On my side, spooning some flavor of life size inflatable canine (usually wolf, shepherd, or fox these days). Sounds stupid but actually really helps me sleep. Comfortable and comforting!
@rockblossom Try a Boeing flight to the Space Station and then you can sleep vertically or diagonally or any way you want or upside-down because, no gravity (well, microgravity). And you’ll get a few months to experience it since you made the bad decision to fly Boeing.
@pmarin It isn’t so much getting there, or the stay. Booking that return flight with Boeing is the real bitch. “We may have a seat open in 5-6 months. Would you like to give us your credit card info and reserve it now?”
@jitc I haven’t found anything that works when I wake up at 2 AM and can’t get back to sleep. I’ve tried melatonin and some herbal stuff, before bedtime, but still don’t seem to help. I have not gone into the prescription narcotics (the original meaning BTW means “makes you sleep”). On the other hand if you have a medical procedure and the anesthesiologist says this will make you sleep now, and that’s the last thing you hear till you wake up in a different room.
@jitc@pmarin If I need a little nudge, I have some GABA before bed. I keep a melatonin tab on the night stand and if I wake up too early, it usually lets me go back to sleep until morning.
When I really need to be knocked out, I take half a 25mg tab of doxylamine succinate (an antihistamine), plus a 3mg melatonin. That usually lets me sleep soundly through the night or, if I have to get up in the night, allows me to go back to sleep quickly. However, I don’t like to use it too often because 1) current wisdom says antihistamines bad and 2) I don’t want to build a tolerance and lose the effectiveness when I really need it.
@pmarin it’s very comfortable. I have an issue with my limbs being hypermoble so when I lay on my left side my shoulder pops out and my arm goes numb, while sleeping.
What is this ‘sleep’ you speak of?
@TheGreatNico sometimes I wonder the same thing!
Can’t say. Logfile shows no entries during period marked “sleep(assumed)”
Fitfully, and in spurts
Back and side. Changes during the night. Sometimes wake up with arms stretched out for some reason.
Sleepily and with low energy.
On my side, spooning some flavor of life size inflatable canine (usually wolf, shepherd, or fox these days). Sounds stupid but actually really helps me sleep. Comfortable and comforting!
In some weird geometric mix of front back, and , side as I distort my body to fit around the legion of cats in my bed.
Soundly.
@blaineg what’s your secret?
Slow rotisserie, clock-wise…
I sleep in whatever position my little dogs allow me to be in. The sum total of their weight is 35 pounds but somehow they take up most of the bed.
@cbatte I can confirm that one 12 pound cat still can somehow take up most of the bed.
@pmarin so annoying in a furry loveable way
Is “poorly” a sleep style?
@ddbelyea yes, that’s mine
Horizontally. I’ve tried vertically, but I keep waking up from the falls.
@rockblossom Try a Boeing flight to the Space Station and then you can sleep vertically or diagonally or any way you want or upside-down because, no gravity (well, microgravity). And you’ll get a few months to experience it since you made the bad decision to fly Boeing.
@pmarin It isn’t so much getting there, or the stay. Booking that return flight with Boeing is the real bitch. “We may have a seat open in 5-6 months. Would you like to give us your credit card info and reserve it now?”
@rockblossom I’ve done the Gonzo: strung up via coat hanger
With the help of sleep aids.
@jitc I haven’t found anything that works when I wake up at 2 AM and can’t get back to sleep. I’ve tried melatonin and some herbal stuff, before bedtime, but still don’t seem to help. I have not gone into the prescription narcotics (the original meaning BTW means “makes you sleep”). On the other hand if you have a medical procedure and the anesthesiologist says this will make you sleep now, and that’s the last thing you hear till you wake up in a different room.
@pmarin my most common sleep aid is alcohol.
@jitc @pmarin “pour until asleep”?
@pakopako @pmarin That’s about the recipe.
@jitc @pmarin If I need a little nudge, I have some GABA before bed. I keep a melatonin tab on the night stand and if I wake up too early, it usually lets me go back to sleep until morning.
When I really need to be knocked out, I take half a 25mg tab of doxylamine succinate (an antihistamine), plus a 3mg melatonin. That usually lets me sleep soundly through the night or, if I have to get up in the night, allows me to go back to sleep quickly. However, I don’t like to use it too often because 1) current wisdom says antihistamines bad and 2) I don’t want to build a tolerance and lose the effectiveness when I really need it.
Right side, right leg straight and left leg bent… kinda like a flamingo
@ragingredd That doesn’t sound so bad. I think I often end up doing the opposite, Left side version.
@pmarin it’s very comfortable. I have an issue with my limbs being hypermoble so when I lay on my left side my shoulder pops out and my arm goes numb, while sleeping.
On my back mostly but then my shoulder starts to hurt so I roll over to my side.
Upside down, hanging from a pole in the closet.
Uh wait, was that real, or a dream or a TV show?
@mehcuda67 not completely impossible
@mehcuda67 @pakopako I have an inversion table. I don’t sleep on it, but it works a charm when my sciatica acts up.