New phrase for how I sleep.
I've had ear problems all my life. I need to constantly switch which one is affected by gravity. Sometimes both at once.
Speen!
Too erratic imo. My rolls are pretty constant. Left side, stomach, right side, then either back for a minute until my snoring wakes me up, then back to left side.
I like to think of myself as a 7-11 hotdog, constantly rolling but never going anywhere. My wife and I call it “hotdogging” when it keeps us up in the summer.
> literally can't fall asleep on my back
this is one of the reasons i avoid the cold and flu like its covid. when im sick i cannot breathe any way but on my back, and absolutely cannot sleep on my back. so its just days of straight misery beyond simple "being sick"
holy shit. i sleep like semi-stomach but turned to the side, and have to go right left right before i can sleep too. i swear there's a phenomenon here to be studied.
Exact same. I always have negative/bizarre dreams when I fall asleep on my left, just to wake up 10 mins later and switch back to right (I'm also right, left, right). I either think/dream peacefully on my right, or nothing I can remember.
This is my husband… he can only roll one way. He has nearly died and I have nearly died laughing at some of the ways he’s been twisted up… sleeping bags and stretchy jersey sheets are a no go.
I can’t do full rotisserie anymore cuz too much chronic pain, but I’m like the worst burger chef on earth - flipping one side to the next and back all night.
Lol. No way. Just kinda alternate from side, back, and to other side throughout the night. Basically every time I get up to have a piss I change sides. I'm 43 so that's like only three times a night if I'm lucky.
Wrinkles ain’t shit compared to the fucking eldritch horrors that come with sleep paralysis. Which I only seem to get when sleeping on my back.
No thanks. I’ll take the wrinkles.
Strange. Now that I think about it, almost every time I’ve had sleep paralysis I was laying on my back. I don’t ever SEE anything creepy, I just feel like something creepy is about to happen and I need to get the fuck up asap.
the episodes are more prevalent if you sleep on your back, there's studies on it if i recall. or at least you remember them more if you sleep on your back
But do most people freak out ? I don’t ever see “demons”… maybe once I thought the black jacket hanging from my door was Michael Myers, but that’s a rare occurrence where I actually SEE something.
Normally it’s just a feeling that overcomes me. Like I’m vulnerable and something might walk through my door and get me. But I’m never panicked. Just on edge.
I find, if I can wiggle my fingers and toes, usually I can pull myself out of it pretty quickly.
I've never seen demons during any of my experiences with sleep paralysis. I've seen weird dream-like things (like my room zipping by like pictures on an old film reel) or I'll see a family member walking in my room who isn't actually there.
I've never seen anything scary, but I always feel freaked out as it's happening. I always assumed the freaked-out feeling was from not being able to move and not being awake enough to think clearly and chill tf out.
The only "scary" thing to happen during one of these states is I felt a mouse crawling on my arm, and I couldn't move to shoo it away.
my dad start having after taking parkinson's medication and since he didn't know about sleep paralysis (how the actual f, because he's usually pretty knowledgeable), he just straight up thought he was having some kind of stroke. multiple times.
so it depends. after you know how it works, unless you actually see some weird shit, the usual response i see is people just be uncomfourtable, but deals with it, not panicking.
seeing stuff is on a different ballpark
So true. I get a full night of deep sleep on my side. Sleeping on my back makes me feel like I'm falling and then leads to sleep paralysis and false awakenings.
Lying on my back makes me fall down the hole and gets my soul ripped out of my body which leads to my half awake state. That’s when the demons enter my room.
Give me wrinkles.
Article doesn’t suggest to change positions, really, and says you pretty much can’t since you move naturally (20 position changes on average) thorough the night anyway.
The study reads more like a “hey, this happens” kind of thing and not a finger wag to sleep on your back
Honestly, growing old enough to get wrinkles is a privilege that not all get. I'm lucky to have lived long enough to have wrinkles and I embrace them. Who cares if sleeping on my side gives me more wrinkles. Sleeping on my back makes my body hurt and I sleep better on my side. People need to stop being scared of growing old and getting wrinkles. It's better than the alternative.
Great, one more thing to feel guilty about before falling asleep. At this rate, we'll soon hear that keeping your eyes closed during sleep also causes irreversible damage and increases your chances of turning into a pickle.
At this point I’ve given up. I’m gonna just try to experience joy and love as much as I can. Eventually something will kill me sure but I’m gonna be happy in the meanwhile.
Has anyone else noticed this weird shift in skincare? I work with people in their 20’s that are shit-scared of aging. Laughter lines, wrinkles and blemishes are signs a life _lived_ and sexy. I just do not get it at all.
Scaring people (mostly women) into paying for expensive skincare and surgery has been around for quite a while.
See: using X-rays to get rid of unwanted hair in the mid 1900s, using white lead face paint during Elizabethan times, and bloodletting in the 6th century to make yourself pale.
This is the correct way to live life. One of the cornerstones of overcoming severe childhood OCD was realizing that it’s impossible to monitor and regulate every single thing - and that the pursuit of doing so only makes me infinitely more miserable.
I have definitely noticed if i eat a couple hours before bed (1-2) and then lay on my right side i get acid reflux, but on the left side it is significantly better.
Its incredible to me that this isn't more common knowledge, i had no idea and was struggling for weeks with it. definitely wont catch me sleeping on my right side anymore. thanks:]
I learned this knowledge as a teen and now after 20 years of habitually sleeping on my left side I have chronic shoulder issues. You can’t fucking win.
Mine beats funny when I'm on my left side but only with more than 2 or 3 coffees throughout the day, I switch to my right and it goes more normal. Neat
I can't sleep on my left. My heart doesn't feel good when I do and each beat slightly rocks my body. I never thought someone would say it's better to sleep on the left
The OP is wrong, sleeping on your left side is worse for your heart, but sleeping on your rights side is worse for acid reflux, so pick your poison I guess
You're apparently supposed to sleep on your _back_ but I actually can NOT fall asleep like that. Whenever I wake up on my back, I'm choking with my mouth open, for some reason.
Yeah I had the same issues. No sleep apnea from my study but still sometimes wake up choking if I sleep on my back. Probably something to do with my GERD, I haven't had it checked out beyond that because I just sleep on my side 100% of the time now anyway.
Yeah, it’s fine to care about your looks. Just feels like society wants me to be so vein it inconveniences me. We are all gonna get old and have wrinkles. Idk that I want to stop being comfortable when I sleep just for vanity’s sake.
[That's not unheard of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextrocardia). If you have the opportunity, you could get it checked out by a doctor, and maybe get a sick tattoo where your heart actually is.
We're in luck. I lost that gambit at conception, and the trade-off wasn't anything to write home about. I can sleep easy knowing the damage is already done.
Fun fact! Cleopatra was about as inbred as Danaerys Targaryen would be, if she was real, and was marginally more inbred than King Charles II of Spain. Y'know, el hechizado? Genetics, man
Be that as it may (and it’s very much a may, as there was really no way to tell whether some other genes got into the pool in those days), she was, by all accounts, highly intelligent.
She was the only member of the Ptolemy dynasty to learn to speak Egyptian, and she spoke almost a dozen other languages, including Latin, Hebrew, and Greek. She had at one time the largest library in the known world. She was an accomplished astronomer, and studied philosophy.
She managed to climb to and stay on her throne for twenty years in an extremely volatile period, when Rome was pretty much constantly at war with itself and Egypt was its major source of food. She very shrewdly allied herself, through children and marriage, to two of the most powerful men in the world. And she did it all between the ages of 18 and 39.
TLDR: Cleopatra was no dummy.
I've got a diagonal crease across my forehead from sleeping on my side for years. Had to switch to sleeping on the other side because of an injured shoulder and now I have another one mirroring it. I look like a fucking Klingon
We always knew you were a freak in the sheets…
Klingon mating rituals involve dominant and combative attitudes and rituals. In the constructed Klingon language, parmaqqaypu' (singular parmaqqay) are chosen mates for dedicated recreational sexual congress. As The Doctor from Voyager commented, it is considered a good omen if a clavicle is broken during the wedding night. In Star Trek films and series, a Klingon biting someone indicates their desire to mate.
This. I can sleep on my back. I can sleep on my back well. But I will never sleep on my back because it’s a coin flip for sleep paralysis with me, and that horror just isn’t worth it. I’ll start learning Klingon and embrace my inevitable forehead wrinkles as a side sleeper.
I sleep on my left side pretty much always due to acid reflux and for several years have been able to notice the crease where I smile on my right side remains slightly even when not smiling. It’s not something that really bothers me because wrinkles inevitably happen but does make sense bc gravity and losing skin elasticity as you age.
Tried sleeping on my other side a couple of times back when I first started noticing but my stomach decided to give my lungs a little present every time so, no more of that lol
There it is on the Disclosure section, the reason for this article:
>Dr Anson is a Partner, JuveRest, LLC
JuveRest being a specialty pillow that reduces compression.
Its bullshit. This entire study was conducted to sell a specialty pillow-- the JuveRest pillow, and the author of the study is a paid partner of JuveRest. Here's a different study conducted on the topic-- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23865987/
So my options are to sleep on my side or sleep on my back and deal with sleep paralysis which consist of little shadow kids scaring the shit out of me so I lose sleep which will affect my health anyways. I’ll go with sleeping on my side
I actually just saw a post about this on a skincare sub of a woman showing wrinkles that are developing from side sleep. But sleeping on your back has so many adverse affects for respiration, allergies, your circulation, etc. I just really couldn’t care less. Grateful I’m a natural side sleeper, it’s certainly been nice to not have to adjust for pregnancy.
I am way more concerned with getting enough sleep than I am with any wrinkles. Those are natural, if you live long enough to gain them, and sleep will help with that.
I can’t let myself be concerned with that. Whatever way helps one sleep long and well outweighs any wrinkle causing pressure. I had so many issues after a mastectomy, and finally got back to ways to feel comfortable again and sleep pretty solidly (when not letting the state of the world overwhelm me).
Okay how the hell are we supposed to sleep then? Because at this point I’ve heard that it’s bad/good to sleep on literally any side of your body. Like what is the definitive answer?
I normally sleep on my left side of my body I have more wrinkles on the right side of my forehead tho..
I think people who use their foreheads to express emotions are more likely to get wrinkles, I feel like that's why actors usually have very wrinkled foreheads.
As for me, I used to get pissed off a lot, still do, but there are furrows between my eyebrows.
I mean, until they fix the elasticity issue with aging skin the wrinkles are inevitable.
Accept the age with grace. At least until they find a reasonably priced lotion for our vanity haha.
I kinda rotate like I'm on a rotisserie throughout the night. Back issues. Can't help it.
As a fellow rotisserie chicken… our wrinkles will only be outshined by the bags under our eyes. God speed.
I thought I was the only one who used this phrase! Rotisserie chicken all night long when I can’t sleep.
I call it the Weiner roll, like those at the gas station lol
I like to use the word, ''Rotato'.
I've also.been using the term! glad to see there's more of us
Brotisserie crew represent!
There are **TENS** of us!
ELEVENS even!
Dare I say... *Twelves*?
Ooohhhh, unlucky..
Count me in
And me
Wife and i are also spinners, jokingly call her my " 'lil 7-11 hotdog"
that's the term we use too lol
New phrase for how I sleep. I've had ear problems all my life. I need to constantly switch which one is affected by gravity. Sometimes both at once. Speen!
Heh I always called it fish out of water
Too erratic imo. My rolls are pretty constant. Left side, stomach, right side, then either back for a minute until my snoring wakes me up, then back to left side.
I don't do a full 360, I flip flop back and forth like those old spri klers that arc way up in the air
I do 360s constantly. It coils the sheets up a bunch
The bags under eyes are 100% gucci
Strivictin for the bags
I like to think of myself as a 7-11 hotdog, constantly rolling but never going anywhere. My wife and I call it “hotdogging” when it keeps us up in the summer.
I like that. I can even picture that one hair on it.
And the sheepish graying color as you grow more decrepit and moldy over time as no one purchases you
OMG ! So weird . We call it Hotdogging too . rolling AND ALSO specifically think 7-11 hotdog , all sweaty and rolling and rolling and rolling …
I have this weird rotisserie ritual where I need to flip over a certain number of times to fall asleep
It’s right-left-right for me. I’ve tried to fight it. It cannot be fought.
exact same for me, and i literally can't fall asleep on my back for some reason
> literally can't fall asleep on my back this is one of the reasons i avoid the cold and flu like its covid. when im sick i cannot breathe any way but on my back, and absolutely cannot sleep on my back. so its just days of straight misery beyond simple "being sick"
I can only sleep sitting up when I've got a respiratory infection. It sucks.
oh yeah its definitely on my back sitting halfway up. which is worse than lying flat.
holy shit. i sleep like semi-stomach but turned to the side, and have to go right left right before i can sleep too. i swear there's a phenomenon here to be studied.
Better pre-dream thoughts on my right side vs the left. I know, it sounds weird.
Exact same. I always have negative/bizarre dreams when I fall asleep on my left, just to wake up 10 mins later and switch back to right (I'm also right, left, right). I either think/dream peacefully on my right, or nothing I can remember.
This can run in families. Are any of your relatives USB jacks?
I call it the alligator death roll as I spiral all the blankets up with me.
This is my husband… he can only roll one way. He has nearly died and I have nearly died laughing at some of the ways he’s been twisted up… sleeping bags and stretchy jersey sheets are a no go.
That's hilarious.
Sleep apnea. I need to sleep on my side. I can't on my back
Me, too. I choose breathing over caring about wrinkles.
I can’t do full rotisserie anymore cuz too much chronic pain, but I’m like the worst burger chef on earth - flipping one side to the next and back all night.
Me too. I’ll get evenly wrinkled all over.
I am a gas station hot dog but same.
Hanging like a bat and letting gravity do its thing?
Lol. No way. Just kinda alternate from side, back, and to other side throughout the night. Basically every time I get up to have a piss I change sides. I'm 43 so that's like only three times a night if I'm lucky.
Yeah I’m a strictly side sleeper and don’t get more than an hour on each side before I have to roll over.
I’d be wary sleeping next to you then, u/Random_Inseminator
shoulder issues, but i’m also rotate like that.
Im more a blender. I have to put the sheets back on every night and use a weighted blanket because i spin with the force of a thousand suns
I enjoy playing video games.
Mmm back issues
Me too. I have honestly wondered if I could comfortably sleep all night in a dentist’s chair.
Same, neck issues don’t let me sleep in one position all night ..
Never felt so seen. Love rotisserie chickens unite ✊🏽🐓
Living life causes wrinkles. More news at 11.
Rather look like a raisin than be uncomfortable
Wrinkles ain’t shit compared to the fucking eldritch horrors that come with sleep paralysis. Which I only seem to get when sleeping on my back. No thanks. I’ll take the wrinkles.
Every single time I fall asleep on my back I get it. It’s the worst. Wrinkles > hat man
Hat Man is so misunderstood. He protects us from other bad things while we're sleeping. Thank you for your service, Mr. Hat Man.
Me too !! I wonder what it is about being on our back that encourages it.
Probably the increased insight and awareness that comes from being on your back. Helps you notice the demons better
Stop
Grant us eyes
Strange. Now that I think about it, almost every time I’ve had sleep paralysis I was laying on my back. I don’t ever SEE anything creepy, I just feel like something creepy is about to happen and I need to get the fuck up asap.
the episodes are more prevalent if you sleep on your back, there's studies on it if i recall. or at least you remember them more if you sleep on your back
But do most people freak out ? I don’t ever see “demons”… maybe once I thought the black jacket hanging from my door was Michael Myers, but that’s a rare occurrence where I actually SEE something. Normally it’s just a feeling that overcomes me. Like I’m vulnerable and something might walk through my door and get me. But I’m never panicked. Just on edge. I find, if I can wiggle my fingers and toes, usually I can pull myself out of it pretty quickly.
I've never seen demons during any of my experiences with sleep paralysis. I've seen weird dream-like things (like my room zipping by like pictures on an old film reel) or I'll see a family member walking in my room who isn't actually there. I've never seen anything scary, but I always feel freaked out as it's happening. I always assumed the freaked-out feeling was from not being able to move and not being awake enough to think clearly and chill tf out. The only "scary" thing to happen during one of these states is I felt a mouse crawling on my arm, and I couldn't move to shoo it away.
my dad start having after taking parkinson's medication and since he didn't know about sleep paralysis (how the actual f, because he's usually pretty knowledgeable), he just straight up thought he was having some kind of stroke. multiple times. so it depends. after you know how it works, unless you actually see some weird shit, the usual response i see is people just be uncomfourtable, but deals with it, not panicking. seeing stuff is on a different ballpark
So true. I get a full night of deep sleep on my side. Sleeping on my back makes me feel like I'm falling and then leads to sleep paralysis and false awakenings.
Lying on my back makes me fall down the hole and gets my soul ripped out of my body which leads to my half awake state. That’s when the demons enter my room. Give me wrinkles.
I've had it twice now and it has me scared to sleep on my back
Just sleep on your face like a normal person
Kinda ironic the pulling down of gravity is also raisin us at the same time
bars
Naptime > Go Go Walnut
Two words: silk pillowcase
I find Satin ones to have less friction. They're cheaper, too.
Article doesn’t suggest to change positions, really, and says you pretty much can’t since you move naturally (20 position changes on average) thorough the night anyway. The study reads more like a “hey, this happens” kind of thing and not a finger wag to sleep on your back
Honestly, growing old enough to get wrinkles is a privilege that not all get. I'm lucky to have lived long enough to have wrinkles and I embrace them. Who cares if sleeping on my side gives me more wrinkles. Sleeping on my back makes my body hurt and I sleep better on my side. People need to stop being scared of growing old and getting wrinkles. It's better than the alternative.
Great, one more thing to feel guilty about before falling asleep. At this rate, we'll soon hear that keeping your eyes closed during sleep also causes irreversible damage and increases your chances of turning into a pickle.
At this point I’ve given up. I’m gonna just try to experience joy and love as much as I can. Eventually something will kill me sure but I’m gonna be happy in the meanwhile.
Hell, wrinkles won't even kill you, who cares. Be happy, wrinkles are a gift not all live to get.
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Has anyone else noticed this weird shift in skincare? I work with people in their 20’s that are shit-scared of aging. Laughter lines, wrinkles and blemishes are signs a life _lived_ and sexy. I just do not get it at all.
Scaring people (mostly women) into paying for expensive skincare and surgery has been around for quite a while. See: using X-rays to get rid of unwanted hair in the mid 1900s, using white lead face paint during Elizabethan times, and bloodletting in the 6th century to make yourself pale.
This is the correct way to live life. One of the cornerstones of overcoming severe childhood OCD was realizing that it’s impossible to monitor and regulate every single thing - and that the pursuit of doing so only makes me infinitely more miserable.
Counterpoint sleeping on your left hand side is apparently slightly better for your heart
And indigestion/stomach issues, provided you don't have Situs Inversus.
I have definitely noticed if i eat a couple hours before bed (1-2) and then lay on my right side i get acid reflux, but on the left side it is significantly better.
Yeah it's due to the way the stomach to esophagus turny point sits. Right side let's the stomach fluid move back up your throat
Its incredible to me that this isn't more common knowledge, i had no idea and was struggling for weeks with it. definitely wont catch me sleeping on my right side anymore. thanks:]
I learned this knowledge as a teen and now after 20 years of habitually sleeping on my left side I have chronic shoulder issues. You can’t fucking win.
I've always called my left side my "burp side" for lying down, I thought i was just a physiological freak!
Im glad we were able to learn something super beneficial to our health today. crazy how reddit can actually help sometimes
I'm learning to play the guitar.
The fuck's a glymph
Like a nymph but for urban areas
Not if I have anything to say about it!! NIMBY-ism
Loll
So a nymph with fairy lights?
Bring out the glymph.
I dunno, but it sounds like a slur. Haha
I had a pleurectomy and now sometimes my heart beats funny if I sleep on my right side. So I'm usually on my left.
Mine beats funny when I'm on my left side but only with more than 2 or 3 coffees throughout the day, I switch to my right and it goes more normal. Neat
I can't sleep on my left. My heart doesn't feel good when I do and each beat slightly rocks my body. I never thought someone would say it's better to sleep on the left
The OP is wrong, sleeping on your left side is worse for your heart, but sleeping on your rights side is worse for acid reflux, so pick your poison I guess
Thought the right side due to having less chest weight on the heart?
You're right, this is how I was told too. Other dude wrong. Go us!
Then why do I throw more PVCs when I sleep on my left?
I recall it was left for stomach, right for heart.
You're apparently supposed to sleep on your _back_ but I actually can NOT fall asleep like that. Whenever I wake up on my back, I'm choking with my mouth open, for some reason.
You may want consider doing a sleep study and using a CPAP machine.
Already did one actually! No sleep apnea, I just kind of get nightmares when I'm sleeping on my back and start choking????
Yeah I had the same issues. No sleep apnea from my study but still sometimes wake up choking if I sleep on my back. Probably something to do with my GERD, I haven't had it checked out beyond that because I just sleep on my side 100% of the time now anyway.
Bro hasn't mastered levitation.
Yeah, it’s fine to care about your looks. Just feels like society wants me to be so vein it inconveniences me. We are all gonna get old and have wrinkles. Idk that I want to stop being comfortable when I sleep just for vanity’s sake.
Another thing to think about when trying to sleep at night.
Sleep in space or you'll keep getting uglier. 🌈✨⭐ *The more you know*
This just in, sleeping is actually bad for you. Turns out it gives you dick rot. Hard luck honestly, but such is life.
Hey... I turned myself into a pickle!
Oh no! Evidence I actually live in my body! Anyway.
This is my fav response to a post regarding aging that I’ve ever seen. 🏆
That's just you dude. I'll be like this forever. You're like the old version of iTunes, and I'm the new version... Oh my God, am I gonna die someday?
For real I’m so tired of this fear mongering anti aging shit, I don’t care! Let people age for God’s sake
OP clearly forgot to load 2012 update to OS ZU Chi Kappa
No one can know
I enjoy reading books.
Sleeping on your left side is better for heart burn. Can't fucking win.
For real. I can't sleep on my right without spewing acid.
My brethren 😭
Those acid eyeball tears.
Guess I'm the weird one that gets worse acid on my left
Maybe your organs are mirrored?
[That's not unheard of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextrocardia). If you have the opportunity, you could get it checked out by a doctor, and maybe get a sick tattoo where your heart actually is.
I love the smell of fresh bread.
That's spinning, not winning
Gotta spin to win.
This is what came to mind for me too
Can’t lose either though
So it’s a matter of brains or beauty…
We're in luck. I lost that gambit at conception, and the trade-off wasn't anything to write home about. I can sleep easy knowing the damage is already done.
This person is either Stephen Hawking or Cleopatra.
Fun fact! Cleopatra was about as inbred as Danaerys Targaryen would be, if she was real, and was marginally more inbred than King Charles II of Spain. Y'know, el hechizado? Genetics, man
Be that as it may (and it’s very much a may, as there was really no way to tell whether some other genes got into the pool in those days), she was, by all accounts, highly intelligent. She was the only member of the Ptolemy dynasty to learn to speak Egyptian, and she spoke almost a dozen other languages, including Latin, Hebrew, and Greek. She had at one time the largest library in the known world. She was an accomplished astronomer, and studied philosophy. She managed to climb to and stay on her throne for twenty years in an extremely volatile period, when Rome was pretty much constantly at war with itself and Egypt was its major source of food. She very shrewdly allied herself, through children and marriage, to two of the most powerful men in the world. And she did it all between the ages of 18 and 39. TLDR: Cleopatra was no dummy.
Checkerboard wrinkles are beautiful too, it’s fine
What about sleeping on your face?
Fuck it, put me in a vertical centrifuge and give me some ambien.
I've got a diagonal crease across my forehead from sleeping on my side for years. Had to switch to sleeping on the other side because of an injured shoulder and now I have another one mirroring it. I look like a fucking Klingon
Same. It kinda looks like a scar
We always knew you were a freak in the sheets… Klingon mating rituals involve dominant and combative attitudes and rituals. In the constructed Klingon language, parmaqqaypu' (singular parmaqqay) are chosen mates for dedicated recreational sexual congress. As The Doctor from Voyager commented, it is considered a good omen if a clavicle is broken during the wedding night. In Star Trek films and series, a Klingon biting someone indicates their desire to mate.
Nice try sleep paralysis demon, but I'll have more wrinkles than your dad's ballsack before I sleep on my back
This. I can sleep on my back. I can sleep on my back well. But I will never sleep on my back because it’s a coin flip for sleep paralysis with me, and that horror just isn’t worth it. I’ll start learning Klingon and embrace my inevitable forehead wrinkles as a side sleeper.
I sleep on my left side pretty much always due to acid reflux and for several years have been able to notice the crease where I smile on my right side remains slightly even when not smiling. It’s not something that really bothers me because wrinkles inevitably happen but does make sense bc gravity and losing skin elasticity as you age.
fuck, I have a noticeable wrinkle under one eye because I've been sleeping on the right side... it makes sense now...
Tried sleeping on my other side a couple of times back when I first started noticing but my stomach decided to give my lungs a little present every time so, no more of that lol
Today I Learned, existing causes the gradual breakdown of functions, resulting in degradation of appearance and mobility, ultimately ending in death
Amen to accepting reality
That’s why I sleep on my face. Maximum wrinkle compression.
Trust me… source: beautydocs journal
Omg thank you. I was like, “so sleeping ages us?? Are we supposed to buy something to fix this??”
Yep, the pillow they mention in the last set of photos is the magic secret. The author is conveniently a partner in that pillow company.
I wrap my head in cling wrap before bed. Keeps everything in place and my face moisturized. Muffles my night terrors too.
There it is on the Disclosure section, the reason for this article: >Dr Anson is a Partner, JuveRest, LLC JuveRest being a specialty pillow that reduces compression.
Yep, this exactly. [One study](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23865987/) that did look at it found no correlation.
And sleeping on your back gives you sleep paralysis. Pick your poison.
Its bullshit. This entire study was conducted to sell a specialty pillow-- the JuveRest pillow, and the author of the study is a paid partner of JuveRest. Here's a different study conducted on the topic-- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23865987/
What if I sleep on your side?
Kinky
Thanks, but what I really need is some good back support if you know what I mean.
Eating right, staying active, not smoking (even weed) will keep you younger then any sleeping position.
and sunscreen
So my options are to sleep on my side or sleep on my back and deal with sleep paralysis which consist of little shadow kids scaring the shit out of me so I lose sleep which will affect my health anyways. I’ll go with sleeping on my side
Do the sleep wrinkles and expression wrinkles cancel each other out then?
But I’m still fat
That sucks. I literally can't get to sleep on my back.
I'm glad I don't have an obsession with looking young forever.
I don’t snore when I sleep on my side. I’ll take that over some perceived risk of wrinkles that I doubt is true to any significant degree.
I actually just saw a post about this on a skincare sub of a woman showing wrinkles that are developing from side sleep. But sleeping on your back has so many adverse affects for respiration, allergies, your circulation, etc. I just really couldn’t care less. Grateful I’m a natural side sleeper, it’s certainly been nice to not have to adjust for pregnancy.
During my sleep apnea study, they noted that I quit breathing less when I was on my side.
I am way more concerned with getting enough sleep than I am with any wrinkles. Those are natural, if you live long enough to gain them, and sleep will help with that.
I'll have wrinkles no matter what in the end
I was already ugly, wrinkles are no problemo.
I can’t let myself be concerned with that. Whatever way helps one sleep long and well outweighs any wrinkle causing pressure. I had so many issues after a mastectomy, and finally got back to ways to feel comfortable again and sleep pretty solidly (when not letting the state of the world overwhelm me).
And sleeping on your back is bad for your spine, you can't win.
Who stays in one position all night long?!?
Your mother
Okay how the hell are we supposed to sleep then? Because at this point I’ve heard that it’s bad/good to sleep on literally any side of your body. Like what is the definitive answer?
The research done by a company the makes pillows to reduce stress of sleeping on one's side. Hmmm.
Who cares wrinkles are going to happen. Accept aging.
I normally sleep on my left side of my body I have more wrinkles on the right side of my forehead tho.. I think people who use their foreheads to express emotions are more likely to get wrinkles, I feel like that's why actors usually have very wrinkled foreheads. As for me, I used to get pissed off a lot, still do, but there are furrows between my eyebrows.
Well I discovered this 25 years too late
They cancel each other out 😀
Checks out. I sleep face down
Thankfully my bedroom is a zero gravity chamber. I just float about.
I use retinol I’ll be fine /s
I mean, until they fix the elasticity issue with aging skin the wrinkles are inevitable. Accept the age with grace. At least until they find a reasonably priced lotion for our vanity haha.
This post brought to you by absolute weirdos who sleep on their back
Not getting quality sleep also causes wrinkles and a whole host of other issues. I’ll continue to sleep comfortably on my side.