the covers a lot.

I need to have a fan running as well. I did in Ohio too even when it was -2*F. I keep a pink noise app on my phone for when I'm staying in a hotel to simulate the sound of a fan. Not quite the same, but it works.

[saevel25]

5 hours ago, iacas said:

If I don't fall asleep within about 15 minutes, I get up and do something else for a bit. I try to avoid screens, because they seem to wake me up even more, but I'll do something else like read, or lie on the couch facing away from the TV and the sound very low, or whatever. Or I'll (try to) wake the wife up to see if she wants to do… anything.

TV Screens, computer monitor emit light at the temperature spectrum similar to daylight. This tricks your brain into thinking it needs to be awake. 

4 minutes ago, iacas said:

I like a fan, too, for the slight noise and the stirring air.

Ditto. I like non-annoying background noise. 

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I find that I sleep best in a slightly chilly bedroom. Something in the mid-60's is perfect. If the bedroom is too warm then I sleep horribly. 

[jamo]

17 minutes ago, saevel25 said:

I find that I sleep best in a slightly chilly bedroom. Something in the mid-60's is perfect. If the bedroom is too warm then I sleep horribly. 

I'm the same. Now that it's the winter, I either turn my heat down to 60˚ or off entirely. I'm plenty warm under the covers, though the moment I get out of bed I start freezing my ass off. (It would be real nice if I could replace my thermostat with one that would allow me to program it so that the heat turns on a half hour before my alarm clock and turns off an hour later, but alas, my landlord nixed that.)

I'm a bit lucky in that my air conditioning is relatively inexpensive, so I run it most summer nights, but even then I don't ever have it lower than 68˚-70˚. It's the biggest downside of summer. 

If the AC was more expensive I'd consider getting one of these: https://bedjet.com

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Screens and reading has never been a problem for me when it comes to sleeping. I just can't drink caffeine after 6 or so, or I'll be up all night. 

[iacas]

37 minutes ago, saevel25 said:

TV Screens, computer monitor emit light at the temperature spectrum similar to daylight. This tricks your brain into thinking it needs to be awake. 

I know. I use f.lux.  And Night Shift or whatever it's called on my phone.

37 minutes ago, saevel25 said:

I find that I sleep best in a slightly chilly bedroom. Something in the mid-60's is perfect. If the bedroom is too warm then I sleep horribly. 

Yup.

Friends in FL had to wear sweaters when they visited my apartment. Room temperature is 68°!