What your sleep position reveals

Whether we are on the side, abdomen or back, reveals a lot about our essence (Image: Thinkstock)
Curl up in bed together like a fetus in the womb? Or you lie on your back with your arms pressed tightly against the body like a tin soldier? The way you are embedded, namely reveals a lot about you!
What tells you about the sleep position, you will learn in the gallery!
The starfish beds we are in the starfish position, we are on the back and stretch your arms over your head from the pillow. The "Starfish" is a good listener and is quickly gaining friends. Nevertheless, he does not like the focus.

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Professor Chris Idzikowska from the Sleep Research Centre in Edinburgh by a survey of 1,000 volunteers researched, that there is a relationship between sleep position and personality. The most common is the fetal position, asleep in the more than forty percent of people - especially women. With eight percent of the least common is the prone position, at the end of the sleep hugging his pillow.
Sleeping position affects health
Our sleeping position also has an effect on health. This is the fetal position, where we are on the right side of the body, to be very healthy, because no pressure is exerted on the heart.
Snoring soldiers: According to research or promote the starfish position, however, soldiers snoring and breathing problems that cause sleep disturbances and can lead to a sensitive stomach. The reason for this is that these positions are not good bed for digestion. Lying on his back that is, small particles are excreted from the stomach through the mouth worse.
Also interesting is that we remain true to our sleeping position - because only five percent of people change their posture during the night.