In fact, double the amount of women slept in the fetal position compared to men in this experiment. In a study conducted by Chris Idzikowski, director of the UK’s Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, 41 percent of the sleeping participants adopted this position. The fetal position is when you curl your knees in toward your chest like you’re tucked into a safe little ball. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ What the Most Common Sleeping Positions Say About Your Personality 1. Let’s take a look at each position, from most to least popular: It turns out, there are nine different sleeping positions, and each can tell a lot about the sleeper’s personality. Researchers, psychologists and sleep scientists alike have been studying the most common sleep patterns to get an inside scoop about what they mean. Those are the 4 stages of sleep…but what about sleep positions? And if you are woken up in REM it makes you feel groggy or overly sleepy.Īccording to Diana Walcutt, Ph.D, our brain has different frequencies during each stage: Interestingly, awakenings and arousals happen more easily in REM. According to the National Institute of Health REM starts about 90 minutes after you fall asleep and at this point your voluntary muscles become paralyzed to keep you from harming yourself if you try to act upon what’s happening to you in your dreams. Typically the eye moves rapidly under the lid, moving from side to side. REM sleep, also known as rapid eye movement, is often called the dreaming stage of sleep. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ REM Sleep (Stage 4) During this time you go into the slowest sleeping brainwave activity cycle called Delta Sleep. Parasomnias or sleepwalking, sleep talking and night terrors occur during this stage of sleep. It is usually difficult to wake someone in this stage. In the brain, researchers have found that stage 3 sleep consists of delta waves or slow waves. This stage is known as ‘deep non-REM sleep.’ This is the most restorative stage of sleep. This is also where you transition from Theta to Delta waves.
Body temperature decreases and heart rate slows. Brain waves continue to slow but have specific bursts of activity called ‘sleep spindles.’ This is thought to protect the brain from waking up. You do not awake as many times as during stage 1 sleep and slow moving eye rolls stop. On average it usually takes about 7 minutes to fall into stage one and then you spend 5-10 minutes here as we go through Alpha and then Theta brain wave states. This is actually the best stage to be woken up from as you cycle through all the stages each night. This is the stage where sudden jerks or muscle spasms can happen. This is when the body begins to relax and brain wave activity begins to slow. During this stage you will often sense slow eye movements and frequent awakenings or arousals.
This is the lightest stage of non REM sleep (which is the deepest level).
Knowing sleep science and more about your own sleep position can help you sleep better and longer. What the Most Common Sleeping Positions Say About Your Personality.
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