Zingggg. I laughed, though. I went to a halloween party with 1 bear foot. I told people I was barefooted, true-cool story bro.
My girl usually lays on my chest with my arm around her. She falls asleep pretty quickly. I can too, but in this position, my snoring is at it's worst, so as I start to drift off, I usually roll away from her so that I'm not snoring in her ear. Alternatively, we both lay on our left sides and spoon...it's nice to fall asleep with a handful o' breast.
You can say anything, and just say, "I'm just saying" and all is forgiven. I swear bro, think of any sentence to say to anybody and follow it with a "I'm just saying" Clutch wasn't the first clutchfan, I'm just saying, there might have been someone before him, I'm just saying.
I don't really like sleeping next to people. I have to have perfect conditions for sleep. I need it to be reasonably cool in the room, and the cool side of the pillow is the jackpot. The ceiling fan or AC needs to be on because I need a dull repetitive noise. If I've had any caffeine over the past 8 hours prior to sleeping, I may as well just give up right there and go back to watching TV or surfing clutchfans. Usually I toss and turn about 4 times, trying to find if I can find suitable comfort on my side, stomach or back.
Recently, I've been taking melatonin. It's amazing and helps me sleep better. Historically, I read a book until I'm falling asleep. I need some white noise in the background, like a loud fan. I can't sleep with TV or Radio on, because my brain has to pay attention to it. But if I have earplugs in, I can sleep with said things on.
GTFO n00b. Different strokes for different folks. I hate silence, like others have said, need some whirring at a decibel to make my electric impulses chill al little bit.
I have a really rough time sleeping. I have to take Unisom quite often and even then I usually lay in bed for hours.
I love when it's cold and I have a nice durable manblanket to negate my shivers. Sucks, no caffeine, for people who use it.
See, that sucks... It's like torture, but people tell you to just fall asleep, like that's gonna help, lol. I feel for insomniacs.
I have to have a fan or some other kind of white noise going on to fall asleep. I cannot go to sleep in complete silence. I also cannot go to sleep with the TV on or music. I guess it goes back to when I was a kid - my parents' bedroom was connected to my room (which is really weird now that I think about it) and my dad used a noisemaker called a sleepmate or sleeper that emitted a calm, peaceful humming noise. I got used to falling asleep by hearing it and by the time I went off to college, I had to have my own sleepmate. Needless to say, I had several roommates (including the one that warned me about the physics professor - see the GlenRice thread for more details) that complained about it. I remember one night, to appease my roommate, I didn't use it and got like 2 hours of sleep that night! My sleepmate eventually wore out and I moved on to a fan or wind machine and that is what I have been using ever since. My parents still have like 2 maybe even 3 sleepmates, lol. When I first got married, my wife was insistent that easy listening music would be on and said that was the only way she could go to sleep. I probably averaged 3 hours of sleep a night in the beginning - she eventually gave in about it and quit listening to music yet she would complain about it periodically. But like someone else said, after we had our son, I haven't heard her say anything about it. I will say that I have drunk so much caffeine over the years that I can drink a glass of Coke and go to sleep within 15 minutes. When I am having a hard time falling asleep, I always count backwards from 100. I do think I have an easier time falling asleep now than I did when I was younger but my biggest problems of staying awake is when the wife tosses and turns.
My mom and I went to sleep watching TV, lol. Goes back to our formative years imo. It's good you and wife comprimised though. It sounds like I have it,lol
n00b? Listen you youngster and listen well. I like dark and quiet because I grew up in a society that still had things like dark and quiet. These days, the young people can't stand to be alone for even the time it takes to doze off and must have some reminder of their technological dependence to even relax enough to go to sleep. It's like the smoker that can't relax his sphincter muscles enough to take a dump without a hit of nicotine. That's just sad. The TV takes the place of your partner's breathing, the fan takes the place of your mama humming. You're all pathetic disgraces to the America I once knew. You think George Washington needed a fan to put him to sleep at Valley Forge? You think Sitting Bull needed the TV on the night before he took down Custer? You think Patton puffed his pillow and plugged in his iPod earphones every night during the Battle of the Bulge? You think Nixon had to have a night light as he lay awake in a fevered paranoid rage thinking of all the people he wanted on his enemies list? Turn off your contraptions, learn to be alone with dignity, and get off my damn lawn.
It's funny how so much about one's sleep habits persist from childhood. Like Deckard being born before electricity. I'm surprised by how many people need these tricks to sleep. My oldest daughter has all kinds of trouble falling asleep and her teachers complain about her being tired. But, there's not much I can do to make her fall asleep once she's in bed. It started in infancy, so it'll probably last a lifetime -- or until she has kids of her own.
I'm also one of those that has to have a fan running before there's any chance of falling asleep. Even when it's cold I have it going on high. Those times that we go on vacation and forget to pack a small fan are brutal.
