Improved sleep when weighted

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I never heard of this either. Though I don't usually get quality sleep. I do when my arm is contorted to it ends up underneath my body. I sort of do this naturally in my sleep some how. I also rap my arms round my head or have limbs in some other contorted way. I sleep better when it is like that. problem is when I wake up the circulation is cut off and I can't more it. So I have to use the other hand to straighten it and get the blood back into it. Come to think of it I’d be quite happy to sleep under something heavy. It is a weird feeling when there is just I sheet. I’d rather sleep full clothed. Sometime I do nap clothed with all the covers.

This is me... in our house I'm the first one to break out the featherbed when the nights get cool, and the last one to put it away when summer returns. It is the weight that's nice, rather than the extra warmth. I hadn't thought of it as a sensory thing before... the more I learn, the more I realise I don't know.

I have my special comforter, a heavy, smooth bunch of goodness that I absolutely MUST have in order to sleep, even if it's ninety degrees and 100% humidity. I've had it for eight years now, a replacement for the one I'd used for fifteen years previous, but fell apart due to too many washings. I keep it rolled up under the bed during the day

I only wrap the upper part of my body, though. not the lower. Must have legs and feet free at all times or I feel like I'm suffocating.

I love when my cat sleeps on me. Nothing more soothing in the world than my cat's purr.

100% agree on the meltdowns. I always go into a small space and wrap myself up. I've done that since I could walk. I probably did it before that and just rolled up in a blanket.

My cats sleep on me too. Even my smallest cat, 12 pound Paul, is quite a load at night. He has the warmest body of my three boy cats, and sometimes can be very warm. Samantha (12 pounds at her highest adult weight) also used to sit on my chest regularly.

ya with night i have big heavy blanket i like. and cant go sleep withoiut it. it nice.

I usually use a pillow on my back. (I like to sleep on my stomach). and dig my head against another pillow or inbetween two. But i have come to understand that the back pillow hasn't really been working as well as when I was little. So I want to see if I can make a make shift heavy pillow filled with sand or something.

I wouldn't like one of those heavy blankets because I would get to hot and I will feel sufacated because I don't like the waight to cover all of my body. Just my back.

(may needs a separate thread) How many people sleep on their backs rather than foetal position? I find it had to get comfortable on my side.

I got my autistic brother to sleep on top of me, my sisters thought that was quite queer . More strange behavior from their little brother

I have to have a sheet and heavy (but not thick) bedspread over me in order to really sleep well. It has to be cool in the room, and I have to sleep naked - lying down with clothes on makes me agitated because they twist up. I sleep in all kinds of contorted positions, and half the time I wake up with numb arms from lying all over them. At least I finally stopped sleeping with my fists clenched about three years ago, whoo...how I've loosened up!! If my husband's away, I have to sleep with a pillow against my back. And I have to sleep facing the door, how's that for paranoid?

I always prefer to have some sort of heavy blanket on me in bed. Preferably several, temperature permitting.

In my teens and early twenties I had a german shepherd and 2 cats that all slept on top of me. I prefer sleeping on a couch or sofa so I can burrow into the cushions, but that doesn't go over well with my husband. Now, I have a cat that sleeps on top of me, a comforter and a couple of extra blankets for those nights when I'm more stressed from a difficult day.

Slightly different: I can only fall asleep on my stomach. Forget airplanes, buses, or any other situation that requires any position other than flat on my stomach. The weight of my body is what calms me. If I'm on my back I feel as if I might float away.

Yeah heavy blankies!

When I had a real bed I would tuck both sides in and slide into bed as if into an envelope.

Miss my doggie! *cries*

Like pillow over head.

If not to hot like to have head under blankies. Oxygen depravation, kill off a few pesky neurons!

I do this a lot. I keep my room very cold at night so I don't over heat. I like to sleep with one or two comforters and sometimes a body pillow on top of me. I really like that feeling.

Weight is essential to my sleep experience. I currently use a comforter here at school and five blankets at home where I sleep.

I can't fall asleep with out them. It's really hard to describe the experience, but the weight provides and artifical "sensory floor" that blocks out much of the tactile stuff that would bother me otherwise, not to mention making me feel cozy and secure.

I wish I could sleep under my sheets, but then I would suffocate.