Sleep! Under which of the following circumstances can you sleep comfortably, and without much difficulty?

I can sleep in almost any configuration, but I still always sleep poorly.

I cannot deal with noise and the worst is snoring or birds... In a closed room with no light and I *need* to have a blanket or sheet on me at all times, no matter how hot it is.

We Hunters are Champion Sleepers. We sleep for pleasure. We sleep anywhere, any time. We sleep until something wakes us up. My mother (not genetically a Hunter) doesn't understand.

I checked them all except hot room. It also depends how tired I am, which often is very tired.

I can sleep anywhere but I cannot sleep if people are talking in the next room becasuse I always think something is going to happen that I will miss. I also can't sleep with the radio on because it I have strange musical dreams... I love to sleep!!

I love sleeping in a car (or a train or plane, for that matter, if I can make myself comfortable and there isn't too much noise). It's neat to fall asleep in one place and wake up in an entirely different setting. I also find the hum and motion of a car relaxing to fall asleep to. I also love falling asleep when it is storming outside. I have to have some type of pillow, I can't sleep with someone snoring, and it's painful to sleep on my stomach. For a lot of these, though, it just depends on my mood whether I like them/can deal with them or not. Great survey.

With the proviso that "without much difficulty" really means "without any more difficulty than I have sleeping in my bed under ideal conditions", the only ones I didn't check were hot room, soft mattress, water bed, on my back, and the outdoor ones. I've always been fairly insomniac, except when I was an MIT student and chronically sleep-deprived, but when I can sleep I can sleep under most conditions.

I need a pillow (sinuses) and a blanket or sheet (monsters can't come out from under the bed, grab my naked feet, and drag me down that way - give me a break, it's a childhood thing). I also MUST have white noise (I own many fans) or every creak and groan becomes an intruder. I can sleep on my back, side or stomach. If I am tired enough, I can sleep in a moving something or with people talking nearby. I can sleep with music playing in the room. I have a hard time falling asleep when the house is empty, during a thunderstorm, in a hot room, or when someone is SNORING.

wow... this makes me feel lazy or near comatose. everything but in a hot place or a waterbed.

Wow, 26 out of 36..... I guess pretty much anywhere as long as it is not moving and as long as I have a pillow and at least a sheet.

I can sleep under almost any conditions. But I must have a pillow.

On a chair only if it's comfy. I picked almost everything. Not on my back (unless in a chair, weird). If I have trouble sleeping it tends to be for mental reasons, not physical ones. (i.e. I've got this thought/idea stuck in my head and I can't leave it alone)

I sleep very lightly, and need fairly controlled conditions to sleep w/o difficulty. I sleep on my side, in the dark, in silence or with the TV on quietly, on a firm mattress, head on a firm pillow, snuggling with a body pillow, with at least a sheet on me. I prefer the door closed, but can sleep with it open if the rest of the house is quiet. I can sleep in someone else's bed, if it fits the other parameters. Also, I prefer it to be warm, but not hot (70-75 F). I have actually been woken up because the temperature has dropped to around 60F!

If I try to sleep without a pillow I can't breathe, especially when my allergies are acting up. Not a good situation. And I hate not having lots of blankets and such, even if I can't use all of them all of the time, though I do when I can. My friends laugh at the 4 of them I have in my (non-A/C) dorm. I've never understood why I can't sleep with the door open either...

elijah: that's really interesting, I love sleeping in the car too -- I thought I was odd in that respect cuz so many people I know get carsick if they sleep or read in a car.

Rain....I sleep best to the sound of steady rain - all day lazy with a cool breeze.

I basically like dark and quiet (white noise is okay too). I've been finding the noise in Cambridge really bothering me a lot lately, but I sleep well in NH. I can sleep in a car or plane but not comfortably. Sleeping outdoors in a hammock is nice. Kittens jumping on me usually wakes me up.

I sleep like a rock. I probably shouldn't sleep on grass, though, since I'm allergic to it.

I'm sleep-deprived. It is possible for me to sleep almost anywhere!

Nice survey! But you forgotten "With a dog barking at regular intervals". It's exasperating!

The pillow and "people talking" are my only two troubles. I've been camping and roughing it enough to just be happy to sleep. Planes, ferries, and other vehicles are great. The lack of pillow would just annoy me - I'd sleep on my arm. But people talking will keep me up quite a while. When I was little, my mom used to fight all the time with her boyfriend and I'd listen to make sure she was OK. Even now, if I hear voices at all I can't sleep. If they're angry voices, I *really* can't sleep.

***Atzilut: car sleeping is traditional!! That's how most parents can finally get their kids to sleep - drive them around the block. Many adults I know drop right off too (sometimes while driving, bad idea)

What a kick ass survey. You seriously thought of everything Interestingly enough, I can sleep no problem with stuff going on in my room (talking/music), but when it's going on in the next room it drives me crazy, I don't get it.

I can sleep anywhere. I've slept in the woods on the dirt using a log as a pillow with no blanket.

Sorry, I didn't originally envision that this survey would be so long. :) I used to be able to check a lot more of these answers than I can now. Hot rooms, total silence, lots of light, snoring, and completely empty houses keep me awake more than anything else... give me near-darkness, a cool room, white noise, and the subconscious knowledge that someone else is around, and I'm like a light, regardless of almost any other circumstances.

*** I find it interesting that the % of males that checked any given box was higher than the % of females -- by an average of 12%! Only a few had a higher % of females than males, and only one of those (sleeping on one's stomach) was higher by more than 3%. I have no idea what it means (if anything at all), but it's interesting nonetheless. :)

Why does this feel like a "Sleep Purity Test"? .. I feel like a sleep whore. I'll do it most anywhere!

I can't, and never will be able to, sleep on a chair. I never sleep with a pillow. I can't sleep on grass because I'm always afraid of the bugs.

I've checked a very large number of boxes, including `in full daylight` but I find that I can't get to sleep in twilight, or within an hour after sunup.

The only few I did not check were "without a blanket"- even if it's very hot I need a sheet or something over me; and, with a fan directly on me. I'm actually not sure if this is true anymore- when I was in school and sleep deprived all the time, sleep came EXTREEMLY easily to me.

I tend to require lots of heavy blankets, even in the summer. Right now i've got a comforter and a way-too-heavy wool quilt my mother made. I prefer silence, but I can stand white noise, and sometimes I like a little quiet music (soft Eno, usually), although I can end up listening closely to the music and not falling asleep because of that...

I never sleep with a pillow. They make me feel like my neck is bent.

I have to have 2 pillows and have some sort of covering on as well.

I LOVE SLEEP!!!! And I can sleep just about anywhere.

I've learned to sleep almost anywhere, sepecially on planes (trips from Texas to RI were very long).

I can sleep pretty much anywhere, anytime, but I need some sort of head support, and if it's horizontal I need something over me. I don't need a blanket in a vehicle, but it's nice. Sleep is my favorite escape mechanism, particularly to make long car trips go much faster.

i still need my teddybear

'Will you do it on a train, will you do it on a plane?'
... I wanted to not check 'with another person in the bed.'

safe in solid houes

i camp. I've slept everywhere from below the ground on up. under a few layers of snow, in a hammock, in a canoe, on the roots of a tree, concrete floor (of a cabin) all over.

I'm picky about sleeping in some ways...i like it to be fairly dark, i can less comfortably sleep in daytime, i prefer quiet, i don't do cars and buses and trains and planes (I will doze at the most), and i ***need*** my blanket... also it takes me a while to get to sleep... once i hit sleep exhaustion, though, I'll just curl up into a little ball anywhere and start drifting off...

If I'm in a car, not driving of course, I fall asleep or get drowsy. Even if it's a ten minute ride to the grocery store.

Anywhere there's an appropriate bit of CPAP (continuous positive air pressure) apparatus.

We used to travel a lot when I was a child, so I sleep very well in any sort of locomotive. I sleep the best in a car.

I asked my mom if she was one of those mothers that drove the crying kid around to get he/she to go to sleep.. because every time I get in one and not driving I feel it is nap time . =0)

All, except feet hanging off the end of a bed! That drives me NUTS!

This survey has 100 voters!

All except three - the heat, someone snoring (assuming they snore loudly, like my dad *shudder*) and without a pillow (a strange quirk - I can sleep in almost all conditions, but not without at least a rolled up jumper as a pillow - it's not that I'm uncomfortable, I just can't sleep)

I have been known to play loud heavy metal music when I go to sleep, as any music I like relaxes me.

And "less than 16c" is NOT a cold room.

and with a cat on my stomach...

I like a firm mattress...a cool room.....not too many covers or I kick them away...I like quiet...or the soft sounds of
SueBee breathing close by...I don't sleep well alone in the house.....I like to sleep with someone I love right up next
to me..I prefer to sleep on my side or stomach....naked...I have no problem falling asleep in full daylight...and sleep
my very best after orgasm :)

i can sleep just about anywhere, maybe even curled up in the corner upside down like a bat

I can sleep _almost_ everywhere, er-- almost anywhere.
Everywhere except for a set of measure zero.