Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/16/83; site hlhop.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!mhuxa!mhuxi!mhuxt!mhuxh!hlhop!ljs From: ljs@hlhop.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Sleeping Posture Message-ID: <156@hlhop.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jul-83 17:58:53 EDT Article-I.D.: hlhop.156 Posted: Thu Jul 21 17:58:53 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 13:29:06 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 18 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