Sleep walking is where it’s at.
RESTERCISE
Don’t sleep, it’s bad for you . Just keep working.
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Go ahead and cc everybody on this one, it’s needed.
Whenever my stomach hurts i’ll remember some recommendation that you’re supposed to sleep on your left or right side.
But I never remember which so I just rotate back and forth
Left is better for digestion or something iirc?
Left is better for acid relux.
Oh, I naturally have to sleep on my side, as front and back are both uncomfortable (for back my ass is a bit too big to not make my lower back feel odd). I sometimes have issues with digestion/acid reflux, so maybe I instinctively sleep left side? I noticed I kept going left instead of right.
My understanding is, your stomach is slightly to one side (a bit like your heart is; you’re only symmetrical on the outside) and so laying on one side, your stomach is above your centerline, if you lay on the other your stomach is below your centerline. Sleeping with your stomach on the “high side” means its easier for stomach acid to leak up into your esophagus, which burns!
Optimal sleeping position depends on where the dog is in the bed.
Is… Is that an euphemism?
Not to a dog owner…
Can’t sleep, clowns will eat me.
Why are you in their car?
I can’t sleep on my back, if I do, my SO would probably murder me. So I sleep on my side.
I used to sleep on my stomach some years ago, but there were too many things I had to get just right before I could be comfortable enough to sleep, and frankly, my SO doesn’t give me enough space to do that most nights.
I did a sleep study recently and I’m waiting on their analysis, so hopefully I’ll get better sleep soon. I’ll be sure to ask the doctor about what position isn’t going to create more problems.
I can’t sleep on my back, if I do, my SO would probably murder me.
I don’t understand.
I snore very loudly if I sleep on my back.
She is very unreasonable when she is tired and cannot sleep because I’m making noise.
I wonder what the easiest way would be to track my sleeping position changes. Time lapse video and manual notation, probably.
Sounds like a lot of work for something you can’t correct easily.
Very true. I’m just curious!
I tried timelapse it’s pretty interesting but motion detection was better, using motion on a raspberry pi allows you to combine both if you want.
Until you see some paranormal activity in those recordings and then stop sleeping altogether 😰
Certainly a risk!
You never know what happens. It’s frankly terrifying.
Holy shit that’s so dark! 🤣
Bacta-tank is the best
Floating in the diaper tank
…blessly
I thought that was just to bring his internal temperature up to get Luke warm.
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
That’s what a passionate kiss from his sister was for.
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.
I’ve always wanted to be able to sleep on my side whilst hugging some kind of stuffed animal but to no avail. Ever since my SO gifted me a stuffed penguin toy that’s large enough to fit in my arms and server as a pseudo-pillow, I’ve been loving sleeping on my side and have been really comfortable doing so too. I’m the middle spoon most of the time then. :D
Sleeping on my back is best though
I bought a body pillow (without the anime girl) for the same but within days I was in immediate pain come mornings. It was probably just overstuffed but I went back to front sleeping and it immediately disappeared
Well there’s your problem, bodypillows don’t work tight unless they have anime girls on them
What about anime boys?
You do have to switch sides.
My pillow doesn’t like being big spoon.
I sleep on my side. I can’t sleep on my back or front :(
I sleep on my side, and wake up on my face, with a dead arm.
I can help you with that ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I have no idea what I meant, but it was dirty as hell.
Nobody knows what it means, but it’s PROVOCATIVE.
Back to work peasant!
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
It’s corroding you from within.
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!
The cardiac sphincter prevents reflux of gastric fluids from the stomach to the esophagus.
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.
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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.
I’ve got gas in my stomach somewhat frequently…
Have I got a solution for you!
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 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!
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
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.
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)?
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)
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.
I’d think so. You’d feel the urge to BM on the right rather than 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?
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).
We’re working on it, but the mf was on something, have you seen the digestive system class? Or the central nervous system class?
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
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
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.
That’s why you need to open source and freely distribute the mod.
This woman is dead. Her stomach is coming out of her body and her arms are under her esophagus
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.
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.
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.
The throat anus, for those not used to the medical terminology.
Upper bunghole, if you’re nasty
Thank you for the info, I hope it helps
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.”
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
Weird. I have to sleep on my right side or else my stomach gets upset.
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.
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 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
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.
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 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
