Snoring

[Rich Riddle]

How many of you snore and how loud do you get? My dog keeps many of us awake. Little dog with a loud snore.

[Kent A Bathurst]

........ how loud do you get?

Excuse me, Rich, but..............How. In. The. Heck. Would I know?

[Rich Riddle]

Excuse me, Rich, but..............How. In. The. Heck. Would I know?

Many of us have an outside source of reference to tell us....wives, etc. Ever wake yourself snoring?

[Mike Lassiter]

my wife does that, laying on the couch watching tv. Next thing she's asleep and well sometimes the cats look at me like they're in disbelief. Then occationally she wakes herself up and looks up at me like I woke her up. All I can do is laugh and get in trouble....

[Kent A Bathurst]

Many of us have an outside source of reference to tell us....wives, etc. Ever wake yourself snoring?

My outside source has chosen not to burden me with the details.

And - no. I have not.

There have been a few occasions over the many years where the outside source was found sleeping on the couch. Asked "Why?" the reply was "Why do you think? Someone had too much wine to drink last night - thats why".

[Ken Fitzgerald]

My wife says I snore.........sometimes she retreats to another bed in another room. In fact, sometimes I snore so loud, I wake myself up.....

[Rich Riddle]

My wife says I snore.........sometimes she retreats to another bed in another room. In fact, sometimes I snore so loud, I wake myself up.....

Ken,

Wow. I thought you had a hearing impairment. You must be loud. My wife does the same thing about moving elsewhere.

[Dan Hintz]

I snore when I'm REALLY tired (hard day of physical labor, high stress, etc.), so I do my best not to get to that point. The wife does a gentle snore... not enough to wake me up, but if I'm awakened for another reason, it can keep me awake.

[Mike Lassiter]

last night after posting, it's bed time for us. Wife now awake on the couch and I told her about this snoring thread and some of the OP post.
She's just awake mind you, and looks at me sort of crazy looking and ask me "why did they put that on there?"

I grinned at her, and said - "they probably heard you snoring"!

[Harold Burrell]

No. I do not snore.

My outside source has been known to lie, however...

[Belinda Barfield]

I snore quite softly and delicately, I'm sure, but I have been told that I'm a really annoying sleep talker, especially if I'm really tired. I also apparently speak in some foreign tongue, which is unrecognizable, and get extremely frustrated when the outside source cannot interpret my comments. I've been told it's quite amusing, but I fail to see the humor.

[Chris Padilla]

My wife can really get going...just gotta nudge her onto her side as the snoring can be quite bad when she is on her back. She fell asleep on the couch once and was really going so I recorded her with my phone. My daughter and I had quite the chuckle replaying it back to her later.

She tells me it's the same for me. I find it hard to believe that I can be as loud as her since I'm a very light sleeper but I cannot recall ever waking myself up from snoring.

[Pat Barry]

My bride insists that she might purr a little bit but she certainly doesn't snore. I'm not sure how she knows that, but it is a fact. I on the other hand have no concept of whether I do from my own senses but she claims there is often something as loud as a freight train going through our room and it isn't the dog that's responsible.

[Brian Brown]

my wife does that, laying on the couch watching tv. Next thing she's asleep and well sometimes the cats look at me like they're in disbelief. Then occationally she wakes herself up and looks up at me like I woke her up. All I can do is laugh and get in trouble....

Yes, my friend, we have parallel lives. Or is that wives?

[Jerry Thompson]

Snoring may be a symptom of something that needs to be assessed. Sleep apnea is one and a dangerous condition. Listen to the person snoring. Do they snore then quit breathing for a bit? Then suddenly take in a deep breath, start snoring the cease breathing and on and on.
When one goes to sleep, in the deep zone so to speak. all muscles in one's body are paralyzed except the upper and lower sphincters, the heart and the diaphragm. If the soft pallet drops back and occludes the air way the CO2 drive kicks in and one has to wake up to breath. This can happen a few times during sleep or many, many times during the course of sleep.
This malady can lead to a heart attack, stroke,and depression as examples.
A Pulmonologist would be the preferred physician to see for an evaluation. A sleep study can be done and the recordings can verify what is going on and if treatment is needed.
If one has sleep apnea it obviously is not conducive to adequate rest but one does not usually dream and that is a need when one is sleeping.
That is what I recall in my days working as an RN in a hospital. No I didn't wear a hat.