can you fall to sleep lay on your back?

I can't sleep on my back either, if i do i can almost guarantee i'll wake up with sleep paralysis. I think it has something to do with having the pillow press againt the back of my neck. *shrugs*
 
Can only seem to fall asleep laying on my side. Also have to lay on one side first (left) then the other (right) before i can fall asleep :confused:
 
I sleep on my front with my head to the side. It sometimes gives me a stiff neck because you have to turn your head unlike when on your side but my shoulders are too wide to sleep on my side and I just can't sleep on my back.
 
I can only fall asleep on my sides, the only times I’ve fallen asleep on my back is when I’ve been drugged up.
 
The only time I fall asleep on my back is when I'm:

- Chemically affected
- In a car / train / plane and utterly knackered
- Have no choice due to injury

Can't sleep on my front or side at the moment due to bruised rib and strained intercostal muscle, so I'm not sleeping too well at the moment :(.
 
I was never able to do this until I was in a car crash. I damaged my knee in such a way that lying on either side would have put considerable pressure on it, causing me immense pain. I did go back to sleeping on my side as soon as my knee had recovered however.
 
Trifid said:
Always on my side when falling to sleep. I don't get how people sleep on their front, you are twisting your neck too much?
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'On front' to me just means both elbows in contact with the bed. Not both nipples firmly planted against the mattress :p. Therefore it's easy to lie 'on your front' without straining the neck.
 
Only if I'm really tired, like if I stayed awake for 24hrs+ and did some physical work/play in that time. Otherwise, no. Usually I fall asleep on my chest (no neck problems...?) and change to the sides in the night, and finally lay on my back for 5 or so minutes before getting up.
 
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nah i cant either, has to be front, and it takes me ages to fall asleep aswell. Like id try and drift off but just takes hours to actually fall asleep
 
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this for me again. i give up trying on my back
 
Fall asleep on my back, wake up sideways and all over the place usually. Lying on my back helps me relax for some reason.
 
I sleep on my left side with a pillow under my right knee. Comfyest position in the world....

Generally wake up sprawled with limbs flailing everwhere!
 
Never been able to. I wake up in a swastika position.

I did, however, manage to sleep while sitting upright for the first time ever on the way home from a festival last month. :p

Well, I say sleep, pass out from exhaustion is a better description.
 
I can sleep pretty much any way as long as I'm horizontal. I can't fall asleep in a chair though, I can nod off but I pretty much wake up instantly as soon as I do.
 
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