I just keep rolling untill I fall asleep. Trying to sleep in a specific position is near impossible. Even the best one gets uncomfortable pretty quick. Only thing I try to avoid is sleeping on my right side as it seems to be the cause for my rhomboid pain
What’s the furthest you’ve made it?
Don’t you worry about traffic?
They see me rollin’. They hatin’. Trynna catch me sleeping dirty.
Front sleeping is the worst of these by quite a long way though. Last time I did it (after some drinks) it cost me a month of physio.
Back to work peasant!
Only sleep sitting in a recliner chair. Or just don’t sleep. Problem solved.
Never slept on my back once in my life, never got any issues from sleeping in a weird position… Might be noticing something!
I’m convinced it’s all BS. The best thing for the human body, in nearly every field, is variety. Sleep however you want, mix it up, whatever. Your comfort is the best indicator. And the consequences of a bad sleeping position are rarely so dire.
Just don’t sleep and you won’t have that problem.
My hourly Monsters are purely for the benefit of my health.
I don’t really get what you mean.
It’s so they don’t have to sleep and ruin their spine.
Ah
Oh good, I’m not the only one who rotates in their sleep like a rotisserie chicken
I though side sleeping was supposed to be best for you?
My shoulder disagrees.
Bacta-tank is the best
I thought that was just to bring his internal temperature up to get Luke warm.
That’s what a passionate kiss from his sister was for.
Nah, it’s sci-fi healing fluid.
You could do the other thing with a blanket. Or a Tauntaun.
Correct, bacta tanks are also used on Vader who was damn near incinerated. It being body temperature has something to do with it though because your body wouldn’t have to work as hard to keep your core temp stable.
I’m not sure there is any temperature that would both allow the body to remain heated exclusively through passive heat generation while also letting the body avoid overheating. Granted, higher thermal conductivity of liquids can make the task a little easier, but still I’m not sure there exists such a perfect temp.
Humans get squeezed out of body-temperature goo-bags basically first thing, that would probably work fine
Fair enough!
Fantastic
Floating in the diaper tank
…blessly
Approved:
The ball flattener 3000!
A guy died in a cave from being stuck in this position.
Sounds a bit nutty
That’s one way of putty it.
she cute
Don’t sleep, it’s bad for you . Just keep working.
-*CEOs
*Typo fixed.
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No apostrophe in a non-possessive plural noun
Go ahead and cc everybody on this one, it’s needed.
The correct way is to lie on your side, facing left. Because prevents gastric acid in esophagus.
edit for clarification: This method is efficient primarily when the lower esophageal sphincter (I had to Google the correct name) is not functioning as intended.
The throat anus, for those not used to the medical terminology.
Upper bunghole, if you’re nasty
I’m curious how accurate this is considering there’s rarely ever air in your stomach so what is the point when it’s effectively vacuum sealed.
Nah, if your stomach is acidic enough you can feel it. I finally caved and got a plush incline so that gravity keeps the bile down regardless of which side I sleep on, and I still usually favor sleeping on my left due to habits from before.
I’ve got gas in my stomach somewhat frequently…
Have I got a solution for you!
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Thankfully Omeprazole keeps me from choking on my own acid now, but yeah, that sucks.
My wife has GERD but she can only take omeprazole for a certain period of time and has to take time off from it, though I forget the reason for it
I just take it once a week and it keeps it in check. Before I started, I would wake up every night literally drowning in stomach acid and unable to breathe. When I first started taking it, I was taking it daily, but I always felt REALLY bloated, like I was going to explode. I cut off of it and found that the effect lasted for a week or more, and I started just taking it once a week, and I’ve been fine ever since.
It can tank your B12 and other nice things your body needs. At the end of the day, I
Your bones. It’s not good for osteoporosis IIRC.
When will these bugs be fixed? I prefer to face to the right and would also like to be able to sleep on my stomach
The GitHub human branch maintainer peaced out forever ago, all attempts to establish communications aren’t going so well and the issue tracker is piling up…so probably never
I mean if it’s abandonware it’s ethical to reverse engineer and open source the reverse engineered platform, maybe even fork it and provide some sort of extensible framework for various plugins, or convert the kernel to a new architecture or even virtualize it. Hopefully we can also work out the bugs and the more glaring issues soon (looking at you, upright vertebrae).
I’ve heard some people managed to reverse engineer the human, though right now people are trying to figure out whether using a modded version is considered OP
That’s why you need to open source and freely distribute the mod.
They decompiled the human, it doesn’t mean they understand the code enough to mod it yet.
Instead of modding, I know a few hackers that have removed whole sections to delete non functioning parts and I know a few others who figured out how to swap parts between different units.
Unfortunately I heard they forked it to the AI/ automation branch so I don’t think that the original maintainers coming back. They’re calling it the new best thing
We’re working on it, but the mf was on something, have you seen the digestive system class? Or the central nervous system class?
This woman is dead. Her stomach is coming out of her body and her arms are under her esophagus
Some people have mirrored internal organs, so this advice may be the ophosite for you. But also, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, sleep however’s comfiest for you and lets you get the best sleep you can
I’ve heard people talk about mirrored organs, is that something that would be immediately obvious? Like surely every person that has the condition would know about it.
Certainly not. It affects ~10% of the population, at least in certain countries. Not everyone has the privelege of a robust, accessible healthcare system.
Well I guess the obvious one to me is feeling a heartbeat. It seems like that would come up even outside of the medical field (schools, “playing doctor”, heck doing the pledge of allegiance if you’re in the US)
I’d think so. You’d feel the urge to BM on the right rather than the left.
Every time I’ve seen it in a hospital TV show or whatever, it always seems to be a surprise…like they didn’t find out at birth but the first time they need some invasive procedures.
I knew someone once who had this, she didn’t know until she got an x-ray as an adult. The doctor called in their colleagues to take a look at the scan because he’d never seen a real-life case before. She had her heart on the right side of her chest, was pretty interesting.
How would you know?
I mean if I put my hand over my left then right side of my chest, it’s pretty clear which side my heart is on
True, though isn’t the heart actually in the middle and it’s just asymmetric (with the big body-pumping side on the left)?
O.01% of the population, roughly 1 person in 10,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus
So about 800,000 people world wide?
Sure, round figures, lets call it 800K. And I bet the vast majority of them knows. It doesn’t take much of an examination for a doctor to determine location of heart and liver.
In fact many of them don’t, since the body is mostly symmetrical and apart from cutting them open or doing an MRI, you can’t really tell (which isn’t a big deal in most cases, because most medical procedures work regardless of this condition). Also, the heart is located almost in the middle, so there is not much difference.
Listening to the chest with a stethoscope, or your ear will tell the location of the heart. Percussing over the liver, but not finding a solid structure e.g. liver, which sounds different than a hollow structure, e.g. lungs would also help in identifying unexpected organ locations. I’m curious how you came to know that many of them don’t know? Do you keep a register of people with this condition, but don’t tell them?
Weird. I have to sleep on my right side or else my stomach gets upset.
False. The correct way to sleep is on a 7-11 sausage roller set to high speed.
- The heat lamp creates warmth which you normally substitute with a dangerous choking blanket
- the high-speed spinning flings off your sweat to keep you cool using Bernoulli’s Principle instead of energy-hungry and dangerous fans or AC units
- the constant flow of vomit and other effluvia helps you maintain a healthy figure instead of ridiculously augmenting your life with the high-risk activity of “exercise.”
You sleep on your left side to avoid gastric acid in the esophagus.
I sleep on my left side because sleeping on the right side angers up my sciatica.
We are not the same.
Vamakukshi – India’s post-lunch nap, always on your left side
I’m not falling for the Indian wisdom meme again until they fix their sanitation infrastructure and stop raping women to death on public transportation.
I’ve always been a left side sleeper, so this makes me feel happy
Same. Yay us. For once my random behaviors are correct without even knowing it. :)
Occasionally, I bumble my way into a good life decision!
Thank you for the info, I hope it helps
The cardiac sphincter prevents reflux of gastric fluids from the stomach to the esophagus.
Conversely, sleeping on your side isn’t very good for a lot of your joints. For instance in your diagram, that position is very bad for her hips and compressing her lungs. I still sleep on my side because it’s my preferred position but I have to have a knee pillow to keep my hips and knees aligned, and I try to have a pillow hugged to my chest to keep my spine and shoulders from crunching lol.
What’s wrong with gastric acid being in the esophagus? I sleep on my right-side a lot.
Until you have woken up choking on acid that went in your lungs, you will not understand. I have EOE, and it really really sucks. I highly recommend not damaging your esophagus. I have spent years barely being able to eat without choking, though this latest round with the new doctor has been the best I have been in over a decade. Once your esophagus narrows to under 10mm, eating is a chore. Worst I ever got down to was 5mm. It was around ~7ish back in November…
I keep things under control pretty well, but I was always taught to sleep on my left side growing up if your stomach was upset or you were having trouble breathing if you were sick.
Most people don’t have issues with acid reflux. However, for those that do, it’s important to try to control acid reflux.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/barretts-esophagus/symptoms-causes/syc-20352841
Dumbass DNA. Why make a human capable of eating a baconator if doing so melts your body from the inside.
If you melt yourself before you can pass on those dodgy genes of yours then the problem sorts itself out!
Already passed them on unfortunately
Not living up to your username!
It’s corroding you from within.
To go a tad further, if you have chronic reflux there is the obvious discomfort caused by the feeling of acid creeping into your esophagus. Overtime, the acid can also do damage to the cells of your esophagus causing a condition called Barrett’s Esophagus. This is not dangerous in and of itself but is considered a precancerous condition and requires monitoring.
Wait, I’ve heard the opposite. Lay facing right to aid your stomach in digesting things and pushing it out of the stomach, instead of letting it lay in the stomach and potentially gurgle it’s way up
can confirm. As someone with acid reflux, sleeping facing right is hell
Isn’t it fun when you go to sleep on your left side and roll over in your sleep, only to wake up in the middle of the night sick and ready to vomit from heartburn? It’s like my body is actively working against me when I sleep.
facing left
On your left side. Whether that’s “facing left” or “facing right” depends on whether you’re comparing it to being on your front or on your back. Personally, I instinctively compared it to front, which would mean being on your left is facing to the right.
So the way to be clear and unambiguous is to say which side of your body you’re referring to.
It’s your left, not the left of the dude living in your attic peeping down at you.
Yes, but to know what is your left, one first needs to establish what is their forward. If you were previously on your front (which is itself not an uncommon sleeping position), “turn to face left” will put them lying on their right side.
This stuff really isn’t rocket science. I’m genuinely surprised to be getting push back here. If the goal is to tell people to lay on their left side, that’s what should be said. Not “facing left”, which doesn’t convey the same meaning.
But your left hand is always the left one. It’s relative to you, not to your direction.
your left hand is always the left one. It’s relative to you, not to your direction
Right. That’s my point. That’s why I proposed using terminology that relates only to you, as opposed to the necessarily external language of the parent comment which used “facing”.
Sleeping on matter is detrimental to your health. To avoid back problems, learn how to sleep while levitating 3 feet off the floor.
I do this, but I’ve found that rotating along the sagittal axis—six to ten times per hour—gives it that little extra zhuzh, chef’s kiss
Think rotisserie, but without the impalement or the intense heat
I genuinely sleep in a hammock and have done now for years.
It’s not levitation but it is great.
Legitimately the best sleep I ever got was when I had a hammock. It takes a bit of adjustment, but once you’re used to it, it’s so easy to wake up. I haven’t felt fully rested since I replaced my hammock with a bed
How does one legitimately sleep in a hammock? Ain’t it about as bad as lying on back and both sides at the same time, but also with fear of falling out or hammock itself falling down?
A properly built hammock is sturdy enough that it isn’t gonna fall down, and because the middle of it dips down with your weight, the sides come up sort of like a bowl and hold you in. Sleeping on your back isn’t actually that bad, and once you get used to it, you figure out how to spin slightly to one side or the other for comfort.
For reference, I was sleeping in a travel hammock meant for camping every night for about a year, I weighed over 200 lbs at the time, and even after the canvas started to tear at the seam, it never actually failed. The only reason I got rid of it is because the tear started to grow over the course of about a week.
Edit: also, for safety, I had a couple old comforters under it to cushion a potential fall, and an old pillow underneath my head for more protection. Never ended up actually needing them, but it’s an option
That’s a smart safety solution!
Gotcha, thank you
Sorry, but sleeping in levitation has been found to be detrimental to your health, you need to sleep in a 0g environment
i hate to be the bearer of bad news but air is still matter
Sleep on antimatter
But only very briefly.
Best sleep of your life.
Levitate and create a vacuum around your body. Don’t let that pesky air give you a kink in your neck.
Levitate upside down to decompress your spine
Sleeping on my back is soooo relaxing… when I can fall asleep. For some reason I have the hardest time falling asleep on my back, but when it does happen it’s bliss.
If I sleep on my back I get the most vivid and long nightmares, and, if I fall asleep in another position and then wake up from a nightmare, I’m almost always on my back. Not sure what it is, fiancée says I don’t snore or sound like I have trouble breathing.
Exact same thing happens to me. It’s not necessarily nightmares, but really intense dreams. So intense that I wake up feeling tired.
Yo same. I have so many pillows that I have to arrange specifically to cradle my neck in a certain way or I’ll wake up with a headache and stiff neck. My neck is most comfy when I’m on my back, but the rest of my body disagrees.
Step 1: Tape ypir neck to the bed while on your back.
Step 2: Turn the rest of your body on the side.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
I literally can’t fall asleep on my back lol. I can lay there for an hour and then the minute I roll over on my side or stomach I’ll fall asleep.
Exactly!! My body literally rejects sleep if I’m on my back. And sleeping on a plane semi reclined? Forget it
I have managed to sleep on my back once in my life. It was also the only night that I slept with my eyes open because I was so exhausted
i don’t sleep on my back because it causes frequent sleep paralysis. i find it more comfortable than my side usually but i don’t want to be attacked by the jack o lantern horse guy while i’m in my bed
I find it difficult to sleep on my back. I used to sleep on my side but I think that lead to a bit of QL aggravation.
Super cosy sleeping on my front though.
QL ??
sorry - quadratus lumborum. A deep abdominal muscle which tends to cause complaints of lower back pain when its tight.
quadratus lumborum
Holy shit that’s the bastard that hurts and tightens when I don’t walk around enough or I lay on the sofa too long on my back.
When I get up my back will be bent forward and tight. It feels so tight round the back and inside it feels like I’m shorter at the waist. Weird, horrible feeling. It goes away if I pivot round on my hips and walk round a bit.
I’ve found what aggravates it most is if I’m on my back and have my legs up. Basically the more L-shaped my body is on it’s side or back (legs up) the worse it gets. If I do lots of walking or running it loosens it up.
Motherfucking QL - I see you now you bastard. I know where you live! I know what you look like! I’m gonna fuck you up!
I’m not a doctor, but some combination of deadlifts and running have saved my lower back. I notice a huge difference in my back pain if I don’t workout for a while – these last few weeks of snow mean I’m not running as much, and the pain of NOT moving sufficiently is different and worse than the soreness from weightlifting! It’s surprisingly noticable.
Appreciate it but I’ve always found “lifting heavy” sssssoooooooooo fecking boring!!! I’d sooner do 30-60mins of intense Ashtanga yoga, a JJ class or even a quick run. The thought of lifting heavy objects puts me to sleep.
I used to own a load of weights and a rack. I spent hundreds on a home gym but after 6 months I wanted to murder everyone and myself! It was SO frustrating. I dunno how people do it cos it just isn’t for me. I’m getting on a bit (40) so I defo need to do something to keep myself active. I may go back to yoga. Ashtanga has lots of static bodyweight holds & lifts so it’s not just stretching.
I hear that, and fun music is how I enjoy it. I listen to a lot of reggaeton and cumbia. Knowing that I’m getting stronger, and improving my future living standard, are also plenty motivating. Like I said, back pain and then no back pain? I’ll do it.
It also scared the shit out of me to realize that some people my age couldn’t do an air squat… I don’t want to get old like that!
But, movement and strengthening in general is where it’s at. This works for me, but whatever keeps you interested. I don’t mean to make this an ad for my exercise routine!
Glad you have it figured out!
I’d recommend checking in with a professional (GP, physiotherapist, sports masseuse) if you need to get that tightness worked through. You can try get at it yourself with something small and firm like a lacrosse or golf ball but it’s pretty tricky to get at this muscle yourself given how deep it is. I’ve managed to relieve it on occasion lying on my back with a lacrosse ball wedged under. I move it around the area in a gentle circular motion for a little while, then bring the knee of the tight side to my chest, then extend it again.
Tight hamstrings and sleepy glutes exacerbate the issue, and I’d recommend a short routine of lower body static stretches (28-30s each) for your QLs, hams hips and so on before bed (and maybe some shorter, more active mobility exercises when you wake up too). kinda boring on its own but pretty great with a podcast on.
And as you’ve already found, staying mobile helps a great deal. if you work behind a desk, it could be worth looking into something adjustable so you can stand whenever you’d like.
Ah right, thank you, I got someone to read up on n now also, thank you :)
no worries. definitely worth looking into & looking after.
