Salon post: Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care...

[jenett]

Welcome to this week's salon post. I get us started with a couple of questions, but feel free to bring up totally different things if you'd rather.

(This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.)

Topic of the week
It feels like everything I'm reading is about sleep recently - okay, and I'm most of the way through Dr. Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep which is being recommended in a lot of those conversations.

So, my question for the week is "What works for you about sleep" and I'm sort of deeply curious about what people's preferences in bedding and making bed comfy are, if there are parts of that you're willing to share.

What I've been up to
Still on "Trial of a Timelord" in the Doctor Who rewatch (I have been dipping into other things, notably QI, which is also on BritBox, which is a weird clever British quiz show. (elisem and her husband introduced me to it last year.)


House rules:
* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.

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Comments

[jazzyjj]

Well let's see. I would prefer not to have to sleep in a sleeping bag, but if I really have no other choice I'll take it. I've never had sleep apnea or anything like that, I just don't like sleeping bags much. Maybe it's size. Often times when I'm staying over at my parents' place, the upstairs room I normally use is being occupied so I have to sleep on one of those inflatable mattresses which I must admit are kinda cool. But speaking of that upstairs bedroom, my mother's brother's old bed from his childhood is up there and it reminds me of a spaceship. It is a bit higher up off the floor, and has 2 guardrails. It's a king-size bed and is very comfortable. I was in that bedroom this weekend, when I was celebrating my birthday with the family. One thing I absolutely cannot stand is loud snoring. I know some people who do this, including some members of my family. A sister of mine, for example, does it but she was diagnosed with sleep apnea a few years ago. She has one of those CPAP machines though, and it has really helped her out.





As for my birthday, it was nice. I actually kinda celebrated all last week, some with the neighbors in my apartment complex and friends, and some with my immediate family. I got some cool presents as well. One of my neighbors got me a card that shows the Chicago skyline and has audio, and everyone here plus the 2 support staffers who work with me signed it.