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I guess my closest is starfish, but I hug a pillow (and often don't have one under my head). Second would be yearner, but I am most comfortable sleeping on my back.
None of the above, basically.
I sleep on my side or tummy/side, but I bend the top leg up and the other remains straight. Often I sleep with my arm under the pillow, or my arms both kind of curled up at the wrists and up by my face. (this is hard to describe.)
I'm foetus unless my husband has fallen asleep on the futon, in which case I'm starfish 'cause I have the bed to myself (he rarely wakes up again until morning).
Freefaller, but with my arms tucked underneath my chest or head. I've heard it called "upside-down corpse" before.
I'm insanely jealous of you folks that can sleep on your back. I just flat out can't, which means sleeping in a car/plane/train/whatever is pretty impossible.
I am halfway between a fetus and a freefaller, but with a pillow tucked up under my fetus leg. I suppose if I had to illustrate, I would draw someone scaling a wall. So, the climber?
I sleep mostly foetus legs with yearner arms, unless the Mister is in the bed because then he wants to put his body where my yearner arms need to go and GAH.
Sometimes I sleep a Stewriffic.
Sometimes I sleep like a soldier/starfish, depending on where the dog has placed herself.
Starfish when I'm trying to fall asleep, and then like Stewriffic when it's actually time to sleep. But I think that's mainly because our bedroom always seems too hot and if I curl up before I'm ready to immediately conk out, I get way overheated.
I'm pretty uncomfortable unless I'm moving. I'm pretty sure I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've woken up in the same position I went to sleep in.
I wouldn't say I toss and turn. I just switch positions every few hours.
Mainly fetal. It's been a problem lately as I have a twingey upper arm muscle. I really wish I could do a soldier right now but I can't fall asleep that way.
I do not see my position. I basically fall asleep in what I like to call corpse [on my back, arms folded] and then usually roll over into I guess what is sort of a yearning foetus [holding pillow, one leg bent]. But yeah, I roll around a lot. Don't most people?
Sort of the yearner, but my top leg is bent out (usually with my foot sticking out from under the blanket) and my bottom arm stretched upward under my pillow. But I am able to fall asleep in the solider position, which is helpful when my back hurts.
I'm also like stewie except for the arms, they go lower around a pillow or cushion and sometimes I put that under my leg instead (in fact if it's like a long cushion you can hug it and put it under the leg @ the same time). I think the position changes when I fall asleep though
I meant to figure out what position I sleep in last night but forgot this morning. I'm usually so disoriented and confused when the alarm goes off that it takes a few minutes for me to figure out who I am and where I live that I never remember what position I was in when I woke up.
Another Stewriffic here. Sometimes, very rarely, I'll wake up on my stomach with my arms under me and my hands under my face. When this happens, I invariably have pins 'n' needles so bad I can only roll over and lie there until it goes away, while the alarm blares and I can't get to it.
Not I. If I sleep in a bed alone, I could just slip out and not have to make it in the morning. I always wake up in the same position I fell asleep. This is often non-good because I get cramps and dead limbs because of it.
I'm also a very quiet sleeper. People don't mind sharing rooms with me :)
I too, do the Stew. I can also freefall, if necessary (no room to bend the one leg). Anything else, forget it. No sleeping in cars, no sleeping on my back. When I split my lip this winter, the husband wisely made me "sleep" propped up in a cushy chair so I wouldn't disturb the stitches by pillowfacing them.
Another stewriffic-ish here, Modified foetus, but the arm-under/frontof-head thing is really important. Sometimes I get relaxed and almost asleep in corpse pose, which is a lot like soldier but with hands and feet open. Then rollover to stewie's position when it's time deep sleep. The best sleep, of course, is joined while spooning.
I'm a Stewriffic as well. I'll also usually have a pillow or wad of blanket under my top bent knee with another wad of blanket being cuddled (that has my stuffed animal, Mr. Bun (short for Bunnicula) inside of it).
Also a Stewriffic when I am by myself or snuggling (as on weekend mornings). I tend to sleep with my left arm under my pillow under my head, and my shoulder sometimes doesn't like it. Whoda thunk?
Other than that, probably Yearner. We tend to sleep fairly close together, which I looooooooove.
Sometimes fetus (I'm as much a fan of UK-specific spellings as the next person, but that one's erroneous), sometimes log, though I tend to wake up with a dead arm, and I often wake up in freefaller.
I can't sleep if I'm touching anyone, much to mr alto's annoyance. He can sleep at any time, and likes to spoon. Lack of noise is much more important to me than lack of light - I had a housemate once who was exactly the opposite, so she'd complain when someone left a halway light on, and I'd complain when people slammed the door or talked on the phone outside my room.
Varieties of fetus and log . . . though I too hug my pillow. Sometimes I wake up and stretch alongside my dog and pet him.
I would like to learn about the positions in which people's dogs sleep with them: mine does the donut, the happy bug (on back with legs in air), the hot dog (long and stretched out on his side) and of course the deep dreamer (running and barking in sleep.)
No dog, but one cat, who is mostly pretty good and curls up between our feets and stays still until someone looks like they might feed him. Sometimes, though, and particularly at (ahem) more intimate moments, he likes to stalk up to between our heads or torsos, and get all in our faces. Other times, he gets bored at 4am and goes hunting for feet.
Keeping him out isn't really an option - we tried that for a fortnight and were reliably kept awake every night by his scratching at the door and howling.
Both foetal and yearner with a bit of stewriffic leg action thrown in. I also always cuddle a second pillow at the same time. It helps me breathe better and my back feel better.
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