Sleeping Positions

[Grayman]

What is your MBTI-Type and your sleeping position?

http://hotels.about.com/cs/travelerstools/a/sleep_positions.htm

Fetal Position (41%) Curled up on your side, holding the pillow. The most popular sleeping position, this one was favored by 51% of the women in the study. The personality of these sleepers tends to be shy and sensitive, though they may present a tough exterior to the world.

Soldier Position (8%) Flat on your back with arms at your sides. Indicates a quiet and reserved personality who sets high standards.

Starfish Position (5%) Lying on your back with arms and legs outstretched.Indicates a good listener who makes friends easily, but prefers not to be the center of attention.

Freefall Position (7%) Flat on your stomach with arms at the head or ears. Indicates a brash and gregarious exterior who may inwardly be nervous and sensitive to criticism.

Log Position (15%) On your side with legs outstretched and arms at your sides. Indicates a social, easygoing personality.

Yearner Position (13%) Similar to the log, but with arms outstretched. Said to indicate a suspicious and cynical personality.

 

[Grayman]

I tested as INTP in the past but I am thinking differently now.

I am the Soldier Position.
I used to be the Fetal position.

 

[QuickTwist]

I know this in detail about myself.

I start with my hands by my head, but its closer to the log position. From there I will change sides and mix it in with some soldier position. I don't really do the fetal position or startfish position much. I will temporarily do the free fall position, but I rarely fall asleep that way. Most of the time I fall asleep in soldiers position, but sometimes its like the first one I mentioned. I usually fall asleep like a vampire tbh with my arms on my chest.

 

[TheManBeyond]

who is the user from the second post here?

 

[Jennywocky]

Soldier, sometimes a little starfish.

...but there's no information regarding how these assumptions were made. So meh.

 

[redbaron]

Log position. It's no less valid than MBTI :^)

 

[Nebulous]

I sleep sitting up hunched over an iPad or art book with my eyes open


Wait

 

[Sinny91]

I try every position before I inevitably settle on Freefall... but a lot of the time I stick my arms under my chest, in a sort of straight jacket position, and my right leg is usually bent quite high.

I've just woken up from that position, and my left shoulder aches like a bitch.

 

[TheManBeyond]

normally to the side, sometimes i face the pillow and when i wake up my back hurts sooo much

 

[Silent Sage]

Alternating fetal and soldier until I eventually pass out in whichever position

Wait, what's the difference between fetal and yearner?

 

[Tannhauser]

I usually use this one:

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[Ruby]

I usually use this one:

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lol

Apparently mine is weird. It's a variant of the starfish with one of my arms laying over my face, covering my eyes.

 

[Aviator8]

How about solider, but with arms crossed and propped with pillows at a 45 degree angle sort of sitting.

 

[Yellow]

I've got a freefall log when I have rare moments with the bed to myself. Shoulders positioned like I'm on my tummy with my hands under my head/face, then hips positioned like I'm laying on my side with my back leg way behind me and my front leg bent forward. When having to share space, then I settle for the fetal position.

Closest diagram I could find is #6. Imagine the straight leg being bent back and that's about it.

[bimgx=250]http://www.natureponics.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/sleep.jpg[/bimgx]

 

[Minuend]

Sleep on my stomach -> I get a headache whenever I keep my head turned that much, so no

Sleep on back -> I always end up dreaming/ half dreaming I'm slipping or falling in which my response is jerking my foot back and I scare myself and wake up (usually don't dream I'm falling otherwise). So no

Curled up on the side with arm/s folded -> arms goes numb/ tingly. so no

So I guess sleeping on side with arms stretched and feet varying between stretched and curled.

 

[Pyropyro]

Log with a pillow near my arms to lean on to.

 

[Ex-User (13503)]

[bimgx=250]http://www.natureponics.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/sleep.jpg[/bimgx]

I'm probably 75% #1 and 25% #3 in this photo. OP didn't seem to have an option for 3. 1 seems close to the "yearner" description.

 

[The Gopher]

I'm 1 and sometimes wrap the pillow around my head.

I get a headache if I lie on my back or stomach, or talk about the headaches I get... I also get headaches if the lights are off in a small room or if my head is near a bar or in some FPS games if the FoV is weird or I turn too fast, or walk through a waterfall.

Well it's more dizziness than headache and nobody's been able to tell me what it is.

 

[Yellow]

I'm 1 and sometimes wrap the pillow around my head.

I get a headache if I lie on my back or stomach, or talk about the headaches I get... I also get headaches if the lights are off in a small room or if my head is near a bar or in some FPS games if the FoV is weird or I turn too fast, or walk through a waterfall.

Well it's more dizziness than headache and nobody's been able to tell me what it is.

.... have you had neurological tests to try to figure out the issue?

Do you drink enough water?

 

[The Gopher]

Hmm no... I probably should now you mention it. Yeah I drink plenty of water. Maybe not all the time but there are times I certainty have and still get the headaches.

 

[Yellow]

Hmm no... I probably should now you mention it. Yeah I drink plenty of water. Maybe not all the time but there are times I certainty have and still get the headaches.

Do that, then. And soon. Dr. Yellow's orders. You're too young to be getting chronic headaches.

 

[Ex-User (13503)]

^Yeah. If neuro testing doesn't show anything, some kind of inner ear issue would be my next guess.

 

[Yellow]

or, funnily enough, a sleep issue.

 

[The Gopher]

I did discover I have extremely mild tinnitus since birth. I just assumed it was the sound of silence. It's never really bothered me apart from when I'm sleeping and the room is quiet so that's why I have a waterfall in my room.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

I've heard that the best position to sleep in is the Soldier position (I'd heard it referred to as the Corpse position; I'm unsure if these are the same, however I assume they are).

I've tried it in the past, but lacked, idk what... patience perhaps.

I think it would be beneficial to have another go at it.

 

[Minuend]

I'm 1 and sometimes wrap the pillow around my head.

I get a headache if I lie on my back or stomach, or talk about the headaches I get... I also get headaches if the lights are off in a small room or if my head is near a bar or in some FPS games if the FoV is weird or I turn too fast, or walk through a waterfall.

Well it's more dizziness than headache and nobody's been able to tell me what it is.

I get a headache from lying on my stomach too! I also get headaches if the lighting in the room is "wrong". In my case the lighting is because of my eyes. I think this because I sometimes get pain in my eye/s first that move back in my head. Other times it just starts in the back of my head. So it's probably not the same thing as you have.

As for the tinnitus.. is your vision "clear"? Do you have a bit of shadowy or grainy vision?

 

[The Gopher]

My vision seems fine... Actually lighting sometimes gives me a headache as well. I have the complete list of symptoms if you're interested. I just need to dig it up.

I have a longer list somewhere else but I only found this.

Headache causes. (Headache is more dizzy type in front of head. Holding it helps calm most times, putting my head on my arm on a desk will help.)

Head in close proximity to bars, cupboards and other objects normally just out of or just in vision.

Above worsens in completely dark rooms.

Sun or bright light in dark areas (although his seems normal for people)

Some first person games give headaches with movement/walking through a waterfall. Distance from screen helps as well as turning lights on.Similar to 3d movie roller coasters.

Car that I am not driving slowing down fast.

Psychological issues, in conversation if talking about damaged frontal lobes/etc head starts to ache/feel dizzy (empathy headaches???)

As well as the sleeping headaches on front and back.

The headache can come and go almost instantly. However it can come then when I put my head on my arm and have it go for 5 seconds and popup again when I stop.

 

[Minuend]

I've mostly read about headaches related to vision. I guess headaches can be fairly complex. I'd think things like neurological deviance/ illness/ etc can be tied to it as well, I think my vision problem is so.

Best thing is probably getting it checked out like said by others, though there's still a lot of unknowns in that area so they might not be able to do anything about it even if they know what it is.

 

[reloaded]

Lol I sleep in different positions every night, not that I ever got a good night's sleep.

 

[Bad Itch]

Left side, right side, left side, right side, left side, back, left side, right side, back, sitting up, leaning over, arm under pillow arm over pillow, finally exit bed in frustration, find kerosene, torch bed, Try again tomorrow. Sleeping is an ass hole. Unless it's like between 0500 and 0900 when I seem to sleep peacefully on my back for a bit (prolly exhausted from all the tossing and turning, flipping and flopping).

 

[Intolerable]

Fetal and no I don't think it means anything psychologically. It just so happens my spine is best situated in that position and my neck doesn't bother me.

When I try to sleep on my back the pillow hurts the back of my head eventually. It just doesn't feel right.

Being that I'm a side sleeper a body pillow keeps me from crushing the boys between my legs.

So I cite plainly physiological issues.

Mind, I'd sleep on my stomach if my mattress weren't so firm. I'm not complaining of course. A firm mattress is best for your back.

 

[Dorian Tullus]

oh ye, soldier through and through.

even as a young child

 

[redbaron]

I sleep fetal now. Guess my personality changed.