Sunday, April 04, 2004

While I was slacking away on my bed refusing to get up on a rainy Sunday morning just now, my mind was having a little debate with itself. And it has come to a conclusion that the best sleeping position is to sleep standing up. But wait! before you dismiss the idea as ridiculous and totally absurd, here are the points my mind has come up with to justify its statement:

Sleeping on ur back is bad for ur spine because it adds a lot of pressure on it. All the organs’ combined weight are on it and moreover, as ur legs are stretched this causes tension in the spine too. Hence sleepin on ur back is bad for ur spine on a long term basis.

So maybe you’d say flipping over the other side wld be okay. Yes, it relieves pressure from the spine, but think abt it. While sleeping on your stomach, you are actually squishing on ur lungs, ur heart and ur stomach. Ur lungs would expand minimally due to pressure and less oxygen will be taken in. As ur heart is also under pressure, it has to pump extra hard thus straining to provide the same amt of oxygen to the rest of the body. And if you’d just taken a meal before sleep, indigestion would result as the stomach cannot work properly with the body weight pressing it down. Sleepin prostrate is actually worse than sleeping facing the ceiling.

If you sleep on ur side, ur squishing on some of ur organs too depending on which organs are found on which side. For example if you sleep on ur left, u are blockin off blood circulation to ur left arm at the same time pressin down on ur left lung and heart and left kidney. Vice versa for the right side.

So as you can see, sleeping on ur back, on ur stomach, on ur left or right are all hazardous positions, we can hence conclude that standing up is the best position to assume sleep.

writing at 8:38 AM

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