Do you sleep on your back?

[Aikouka]

I switch it up a lot.

Oh and the "dead arm" is kind of nifty sometimes. The first time I ever had it happen I was like "woah" and I started picking my arm up and trying to hold it up but watching it drop lifelessly onto me. Then the "acupuncture" began as blood started finally getting back in.

I also get this weird effect in one of my eyes where I go semi-blind at times when I get up from trying to sleep. The entire eye is darkened and I can barely see out of it, yet the other eye is fine. So if I time everything right, I can be semi-blind and semi-paralyzed .

 

[HammerCurl]

I've had sleep paralysis a few times, I've always equated it to religion (thought there was something satanic in the room). I was raised catholic, very religious parents, catholic private school until high school etc... I'm curious if theres a source of paranoia before sleep, because theres a number of times where I had a funny "feeling" before I went to sleep and it ended up being a nightmare.

A lotta times when I've slept on my side I've felt something poking my back or even neck. It used to freak me out a helluva lot, never happens during the daytime napping. And I've had sleep paralysis, now that is scary has hell. Probably the earliest I've had it was when I was ~12 and I remember trying to hell to my brother for help but speak or move at all (seemed like a dark figure was there). I even thought my house was haunted for a bit, but itd only be in a my dream, and I've had them when I moved for college and a few other random places I've stayed. But waking up is always such a relief and by the time its light out its practically forgotten.

But I still sleep on my back because sleep paralysis seems to happen way less than the weird side poking sensation. Side poke is a minor annoyance but its probably happened ~50 times since I was a kid (I'm 22 now) vs maybe 2-3 sleep paralysis nights

 

[Looney]

I sleep on my back, any other position and my back is sore.

As for sleep paralysis, i use to get them very often when i was younger. Usually afternoon naps, but sometimes at night as well. After a little while, they never bothered me. You might want to look into lucid dreaming if you want to learn how to actually control a sleep paralysis (i use to distort the sleep paralysis into dreaming that i was flying or on a rollercoaster). I still rarely get them, but no more of the 'hags' or demons, but more that i think i'm awake, think that i turn on the TV, but didn't actually do it.

 

[blackdogdeek]

i used to sleep on my stomach until i had to wear a nightbrace in my mouth. so then i learned to sleep on my back.

after my wife (gf at the time) moved in with me i found out i snore when i sleep on my back. so then i learned to sleep on my sides.

 

[KeithTalent]

When I have had too much to drink I usually sleep on my stomach, otherwise I sleep on my back.

KT

 

[IamBusby]

The worst ones I had was as above where I would be pretty much frozen, I'd try to scream but no noise would come out. I would have something the size of a Gremlin sat on my chest looking down on me. After trying to scream for what would seem like a few minutes I would suddenly wake up in a cold sweat.

There's a famous painting where a small demon is sat on someone's chest and it always reminds me of my Sleep paralysis.

 

[anxi80]

Originally posted by: jandrews

Originally posted by: anxi80
nope, on my side facing to the right on the right side of the bed. exactly like the foetus position on the link posted above. i stay on the right side and dont move the whole night, ill wake up exactly the same. ive tried sleeping on my back, it lasts for a whole 2 seconds before im facing to the right wrapped around a body pillow.

I hope you are a woman because men with body pillows...well whatever.

i used to think the same thing but i was staying with my now-ex for awhile and since she left early for work for some reason i started to roll into the body pillow and discovered it did wonders for my aching back. actually i dont use a traditional body pillow per se like what she had, i just keep an extra regular pillow on my bed and use that. it also cuts down how often i suffer dead arm.

 

[jdini76]

Originally posted by: Flyback
I have tried those two positions but either my neck gets screwed up (stomach sleeping)

Change to a softer pillow. Side and stomach sleepers need a softer pillow to accomidate the differnece in the shape of the neck in those positions.

 

[jandrews]

Originally posted by: anxi80

Originally posted by: jandrews

Originally posted by: anxi80
nope, on my side facing to the right on the right side of the bed. exactly like the foetus position on the link posted above. i stay on the right side and dont move the whole night, ill wake up exactly the same. ive tried sleeping on my back, it lasts for a whole 2 seconds before im facing to the right wrapped around a body pillow.

I hope you are a woman because men with body pillows...well whatever.

i used to think the same thing but i was staying with my now-ex for awhile and since she left early for work for some reason i started to roll into the body pillow and discovered it did wonders for my aching back. actually i dont use a traditional body pillow per se like what she had, i just keep an extra regular pillow on my bed and use that. it also cuts down how often i suffer dead arm.

Oh yes I have no doubt it is probably comfy but once you get a new girlfriend you may want to put it away until you two get comfortable eh lol ;0

 

[anxi80]

Originally posted by: jandrews
Oh yes I have no doubt it is probably comfy but once you get a new girlfriend you may want to put it away until you two get comfortable eh lol ;0

well if she cant understand that my comfort takes precedence over everything in the relationship, then she can hit the bricks.

 

[FrustratedUser]

I sleep mostly on my back.

 

[Bryophyte]

I get sleep paralysis when I nap if I'm on my back, pretty damn reliably, but never during regular sleep hours. I try to sleep on my side because it's the best position for my back, but I end up on my stomach or back most of the time.

 

[SilthDraeth]

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[SilthDraeth]

I have had sleep paralysis. But I absolutely can not fall asleep on my back. I have to sleep on my side, or stomach. Sometimes I get another symptom, not sure what it is called, but if, while asleep I roll onto my back, and I wake up like that, I get really freaked out, and I start talking in tongues (so my wife says) and throwing my arms out to the side trying to find where I am. This usually lasts for a minute or more until I can bring myself under control.

 

[GrantMeThePower]

If you sleep on your side you should put a pillow between your legs.

If I'm REALLY tired i can sleep on my back, but usually on my side.

 

[Daishiki]

I start off on my sides and eventually fall asleep on my back. It's been awhile since I've had sleep paralysis.

 

[imported_Imp]

I usually start off on my back in bed, but when I wake up, it's usually to the side. However, if I'm dozing off in the living room, on the carpet, I usually lean to a side so I don't get blinded by the ceiling light. Only problem is I keep getting up cause the arm I'm sleeping on gets numb and starts stinging when blood rushes back. I find it more "sleepable" to be on the side, if not for the arm-numbing.

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: IamBusby
There's a famous painting where a small demon is sat on someone's chest and it always reminds me of my Sleep paralysis.

This?

 

[Yreka]

Originally posted by: Dacalo

Originally posted by: IamBusby
There's a famous painting where a small demon is sat on someone's chest and it always reminds me of my Sleep paralysis.

This?

Thats pretty cool..

 

[NatePo717]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
I'm a Freefaller

Actually, a little closer to this: NSFW, depending on who's modding

Out of those I do either the Starfish or the Foetus. Probably Starfish more often though. I never sleep on my stomach.

 

[Praxis1452]

I sleep every which way. Probably freefall to get into bed or maybe that's the one I wake up at. Soldier maybe when I'm dead tired I don't move my arms um and just lie there and fall asleep.

I like to have my hands underneath the pillow however I sleep usually. It's nice and cool. I flip my pillow over often enough too in my sleep heh.

 

[jadinolf]

I could never fall asleep on my back.

Left side for me.

 

[magomago]

i converted to sleeping on the back. It was hard for me to sleep on my back, but i think its much healthier overall and I can't even sleep on my side anymore....

 

[911paramedic]

I sleep exactly like this, funny thing is I never thought about it being the Recovery Position and I'm a medic.

Those people are going to see all the web traffic and think they are in for some business, lol.

 

[SilthDraeth]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
I sleep exactly like this, funny thing is I never thought about it being the Recovery Position and I'm a medic.

Those people are going to see all the web traffic and think they are in for some business, lol.

Thats mainly how I sleep.