The correct way is to lie on your side, facing left. Because prevents gastric acid in esophagus.
edit for clarification: This method is efficient primarily when the lower esophageal sphincter (I had to Google the correct name) is not functioning as intended.
When will these bugs be fixed? I prefer to face to the right and would also like to be able to sleep on my stomach
The GitHub human branch maintainer peaced out forever ago, all attempts to establish communications aren’t going so well and the issue tracker is piling up…so probably never
I mean if it’s abandonware it’s ethical to reverse engineer and open source the reverse engineered platform, maybe even fork it and provide some sort of extensible framework for various plugins, or convert the kernel to a new architecture or even virtualize it. Hopefully we can also work out the bugs and the more glaring issues soon (looking at you, upright vertebrae).
We’re working on it, but the mf was on something, have you seen the digestive system class? Or the central nervous system class?
I’ve heard some people managed to reverse engineer the human, though right now people are trying to figure out whether using a modded version is considered OP
They decompiled the human, it doesn’t mean they understand the code enough to mod it yet.
Instead of modding, I know a few hackers that have removed whole sections to delete non functioning parts and I know a few others who figured out how to swap parts between different units.
That’s why you need to open source and freely distribute the mod.
Unfortunately I heard they forked it to the AI/ automation branch so I don’t think that the original maintainers coming back. They’re calling it the new best thing
Some people have mirrored internal organs, so this advice may be the ophosite for you. But also, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, sleep however’s comfiest for you and lets you get the best sleep you can
O.01% of the population, roughly 1 person in 10,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus
So about 800,000 people world wide?
Sure, round figures, lets call it 800K. And I bet the vast majority of them knows. It doesn’t take much of an examination for a doctor to determine location of heart and liver.
In fact many of them don’t, since the body is mostly symmetrical and apart from cutting them open or doing an MRI, you can’t really tell (which isn’t a big deal in most cases, because most medical procedures work regardless of this condition). Also, the heart is located almost in the middle, so there is not much difference.
Listening to the chest with a stethoscope, or your ear will tell the location of the heart. Percussing over the liver, but not finding a solid structure e.g. liver, which sounds different than a hollow structure, e.g. lungs would also help in identifying unexpected organ locations. I’m curious how you came to know that many of them don’t know? Do you keep a register of people with this condition, but don’t tell them?
I’ve heard people talk about mirrored organs, is that something that would be immediately obvious? Like surely every person that has the condition would know about it.
Every time I’ve seen it in a hospital TV show or whatever, it always seems to be a surprise…like they didn’t find out at birth but the first time they need some invasive procedures.
I knew someone once who had this, she didn’t know until she got an x-ray as an adult. The doctor called in their colleagues to take a look at the scan because he’d never seen a real-life case before. She had her heart on the right side of her chest, was pretty interesting.
How would you know?
I mean if I put my hand over my left then right side of my chest, it’s pretty clear which side my heart is on
True, though isn’t the heart actually in the middle and it’s just asymmetric (with the big body-pumping side on the left)?
I’d think so. You’d feel the urge to BM on the right rather than the left.
Certainly not. It affects ~10% of the population, at least in certain countries. Not everyone has the privelege of a robust, accessible healthcare system.
Well I guess the obvious one to me is feeling a heartbeat. It seems like that would come up even outside of the medical field (schools, “playing doctor”, heck doing the pledge of allegiance if you’re in the US)
This woman is dead. Her stomach is coming out of her body and her arms are under her esophagus
False. The correct way to sleep is on a 7-11 sausage roller set to high speed.
- The heat lamp creates warmth which you normally substitute with a dangerous choking blanket
- the high-speed spinning flings off your sweat to keep you cool using Bernoulli’s Principle instead of energy-hungry and dangerous fans or AC units
- the constant flow of vomit and other effluvia helps you maintain a healthy figure instead of ridiculously augmenting your life with the high-risk activity of “exercise.”
The throat anus, for those not used to the medical terminology.
Upper bunghole, if you’re nasty
I’m curious how accurate this is considering there’s rarely ever air in your stomach so what is the point when it’s effectively vacuum sealed.
As a side sleeper with GERD. It’s accurate as fuck. Before I found a medication that worked properly, I always slept on my left side.
Thankfully Omeprazole keeps me from choking on my own acid now, but yeah, that sucks.
My wife has GERD but she can only take omeprazole for a certain period of time and has to take time off from it, though I forget the reason for it
Your bones. It’s not good for osteoporosis IIRC.
It can tank your B12 and other nice things your body needs. At the end of the day, I
I just take it once a week and it keeps it in check. Before I started, I would wake up every night literally drowning in stomach acid and unable to breathe. When I first started taking it, I was taking it daily, but I always felt REALLY bloated, like I was going to explode. I cut off of it and found that the effect lasted for a week or more, and I started just taking it once a week, and I’ve been fine ever since.
I’ve got gas in my stomach somewhat frequently…
Have I got a solution for you!
Nah, if your stomach is acidic enough you can feel it. I finally caved and got a plush incline so that gravity keeps the bile down regardless of which side I sleep on, and I still usually favor sleeping on my left due to habits from before.
You sleep on your left side to avoid gastric acid in the esophagus.
I sleep on my left side because sleeping on the right side angers up my sciatica.
We are not the same.
Conversely, sleeping on your side isn’t very good for a lot of your joints. For instance in your diagram, that position is very bad for her hips and compressing her lungs. I still sleep on my side because it’s my preferred position but I have to have a knee pillow to keep my hips and knees aligned, and I try to have a pillow hugged to my chest to keep my spine and shoulders from crunching lol.
What’s wrong with gastric acid being in the esophagus? I sleep on my right-side a lot.
Most people don’t have issues with acid reflux. However, for those that do, it’s important to try to control acid reflux.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/barretts-esophagus/symptoms-causes/syc-20352841
Dumbass DNA. Why make a human capable of eating a baconator if doing so melts your body from the inside.
If you melt yourself before you can pass on those dodgy genes of yours then the problem sorts itself out!
Already passed them on unfortunately
Not living up to your username!
To go a tad further, if you have chronic reflux there is the obvious discomfort caused by the feeling of acid creeping into your esophagus. Overtime, the acid can also do damage to the cells of your esophagus causing a condition called Barrett’s Esophagus. This is not dangerous in and of itself but is considered a precancerous condition and requires monitoring.
Until you have woken up choking on acid that went in your lungs, you will not understand. I have EOE, and it really really sucks. I highly recommend not damaging your esophagus. I have spent years barely being able to eat without choking, though this latest round with the new doctor has been the best I have been in over a decade. Once your esophagus narrows to under 10mm, eating is a chore. Worst I ever got down to was 5mm. It was around ~7ish back in November…
I keep things under control pretty well, but I was always taught to sleep on my left side growing up if your stomach was upset or you were having trouble breathing if you were sick.
It’s corroding you from within.
I’ve always been a left side sleeper, so this makes me feel happy
Same. Yay us. For once my random behaviors are correct without even knowing it. :)
Occasionally, I bumble my way into a good life decision!
Weird. I have to sleep on my right side or else my stomach gets upset.
Vamakukshi – India’s post-lunch nap, always on your left side
I’m not falling for the Indian wisdom meme again until they fix their sanitation infrastructure and stop raping women to death on public transportation.
Wait, I’ve heard the opposite. Lay facing right to aid your stomach in digesting things and pushing it out of the stomach, instead of letting it lay in the stomach and potentially gurgle it’s way up
can confirm. As someone with acid reflux, sleeping facing right is hell
Isn’t it fun when you go to sleep on your left side and roll over in your sleep, only to wake up in the middle of the night sick and ready to vomit from heartburn? It’s like my body is actively working against me when I sleep.
Thank you for the info, I hope it helps
The cardiac sphincter prevents reflux of gastric fluids from the stomach to the esophagus.
facing left
On your left side. Whether that’s “facing left” or “facing right” depends on whether you’re comparing it to being on your front or on your back. Personally, I instinctively compared it to front, which would mean being on your left is facing to the right.
So the way to be clear and unambiguous is to say which side of your body you’re referring to.
It’s your left, not the left of the dude living in your attic peeping down at you.
Yes, but to know what is your left, one first needs to establish what is their forward. If you were previously on your front (which is itself not an uncommon sleeping position), “turn to face left” will put them lying on their right side.
This stuff really isn’t rocket science. I’m genuinely surprised to be getting push back here. If the goal is to tell people to lay on their left side, that’s what should be said. Not “facing left”, which doesn’t convey the same meaning.
But your left hand is always the left one. It’s relative to you, not to your direction.
your left hand is always the left one. It’s relative to you, not to your direction
Right. That’s my point. That’s why I proposed using terminology that relates only to you, as opposed to the necessarily external language of the parent comment which used “facing”.
Bacta-tank is the best
Floating in the diaper tank
…blessly
I thought that was just to bring his internal temperature up to get Luke warm.
Nah, it’s sci-fi healing fluid.
You could do the other thing with a blanket. Or a Tauntaun.
Correct, bacta tanks are also used on Vader who was damn near incinerated. It being body temperature has something to do with it though because your body wouldn’t have to work as hard to keep your core temp stable.
I’m not sure there is any temperature that would both allow the body to remain heated exclusively through passive heat generation while also letting the body avoid overheating. Granted, higher thermal conductivity of liquids can make the task a little easier, but still I’m not sure there exists such a perfect temp.
Humans get squeezed out of body-temperature goo-bags basically first thing, that would probably work fine
Fair enough!
That’s what a passionate kiss from his sister was for.
Fantastic
Sleeping on matter is detrimental to your health. To avoid back problems, learn how to sleep while levitating 3 feet off the floor.
I genuinely sleep in a hammock and have done now for years.
It’s not levitation but it is great.
Legitimately the best sleep I ever got was when I had a hammock. It takes a bit of adjustment, but once you’re used to it, it’s so easy to wake up. I haven’t felt fully rested since I replaced my hammock with a bed
How does one legitimately sleep in a hammock? Ain’t it about as bad as lying on back and both sides at the same time, but also with fear of falling out or hammock itself falling down?
A properly built hammock is sturdy enough that it isn’t gonna fall down, and because the middle of it dips down with your weight, the sides come up sort of like a bowl and hold you in. Sleeping on your back isn’t actually that bad, and once you get used to it, you figure out how to spin slightly to one side or the other for comfort.
For reference, I was sleeping in a travel hammock meant for camping every night for about a year, I weighed over 200 lbs at the time, and even after the canvas started to tear at the seam, it never actually failed. The only reason I got rid of it is because the tear started to grow over the course of about a week.
Edit: also, for safety, I had a couple old comforters under it to cushion a potential fall, and an old pillow underneath my head for more protection. Never ended up actually needing them, but it’s an option
That’s a smart safety solution!
Gotcha, thank you
Sorry, but sleeping in levitation has been found to be detrimental to your health, you need to sleep in a 0g environment
i hate to be the bearer of bad news but air is still matter
Sleep on antimatter
But only very briefly.
Best sleep of your life.
Levitate and create a vacuum around your body. Don’t let that pesky air give you a kink in your neck.
Levitate upside down to decompress your spine
I do this, but I’ve found that rotating along the sagittal axis—six to ten times per hour—gives it that little extra zhuzh, chef’s kiss
Think rotisserie, but without the impalement or the intense heat
Don’t sleep, it’s bad for you . Just keep working.
-*CEOs
*Typo fixed.
CEOs*
No apostrophe in a non-possessive plural noun
Go ahead and cc everybody on this one, it’s needed.
Bold of you to assume I can control how my body moves while I’m asleep.
You need to be slowly turned on a rotisserie.
I have slave peasants to do that for me while I slumber.
Living is a disease at this point.
Terminal, in fact.
We’re all gonna die!
Shut up, Rattrap.
You’re the big ape.
I’m not. Proof: I haven’t yet.
Can’t argue with that logic.
Yes you can!
Sexually transmitted.
I sleep suspended in a vat of gel medium.
NOT RECOMMENDED
Where can I purchase this?
Zaltin corporation on Thyferra can get you a good supply of bacta and a tank… Don’t expect it to be cheap though.
Bacta tank…
A bacta a day keeps the doctor away!
strawberry jam
Bushes baked beans
Zero-G or go home.
i go to bed laying on my side, turn to slep on my stomach, then on my back, and once i’m actually asleep i look like this:
You know what’s fun? The post-surgery “you always sleep on this side? Learn to sleep on the other one because you’re going to be this way for weeks, motherfucker” sleeping position.
I had jaw surgery a few years back, and I had to adjust to sleeping sitting up (believe me, the surgery made me tired enough to be able to do that) for several weeks because I couldn’t risk messing up my jaw while it healed.
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Did you sleep in a chair, or sitting in bed?
Sitting in a bed with lots of pillows and blankets to prop me up. I was basically in a sitting position.
Approved:
A guy died in a cave from being stuck in this position.
Sounds a bit nutty
That’s one way of putty it.
The ball flattener 3000!
she cute
Sleeping on my back is soooo relaxing… when I can fall asleep. For some reason I have the hardest time falling asleep on my back, but when it does happen it’s bliss.
I literally can’t fall asleep on my back lol. I can lay there for an hour and then the minute I roll over on my side or stomach I’ll fall asleep.
Exactly!! My body literally rejects sleep if I’m on my back. And sleeping on a plane semi reclined? Forget it
If I sleep on my back I get the most vivid and long nightmares, and, if I fall asleep in another position and then wake up from a nightmare, I’m almost always on my back. Not sure what it is, fiancée says I don’t snore or sound like I have trouble breathing.
Exact same thing happens to me. It’s not necessarily nightmares, but really intense dreams. So intense that I wake up feeling tired.
Yo same. I have so many pillows that I have to arrange specifically to cradle my neck in a certain way or I’ll wake up with a headache and stiff neck. My neck is most comfy when I’m on my back, but the rest of my body disagrees.
Step 1: Tape ypir neck to the bed while on your back.
Step 2: Turn the rest of your body on the side.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
I have managed to sleep on my back once in my life. It was also the only night that I slept with my eyes open because I was so exhausted
i don’t sleep on my back because it causes frequent sleep paralysis. i find it more comfortable than my side usually but i don’t want to be attacked by the jack o lantern horse guy while i’m in my bed
I sleep on my side. I can’t sleep on my back or front :(
I can help you with that ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I have no idea what I meant, but it was dirty as hell.
Nobody knows what it means, but it’s PROVOCATIVE.
I sleep on my side, and wake up on my face, with a dead arm.
I just keep rolling untill I fall asleep. Trying to sleep in a specific position is near impossible. Even the best one gets uncomfortable pretty quick. Only thing I try to avoid is sleeping on my right side as it seems to be the cause for my rhomboid pain
What’s the furthest you’ve made it?
Don’t you worry about traffic?
They see me rollin’. They hatin’. Trynna catch me sleeping dirty.
If I sleep on my stomach I can’t move my neck the next day, right side my right hand goes painfully numb, left side my left hand goes painfully numb, back both hands go numb. There is literally no position I can sleep in that I don’t wake up after a couple of hours and have to shift to a different position.
You know the solution, you just have to sleep while spinning in place.
What you want is a rock tumbler bed
I like the way you think. Not sure if my wife would be too happy about it though
Some nights that’s what it feels like I’m doing.
Or get rid of gravity.
Easy, become an astronaut.
Sounds like you need to lop an arm off. Or dig a hole in your bed. https://odditymall.com/arm-slot-mattress-designed-for-side-sleepers
It seems like a good idea, but holy crap those CGI examples are the most unhinged shit ever.
It’s like they don’t know how arms work.
Where are the Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots?
Dude, my arms kept falling asleep at night. I randomly mentioned this to my physical therapist (I was there after a knee surgery) and he put me on a massage bed and pulled my head. Not like some quack chiropractor, but just slowly pulling my head, stretching my neck. Fuckin problem went away and never returned. Closest thing to real magic I have experienced.
