Do you have any unusual/interesting sleep habits?

I snore. But now I use a machine that prevents snoring. And it’s not called snoring any more. It’s sleep apnea. I’d make a comment about that, but frankly, I am nonplussed!

I’ve clawed, punched, kicked, & bitten almost everyone I’ve ever slept with. Except for my current lovers; I just cuddle up to them & try to hump them.

I’ve also found my undergarments on the floor in the morning, with my pajamas still on. I’ve sleepwalked & fell down the stairs, & it didn’t wake me up.

When I’m alone, I’m a very light sleeper. A car driving by a few blocks away will wake me up. I also curl up in odd positions (usually on my stomach) when the bed is empty.

And if this counts as a sleep habit, I sleep about 14–16 hours at a time, & I’ll still take naps throughout the day. I sleep slightly less in the summer. Maybe around 12 hours.

Sleep apnea! @Vunessuh don’t tell anyone, but i sleep with a machine every night!

All I can say is that I must be a fascinating case for sleep laboratories, I would appear on Ripley’s believe it or not with my weird sleep.

Are you or were you a twin in utero? That might explain the hand holding thing.

I’ve always snored since childhood, always had nightmares, always talked in my sleep, have had a few instances of sleepwalking and yeah, I’m known to have kicked, punched and pounded on my bedmates but hardly anything mean with my current partner.

I snore when my allergies are bothering me. I will talk if someone starts talking to me. I move around a lot. Right now, when I first lay down to go to sleep, I have to change positions at least once before I’m even able to fall asleep. When my husband is home, I fall asleep very quickly, in his arms, and don’t move around as much.

I sleepwalk all over the place. I have to block off stairways or any hazards. Last year, my furnace repairman was coming to clean the furnace, so I took down the gate to the stairs. Guess where I went sleepwalking? I woke up after I took a big step and about the same time I passed the stair railing, which I managed to hook with one arm just before my face hit the stairs. It wasn’t pretty.

I don’t know how strange they are.

I can’t go to sleep unless I read. I have to read, no matter how exhausted I am. Even if it only a few sentences before I pass out.

I have to sleep with a lot of pillows. I line them up to support my back. Not that I have back problems, I just like it like that. And I have to sleep with the “whirr” of a fan…winter, summer, spring, fall….freezing, not freezing…I need that “whirr”. Now, that’s something from my childhood and one of the only baby memories I have….of being in a crib…and my father and mother talking about “putting on the fan for her (me)” and I remember the lights from the street through the window and that fan going on. I am sure there is some deep psychological comfort in that whirring fan.

As for the actual sleep itself….I have no idea. I am a fairly normal sleeper.

I sleep with at least 8 pillows.

I talk in my sleep. Apparently I’m quite convincing.

@wilma really…...where do you put them all?

We have one other weird thing that runs through all the males: When we turn over we don’t just roll. We throw our entire body about a foot into the air, spin, and crash back onto the bed. My nephew had to move his bed away from the wall because he put various body parts throuh the wallboard.

@BoBo1946 four of them prop me up behind my back, neck and head. One propping each arm and two under my knees.
I have a bad back, arthritis and acid reflux. Sleeping is a challenge.

@wilma wow…well, i have all three of those also and certainly can understand. Plus, i’ve sleep apnea! I sleep with a machine. Have a bad neck also, can only sleep on my back.

@Neizvestnaya Nope, not a twin in utero.

@DarlingRhadamanthus I’m the same way. I need a fan to sleep no matter how cold the temperature is outside or inside. The noise of the fan is comforting. I also have to sleep with a light on. For some reason, when I sleep in the dark, I have terrible dreams and usually wake up every 2 hours or so sweating and panicking. If I have a light on, I usually get the rest I need with ‘normal’ dreams, if that’s even the word to use. They’re still weird, just not nightmarish. But I think the light thing is apparently something psychological.

@Everyone Thank you for your answers! GA’s to you all.

I’ve been known to talk sometimes, but it’s rare. I’ve also been known to have these weird night-terror like things where a feeling of fear will just suddenly erupt and I’ll be startled awake and usually make some kind of audible noise. It’s often tied to a scary dream, but sometimes it’s just the general feeling of fear. This has been happening ever since I was a little kid, but to be honest, the last time it happened was probably over 2 months ago. There is no pattern or regularity to when it happens.

My boyfriend has an interesting one where he’ll wake up in the middle of the night, around 4 or 5 or 3 or whatever and he’ll have to go to the bathroom, but then he’ll go right back to sleep as if nothing happened.

I don’t snore, I don’t sleepwalk…

…but I can only fall asleep if lying on my right side, in the foetal position. And I have really bizarre dreams. I’ve used dreams of mine in acting class when studying Theater of the Absurd.

@Seek_Kolinahr Do your dreams involve multiple sex changes & slowly getting younger?

Not so far… but they have involved cannibalism, intoxicated superheroes, and object rape with longswords. Oh! And the Buddha.

@Seek_Kolinahr Sounds kinky!

well very rarely I sleep with my eyes open.Last summer I fell asleep at noon and my mom entered in the room and she saw me with my eyes open and she thought I was dead and I scared her pretty bad.Since that I sleep at noon only in extreme cases.

I make all kinds of noise in my sleep. When I got married my family said they didn’t know how my husband could sleep with me. I talk, nonsense sentences sometimes and other times things that make sense, but I hear it’s weird since I’m asleep. I also moan in my sleep. Not like having a good time moaning, but just little moaning. I don’t know how to describe since I’m asleep at the time and have never heard it first hand. :) Good thing my husband could fall asleep standing up in line at the grocery store, because I know I’m an annoying sleeper.

I can’t sleep in a bed as a result of injuries from an auto crash.
I sleep in a recliner in as close to a zero-g position as I can achieve to keep the pressure off my back and neck.
I use a CPAP machine as well.

At best, I sleep a few hours at a time unless I sedate myself. The chronic sleep deprivation messes us my memory.

I snore. I was just drifting off to sleep last night when I heard my own snoring and woke up. Kind of embarrassing because my boyfriend hears it all the time, but insists it’s “adorable” (I guess compared to the way his roommate snored, it is… that kid was a snarling beast! I can’t imagine how he dealt with it every night).

It isn’t anything uncommon or unusual, but I’ve suffered from sleep paralysis for years. That’s when I can get to sleep. (Without rendering myself comatose through alcohol, that is.)

@le_inferno I gnaw on my lovers’ shirts in my sleep, & they think it’s the cutest thing ever! I also still suck my thumb.

Within the first 10–20 minutes of sleep I make a “huh?” sound a time or two. Sometimes I do this so loud it wakes me up. Usually to the sound of laughter now that I think about it. I must look really stupid when I do it. Dead sleep and then – HUH?! Oh well.

My feet and legs constantly rock back and forth and sometimes act like they are walking under the covers.

I used to sleepwalk and talked in my sleep as a kid, but these seem to have passed. The only oddity I have is that I require complete quiet and total darkness in order to fall asleep. I have insomnia and it takes me way longer to fall asleep than normal people (like 30–60+ minutes), so noise/light distractions keep me awake and interefere with my falling asleep. I always pray my new girlfriends don’t snore.. that is one of the worst things I could possibly have, since if it’s bad snoring, I can hear it through ear plugs and I will be driven crazy.

My sister tells me when I go to bed hungry, I “act” like i have like a sandwich or food in my hands and I make hand motions as if I am actually eating real food. I also always talk in my sleep.

I keep one eye open slightly. I make a figure four with my legs. Sometimes I hum melodies. If asked questions I answer nonsensically in a very informative manner.

yes

Sometimes I change position drastically in ways that don’t make sense. I have occasionally found myself waking up with my head at the foot of the bed, oriented diagonally, with my legs and arms in some weird position. Sometimes I remember doing this – it often happens on summer mornings, when I turn myself 180 degrees so that my head is next to an open window – but sometimes I have no idea why or how I end up in certain positions.

My boyfriend also clicks his teeth together when he sleeps sometimes. He’s not grinding them; my suspicion is that he is dreaming about biting into something yummy.

When I am stuffed up I snore. I used to talk in my sleep although if I do now my wife hasn’t mentioned it. My wife has to absolutely has to have the ceiling fan on all the time to sleep though.

I have to have a fan on medium speed to block out sounds. Not convenient.

My grampa snores SO LOUD! You can still hear him through three closed doors. But the only health problem he has is being Diabetic, so i just thought he was a loud snore-er but, does anyone know why he snores so loud.

@astrix24 Is he overweight or smoke?

Overwieght, yeah

I am also like @DarlingRhadamanthus , i have to sleep with like 1,000,000 pillows, literally.

@astrix24 Belayed welcome to fluther. Overwight makes it worse and his age probably doesn’t help. You could try one of those neck pillows to give him a little more support. I assume he does this after falling asleep in his chair?

Howd you know!

@astrix24 I doubt you spend that much time with him in bed and I like to people watch. All grandpas do that.

I dont sleep in the room with him. I just see him always around holidays because he lives in Texas, I was just wondering. Also, whenever im sitting in a room with him, he falls asleep in a chair in like 6 minutes, flat, and again, SNORES LOUDLY!

@Enjoy him while you’ve got him, snoring and all. Both of my grandpas have been gone awhile.

Sorry bout ur grampas, gotta love em

I supposedly moan/groan in my sleep. So far whenever Ive slept next to someone they have told me in the morning that I cry/moan/groan in my sleep. I dont know why this happens, but its crazy. I feel like just videotaping myself to see/hear it first hand.