Whats Your Sleeping Style?

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Originally Posted by ShadowNightWing

My sleeping style has changed over the years. I find myself more comfortable now in the Foetus position and it seems when I fall asleep this way I'm happen to capture SP more often and I get an increase level of WILD's this way as well. Maybe it's just me but I thought I'd share that.

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i read this in an article at lucidity.com...

In the oldest available references on lucid dream induction, the
thousand year old text on Dream Yoga in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition,
is the advice to the initiate attempting to achieve a lucid dream that
he should sleep "on the right side, as the lion doth." It is possible
that the purpose of this posture is to encourage the type of brain
activity conducive to lucid dreaming. After all, most of our current
knowledge about reflex points on the body is found in ancient yogic
texts.

perhaps that's why you manage more WILD's in the Foetus position...are you sleeping on your right side?

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Originally Posted by JollyRoger

I guess I'd be a Starfish Soldier.

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the phrase "Starfish Soldier" made me lol. :D

I'm usually a free-faller, occasionally a foetus, and very rarely a starfish. I used to be a foetus/log all the time a few years ago. I wonder what the amount of change over a lifetime is on average?

Hmm now that I know this, maybe I'll have some dreams about skydiving or something haha

Starfish, I can not fall asleep in any other way, unless I'm at a desk of course. :D

I don't really see my go to position there, but This thread made me realize that if I awake in SP it is always in the Soldier position.

I move between positions quite a bit. I cant say I really have one position I sleep in and find it hard to imagine but Foetus or Soldier are probably the most common for me.

Woah, how can anyone sleep in the Log position? I mean, the person would have to be on top of their arm and leg. :0

I'm usually my own kind of Foetus, but I move one of my legs a little forward, so none of them are on top of each other. One hand goes under pillow (Not too much, or it'll be mashed under my head :<) Other hand goes ???. I've no idea, I gotta pay attention to that next time. I think it usually goes under the under-pillow arm...

When getting to sleep, I tend to lie on my sides, but I eventually even out at the soldier position when I do get to sleep.

I'm a freefaller. I don't agree with what it claims I am like though.

I am a freefaller, and I agree with what it says about my personality to some degree. I always sleep on my stomach, with my head rolled to one side.

I probably sleep in more than one of those positions.

I'm typically the yearner or starfish. But I have noticed that when I've been lucid I usually wake up in the soldier position...

I'm a freefaller with bits of me kinda loggish.

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Originally Posted by Matchbook

I'm none of the above. I sort of adopted my own style somehow, because it seemed the most comfortable and secure. I sleep on my side, but instead of having my legs together, my top leg comes over the other and my knee comes up a little, and then my front hand comes up underneath the edge of my pillow for support so that it doesn't tickle my face, and my bottom arm is wrapped underneath my body. And then I put a pillow on top of my head, so that there is just a crack between both pillows. Then I go to sleep.

It's kind of a mix of fetus and freefall, but not very close to either. It's more on my side than on my stomach, except that my body rolls toward my stomach a little from my top leg coming over.

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lol. thats so weird that is the most common and comfortable position i sleep in.i some times sleep soldier though but my hands fold and rest on my stomach instead of at my side and my legs cross.

i think i posted here befoer but i sleep in fetal position

Usually I sleep in a foetus position. Which freaked me out actually. "...tough on the outside but sensitive at heart." sound exactly like me. I aslo tend to sleep in a modified freefall. I sleep in that position but with my arms under my head as a pillow. Even if I have a perfectly good pillow at my side...

I'm pretty sure I hit all those positions before I find one comfortable enough for me to actually relax for more then 10 seconds to fall asleep.

I'll say I'm a Starfish.

does the position you sleep in really have anything to do with personality? because i'm either the foetus (but only because my room is cold at night and i curl up to keep warm :?) or the freefaller, but the freefaller personality sounds like the exact opposite of me. Brash and nervy? I'd say I'm more mellow

I am a mix between foetus and yearner. I tend to just sprawl myself over most of my bed lol

The article submitted from Luicidity.com has some truth to it. My sleeping style is fluctuating still. If I start in solider I can go WILD no problem, however this one is hard for me to determine because I can WILD in any position. On another note if I fall asleep in foetus I'll engage more LD's acknowledged while in the dream. I fall asleep on my right side when this transpires as I cannot fall asleep on my left side. If anyone has similar effects feel free to post them. :goodjob2:

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Originally Posted by Lucidity.com

In the oldest available references on lucid dream induction, the
thousand year old text on Dream Yoga in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition,
is the advice to the initiate attempting to achieve a lucid dream that
he should sleep "on the right side, as the lion doth." It is possible
that the purpose of this posture is to encourage the type of brain
activity conducive to lucid dreaming. After all, most of our current
knowledge about reflex points on the body is found in ancient yogic
texts.

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I've done the WILD's on my right side as well as other sleeping styles but I run into problems with Lucid Dreaming Acknowledged while in the Dream from this position. I tend to get it more from soldier sleeping style and mostly from this position. SP's transpire more from sleeping in foetus position but normally within the dream do I capture it.

I'm a combination of foetus and log. My legs usually aren't quite fully extended.