Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.

Spike ,'Potential'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sue - Mar 22, 2013 1:17:07 am PDT #15657 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Stomach/side sleeper. Duvet, no top sheet. Soft, scrunchy pillow. Can't bear any kind of weight or restrictions. Must have fully empty bladder (several trips to bathroom before I fall asleep). Prefer a cool room. Still have my teddy bear, but I don't really sleep "with" it, but he's in the bed.


Strix - Mar 22, 2013 1:49:38 am PDT #15658 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Side sleeper, hugging one pillow, with another pillow between my knees and a squishy pillow over my head (not the nose and mouth,though.)

When it's super-cold, we put on flannel sheets with a top sheet and the duvet, since I must sleep with the window cracked, even in subzero weather. Winter, I sleep in a tee or men's PJ top. If I am cold and wear socks to bed, I always kick them off in the night.

In the summer, I have the AC window unit on (I CANNOT sleep hot), and use a thin top sheet. DH still sleeps with the duvet in summer, but I sleep in a tank and panties, or just panties, or nude.

My ritual used to be taking my ambien and reading, but I am going to have to develop a new bedtime ritual.


Jesse - Mar 22, 2013 3:08:33 am PDT #15659 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In to my 20s, I would lie down on my back and never move again until morning. Now I usually fall asleep on my side and move around some. I always wear something, but it varies on the temperature. Top sheet, definitely, because I'd rather wash my sheets more often than my duvet cover. I'm currently wondering if my mouthguard makes me sleep less well, and if the benefit of not grinding my teeth down to nubs is worth it.


Kat - Mar 22, 2013 3:36:30 am PDT #15660 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'm currently wondering if my mouthguard makes me sleep less well, and if the benefit of not grinding my teeth down to nubs is worth

I have this question also. It does make me sleep less well, though. I don't wonder about it so much.


Jesse - Mar 22, 2013 3:53:24 am PDT #15661 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm not sure if the regular grinding is worse. I slept SO WELL on vacation, and didn't have my mouthguard with me, but also was on vacation.


Amy - Mar 22, 2013 4:27:39 am PDT #15662 of 30001
Because books.

I start on my side, and sometimes wind up on my stomach, but I generally just switch sides. Never slept on my back. Two pillows.

No top sheet, comforter only, t-shirt, panties, bare feet. Sometimes when it's really cold I'll put on a pair of light pajama pants. I like it colder in the room so I can burrow, and if S. had his way we'd have a fan on all the time. I generally crack a window even in the winter. I can't stand to be hot when I'm sleeping.


Jesse - Mar 22, 2013 4:44:53 am PDT #15663 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh god, I forgot to say how much I hate the fans! I'm in general not a fan of white noise, so even when the fan wasn't blowing on me, the noise bothers me.


Laura - Mar 22, 2013 4:50:16 am PDT #15664 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Lots of pillows, cocooned, top sheet, blankets, and in perpetual motion. One side, the other side, flipped with head to foot of bed, on my stomach, on my back. Might say I am a restless sleeper. I really like sleeping on the boat and should do so more often. Ah, rock to sleep.

When the boys were small we played musical beds a lot without planning it. They would be in our bed, we would grab a recliner or couch, every combination imaginable, including tents in the yard. We are pretty random with the sleep patterns. I've recently moved a comfy couch to the patio and am considering picking up some mosquito netting so I can sleep outside. More options are always good.


Jessica - Mar 22, 2013 5:04:38 am PDT #15665 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If I had my way I would sleep naked under a ton of blankets with the windows wide open, but DH comes to bed later than I do and closes the window if it's too cold. And since we are apt to have kids running into the room early in the morning, I sleep in a t-shirt. NEVER socks. Dylan is a socks-sleeper (and has been since he was an infant) and I do not understand how anyone sleeps that way without overheating.


DavidS - Mar 22, 2013 5:09:01 am PDT #15666 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I've recently moved a comfy couch to the patio and am considering picking up some mosquito netting so I can sleep outside.

When I lived in Boston we had a narrow back porch, and my gf and I would pull my mattress out there to sleep. It was so much cooler out in the open air during the summer, with the breeze.