The way I sleep gives me incredible wrist pain. I'm a very light sleeper so I can't nod off unless I'm 100% comfortable. And it seems that the only way I can
get comfortable is by crunching my hand to my arm, compressing my wrist, to form a pillow under my right cheek (figure 1). I do that, and I'm usually out in under 10. But I wake up with throbbing wrists and am good for little more than opening doors and wagging my finger at delinquents. It's becoming a real problem. Especially since I don't drink milk. Regular hands are rubbish for putting under your face because of upward-facing fingers (figure 2). Palms can suffocate. And I feel I look like a corpse if I sleep with my arms at my side. I suppose that shouldn't matter if I don't plan on dying in my sleep, but sometimes I wish I didn't have hands so I could sleep soundly. Then I think, if I'm wishing, I should probably wish for no wrist pain.
I used to sleep a lot with my whole arm straight up and my head resting on my upper arm. Woke up plenty of mornings not being able to feel the entire thing and waving it around awkwardly to make pins and needles set in.
ReplyDeleteI have this weird fear that if I keep doing that, my arm is going to become gangrenous and die or something D: so I've been changing my sleeping habits. A bit. Definitely a hard thing to do.
Weird tangential, I went to a frisbee tourney more than a year back now where I shared a room with another player I'd just met. He normally slept on his side with a huge body pillow wedged between his legs to keep his spine straight and his legs even. He complained for over an hour about how uncomfortable he was without his pillow before falling asleep D:
I've always thought that it would be to your benefit to try and be able to sleep in any position. Not only would that make airplane rides fly by (yuk yuk yuk), but it would prepare you for any injuries that made it impossible to sleep as you usually did. GENIUS.
I bet if i nailed this position I could sleep anywhere:
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