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How Do You Sleep?

Risky Thicket

Risky Thicket

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I sleep with two pillows. I make the bed if I get up after my wife. If she's out of town I may not make the bed at all. I don't wear anything in bed no matter how cold it is outside. I'd love to sleep 8 hours but I rarely get more than 6.5 hours a night. Wearing socks to bed would be my idea of brutal torture.
 
How do I sleep? Lately, poorly.
 
Depends on the girl.







Zing!
 
5 pillows, 3 cats, twice a night, make the bed immediately on arising.
 
I get nothing over 4 and half hrs. Been that way since I came home from overseas and has been that way for a very long time. I sleep with One Pillow, which usually my cat crawls next to or sleeps over me and I make the bed.....Although I don't let the Ole lady give me the quarter test anymore. Plus, sometimes I will cheat and not use hospital corners. :mrgreen:
 
Three pillows, on my stomach or my side, with a couple of wadded up t-shirts or pillowcases over my head (poor man's sleep mask :lol: ).

In the summer, I generally sleep on top of my blankets and comforter, wrapped up in a relatively thin fleece blanket. This was a habit I actually picked up in the military, to help me get out of having to make my bed every morning. lol

In the winter, I'll sleep under the covers proper simply because it gets to be cold enough that the fleece doesn't cut it anymore.
 
What is this activity called "making the bed"?
 
Two pillows, side sleeper.
If making the bed involves tossing the quilt in the general direction of the bed, I've done it.
 
two pillows under my head is too much, one is not enough, so I use a thin piece of flat foam, with a feather pillow on top of it, and one feather pillow to hug. I toss back and forth from one side to the other, and don't sleep on my back or stomach. I like the air around me to be cold, usually sleeping with the window open during winter, but I like to pile on the blankets so that I am warm other than my head and face. I usually sleep 6 or 7 hours a night- would love to sleep more, but I have trouble drifting off. As for making the bed, I don't usually bother, because nobody sees my bedroom besides me, and I don't care how it looks, as long as it's comfortable. :lol:
 
Gardener said:
What is this activity called "making the bed"?
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I don't know. I get up in the morning and go to work. When I come hoe, the bed is made. shrug.
 
My wife wants to sleep untouched in a cocoon of her own creation.

She says she feels like the girl cat in Pepe LePew. Every time she wakes up, I'm treating her like a body pillow.
 
azgreg said:
I don't know. I get up in the morning and go to work. When I come hoe, the bed is made. shrug.
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Must be magic.

When I come home, it looks the same as I left it, except the dog is all sprawled out on it with a "don't look at me" expression on his face.
 
Gardener said:
Must be magic.

When I come home, it looks the same as I left it, except the dog is all sprawled out on it with a "don't look at me" expression on his face.
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I'm babysitting a chihuahua, who thinks the cold is my fault. He burrows under the blankets, so I sleep on my left side, where it's not suspiciously lumpy. That way we're both happy! :mrgreen:

Greetings, Gardener. :2wave:
 
I sleep on my left side in a fetal position. On a Chillow. It's wonderful.

The linens on my bed have been carefully chosen to be easy to spread up . . . a fitted bottom sheet, no top sheet, a down comforter and two pillows each for Tom and I -- both silk for "cool." All I need to do is spread up the down comforter in the morning.

I never do that, of course, so my bed is rarely made. *sigh*
 
Luckily, I can sleep anywhere, any time in minutes, even airplanes. I have one tempurpedic pillow and two other pillows, I flop around a bit. In the summer, the house gets really hot, in the high 80's, but it doesn't keep me from konking out once I hit the pillow.

I do have very detailed dreams with all my senses (color, smell, etc) and usually I have some level of control over them. Of course, I usually get up once or twice to the bathroom, so that probably keeps a portion of my reasoning brain awake during sleep. I usually work at home, and some days, I just need a 20 minute catnap to get through the tedium, I can usually fall asleep and start dreaming before the alarm goes off.
 
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Gardener said:
Must be magic.

When I come home, it looks the same as I left it, except the dog is all sprawled out on it with a "don't look at me" expression on his face.
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My old dog (Irish Terrier) who died last Nov would hog the bed, and lay diagonally, bisecting me from any real estate, the new Irish has a heart of gold. She will lay anywhere on the bed, until it is time for me to go to bed, and she automatically gets up and lays in the corner, it amazes me that she does this, since the breed really is stubborn and independent.
 
MMC said:
I get nothing over 4 and half hrs. Been that way since I came home from overseas and has been that way for a very long time. I sleep with One Pillow, which usually my cat crawls next to or sleeps over me and I make the bed.....Although I don't let the Ole lady give me the quarter test anymore. Plus, sometimes I will cheat and not use hospital corners. :mrgreen:
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There was a time, most of my life, when I slept easily. I used to have expresso at night and go to bed two hours later and sleep like a log. Not anymore. I fight to get 6 hours.

Lately I have been experimenting with Melatonin and Zzzqwill capsules. Too much Melatonin leaves me spaced out the next day. I find that 10mg works. Also, if I go to bed by 9 to 9.30. We were in Banff, Alberta in May and I slept like a rock. Could have been the fresh air in the Canadian Rockies, the cool nights. I don't know but I haven't slept that good in over a year.

Recently I bought an Up band. It's an interesting gadget that really helps me monitor my sleep. I don't know how it does it, but it tells me exactly how much sleep I get at night; when I went to sleep; when I woke up and for how long before I went back to sleep; how much deep sleep I got and how long I was in bed compared to how long I slept. It is helping and I have improved my sleep from a 4.5 average to 6.5 hours.
 
MaggieD said:
I sleep on my left side in a fetal position. On a Chillow. It's wonderful.

The linens on my bed have been carefully chosen to be easy to spread up . . . a fitted bottom sheet, no top sheet, a down comforter and two pillows each for Tom and I -- both silk for "cool." All I need to do is spread up the down comforter in the morning.

I never do that, of course, so my bed is rarely made. *sigh*
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WTF is a "chillow"?
 
beefheart said:
My old dog (Irish Terrier) who died last Nov would hog the bed, and lay diagonally, bisecting me from any real estate, the new Irish has a heart of gold. She will lay anywhere on the bed, until it is time for me to go to bed, and she automatically gets up and lays in the corner, it amazes me that she does this, since the breed really is stubborn and independent.
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As far as I can figure out, my dog has been bred to shred socks and underwear into oblivion.

When I tell people I have to sleep in the nude because of my dog, it does lead to some uncomfortable pauses in the conversation.
 
polgara said:
I'm babysitting a chihuahua, who thinks the cold is my fault. He burrows under the blankets, so I sleep on my left side, where it's not suspiciously lumpy. That way we're both happy! :mrgreen:

Greetings, Gardener. :2wave:
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You are less lumpy on your left side than your right? :shock:

With most of the women I have known, the lumps are fairly well even.


and a greetings to you, my friend!
 
GottaGo said:
Two pillows, side sleeper.
If making the bed involves tossing the quilt in the general direction of the bed, I've done it.
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^^^^

This is me to a tee. :)
 
Socks?

Does anyone sleep wearing socks. My wife does this in the winter. I can't conceive of a time when I would want to do that. In fact, I will often stick my feet out from under the covers even in winter.

Pajamas?

Who wears pajamas? The last time I wore pajamas I was, I don't know, ten or eleven. Too restrictive. Sleeping in pajamas you get all wadded up and tangled. I sleep starkers. Nothing.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Socks?

Does anyone sleep wearing socks. My wife does this in the winter. I can't conceive of a time when I would want to do that. In fact, I will often stick my feet out from under the covers even in winter.

Pajamas?

Who wears pajamas? The last time I wore pajamas I was, I don't know, ten or eleven. Too restrictive. Sleeping in pajamas you get all wadded up and tangled. I sleep starkers. Nothing.
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Naked, the only way to sleep and swim (and go to Starbucks)
 
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