Do More Artists Sleep On Their Right Side.

Left side, that does mean I'm not really an artist

I sleep on my right side/stomach. Sort of half way in between both.

Hi Conor,

You crack me up with this thread ... I've never heard of any survey/study where artists tend to sleep on any side! :) The truth is, I sleep on both sides. Because I take a sleeping aid every night, and a heavy-duty one at that, I rotate which side I sleep on each night. Last night I slept on my left side, tonight I will sleep on my right. I know, I know ... very weird but stranger things do happen. ;)

Donna

I don't sleep well enough to gauge it...any position would be grand if I could get more than 4 hours.....

even i guess, hard to know since i'm asleep, which side i dominate on. i guess i stretch the left and end up on my right, wake up, cramped, then flip to the left. wake up, pee, fall back asleep on the left, switch to the right, repeat.

the peeing is done outside the bedroom in the proper facilities, for those that may ask later.

---Mike Savad

Too much info Mike,lol

Yeah...I seem to break all these "rules" too.. can what makes an artist really be reduced down to these basic little traits...? It reminds me of a post in another thread laughing at the old premise that homosexuals wear their earings in the left ear... (and part their hair in that direction too).. It is laughable. hey I wonder...do homosexuals make better artists?...or maybe vegetarians are the best? I suspect the best artists are the ketchup lovers... those mayo folk are mere pretenders... :-)

edit: I sleep hanging upside down!

Yeah, I have to agree with it being difficult just to sleep in general. However, when I do, I rock from side to side and in-between sleeping, I walk outside and sit in the darkness watching the night sky and listening to the frogs croak. The beauty of the night almost makes being stuck awake worth it!

perhaps, but if we are concluding who is an artist by bodily habits, then it should also be a factor. how many here are artists - and do you pee?

---Mike Savad

lol Mike - just for the record ... I have not taken to wearing Depends yet ;)

http://dailyhealthpost.com/8-sleeping-positions-and-their-effects-on-health/

you can still get up to do the deed, and it's preferable that you do.

comical if you don't.

---Mike Savad

I sleep however i fall into bed (but almost never on my stomach). Just grateful to get there for a few hours a day. Also, both on the right and left-handed.

My question is how much sleep do you average, as tend to be way below the 8 hour average.

--mary ellen anderson

Mary Ellen, I have always been a terrible sleeper. I have discovered melatonin and it really helps, most of the time that is. From what I have gathered reading other artists complaints and woes on sleeping, I suppose it must be part of our "creative mind", it just never completely stops long enough for us to sleep.

lol I'm right handed and sleep on my right side. so am I a bad artist or not! :P :P

While lateralization is a real thing, the whole left brain right brain thing has always been a myth, and evidence is more to the contrary that it's not a real thing. We use all of our brains to create, and calculate. The most brilliant people are the ones that can communicate well between the two hemispheres, and have a larger connection (corpus callosum) between hemispheres. All these left right things tell us is how well that side of your brain is functioning.

When it comes to being a better artist my college research found that the best artists have high visual spatial IQ's 140+, and certain chemical patterns that make them conducive to creating. Unstable chemical patterns were more susceptible to feeling and emotions that drive creativity, but it was not always the case. Passion was abundant in the chemically unstable subjects who lived less fortunate lives. I equated it with more life experience. The nervous system also seems to play a role in this process, and those who are in tune with their nervous system seem to have better balance, and were capable of harmonizing.

If you really want to know what your artistic capabilities are. Focus on your spatial IQ, and balance. I think it is a more accurate test of your capabilities in the arts. I think what side you prefer to sleep on is more of a personal preference. Weight also has a lot do with it. Your heart is on your left side, and when you carry extra weight you can make yourself uncomfortable putting all that weight on your left side.

http://www.livescience.com/39373-left-brain-right-brain-myth.html

Get at least 30 minutes of sun, and exercise if you have trouble sleeping. A walk at lunchtime will give you both. It boost vit D, and melitonin, and then make sure you get in bed by 10:30 tired or not. Your body does a hormonal dump between 11:00pm and 1:00am, and if you are not sleeping it doesn't happen. The following day you will have hormonal issues and lead to a repeating cycle of sleeplessness. If you have to take melitonin around 10:00pm to help break the cycle.

I have a metabolic condition so I have to deal with this stuff all the times. Follow this pattern and you will correct lots of health issues that you may not even realize are effecting you.

Left side ... and trying to train myself to sleep on my back without having nightmares. The benefit of sleeping on my back is, all my wrinkles will pool around my ears and the back of my head.

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Very cute, Lois. :-)

Actually, Lois isn't that far off. There were studies done and the supposed results were that people who sleep on their backs have less lines and wrinkles than those who slept on their sides. I keep trying, but I snore...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/sleeping-wrinkles_n_1364925.html

I usually sleep on my right side, but not because it's the most comfortable or natural. My husband sleeps on the left side of the bed, and I just don't like him breathing in my face when I'm trying to sleep (he's a mouth breather at night). But when he's traveling for work, I sleep like a starfish. At least that's what I tell him. Really I sleep on my left side on his side of the bed because it's the only time I can.

I'm right handed, sleep on my left side and always get up to pee! LOL

I am a terrible artist , I sleep on my left side!

@ Louise Reeves ... never read that ... very cool. I actually got the idea from my Mom who, years ago, would lament her own wrinkles and envy my Dad's ancient aunties who didn't have a wrinkle to speak of. According to Mom, they claimed to sleep on their backs. And even at age whatever (8?? 11??) the advice stuck ... 'cause here I am, tormented by monsters in the night and waking my poor husband up with my shouting, but determined to keep the wrinkles at bay.

As to the snoring ... pull your covers up to your chin and MAYbe tip your head ever so slightly to one side (in my case the left side, heh heh) so that your mouth doesn't hang open. I've had to learn that one the hard way. When the jaw decides to snap shut it can be quite painful on the old tongue.

I sleep on my left side.

More wrinkles on the right side?

I am starting to get those "marionette lines" and the right side's is deeper than the left-I sleep on my right-so it's conceivable whatever side you sleep on would incur more damage.

How interesting. I find I have more wrinkles when I'm unhappy, not from what side I'm sleeping on.

I alternate between sides all night. If I'm really tired I sleep on the right side only and wake up sore.

im sleeping on right side because i have no choice, sleeping on the right side me facing the room, sleeping on the left side, me facing the wall ( my bed against the wall ). i stopped sleeping letting my back facing the room since i heard the horror story of my aunt! lol! (which was used to room my room right now 10 years ago, that which room was originally roomed by my dead uncle 20- something years ago). when i was a kid, she told us (with my cousins) that one morning when she was sleeping with her back facing outside of bed, somebody poked her rib side, but there is no one when she looked. idk if she was fooling us because we're just kids but since then but-- that still bothers my sleeping position until now. O_O awwoo

Real artists do not sleep (or do not sleep long enough to qualify for this survey)

All of you guys are so interesting, so many different sleep positions and even some of you get up to pee. I myself sleep on my right hand side and don't pee until the morning.
I tried to find the answer on the web about sleeping positions for artists but I could not, but I know I heard about it years ago. I thank you all again for enlightening me about your sleeping positions.

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I'm taking L C Bailey's advice.

Can't get to sleep in the Summer until the wee hours - & I don't feel good about it.
Comes Winter - early to bed - & up to catch the sun's rise.

Ok, so that's not an admission of L or R but since most of us Artists are Night Owls - I found that bit of information interesting. I do recall have read information on that before.

Long term use of melatonin can have side effects - heed the warnings.

I sleep mostly facing left because the window is to the left...there is an owl that I hear everynight outside of the window...hoping to catch a glimpse one evening! :)

I don't think our sleeping habits have anything to do with creativity. Aside from the fact that sleeplessness can ruin a day.

The only way I can fall asleep is on my stomach with both arms under my pillow. My top of my head touches the edge of the pillow. I prefer flatter pillows.
The interesting thing is my granddaughters sleep the same way.

If I am just lying there, I will lie on my left side. Not sure how truthful it is, but I've read somewhere at sometime that is better.

Like many of you, I rarely sleep a full night. I generally will sleep well the first three to four hours then up every two. Last night was better. I slept four hours, up briefly, then three hours down.

As far as wrinkles...that's hereditary.

Most of them I know are like me,it don't matter what side I sleep on I still wake up on the wrong side.