I sleep on my side

I sleep on my side and back. What does that mean? Study: Sleeping Position Reveals Personality Traits:

    Crouched in the fetal position is the most popular sleep pattern and favored by 51 percent of women, according to the results of the study he conducted for a large hotel group.

    Fetal sleepers tend to be shy and sensitive while people who assume the soldier position, flat on their back with arms at their sides, are quiet and reserved.

    Sleeping on one’s side with legs outstretched and arms down in what Idzikowski refers to as the log, indicates a social, easy-going personality. But if the arms are outstretched in the yearner position, the person tends to be more suspicious.

    The freefall, flat on the tummy with the hands at the sides of the head, is the most unusual position. Only 6.5 percent of people prefer it and they are usually brash and gregarious.

    Unassuming, good listeners usually adopt the starfish position — on the back with outstretched arms and legs.

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8 comments

  1. susan
    9/16/2003 at 2:56 pm

    I’m totally fetal. It may be really common, but it sounds weird.

  2. chris
    9/16/2003 at 3:00 pm

    I think it sounds weird because it’s called the ‘fetal position’. What if they called it ‘the leaping cat position’ or ‘the cannonball’? It needs to be sexed up for the pepsi generation x next.

  3. Sara
    9/16/2003 at 8:00 pm

    I think I’m fetal too. Everybody wants the womb.

    What about people who sleep in pretzels with their arms all akimbo with their mouth drooling open? My sister sleeps like that.

  4. Phil
    9/16/2003 at 10:15 pm

    I’m a freefall. That’s the only way I get to sleep, although I always start in the soldier. What does that mean? That I’m a paratrooper?

  5. chris
    9/16/2003 at 11:09 pm

    Oh, Phil. *shakes head*

  6. susan
    9/17/2003 at 2:13 pm

    I didn’t know how you wake up counts. I go to sleep fetal, but half the time I wake up all soldiery. Hm…

  7. Nyssa23
    9/17/2003 at 3:31 pm

    I always used to sleep starfish style (which is not so nice for whoever shares the bed with you.) But, since I’ve been pregnant I’ve had to sleep on my side–that’s the rule. I can’t wait until I can sleep however I want again!

  8. susan
    9/24/2003 at 4:30 pm

    good (funny) post on this at defective yeti: http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/000718.html