sleep

there is an interesting article on the secret of sleep in the sydney morning herald yesterday. sleep is an interesting subject actually, of which i had blog about it once. that time i was talking about how much sleep we requires and the quality of sleep.

i notice this article here talks about the position of sleep. it started off by telling us that people who sleep in the foetal position seems tough but are really sensitive and shy. well… i do sleep in a foetal position sometimes. i read somewhere long time ago though, that people who sleep in a foetal position are secretly yearning for security. you see, it was said the foetal position is a quite a popular sleep position, and most people do sleep this way because…..well, everyone of us were sleeping in a foetal position before…. of course…. when we were in our mother’s womb. thus the study said that when we were out of our mother’s womb and became adults, and we sleep in the foetal position, we were sort of unconsciously thinking of going back to the comfort/safety of our mother’s womb.

what do you think? agree? do you sleep in a foetal position now? as i said just now sometimes i do sleep in a foetal position but my favourite position is sleeping on my back… but not the ‘starfish’ position, as described in the article, which is ‘spreadeagled on the back’. by ‘spreadeagled’ i suppose it means legs and arms wide apart? arms by the side spread wide apart? well when i sleep on my back, i rarely have my arms by my side but mostly i have my arms up behind my head! it was said that people who sleep thus (on their back with arms raised to the head) are deep thinkers. hmm… i am a deep thinker?

well the minute i drop to bed, i will assume this ‘on back with arms raised’ position and sometimes i will shift to foetal position but then i will shift back to ‘on back with arms raised’ position again, and most of the time i will keep to this position. once in a while i do drop my arms to the side but usually only one arm.

my best friend have a unique way of sleeping…. like a corpse! yeah she sleep on her back with fingers of both hands clasped together, laying on the centre of her stomach. and she told me all along she had been sleeping this way and she never assume any other sleep positions. strange. as for me i never try this position before. well…. once in a long while, i remember when automatically when i adopt this position, i will quickly shake it off as it gives me weird thought that i look like a corpse! ha!

ah… sleep is indeed an interesting subject. wait till i blog about dreams. more to talk about… and i’m sure our friend ‘dreamer’ will have even more to talk about! 🙂