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scrapsandsass

scrapsandsass

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I saw part of a tv sitcom that I don't generally watch, but I had to laugh about how true it is that people generally tend to have a set side they sleep on and other weird quirks.

Do you always sleep on the same side? What about if you go somewhere and sleep in a bed that isn't yours? Still the same side? Do you have rules about blankets, sheets, etc.? Snooze alarm?

My husband sleeps with one blanket, and for some weird reason, doesn't use the top sheet, so he's over on his side attached to his sleep apnea machine, and I'm clear over on the other side of the king-size bed underneath a mound of blankets. He's an early riser and wakes up without an alarm clock (what kind of sorcery is that?!?!?) and he goes to sleep early. At the beach house, we sleep on opposite sides of the bed, and it is a queen, which he hogs incessantly. :giggle I can never understand how we are so far apart in a king, yet takes up the whole bed when it is a queen. Weird bed math there. LOL. We used to let the dogs sleep with us, but they would only sleep on my side, so that had to stop. And I'm totally a snooze alarm person when I have to set an alarm.

Anyway, the next minute or so of this ('til around 3:20) made me laugh.

https://youtu.be/Wndf2Pe3lW0?t=1m59s

Do you have any weird sleeping/waking rituals? Or odd bed mates?
 
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We definitely have specific sides of the bed that we always sleep on no matter where we are--home, hotel, visiting family.

I really struggle with insomnia while my husband normally tells me good night, turns over, and is asleep in what feels like moments which feels just really unfair when it takes me SO long to fall asleep!!
 
We most definitely have specific sides of the bed we sleep on and just tend to gravitate to those sides no matter where we are. I always try to go to bed and be asleep either before DH gets there or long after he's asleep. He has to have sound - radio, tv, phone, something making noise when he goes to bed. I have to have complete silence and darkness. So either I need to be asleep first or I have to wait and turn all his stuff off before I go to sleep. I get up first, so I set the alarm. He sets one, too for a bit later, but more often than not, I have to wake him up because he doesn't hear it.

Hahaha that video was too funny!
 
The only thing specific in our bed is sides...after that, ALL best are off, hahahaha! I may wake up with his pillow, or he may have all the duvet with me the sheet. Somehow it just works!

He does have a work alarm on his phone that goes off, but I have learned after 20 yrs to ignore it!

The video : "There is no barrier between the business and the bed" "Thunderdome" hahahahha!!!
 
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bderby said:
We definitely have specific sides of the bed that we always sleep on no matter where we are--home, hotel, visiting family.

I really struggle with insomnia while my husband normally tells me good night, turns over, and is asleep in what feels like moments which feels just really unfair when it takes me SO long to fall asleep!!
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This is me! And the part about your DH is spot on for my DH! lol!
 
We have "our sides" and I have the alarm clock on my side so when my alarm goes off he can sleep through it and then later when his alarm goes off he has to crawl across the king size bed to turn it off which makes sure that he doesn't go back to sleep haha. I sleep with a pillow over my head and a pillow tucked into my tummy, with the dog at my feet so my side of the bed is normally crowed and messy which makes him complain when he has to climb over the extra pillows to get to the alarm :giggle
 
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