12mo ago

Sleeping position

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The correct way is to lie on your side, facing left. Because prevents gastric acid in esophagus.

edit for clarification: This method is efficient primarily when the lower esophageal sphincter (I had to Google the correct name) is not functioning as intended.
- When will these bugs be fixed? I prefer to face to the right and would also like to be able to sleep on my stomach
  
  The GitHub human branch maintainer peaced out forever ago, all attempts to establish communications aren't going so well and the issue tracker is piling up...so probably never
  
  Some people have mirrored internal organs, so this advice may be the ophosite for you. But also, if it ain't broke don't fix it, sleep however's comfiest for you and lets you get the best sleep you can
  
  This woman is dead. Her stomach is coming out of her body and her arms are under her esophagus
- False. The correct way to sleep is on a 7-11 sausage roller set to high speed.
  The heat lamp creates warmth which you normally substitute with a dangerous choking blanket
  the high-speed spinning flings off your sweat to keep you cool using Bernoulli's Principle instead of energy-hungry and dangerous fans or AC units
  the constant flow of vomit and other effluvia helps you maintain a healthy figure instead of ridiculously augmenting your life with the high-risk activity of "exercise."
- The throat anus, for those not used to the medical terminology.
  
  Upper bunghole, if you're nasty
- I'm curious how accurate this is considering there's rarely ever air in your stomach so what is the point when it's effectively vacuum sealed.
  
  As a side sleeper with GERD. It's accurate as fuck. Before I found a medication that worked properly, I always slept on my left side.
  
  I've got gas in my stomach somewhat frequently...
  
  Nah, if your stomach is acidic enough you can feel it. I finally caved and got a plush incline so that gravity keeps the bile down regardless of which side I sleep on, and I still usually favor sleeping on my left due to habits from before.
- You sleep on your left side to avoid gastric acid in the esophagus.
  I sleep on my left side because sleeping on the right side angers up my sciatica.
  We are not the same.
- Conversely, sleeping on your side isn’t very good for a lot of your joints. For instance in your diagram, that position is very bad for her hips and compressing her lungs. I still sleep on my side because it’s my preferred position but I have to have a knee pillow to keep my hips and knees aligned, and I try to have a pillow hugged to my chest to keep my spine and shoulders from crunching lol.
- What's wrong with gastric acid being in the esophagus? I sleep on my right-side a lot.
  
  Most people don't have issues with acid reflux. However, for those that do, it's important to try to control acid reflux.
  https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/barretts-esophagus/symptoms-causes/syc-20352841
  
  To go a tad further, if you have chronic reflux there is the obvious discomfort caused by the feeling of acid creeping into your esophagus. Overtime, the acid can also do damage to the cells of your esophagus causing a condition called Barrett's Esophagus. This is not dangerous in and of itself but is considered a precancerous condition and requires monitoring.
  
  Until you have woken up choking on acid that went in your lungs, you will not understand. I have EOE, and it really really sucks. I highly recommend not damaging your esophagus. I have spent years barely being able to eat without choking, though this latest round with the new doctor has been the best I have been in over a decade. Once your esophagus narrows to under 10mm, eating is a chore. Worst I ever got down to was 5mm. It was around ~7ish back in November...
  I keep things under control pretty well, but I was always taught to sleep on my left side growing up if your stomach was upset or you were having trouble breathing if you were sick.
  
  It’s corroding you from within.
- I've always been a left side sleeper, so this makes me feel happy
  
  Same. Yay us. For once my random behaviors are correct without even knowing it. :)
- Vamakukshi – India’s post-lunch nap, always on your left side
  
  I'm not falling for the Indian wisdom meme again until they fix their sanitation infrastructure and stop raping women to death on public transportation.
- Wait, I've heard the opposite. Lay facing right to aid your stomach in digesting things and pushing it out of the stomach, instead of letting it lay in the stomach and potentially gurgle it's way up
- Weird. I have to sleep on my right side or else my stomach gets upset.
- can confirm. As someone with acid reflux, sleeping facing right is hell
  
  Isn't it fun when you go to sleep on your left side and roll over in your sleep, only to wake up in the middle of the night sick and ready to vomit from heartburn? It's like my body is actively working against me when I sleep.
- The cardiac sphincter prevents reflux of gastric fluids from the stomach to the esophagus.
- Thank you for the info, I hope it helps
- facing left
  On your left side. Whether that's "facing left" or "facing right" depends on whether you're comparing it to being on your front or on your back. Personally, I instinctively compared it to front, which would mean being on your left is facing to the right.
  So the way to be clear and unambiguous is to say which side of your body you're referring to.
  
  It's your left, not the left of the dude living in your attic peeping down at you.
  
  But your left hand is always the left one. It's relative to you, not to your direction.

Bacta-tank is the best
- Floating in the diaper tank
  
  ...blessly
- I thought that was just to bring his internal temperature up to get Luke warm.
  
  Nah, it's sci-fi healing fluid.
  You could do the other thing with a blanket. Or a Tauntaun.
  
  That's what a passionate kiss from his sister was for.
  
  Fantastic

Sleeping on matter is detrimental to your health. To avoid back problems, learn how to sleep while levitating 3 feet off the floor.
- I genuinely sleep in a hammock and have done now for years.
  It's not levitation but it is great.
  
  Legitimately the best sleep I ever got was when I had a hammock. It takes a bit of adjustment, but once you're used to it, it's so easy to wake up. I haven't felt fully rested since I replaced my hammock with a bed
- Sorry, but sleeping in levitation has been found to be detrimental to your health, you need to sleep in a 0g environment
- i hate to be the bearer of bad news but air is still matter
  
  Levitate and create a vacuum around your body. Don't let that pesky air give you a kink in your neck.
- Levitate upside down to decompress your spine
- I do this, but I’ve found that rotating along the sagittal axis—six to ten times per hour—gives it that little extra zhuzh, chef’s kiss
  Think rotisserie, but without the impalement or the intense heat

Don't sleep, it's bad for you . Just keep working.
-*CEOs
*Typo fixed.
- CEOs*
  No apostrophe in a non-possessive plural noun
  
  Go ahead and cc everybody on this one, it's needed.

Bold of you to assume I can control how my body moves while I'm asleep.

Living is a disease at this point.
- Terminal, in fact.
  
  We're all gonna die!
  
  Sexually transmitted.

You need to be slowly turned on a rotisserie.
- I have slave peasants to do that for me while I slumber.

I sleep suspended in a vat of gel medium.
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- Where can I purchase this?
  
  Zaltin corporation on Thyferra can get you a good supply of bacta and a tank... Don't expect it to be cheap though.
- Bacta tank...
  
  A bacta a day keeps the doctor away!
- strawberry jam
  
  Bushes baked beans
- Zero-G or go home.

i go to bed laying on my side, turn to slep on my stomach, then on my back, and once i'm actually asleep i look like this:

You know what's fun? The post-surgery "you always sleep on this side? Learn to sleep on the other one because you're going to be this way for weeks, motherfucker" sleeping position.
- I had jaw surgery a few years back, and I had to adjust to sleeping sitting up (believe me, the surgery made me tired enough to be able to do that) for several weeks because I couldn't risk messing up my jaw while it healed.
  
  Did you sleep in a chair, or sitting in bed?

Approved:

Sleeping on my back is soooo relaxing... when I can fall asleep. For some reason I have the hardest time falling asleep on my back, but when it does happen it's bliss.
- I literally can’t fall asleep on my back lol. I can lay there for an hour and then the minute I roll over on my side or stomach I’ll fall asleep.
  
  Exactly!! My body literally rejects sleep if I'm on my back. And sleeping on a plane semi reclined? Forget it
- If I sleep on my back I get the most vivid and long nightmares, and, if I fall asleep in another position and then wake up from a nightmare, I’m almost always on my back. Not sure what it is, fiancée says I don’t snore or sound like I have trouble breathing.
  
  Exact same thing happens to me. It's not necessarily nightmares, but really intense dreams. So intense that I wake up feeling tired.
- Yo same. I have so many pillows that I have to arrange specifically to cradle my neck in a certain way or I'll wake up with a headache and stiff neck. My neck is most comfy when I'm on my back, but the rest of my body disagrees.
  
  Step 1: Tape ypir neck to the bed while on your back.
  Step 2: Turn the rest of your body on the side.
  Step 3: ???
  Step 4: Profit
- I have managed to sleep on my back once in my life. It was also the only night that I slept with my eyes open because I was so exhausted
- i don't sleep on my back because it causes frequent sleep paralysis. i find it more comfortable than my side usually but i don't want to be attacked by the jack o lantern horse guy while i'm in my bed

I sleep on my side. I can't sleep on my back or front :(
- I can help you with that ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
  I have no idea what I meant, but it was dirty as hell.
  
  Nobody knows what it means, but it's PROVOCATIVE.
- I sleep on my side, and wake up on my face, with a dead arm.

I just keep rolling untill I fall asleep. Trying to sleep in a specific position is near impossible. Even the best one gets uncomfortable pretty quick. Only thing I try to avoid is sleeping on my right side as it seems to be the cause for my rhomboid pain
- What’s the furthest you’ve made it?
  Don’t you worry about traffic?
  
  They see me rollin'. They hatin'. Trynna catch me sleeping dirty.

Just don't sleep and you won't have that problem.
- My hourly Monsters are purely for the benefit of my health.
  
  I don't really get what you mean.

I sleep best when I have a girl sleeping on me, I since bought a weighted blanket but it's not the same
- How heavy was the girl? Do the weights match? Where was the weight?
  
  Where was the weight?
  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I fully understand you cannot wrap your weighted blanket around that.
  
  She was normal build? 55-60 kg maybe ?

If I sleep on my stomach I can't move my neck the next day, right side my right hand goes painfully numb, left side my left hand goes painfully numb, back both hands go numb. There is literally no position I can sleep in that I don't wake up after a couple of hours and have to shift to a different position.
- You know the solution, you just have to sleep while spinning in place.
  
  What you want is a rock tumbler bed
  
  Some nights that's what it feels like I'm doing.
  
  Or get rid of gravity.
- Sounds like you need to lop an arm off. Or dig a hole in your bed. https://odditymall.com/arm-slot-mattress-designed-for-side-sleepers
  
  It seems like a good idea, but holy crap those CGI examples are the most unhinged shit ever.
  It's like they don't know how arms work.
  
  Where are the Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots?
- Dude, my arms kept falling asleep at night. I randomly mentioned this to my physical therapist (I was there after a knee surgery) and he put me on a massage bed and pulled my head. Not like some quack chiropractor, but just slowly pulling my head, stretching my neck. Fuckin problem went away and never returned. Closest thing to real magic I have experienced.

Optimal sleeping position depends on where the dog is in the bed.
- Is... Is that an euphemism?
  
  Not to a dog owner....

Sleep walking is where it's at.

I sleep as if demons are attacking me. Every night I wake up with atleast 2 corners of my fitted sheet hugging me

I find it difficult to sleep on my back. I used to sleep on my side but I think that lead to a bit of QL aggravation.
Super cosy sleeping on my front though.
- QL ??
  
  sorry - quadratus lumborum. A deep abdominal muscle which tends to cause complaints of lower back pain when its tight.

Damn I guess I'll just levitate
- doctor frowning and shaking his head, like this is a bad idea
- In the Ringworld books by Larry Niven, he describes a bed that is based on air pressure making you feel like your in a skydiving free fall.
  
  Hmmm... that sounds either awesome or terrifying lol

I've always wanted to be able to sleep on my side whilst hugging some kind of stuffed animal but to no avail. Ever since my SO gifted me a stuffed penguin toy that's large enough to fit in my arms and server as a pseudo-pillow, I've been loving sleeping on my side and have been really comfortable doing so too. I'm the middle spoon most of the time then. :D
Sleeping on my back is best though
- I bought a body pillow (without the anime girl) for the same but within days I was in immediate pain come mornings. It was probably just overstuffed but I went back to front sleeping and it immediately disappeared
  
  Well there's your problem, bodypillows don't work tight unless they have anime girls on them

Oh good, I’m not the only one who rotates in their sleep like a rotisserie chicken

Whenever my stomach hurts i'll remember some recommendation that you're supposed to sleep on your left or right side.
But I never remember which so I just rotate back and forth
- Left is better for digestion or something iirc?
  
  Left is better for acid relux.
  
  My understanding is, your stomach is slightly to one side (a bit like your heart is; you're only symmetrical on the outside) and so laying on one side, your stomach is above your centerline, if you lay on the other your stomach is below your centerline. Sleeping with your stomach on the "high side" means its easier for stomach acid to leak up into your esophagus, which burns!

I can't sleep on my back, if I do, my SO would probably murder me. So I sleep on my side.
I used to sleep on my stomach some years ago, but there were too many things I had to get just right before I could be comfortable enough to sleep, and frankly, my SO doesn't give me enough space to do that most nights.
I did a sleep study recently and I'm waiting on their analysis, so hopefully I'll get better sleep soon. I'll be sure to ask the doctor about what position isn't going to create more problems.
- I can't sleep on my back, if I do, my SO would probably murder me.
  I don't understand.
  
  I snore very loudly if I sleep on my back.
  She is very unreasonable when she is tired and cannot sleep because I'm making noise.

Front sleeping is the worst of these by quite a long way though. Last time I did it (after some drinks) it cost me a month of physio.

left side it is then. My favorite!

Has anyone tried this? https://odditymall.com/arm-slot-mattress-designed-for-side-sleepers Looks like the skot would rub your armpit to shreds, but I like the idea.
- I like the idea too, but you have to buy proprietary bed sheets.
- I didn't, but I feel this will create more problems than it will solve
  Hands are either able to freely move, but inside a narrow space, which will traumatize them and extend muscles, or they are squeezed between the chamber walls and those kind-of-filler-pillows, restraining motion.
  Also, those who market it as a phone-comfortable bed clearly forget that phones and large narrow holes are a terrible combo. Oh, and for God's sake, forget about ever eating ANYTHING on there.
  
  That's probably an accurate analysis. It's hard to believe that with all the time we spend sleeping we haven't figured out a way to do it comfortably.
  Maybe suspend me in a vat of liquid?

Back to work peasant!

I though side sleeping was supposed to be best for you?
- My shoulder disagrees.

Can't sleep, clowns will eat me.
- Why are you in their car?

Never slept on my back once in my life, never got any issues from sleeping in a weird position... Might be noticing something!
- I'm convinced it's all BS. The best thing for the human body, in nearly every field, is variety. Sleep however you want, mix it up, whatever. Your comfort is the best indicator. And the consequences of a bad sleeping position are rarely so dire.

I wonder what the easiest way would be to track my sleeping position changes. Time lapse video and manual notation, probably.
- Until you see some paranormal activity in those recordings and then stop sleeping altogether 😰
  
  You never know what happens. It's frankly terrifying.
  https://youtu.be/CYaUDnGITRA?si=rLDESKjTne3q7EYW
  
  Certainly a risk!
- Sounds like a lot of work for something you can't correct easily.
  
  Very true. I'm just curious!
- I tried timelapse it's pretty interesting but motion detection was better, using motion on a raspberry pi allows you to combine both if you want.

I am lucky enough that I fall deep asleep in any position, shape, or form.
- That is lucky... But do you wake up with all sorts of weird sorenesses?

Only sleep sitting in a recliner chair. Or just don't sleep. Problem solved.

I'm freestyle sleepers 😆. Where my position ?
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