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Article #2805Motionless sleep
From: Crystal
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:31
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:31
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Over the years, I've heard and seen time-lapse film of people tossing and turning and changing positions multitudes of times during the night. Well, I sleep like a dead body. My XSO brought it up one evening, and I didn't believe him, so we placed something on hip as I went to sleep. I woke about 4 hours later, and as I rolled over the thing on my hip fell off - reminding me of the experiment. I was shocked! I have performed this experiment many times since...it's weird...I apparently wake up before turning over. And I seem to remain in the same postion for 3-4 hours at a time. Now, for YEARS, beginning when I was a child, I would sleep with a cat (or cats)and I remember being very careful not to roll over and squish the critter I was sleeping with. In fact, I do NOT "roll" over, but instead, pick up my body, and place it in the same place, simply facing the opposite direction. (For several years I slept with 2 cats: one liked to snuggle against my back and the other liked to be in my arms, and when I changed position, they would crawl over me to get back into their positions. To this day, I sleep much better with someone or some thing in my arms.) As a result, I am quite capable of sleeping comfortably on a 24-inch wide mat, in spite of the fact that I am 100 lbs overweight. Is this sleeping pattern in any way detrimental to my health? I'm 38 now, and I seem to keep this "dead body" sleep pattern whether I sleep with a cat or not. A curiosity, to be sure.... Crystal ;>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!destroyer!caen!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!glia!crystal From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Motionless sleep Date: 6 Jan 93 19:31:08 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 31 Message-ID: <crystal.726348668@glia> NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu