Isn't this a pretty picture?Remember how couples used to sleep in separate beds (or you at least remember hearing about this)? I am starting to think they they had the right idea back in those days. And I am seriously contemplating reinstating the idea in our house. I don't know about anybody else, but my husband has some very, very odd sleeping habits. It's been this way ever since we got married, and I am sure he has done it all his life.
There have been times when I have actually been resigned to sleeping on the couch or in the "guest bed" because of his crazy antics. Which include:
*He does this thing, where he will sleep with his hand on his face, elbow up in the air. Well that's all fine and good, but when you are unconscious, gravity takes over and the hand then begins to slide off the face, and if the sound of the sliding hand across the cheek repeatedly isn't annoying enough, there is the subsequent elbow to the head or face (as the hand slides off). My head or face.
*Next, he will start "puffing". It's hard to explain. Basically, when he is exhaling, the breath sort of comes out between his lips and it makes a puffing sound. It is equally as annoying, but not quite as painful as the previous habit.
*Then you've got your regular old snoring on and off.
*I also think that he sleep walks. Just the other night, he got up to go to the bathroom and I saw him go over to his dresser, and open and close the drawer before actually going to the bathroom. He didn't get anything out of the drawer though. Or sometimes he'll get up and just wander around in the living room. Of course, he has no recollection of doing these things, at all.
*Lastly, (and this is the best!) there have been times when I have gotten up to go to the bathroom and he will grab my wrist or around my waist really tightly, as if he is trying to detain me (this makes a little more sense if you know that he is a Police Officer). I admit, it is a little humorous, and we joke about these things a lot. 00
I think I want my own room. Wasn't that the goal when you were growing up, (it was if you had a very large family, like I did) to one day have your very own room. Then we get married, and and it's back to not only sharing a room, but your bed even! I am starting to question the logistics of this.
I guess one benefit of my husband going back on the night shift (the shift switches every 4 months), is that I get the bed ALL TO MYSELF! On the other hand, I feel almost locked out of the bedroom once he gets home from work. Only because I don't want to disturb his sleep.
We dream of one day getting a small piece of property and building a home. Maybe we should build him his very own sound proof sleeping quarters. A place where he can slide his hand, puff away, snore and wander around, without disturbing anyone else (me!). A place where he can also pile his "stuff" to his heart's content and I don't have to look at it every day. That's a whole different topic though.
There have been times when I have actually been resigned to sleeping on the couch or in the "guest bed" because of his crazy antics. Which include:
*He does this thing, where he will sleep with his hand on his face, elbow up in the air. Well that's all fine and good, but when you are unconscious, gravity takes over and the hand then begins to slide off the face, and if the sound of the sliding hand across the cheek repeatedly isn't annoying enough, there is the subsequent elbow to the head or face (as the hand slides off). My head or face.
*Next, he will start "puffing". It's hard to explain. Basically, when he is exhaling, the breath sort of comes out between his lips and it makes a puffing sound. It is equally as annoying, but not quite as painful as the previous habit.
*Then you've got your regular old snoring on and off.
*I also think that he sleep walks. Just the other night, he got up to go to the bathroom and I saw him go over to his dresser, and open and close the drawer before actually going to the bathroom. He didn't get anything out of the drawer though. Or sometimes he'll get up and just wander around in the living room. Of course, he has no recollection of doing these things, at all.
*Lastly, (and this is the best!) there have been times when I have gotten up to go to the bathroom and he will grab my wrist or around my waist really tightly, as if he is trying to detain me (this makes a little more sense if you know that he is a Police Officer). I admit, it is a little humorous, and we joke about these things a lot. 00
I think I want my own room. Wasn't that the goal when you were growing up, (it was if you had a very large family, like I did) to one day have your very own room. Then we get married, and and it's back to not only sharing a room, but your bed even! I am starting to question the logistics of this.
I guess one benefit of my husband going back on the night shift (the shift switches every 4 months), is that I get the bed ALL TO MYSELF! On the other hand, I feel almost locked out of the bedroom once he gets home from work. Only because I don't want to disturb his sleep.
We dream of one day getting a small piece of property and building a home. Maybe we should build him his very own sound proof sleeping quarters. A place where he can slide his hand, puff away, snore and wander around, without disturbing anyone else (me!). A place where he can also pile his "stuff" to his heart's content and I don't have to look at it every day. That's a whole different topic though.
4 comments:
Funny. Brandon does that puffy thing and he snores and he sleep walks/talks.
I swear the best thing we have going is a large fan on my side of the bedroom. It's a noise bufferer. And I have trained Brandon to sleep on his side (his back toward me) when he starts to snore. And another thing that helps is at Wal-mart, we bought these cheap-o light blocking curtains so it is pitch black dark in our room at night. Those things help me. I know what you mean about wanting your own bed. I'm such a light sleeper. But I love my hubs and I'd be lost without him. But there is a queen size guest bed in Glo's room and I'm tempted by it from time to time but haven't slept in it except a brief Sunday nap once.
I would so be okay with seperate bedrooms. There has been many night (and will be more) when Marshall sleeps on the couch. Not because we are fighting or anything like that, but just because its better for us period. Both of us have specific things that need to be in place for us to sleep and neither one of us has the same things. Marshall does the elbow thing too-hurts like the dickens to get hit with at 2 a.m.!
Check this out.
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Straight-Talk-from-Dr-Phil/2
Jon is also a sleep ninja, the other morning I woke up and found a dead goose on the floor (turned out to be a feather pillow he ripped in the middle of the night). I highly recommend a king bed.
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