Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Sleeping Patterns

I feel like I should justify where and what I've been doing all this time. But I'm not going to, at least not at this point.

What I want to share with everyone now is sleeping patterns and behaviors. I have always been interested by sleeping. How people sleep. Do they sprawl out? Sleep with fans on? Snore? Sleep walk? Talk in their sleep? All sorts of things. Today I am going to share some of my sleep patterns. Some of them may be bizarre, some of them not.


  • I like to sleep (even in warm weather) with heavy blankets on. The weight is comforting.
  • I have been told that I talk in my sleep about everything from dead fruit bats in the pantry, to inquiring what someones name is.
  • I have on occasion been told that I snore, although I choose not to believe it.
  • Sometimes I am a wild sleeper and will wake up with blankets completely turned around, or pillowcases off the pillow.
  • I wear this heart ring with the point facing me. Every now and then I will wake up and the heart arches will be facing me. Which means that in the middle of the night I am taking my ring off, turning it around and putting it back on. Pretty weird, hun?
  • Last semester during finals I was waking up and my hands and fingers were so sore. After some time I figured out that I was clenching my fists while sleeping. I had to make an effort to lay my hands flat when going to sleep. I think this fist clenching had something to do with stress.
  • Most recently the balls of my feet have been hurting upon waking up. I think this is because I have been curling my toes while sleeping. So now I am making and effort to not do this. Very strange

Now that I just shared some personal sleep habits and oddities, what are some of yours?