My whole life, I’ve enjoyed sleeping on my side.
I don’t have any control over what I do while I’m asleep, but when I get in bed, I lie down on my side to go to sleep. —and I sleep with a pillow between my legs. “Birdie Franklin” taught me that trick, and my knees have never touched one another since.
Now, you may or may not know this, but our body relies on gravity for a lot.
Our inside plumbing, for instance, uses gravity to its advantage. Of course, you have working sphincter muscles, but I won’t get into that.
You know, …I might need to put an example in here.
A sphincter muscle is like the top on the Coke Bottle.
With the top on, you can set the Coke Bottle on its side, and nothing will happen. (Oh, this might be the best example I’ve ever made up. Keep up the excellent work “Lynn.”)
But, if you take the top off the Coke Bottle and lay it on its side, the Coke spills out.
And, like the coke bottle, when I lie down on my side, everything spills out into my bags, and they fill up during the night.
I don’t know about you, but that example gave me chills. Wow, that was a good example.
Now, ever since I got “Lenny and Squiggy” installed, I knew lying on my side wasn’t a great option any longer. But, out of everything I’ve had to make acceptions with in my life, I wasn’t going to accept that I had to lie on my back to sleep. I wasn’t going to give in on that.
Every person should be allowed to sleep however they want. It’s our God Given Right.
Well, I’ve conceded and am trying to learn how to sleep on my back.
It’ll just be easier all the way around.
I’ve slept on my back two nights in a row now, and the hardest part, of course, is falling asleep.
I did wake up still on my back, though.
And Lenny and Squiggy do seem to be happier.
