Trust me to be a total weirdo in everything. I just perused this article on sleeping positions and discovered that mine is the rarest of all. It’s called “Starfish” and it’s supposed to mean that I’m a very loyal friend. Which is true. If I appoint somebody my friend, I become loyal as a dog to that person.
This sleep position also means that I love hearing the problems of others, and not to gloat but to help. This is also true, I’m a total Savior (I’m talking personality types, not religion.)
Some of these positions look painful.
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I’m FREEFALL
Freefall sleepers enjoy resting on their stomach, with their head turned to either side and hands near their pillow. As the name implies, freefall sleepers are very free personality types. They are very sociable people and can also be brash at times. Although they show such a free spirit, freefall sleepers are secretly nervous on the inside and have an over-sensitivity to criticism.
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I am Freefall, but wouldn’t describe myself as “very sociable ,” “free spirit” or ” very free personality types”. Don’t really understand what the latter means.
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Psychoanalytically, people who sleep on their stomach are anxious and protective of their privacy.
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// Psychoanalytically, people who sleep on their stomach are anxious and protective of their privacy.
I wanted to ask – from where do you know it? Is there a good site one can read and learn more about oneself?
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I’m almost anything but freefall and seem unable to get to sleep on my stomach under any circumstances. When younger I tended to soldier/starfish and now kind of a yearning/log/starfish blend (on my side but legs stretched out separately).
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I sleep in a variation of the “recovery position” simply because I’ve managed to mess up nearly all of my tendons and many of my muscles over the years.
The “recovery position” is therefore the safest and least painful of positions for me to sleep in, and even this I can’t manage on one side because I tend to mess up the rotator cuff of one shoulder with heavy lifting.
Thus I don’t sleep in any of those positions — I sleep in the position that looks the most like Casualty/A&E has put me under sedation for pain instead. 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_position
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some ibuprofen and paracetamol to ingest before sleeptime … 🙂
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