Breakfast at Tiffany's – Because I Do Not Know

You've Been Talkin' In Your Sleep

With apologies to Crystal Gayle, apparently how you sleep is psychoanalyzed, as well. A new study from a British group says your body position in bed is tied to your personality.

Led by Chris Idzikowski, the team has identified six common sleep positions and the personalities of the people who sleep that way. "We are all aware of our body language when we are awake, but this is the first time we have been able to see what our subconscious says about us," he told Reuters.

I suppose I'm a No. 5 (flat on the tummy with hands at the sides of the head: brash and gregarious), although I can lapse into No. 3 or No. 4.

And do people actually sleep on their backs? I thought that was reserved for corpses.

4 comments Jake McCafferty last posted at 5:11 PM
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4 Comments:

i wonder if those ignobels forgot to look at this study, or maybe it came too late to be considered for this year.

as for that sticking to the one we choose, i think that's baloney. i usually try to fall asleep on my back, or at least that's the initial relaxation one, then i'll typically flip over into position 5, and that's when i'm really comfy. tho in the mornings i either wake up with no. 5 or a no. 3/4 but my arms are curled towards my body. so what does that make me? a brash and gregarious but suspiciously easy going socialite?

By kinkyrhombus, at 12:45 AM

I'm shy and sensitive, I suppose, although I am also suspiscious. I'm a restless sleeper so I vaccillate between positions a lot.

By Jay Six, at 9:07 AM

I am so none of those, I literally sleep like a corpse, I sleep flat on my back, with my two hands folded on my chest, my best frind/old roommate used to say it creeped her out.

By Matt S., at 3:46 PM

It is confirmed: BaT readers are freaks. :-p

By Jake McCafferty, at 5:11 PM