Recently Awhile ago my darling friend M made a comment about the way I sleep. She said “you toss and turn so much it’s like you are making stir fry”. I thought it was pretty hilarious, but now that I’ve typed it out in English it doesn’t seem as funny (she said it to me in Chinese). Anyway… It’s true, I toss and turn a lot in my sleep. Sometimes even when I am not asleep I toss and turn, thinking that it’d help me fall asleep faster, but it doesn’t. As much as I love sleeping with someone (oh là là!) I hate sharing a bed. I don’t care how big the bed is, I want it all to myself. And when I am in a big bed I like to sleep diagonally, for fear that someone else my jump into my bed at night and get into my space. When I was a little one my mother used to wonder how it was possible for me to do 180 turns in the night, little does she know that it was actually a 900 degree turn. Yup that was mean the champion tosser and turner before the age of one.
Needless to say I am not a cuddle-er in bed. I get super self-conscious especially when the guy puts his arm under my head. I start thinking about how much my head weighs, how long it’d take before his arm goes numb. Trying to think back to my cognitive psychology labs where we learnt about the human brain, or I picture myself chopping off my head and putting it on a scale… It’s bizarre I know and then I can’t fall asleep which leads me to toss and turn which again makes me really self-conscious as I wonder if the person I am in bed with thinks I am tossing and turning too much.
Where did the shrimp come from I hear you ask? Well I despise shrimps, and all seafood that comes with a shell, and also eels. I tell people I am allergic to it, I may have had an allergic reaction once but, I just plain don’t like it. My mom nicknamed me Shrimpy when I was little, because when she’d eventually see me in the morning, I’d be curled up like a shrimp. It has a cuter connotation than the fetal position.
Do you have an weird unique sleeping habits?
