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Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Sleeping Posture
Message-ID: <156@hlhop.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Jul-83 17:58:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 21 17:58:53 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 13:29:06 EDT
Organization: BTL Naperville, Il.
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There is an interesting paperback book titled "Sleep Positions"
which describes some common sleeping postures and discusses the
psychological types which use them.  The thesis is that sleeping
positions tend to meet the psychological, rather than the physical
needs of the sleeper.  For example, people who usually sleep on 
their backs (the "royal" position) are a certain type with a
high self-esteem.  Even if they have a lesion on their back, they
will tend to sleep this way rather than change it.

The book also discusses people who sleep on their stomachs
(they are trying to be in control, "on top of" their situations),
spoon-sleepers, people who sleep nose-to-nose (usually happily 
married), the Dutch-wife pillow sleeper, and others.

Worth reading.

Lotta Stallman
BTL Short Hills