I'm on a plane, struggling to write a post for Datingish. Struggling why? Not because I'm running out of ideas. Oh no. It's because the man sitting two seats away from me has the loudest snore I've ever heard.
Seriously, he sounds like a hibernating bear, and I can hear him through my earphones. I feel sorry for his wife.
If my parents are any indication, snoring can be an issue in relationships. My mother banished my father to the guest room for several years because she couldn't sleep due to his loud, incessant snoring. He ended up buying a nose clip of some form that allowed both of them to sleep.
Some sleeping tics are more entertaining than annoying. I have a friend who once held an entire conversation with his sister while asleep. He doesn't remember any of it. This sounds like it could be incriminating, if you asked him a question he didn't want to answer when he was conscious and awake. It could also be annoying, though, as many sleeptalkers simply babble nonsensically.
Other tics can be dangerous, like sleepwalking. Sleepwalkers are likely to hurt themselves. But you're also not supposed to physically interfere with them, or try to wake them up. Sleepwalkers aren't conscious of what they're doing, so they can prove a serious threat to you and to themselves.
I've never had any issues with these. As a graduate of boarding school and a rising college senior, I've had 4 roommates, none of whom snored. Neither have I received any complaints about snoring, although my college roommate did inform me that I occasionally sleeptalk. Luckily, it's in Japanese so she can't understand me, although I'd love to know what I say.
I don't know what I would do if a S/O I had to share a bed with did any of these things. Especially sleepwalk, which sounds kind of terrifying to deal with. I may love my S/O, but I love sleep too!
Do you do snore, sleepwalk, or sleeptalk? Has this caused any issues in your relationship?
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I stayed the night with a friend of mine and me and him slept on his futon while his other friend slept on his couch. Apparently, the other friend couldn't sleep because we were both snoring, but never woke each other up. :)
my husband snores and it is truly obnoxious. he only snores when he sleeps on his back, which is how he ends up every single time. but if he wakes me up, i just give him a shove and ask him to roll onto his side so i can get some shut-eye too, lol.
If your SO has a significant sleep problem, the loving thing to do would be to suggest a visit to a sleep specialist.
I snore a bit, and I used to sleep talk. I haven't had a talking experience in a while though, but I know I have done it. And my snoring isn't that bad, not as bad as my mom's snoring at least. Holy Cow that woman can snore! I always hated sharing a room with her on vacations because I hardly ever got any sleep.
I sleep talk and walk, my SO is a bit concerned because it freaks him out (thanks paranormal activity) and we are moving in together in less then a month. We'll see how it goes haha. He has a problem with sleep punching. I will wake up to go to the restroom and he will punch the place I was just laying. He doesn't even wake up when he does it luckily hes never gotten me but its come close a few times. We both think it has to do with his PTSD from the army. We tend to just joke about it because neither of the things we do in our sleep we have control over so its pointless to get angry about.
I noticed that people that I know, who snore, sleep on their backs and have chubby necks. my slightly chubby cousin snores and my other obese cousin snores and so does his mom, who is also overweight. I don't like visiting or staying over their house. good thing I moved to another state and no longer have to hear their snoring, not that I moved because of them-I moved because of a better job. anyway, I don't snore. I usually sleep on my side and sometimes I might drool I can't sleep on my back, because when I'm about to fall asleep, I feel like I'm dying
and when I dream of falling, the ride is more intense when I'm on my back than when I'm on my side, because I can grasp against my pillow and curl into a pokeball as I'm falling in my dream
via mummy sleep position: it is scary like falling from a skyscraper
or I have dreams of being buried or suffocated when I'm on my back
there are just no benefits of sleeping on my back. my airways don't feel clear and I have a fear that I might vomit for some reason during my sleep and then if I'm in deep sleep, I'll choke on my own vomit and die if I'm lying on my back
if I'm on my side, the vomit will just seep out like oatmeal drool:D I have a phobia of vomitting in general. that's probably why I don't get so drunk that I might vomit. I almost drowned when I was a kid, so I still have that phobia of drowning, whether in water or vomit:O how did my comment about snoring turn into vomit
that puppy is so adorable. I want to dab the puppy's paws in ink and stamp it all over my sleeping guy's face
I don't recall sleep walking or talking. I think I got molested by a ghost in my sleep before. it really felt like somebody was squeezing me hard
another time, it felt like the middle of my chest was being punctured as if a vampire stake was being driven through me
I also felt like I couldn't breathe before and I was going to die! or some stalker spirit was suffocating me
bitter spirits can't stand adorable people
but these things haven't happened lately. my fort of plushies developed a protective force field
I don't know if my bf snores. if he does, it is a low snore and I don't notice it.
My boyfriend snores.
Good thing I am a deep sleeper who can fall asleep to anything :) I am not a snorer (apparently I am not... My boyfriend says I dont.. But he might be lying :P haha) but, I do sleep walk once in a while. And one time when I was about 12 I slept walked down to the pool at my moms appartment and actually got in.. Could have become dangerous if I didn't wake up super confused by the cold water. Haha.
Apparently my boyfriend and I talk in our sleep. But it doesn't affect our relationship. I have been with guys who snored SOMETIMES and could not stand it! I'd pinch em or something to wake them. lol. Thankfully, it wasn't a common thing.
I have gotten very lucky that most of the guys I've dated and shared a bed with didn't snore or at least loudly enough, nor have any of my roommates had any weird sleep quirks besides my top bunk mates "sleep moaning". It helps only being able to hear from one ear. I think I would try wearing an earplug in my good ear before banishment. My mom snores, though, and I refused to sleep in the same bed/room with her after awhile even if I meant I had to sleep on the couch when we went somewhere to visit. One guy I had a one night sleepover with ground his teeth while he slept, and I would wake up and try to stop it in a half-awake stupor.
I talk in my sleep. Sometimes loudly. I've been known to scream sometimes too. Bless the boys and roommates who have put up with it.
I only snore when I'm sick and usually not bad. If it gets loud, I will wake myself up.
I've been caught sleep walking one time. Okay so I was asleep in the living room. My 13 year old sister was in the kitchen. She said out of nowhere I went up to her and said "we need to go help the girl in the attic." Of course my poor sister started freaking out. I was telling her that this little girl is locked up there (we had lived in this house for maybe 4 months?) and the people who lived here before us forgot about her. I kept telling her to go help her and my sister kept saying that there's no girl up there but I was begging her. She started shaking me and telling me to go back to sleep. I woke up while saying we need to go help her and I was honestly confused. She told me again to go to sleep. I passed out on the stairs lol. She went to bed and locked the door behind her cause I scared her haha.
Nothing to weird has happened with boyfriends but I'm told that I talk in my sleep. I don't say anything interesting mostly just really random stuff.
I've never had a boyfriend that snored really badly. Some snore when they're on their back, but all I needed to do was poke them or kick them gently, and they rolled over and shut up. My mum, on the other hand, snores really loudly and when I ever had to share a room with her on holiday, I never got any sleep.
I cannot sleep when my SO snoring and the sad part is it's not even that loud. I've been known to talk and thrash around in my sleep but that's only when i sleep alone. Sometimes I'm tempted to take benadryl to knock myself out when we go to bed so I don't wake up from his sleep tics. It's not a huge problem but I end up feeling really groggy which is curable with coffee ;D
I kick my feet and refuse to let my boyfriend go when we're sleeping. He just becomes an asshole when he's tired. :P
I have slept through 4 people snoring in the same room (they snored very loudly, like a orchestra of people with their blocked sinuses as their instruments). My bf can't sleep through snoring at all, and I don't snore most of the time. The rare times I do snore, it's quiet. But I usually sleep after him because he does snore, and it takes a little bit longer for me to fall asleep because of it.
that puppy is cute. that is all.
My boyfriend snores so much but the problem is I snore as well!
So when we go to bed, it's a battle to who falls asleep first!My dad used to snore terribly, but he insists that he doesn't snore since he gave up drinking a few years ago. LIES. He still sounds like a pissed off bear.
My fiance snores a little but it has never bothered me. I sleep talk and I sleep walk apparently. Once when I sleeping over at my SO's he had gotten up to go use the bathroom and apparently I climbed out of bed, followed him to the bathroom and asked what he was doing. He told me he just kinda looked at me was like "Um...going to the bathroom?" and I smiled, nodded my head and was like "oh, okay!" and I waited for him to finish so we could walk back to the room together. Another incident is when I slept over at my friend's house and I fell asleep before her and I guess I got up, walked down her hallway, stopped, looked around, came back and fell back where I was sleeping. My grandma often tells me I use the bathroom in the middle of the night and I'm fairly noisy when I do so (like putting the seat down if I need to, turning on the sink, etc). I recall none of this but hey!
My husband will snore when he lays on his back. I'll often wake him up in the middle of the night to tell him to roll over to his side lol. He also sleep talks. A lot lol. That I find more entertaining than annoying. Because it usually only comes in short bursts lol. It took me a while to accept the fact that I now have to sleep with someone like this but I guess there's just not much you can do. =P
Oh. He also likes to make disgusted faces at me whenever I try to cuddle with him and he swears he doesn't remember it or do it purposely lol. I believe him...but only because he's a huge cuddlerr when awake. ;]
I have sleep apnea, and whenever I sleep over at my boyfriend's apartment, he actually prefers to hear me snore. Apparently, whenever I snore, I'm insanely comfortable and happy, because I smile in my sleep too and start nuzzling him more. But, at the same time, he has to be careful, because I can stop breathing at any time.
Needless to say, my partner loves my little tics, sleeping or not. And I'm so thankful for it. :)i lover your picture.
I haven't had this problem, but I know a friend from high school whose parents have been married for decades, and sleep in different rooms because of the snoring problem.Interesting solution to use long term, but it seems to work for them.