I sleep alone, in a queen size bed, usually in my boxers until it gets cold in the winter and I have to put on the PJs. My girlfriend and I have already decided we're sleeping separate beds if we ever move in together.
We rock it out on a King sized bed. Fan on, windows open. My S/O HATED the fan at first but now she can't sleep without it. Another "silent roomer" converted.
We also recently bought a memory foam pillow top, that thing ROCKS! Took a few days to get used to but now it's the best thing we have bought for a good nights sleep. WARNING: They also make the angle of some sexual positions troublesome....
Or you may have children and need a couple of hours of peace and quiet to wind down!!
It's all about you isn't it!
(Joke about narcissism just in case)
I can see why the separate bed or bedroom thing will gain in popularity, it makes sense if the couple have different schedules (night owl vs morning person) or are active sleepers and keep each other awake.
I got a new mattress recently that does a lot more to isolate the other person and I can say I do get better sleep, I almost never wake up when she moves during the night or gets up to go to work anymore.
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I got a new mattress recently that does a lot more to isolate the other person and I can say I do get better sleep, I almost never wake up when she moves during the night or gets up to go to work anymore.
Are you a light sleeper? I have no idea where I am on the scale but my g/f gets up every day at 430AM to go to work. I NEVER hear her alarm go off despite the fact we share a dual alarm clock that plays at the same volume when my alarm goes off. It will be going off for 5 mins before she hits snooze a couple of times too and it never wakes me up. I always here mine.
Most of the time I sleep through her alarm and her getting up and getting ready, but if something does wake me up it's usually the bed moving rather than the sounds, which happens less with this new mattress.
She's far more sensitive to it than me though, and she says she gets better sleep with the new mattress too.
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I am a brutal sleeper! Especially since the first kid. I am such a light sleeper that the kids coughing or sneezing at night wakes me up. And once I wake up it takes awhile to fall back asleep. Usually get 5 to 6 hours of horribly broken sleep which leaves you feeling pretty crappy most days. My wife has the ability t0 almost fall asleep instantly. She has actually said to me, I feel so wide awake that I can't get to sleep, and actually fall asleep before she finishes the sentence. Agh!
We have a king sized bed and keep the room as cool as possible generally leaving the windows open year round (vancouver) and fan running in the summer. I love lots of pillows and blankets. Kids seem to go through spells of climbing into our bed. Some weeks good some weeks bad. The worst was at the beginning of summer when my 4 year thought it was morning time at 5 because it was light out and wanted breakfast.
I use to love sleeping and going to bed. Know I hate it and build it up into a "thing" especially when I want to go the gym in the morning....
Very bad sleeper. Thank goodness for Zopiclone - but that only gets me to sleep, doesn't keep me asleep. Separate rooms - husband snores. He has two cats with him and I have one cat with me. He hits the pillow and is out for the count - doesn't move at all. I thrash around. Cute PJ's for me and boxers for him. I work odd shifts which means I can be up some days at 3.30am and others I don't get home till 11.30pm. Probably doesn't help my inablility to sleep properly.
Full sized bed for me. I sleep on my side in the fetal postion with one arm and hand under the pillow. The room has to be cold for me to get a good nights sleep. I've been told that my snoring sounds like a chain saw cutting wood.
I sleep an average of 8 hours a night and up to 10 on the weekends. Falling asleep is never a problem and I sleep right through the night.
I hate you.
For everyone that snores or has a significant other that snores, I beg you, get a CPAP. It will improve your life, no BS. I had a sleep survey done and found out that I was waking up from snoring and mild apnea 3 or 4 times every hour, even in REM sleep. Everyone I know that uses a CPAP has cut their snoring down or completely out, improved the quality and quantity of their sleep, wake up more rested, have more energy and have a happier SO.
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I tend to sleep like the dead once I finally get there. Tend to prefer sleeping from midnight-1am until 6 or 7am.
Sleep nekkid, on top of the comforter that my wife is often under. Most often on my side, with a single pillow for my head. Usually the cat joins my wife and I, tangling herself up in my wife's legs.
Important tip about sleeping with a partner. If you're the sort a person who rolls over in your sleep, always rotate toward the outside (ie. if you're on the right, rotate clockwise.) This ensures that you're keeping tension on the blankets, and prevents blanket-stealing. Rotating the other direction creates slack and increases the likelihood both of waking up totally uncovered, as well as the possibility of an uncomfortable barrier of bunched-up blankets between you.
Does anyone else go through stretches where you sleep absolutely fine without issue for a couple weeks, then for seemingly no reason the opposite occurs and you have issues going to sleep for a couple weeks? During that time everything aggravates you, whether it be that your bed sheets aren't straight, or you're sleeping on the wrong side of the pillow, or even that you're positioned on the wrong side of the bed? So all you do is waste time thinking about why can't you sleep, and that alone forces you to waste hours of your sleep time.
I also can only fall asleep on my right side, dunno why that became an issue for me, but someday it just became another thing. Then of course there is the fan... Whenever I am away and don't have access to a fan I'll usually play a Youtube clip all night long (and it is just as effective).
I am at the point that I often dread bedtime, unless I am in the stretch where sleeping in not an issue, in which I look forward to it.
Does anyone else go through stretches where you sleep absolutely fine without issue for a couple weeks, then for seemingly no reason the opposite occurs and you have issues going to sleep for a couple weeks? During that time everything aggravates you, whether it be that your bed sheets aren't straight, or you're sleeping on the wrong side of the pillow, or even that you're positioned on the wrong side of the bed? So all you do is waste time thinking about why can't you sleep, and that alone forces you to waste hours of your sleep time.
I also can only fall asleep on my right side, dunno why that became an issue for me, but someday it just became another thing. Then of course there is the fan... Whenever I am away and don't have access to a fan I'll usually play a Youtube clip all night long (and it is just as effective).
I am at the point that I often dread bedtime, unless I am in the stretch where sleeping in not an issue, in which I look forward to it.
Fan noise clip
Spoiler!
That's pretty much me man. I love the fans but they are never nice and smooth sounding, always a creak or a strange vibration that I have to get up and fix. Having to get up and make the bed in the middle of the night....it's awful.
