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Subject: Results of Sleep Survey (Very Long)
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 13:20:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 25 13:20:10 1984
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[Row, row, row your bits, gently down the stream...]

Here, at last, are the results of the sleep survey that was posted to
net.singles around two weeks ago.  The answers I received were informative.  I
would like to thank everyone that took the time to answer the survey.  The
results are first presented in the order as received and then grouped by the
question.  Without further verbosity here are the original questions and the
results.

Mike Lesher
Burroughs ASG, San Diego, CA.
(..!bmcg!mikel)

			    Sleep Questionnaire

1.  When sleeping singlely, what is your normal position?  Include position of
    trunk, legs and arms.  Are there any special requirements for sleep (tv,
    radio, holding pillow, stuffed something?)  Is the bed covering required in
    a special position?

2.  What is the normal amount of time required from the time you try to get to
    sleep until you are asleep?

3.  How easy do you get up in the morning?  Do you use an alarm?

4.  When sleeping with a partner, what are the normal positions?  Are partners
    facing together, away, same direction? Include position of trunk, legs,
    arms and hands.  Are there any special requirements for sleep (tv, radio,
    holding pillow, stuffed something?)  Is the bed covering required in a
    special position?  

5.  Same as question 2 with a partner (exclude any "play" time).

6.  Same as question 3 with a partner.

1) I sleep on my side (usually), with my legs sort of apart, arms out.
No special arrangement of anything required.

2) approx 5-15 min to fall asleep

3) Sometimes easy sometimes tough to wake up, use an alarm for
important times.  4) With a partner, I usually end up having to have my
back to them to sleep, in the same, above, position.

5) Takes approx 10-30 min. with a partner to fall asleep (excluding
play)

6) Easy to wake up with a partner (the above is for the last two years
when I haven't had a regular partner, was more like the first three
when I had a live-in girlfriend).
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1) On my side.  Arm underpillow, usually with hand dangling limply off
the end of the bed.  Roughly a fetal position:  knees bent, but never
to the same degree, or else one kneecap would be on top of the other.
Other arm bent so it's roughly equidistant from chin and chest and less
than a foot away.  No other special requirements.  Can't sleep
listening to music, because I always listen to the end of the
record/tape (took me three weeks to get to sleep once, listening to the
radio :-).

2) Hard to say.  I'd guess about half-an-hour when I'm reasonably
rested.  When I'm going to be late or haven't been getting enough
sleep, I'd say under five minutes.

3) Not a morning person.  I definitely need an alarm, and I usually hit
the snooze button two or three times.  If I *REALLY* need to wake up,
it takes a second alarm that has a horrible and very loud buzz.

4) "spooned."  That's when both are facing the same way, so that the
curves of both (as they lie on their sides) fit together.  The
uppermost arm of the person behind is usually hugging the torso of the
person in front.  Usually turn over at the same time.  My arm usually
can't go under the pillow in this case (since the other person's head
is on it as well) so it sometimes goes straight "down" (that is, if I
were standing, the direction would be down.  When lying, it's towards
the foot of the bed.) between us.  Otherwise, my position is much the
same as above (I don't know what hers is, either singly or together
(except that it's side-semi-fetal as mine is.  She occasionally sleeps
flat on her back, facing up, but that's only occasional.)  We sleep
very close, usually the front of one is touching the back of the other,
and the thighs are brought "up" so that the tops are touching the backs
of the other's thighs.  The metaphor of "spooning" is apt.  No other
gadgetry necessary.

5) She takes drugs which put her to sleep, so usually by the time she
gets into bed, she's pretty dopy.  Falls asleep within 15 minutes.  I
take longer than usual, probably 30-45 minutes, even if somewhat tired
(she usually goes to sleep earlier than I would wish anyhow, so I'm
usually not as tired as when I crawl into bed, alone, at 1:30.)

6) It varies a LOT.  Really couldn't guess.  Besides, we usually sleep
together only on weekends, so neither HAS to get up the next morning.
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1) Sprawled on stomach or back or stretched out on side.  Pillow
required when on side.

2) There is no normal time.  Five minutes to three hours. I like to
read before sleeping.

3) Fairly easy to wake up.  I use an alarm, but half the time it just
tells me to open my eyes and move; I'm already awake.

4) Not much change, I am, to my regret, not much of a cuddler.

5) No change.

6) Basicly no change.  However, I might try a morning cuddle if my
partner has to get up, too.
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1)  I sleep in three positions: a) on stomach with left arm around a
pillow and right arm around my stuffed Ewok (present from my SO).  Legs
straight or right leg bent.  b) on left side with both legs bent and a
pillow between my knees and holding Ewok with both hands. c) on my back
flat holding Ewok to side of chest with left arm.  Sometimes I don't
sleep with the Ewok.  I usually sleep nude except when I am cold.  Then
I wear my Cuddleskin nightgown (flannel inside, silky outside, made by
Barbizon, great present) and sometimes clean socks.

2)  I generally fall asleep within five minutes unless I'm really
worried about something.  Then it may take an hour (doesn't happen
much).

3)  I don't like to get up in the morning, but if I need to I have no
problem.  I usually work on my own schedule and get up as late as I
please.  But I set my alarm to let my know how lazy I'm being.

4)  When I sleep with my SO, I don't use the Ewok, but we don't wrap
around each other until morning.  5)  Five minutes or so.  6)  My SO
and I like to wrap around each other in the morning.  Sometimes we nest
like spoons, sometimes one person is one their back with the other on
their side with an arm and a leg draped around the flat person.  My SO
likes to play in the morning and I like to doze, so eventually one of
us ends up really waking up.

5)  Five minutes or so.

6)  My SO and I like to wrap around each other in the morning.  Sometimes
we nest like spoons, sometimes one person is one their back with the other
on their side with an arm and a leg draped around the flat person.  My SO
likes to play in the morning and I like to doze, so eventually one of us
ends up really waking up.
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1)  I sleep often in what has been termed the "stork" position--on my
side, one knee drawn up, the other leg extended straight down.  I don't
often lie on my back or stomach, and for allergy reasons used to prop
my head up on two pillows.  I often wrap my arms around myself, or
sometimes around my Pooh Bear  (uh oh! did I give myself away? :-)

2)  5 to 10 minutes, unless I'm very tense.

3)  It's easy if I want to go somewhere-- not so easy if I have to get
up for something I don't think is important.  I use an alarm clock, but
don't need it too often.

4)  We often sleep in the stereotypical "spoon" position, or at least
try to touch-- when we have to face away from each other, we often
sleep with our fannies pressed against each other. . .

5)  Excluding play, about 5 to 10 minutes.

6)  My SO has a terrible time waking and getting up, so I usually get
wide awake from having to get HIM awake.
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1) Occasionally on my stomach, usually on one or the other side, never
on my back (in the last several years).  I will usually be about
half-way between on my stomach and on one or the other side, and I will
usually have a pillow under the upper leg and one under my chest, in
addition to the two under my head.

2) Depends on how long I've been awake, how much I've had to drink,
etc., but usually between 15 min. to 1 hr.

3) Depends on lots of things, for a while, I was waking up without an
alarm when I first moved into my new apt. (for some obscure reason),
but now I have to use one.

4) Depends on the partner.  In recent memory, she usually has her back
to my chest (both on our sides).  Almost always a pillow between my
legs.  Occasionally, me on my back, her cuddling over me.

5) Same as #2.

6) Same as #3, except that I am less likely to make effort to get up
and out of a non-empty bed.
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1) On my back, arms sort of crossed over waist, legs straight out.
Sometimes on side, with arms crossed on chest.

2) About 15-20 minutes (unless I'm on an insomnia jag, in which case
it's 3 hours.

3) I drag myself up and use an alarm.

4) As for (1); sometimes facing partner;  greater tenency to face away
from.  Constrained by not having as much bed to sprawl on.

5) 10 min.

6) Worse.  Am tireder!
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1) flat on my back 2) five minutes 3) very easy, no alarm 4) usually
flat on my back; sometimes sleep on side facing partner who does same
5) five minutes 6) very easy, no alarm

1) Normally sleep on my side, legs bent, arms wherever.  Radio is a
must (not really, but it helps). Usually have a light blanket thrown
over me, summer and winter.

2) 1.5 to 2 minutes (seriously!)

3) Not easily at all. I use alarms for what good they'll do, which
isn't a whole lot. I normally try to make sure that I don't go to sleep
if I have to do something in the next eight hours.

4) Normally facing the same direction, me behind her. Both of us on our
sides, and possibility of legs bent or not bent for both. Radio is
normally on. Much less likely to have any covering on.

5) Same as #2.

6) Much easier than without someone else there. No, I never use an
alarm in this situation.
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1) My normal position is flat on my back with hands on stomach, right
on belly-button, left above it, not touching. Bed covering is required
over all of this.

2) It seems a bit high. Probably 30 minutes to 45 minutes. If I am not
asleep in an hour, I get up for an hour and do something else, then I
iterate until I fall asleep or it is time to start a new day.

3) Pretty easily. Yes, I use an alarm, a very loud alarm.

4) I've never slept with a partner. I grew up as an only child and hold
onto my privacy jealously.

5) Void.

6) Void.
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1) Flat on back, pillow over eyes.  2) Less than 10 minutes.  3) Cannot
get up--sleep 24 hours a day.  4) SO's favorite is spoon (me behind).
Sometimes SO flat on stomach, me on stomach with leg and arm over SO.
5) Don't know.  Never excluded "play" time (really).  6) Get up easily
without alarm (anxious for more "play.")

1) Usually on stomach, legs outstretched toward foot of bed, possibly
with one knee bent and one leg straight, forming a sort of triangle.
Arms usually wrapped around pillow and head resting on it too.

2)  Usually 5-10 minutes at most.

3) Pretty bad about getting up in the morning... best to have a radio
alarm with a snooze.  I will snooze for an hour then get up.

4) I, same as above; she, on her back, legs like mine, arms tucked
behind her under pillow.  If it is too warm for me I prefer to stick a
foot out of the covers on my side of the bed.  I usually face away from
her, backed up to her, as much contact as possible between our sides.

5) same

6) She will not tolerate the snoozing, so I usually get up in 15
minutes.
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1) Lying flat on back, arms on chest OR at side (always outside
blankets unless very cold), one leg usually bent at hip and knee to
make a _figure4_ with other leg.  No special requirements (except quiet
and no light).  No special position for covering.

2) 5-10 minutes.

3) With difficulty.  Usually hit snooze button 3 or 4 times until awake
enough.  Use alarm.

4) Partner rolls around a lot so no real facings or special
requirements.

5) 15 minutes.

6) Still with difficulty but usually on first try.  Don't hit snooze.
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1) I move around some, but generally sleep on my left side or stomach;
when on my side, I tend to curl up (fetal); on my stomach, to spread
out (arms & legs pointed in all directions).  No special requirements
for sleep.

2) 30-60 minutes.

3) I wake up slowly, and use an alarm. I am often late out of my bed,
and have been known to wake up, shut off the alarm, return to sleep,
and wake up again later with no memory of my first awakening, or of
shutting the alarm off.

4) Same answers as in 1), above, when the weather is hot. I have a very
wide bed which allows two people to sleep together with no contact.  In
pleasanter weather I like sleeping "spoon-style" (back-to-front).

5) Answer same as 2) when there's no lovemaking; with sex before sleep,
I tend to fall asleep quicker.

6) Same answer, pretty much, though it depends on who I'm sleeping
with. If it's someone who wakes up promptly, I'm more likely to do the
same; if they're slow to wake, like me, then I don't change.
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1) I normally sleep on may back arms and legs spread out.  When no
partner present, will sometimes cuddle a stuffed bear, usually in a
specific position otherwise used for interpersonal cuddles....  On
side, top leg extended out, knee bent, bear under top arm, against
chest, bottom arm out straight under pillow.

2) 6 minutes.

3) I sleep 5 hours then wake-up.

4) Ultimately I wind up sleeping as in #1.  That is preceeded by one or
more of several "cuddle" positions whose goal is maximum body contact.

5) Same time from try to sleep to sleep.  Longer due to cuddles pre
sleep.

6) Same difference.
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1) I sleep on my stomach with both arms above my head, with usually a
little twist to my body.  I like to put my arms under a pillow, I don't
put my head on a pillow.  I like to feel the weight of the covers.

2) About 5-10 minutes, sometimes even quicker.

3) I use an alarm, I often hit the snooze (almost always once,
sometimes as many as four times).

4) Generally with a partner we will start out in the classic male on
his back female cuddling on his shoulder position but will actually fall
asleep in our more normal positions.  I am more likely to accept a
position on my side and like my partner to lay alongside me with either
my front to their back or vica versa.  No special requirements.

5) Same as two, I am including the "cooldown time" that results from
extended play time as part of the play time.

6) An alarm is needed but I almost never use the snooze, probably
because it's play time again! (It's not unusual to awake before the
alarm with my partner in my arms)
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1) On my front or on my side.  Legs straight or slightly bent.  Arms up
by my head.

2) 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

3) Fairly easilily, if not alway painlessly.  Yes.

4) Not applicable

5) Not applicable

6) Not applicable.
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1) This varies a lot, though is often lying on back with arms stretched
over head.  Although not REQUIRED, I often turn on a fan (even in
winter) to mask out external noise.  I usually like to sleep in a
relatively cold room, with covering appropriate for the season...
anything from a sheet to a heavy blanket, draped LOOSELY over me, up to
my neck.

2) This varies a lot too, depending on what I've been doing.  It's
often as little as 5 minutes, though if I'm thinking about a problem of
some sort it may be an hour or more.  (This is often the only part of
my day when I'm alone enough to concentrate.)

3) Most of the time getting up is no problem, assuming I've had a
reasonable amount of sleep.  I use an alarm, but it's a quiet "chirp",
not an obnoxious buzzer.  (I prefer something just loud enough to be
mildly annoying, not something I rush out of bed to smash into
silence.)

4) This varies a lot, depending on the other person's preferences.  I
don't really care a lot about my sleep environment, except that I can't
sleep well in a hot room.

5)  This often will extend to an hour or more.  (It's a guaranteed way
of getting the other person's undivided attention, and is often one of
the few chances I get to talk to her privately.)

6)  It's more difficult to get up (minus alarm) when there's a soft,
sexy woman next to me!  Wait... Maybe I'd better rephrase that to "get
out of bed".
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1) All these questions beat the hell out of me.  I was asleep at the
time.
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1) lying on right or left side, hands under the pillow

2) almost immediatly (usually after midnight before i get there!)

3) terrible in the morning.  Use massive battery of alarm clocks, car
alarms, and other assorted noisemakers

4) curled up next to them in same (#1) except with arm over them

5) same as #2

6) same as number 3 except girlfriend is more violent that alarm clocks
to turn off!!!!
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1)  SPREAD EAGLE, FACE DOWN, CENTER OF BED

2)  ONE HOUR

3)  EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.  YES.

4)  DOUBLE FETAL... ME FACING HER BACK IN EMBRACE.

5)  FEW MINUTES.

6)  EASILY... NO.
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1) I change a lot---commonest is on left side, trunk on bed centerline,
legs slightly bent at waist and knee, arms in front (pre-fetal?). Also
on stomach with head rightwards (which makes my otologist happy--left
ear tends to pill up).

2) mostly ~20 minutes (guess)

3) Generally slowly if I have to be up at a specific time---I'm always
up too late. ALWAYS need an alarm and often run it through several
cycles.

4)-6): it's been long enough since I slept with anyone that I couldn't
tell you.
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1)  I usually sleep on my side with legs slightly bent.  I need a fat
pillow to keep my neck straight.  I am attempting to sleep on my back
to improve my posture.  I am not dependent on any coverings except to
keep warm.

2)  10-20 minutes.  hours if I am bothered or not tired.  I turn from
side to side a few times, and periodically during the night.

3)  I do not get up easily. I like to sleep in and dream away the
hours.  Alarms annoy me very much.  If I need one, I use the radio with
low volume which is sufficient.

4)  We usually start in a spoon position, my top arm over her, lower
arm down my side.  But usually, we separate and I sleep as I would
alone.

5)  A little longer.  I am not always as tired as she.

6)  A little longer.  She usually gets up first.
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1)  sleep on side

2) less than half hour.

3) I use an alarm and take a long time to get up.

4) N. A.

5) N. A.

6) N. A.

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		    Answers grouped by Question
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1.  When sleeping singlely, what is your normal position?  Include position of
    trunk, legs and arms.  Are there any special requirements for sleep (tv,
    radio, holding pillow, stuffed something?)  Is the bed covering required in
    a special position?
---------------
1) I sleep on my side (usually), with my legs sort of apart, arms out.
No special arrangement of anything required.

1) On my side.  Arm underpillow, usually with hand dangling limply off
the end of the bed.  Roughly a fetal position:  knees bent, but never
to the same degree, or else one kneecap would be on top of the other.
Other arm bent so it's roughly equidistant from chin and chest and less
than a foot away.  No other special requirements.  Can't sleep
listening to music, because I always listen to the end of the
record/tape (took me three weeks to get to sleep once, listening to the
radio :-).

1) Sprawled on stomach or back or stretched out on side.  Pillow
required when on side.

1)  I sleep in three positions: a) on stomach with left arm around a
pillow and right arm around my stuffed Ewok (present from my SO).  Legs
straight or right leg bent.  b) on left side with both legs bent and a
pillow between my knees and holding Ewok with both hands. c) on my back
flat holding Ewok to side of chest with left arm.  Sometimes I don't
sleep with the Ewok.  I usually sleep nude except when I am cold.  Then
I wear my Cuddleskin nightgown (flannel inside, silky outside, made by
Barbizon, great present) and sometimes clean socks.

1)  I sleep often in what has been termed the "stork" position--on my
side, one knee drawn up, the other leg extended straight down.  I don't
often lie on my back or stomach, and for allergy reasons used to prop
my head up on two pillows.  I often wrap my arms around myself, or
sometimes around my Pooh Bear  (uh oh! did I give myself away? :-)

1) Occasionally on my stomach, usually on one or the other side, never
on my back (in the last several years).  I will usually be about
half-way between on my stomach and on one or the other side, and I will
usually have a pillow under the upper leg and one under my chest, in
addition to the two under my head.

1) On my back, arms sort of crossed over waist, legs straight out.
Sometimes on side, with arms crossed on chest.

1) flat on my back

1) Normally sleep on my side, legs bent, arms wherever.  Radio is a
must (not really, but it helps). Usually have a light blanket thrown
over me, summer and winter.

1) My normal position is flat on my back with hands on stomach, right
on belly-button, left above it, not touching. Bed covering is required
over all of this.

1) Flat on back, pillow over eyes.

1) Usually on stomach, legs outstretched toward foot of bed, possibly
with one knee bent and one leg straight, forming a sort of triangle.
Arms usually wrapped around pillow and head resting on it too.

1) Lying flat on back, arms on chest OR at side (always outside
blankets unless very cold), one leg usually bent at hip and knee to
make a _figure4_ with other leg.  No special requirements (except quiet
and no light).  No special position for covering.

1) I move around some, but generally sleep on my left side or stomach;
when on my side, I tend to curl up (fetal); on my stomach, to spread
out (arms & legs pointed in all directions).  No special requirements
for sleep.

1) I normally sleep on may back arms and legs spread out.  When no
partner present, will sometimes cuddle a stuffed bear, usually in a
specific position otherwise used for interpersonal cuddles....  On
side, top leg extended out, knee bent, bear under top arm, against
chest, bottom arm out straight under pillow.

1) I sleep on my stomach with both arms above my head, with usually a
little twist to my body.  I like to put my arms under a pillow, I don't
put my head on a pillow.  I like to feel the weight of the covers.

1) On my front or on my side.  Legs straight or slightly bent.  Arms up
by my head.

1) This varies a lot, though is often lying on back with arms stretched
over head.  Although not REQUIRED, I often turn on a fan (even in
winter) to mask out external noise.  I usually like to sleep in a
relatively cold room, with covering appropriate for the season...
anything from a sheet to a heavy blanket, draped LOOSELY over me, up to
my neck.

1) All these questions beat the hell out of me.  I was asleep at the
time.

1) lying on right or left side, hands under the pillow

1)  SPREAD EAGLE, FACE DOWN, CENTER OF BED

1) I change a lot---commonest is on left side, trunk on bed centerline,
legs slightly bent at waist and knee, arms in front (pre-fetal?). Also
on stomach with head rightwards (which makes my otologist happy--left
ear tends to pill up).

1)  I usually sleep on my side with legs slightly bent.  I need a fat
pillow to keep my neck straight.  I am attempting to sleep on my back
to improve my posture.  I am not dependent on any coverings except to
keep warm.

1)  sleep on side
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2.  What is the normal amount of time required from the time you try to get to
    sleep until you are asleep?
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2) approx 5-15 min to fall asleep

2) Hard to say.  I'd guess about half-an-hour when I'm reasonably
rested.  When I'm going to be late or haven't been getting enough
sleep, I'd say under five minutes.

2) There is no normal time.  Five minutes to three hours. I like to
read before sleeping.

2)  I generally fall asleep within five minutes unless I'm really
worried about something.  Then it may take an hour (doesn't happen
much).

2)  5 to 10 minutes, unless I'm very tense.

2) Depends on how long I've been awake, how much I've had to drink,
etc., but usually between 15 min. to 1 hr.

2) About 15-20 minutes (unless I'm on an insomnia jag, in which case
it's 3 hours.

2) five minutes

2) 1.5 to 2 minutes (seriously!)

2) It seems a bit high. Probably 30 minutes to 45 minutes. If I am not
asleep in an hour, I get up for an hour and do something else, then I
iterate until I fall asleep or it is time to start a new day.

2) Less than 10 minutes.

2)  Usually 5-10 minutes at most.

2) 5-10 minutes.

2) 30-60 minutes.

2) 6 minutes.

2) About 5-10 minutes, sometimes even quicker.

2) 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

2) This varies a lot too, depending on what I've been doing.  It's
often as little as 5 minutes, though if I'm thinking about a problem of
some sort it may be an hour or more.  (This is often the only part of
my day when I'm alone enough to concentrate.)

2) almost immediatly (usually after midnight before i get there!)

2)  ONE HOUR

2) mostly ~20 minutes (guess)

2)  10-20 minutes.  hours if I am bothered or not tired.  I turn from
side to side a few times, and periodically during the night.

2) less than half hour.
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3.  How easy do you get up in the morning?  Do you use an alarm?
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3) Sometimes easy sometimes tough to wake up, use an alarm for
important times.

3) Not a morning person.  I definitely need an alarm, and I usually hit
the snooze button two or three times.  If I *REALLY* need to wake up,
it takes a second alarm that has a horrible and very loud buzz.

3) Fairly easy to wake up.  I use an alarm, but half the time it just
tells me to open my eyes and move; I'm already awake.

3)  I don't like to get up in the morning, but if I need to I have no
problem.  I usually work on my own schedule and get up as late as I
please.  But I set my alarm to let my know how lazy I'm being.

3)  It's easy if I want to go somewhere-- not so easy if I have to get
up for something I don't think is important.  I use an alarm clock, but
don't need it too often.

3) Depends on lots of things, for a while, I was waking up without an
alarm when I first moved into my new apt. (for some obscure reason),
but now I have to use one.

3) I drag myself up and use an alarm.

3) very easy, no alarm

3) Not easily at all. I use alarms for what good they'll do, which
isn't a whole lot. I normally try to make sure that I don't go to sleep
if I have to do something in the next eight hours.

3) Pretty easily. Yes, I use an alarm, a very loud alarm.

3) Cannot get up--sleep 24 hours a day.

3) Pretty bad about getting up in the morning... best to have a radio
alarm with a snooze.  I will snooze for an hour then get up.

3) With difficulty.  Usually hit snooze button 3 or 4 times until awake
enough.  Use alarm.

3) I wake up slowly, and use an alarm. I am often late out of my bed,
and have been known to wake up, shut off the alarm, return to sleep,
and wake up again later with no memory of my first awakening, or of
shutting the alarm off.

3) I sleep 5 hours then wake-up.

3) I use an alarm, I often hit the snooze (almost always once,
sometimes as many as four times).

3) Fairly easilily, if not alway painlessly.  Yes.

3) Most of the time getting up is no problem, assuming I've had a
reasonable amount of sleep.  I use an alarm, but it's a quiet "chirp",
not an obnoxious buzzer.  (I prefer something just loud enough to be
mildly annoying, not something I rush out of bed to smash into
silence.)

3) terrible in the morning.  Use massive battery of alarm clocks, car
alarms, and other assorted noisemakers

3)  EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.  YES.

3) Generally slowly if I have to be up at a specific time---I'm always
up too late. ALWAYS need an alarm and often run it through several
cycles.

3)  I do not get up easily. I like to sleep in and dream away the
hours.  Alarms annoy me very much.  If I need one, I use the radio with
low volume which is sufficient.

3) I use an alarm and take a long time to get up.
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4.  When sleeping with a partner, what are the normal positions?  Are partners
    facing together, away, same direction? Include position of trunk, legs,
    arms and hands.  Are there any special requirements for sleep (tv, radio,
    holding pillow, stuffed something?)  Is the bed covering required in a
    special position?  
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4) With a partner, I usually end up having to have my back to them to
sleep, in the same, above, position.

4) "spooned."  That's when both are facing the same way, so that the
curves of both (as they lie on their sides) fit together.  The
uppermost arm of the person behind is usually hugging the torso of the
person in front.  Usually turn over at the same time.  My arm usually
can't go under the pillow in this case (since the other person's head
is on it as well) so it sometimes goes straight "down" (that is, if I
were standing, the direction would be down.  When lying, it's towards
the foot of the bed.) between us.  Otherwise, my position is much the
same as above (I don't know what hers is, either singly or together
(except that it's side-semi-fetal as mine is.  She occasionally sleeps
flat on her back, facing up, but that's only occasional.)  We sleep
very close, usually the front of one is touching the back of the other,
and the thighs are brought "up" so that the tops are touching the backs
of the other's thighs.  The metaphor of "spooning" is apt.  No other
gadgetry necessary.

4) Not much change, I am, to my regret, not much of a cuddler.

4)  When I sleep with my SO, I don't use the Ewok, but we don't wrap
around each other until morning.

4)  We often sleep in the stereotypical "spoon" position, or at least
try to touch-- when we have to face away from each other, we often
sleep with our fannies pressed against each other. . .

4) Depends on the partner.  In recent memory, she usually has her back
to my chest (both on our sides).  Almost always a pillow between my
legs.  Occasionally, me on my back, her cuddling over me.

4) As for (1); sometimes facing partner;  greater tenency to face away
from.  Constrained by not having as much bed to sprawl on.

4) usually flat on my back; sometimes sleep on side facing partner who
does same

4) Normally facing the same direction, me behind her. Both of us on our
sides, and possibility of legs bent or not bent for both. Radio is
normally on. Much less likely to have any covering on.

4) I've never slept with a partner. I grew up as an only child and hold
onto

4) SO's favorite is spoon (me behind).  Sometimes SO flat on stomach,
me on stomach with leg and arm over SO.

4) I, same as above; she, on her back, legs like mine, arms tucked
behind her under pillow.  If it is too warm for me I prefer to stick a
foot out of the covers on my side of the bed.  I usually face away from
her, backed up to her, as much contact as possible between our sides.

4) Partner rolls around a lot so no real facings or special
requirements.

4) Same answers as in 1), above, when the weather is hot. I have a very
wide bed which allows two people to sleep together with no contact.  In
pleasanter weather I like sleeping "spoon-style" (back-to-front).

4) Ultimately I wind up sleeping as in #1.  That is preceeded by one or
more of several "cuddle" positions whose goal is maximum body contact.

4) Generally with a partner we will start out in the classic male on
his back female cuddling on his shoulder position but will actually fall
asleep in our more normal positions.  I am more likely to accept a
position on my side and like my partner to lay alongside me with either
my front to their back or vica versa.  No special requirements.

4) Not applicable

4) This varies a lot, depending on the other person's preferences.  I
don't really care a lot about my sleep environment, except that I can't
sleep well in a hot room.

4) curled up next to them in same (#1) except with arm over them

4)  DOUBLE FETAL... ME FACING HER BACK IN EMBRACE.

4)-6): it's been long enough since I slept with anyone that I couldn't
tell you.

4)  We usually start in a spoon position, my top arm over her, lower
arm down my side.  But usually, we separate and I sleep as I would
alone.

4) N. A.
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5.  Same as question 2 with a partner (exclude any "play" time).
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5) Takes approx 10-30 min. with a partner to fall asleep (excluding
play)

5) She takes drugs which put her to sleep, so usually by the time she
gets into bed, she's pretty dopy.  Falls asleep within 15 minutes.  I
take longer than usual, probably 30-45 minutes, even if somewhat tired
(she usually goes to sleep earlier than I would wish anyhow, so I'm
usually not as tired as when I crawl into bed, alone, at 1:30.)

5) No change.

5)  Five minutes or so.

5)  Excluding play, about 5 to 10 minutes.

5) Same as #2.

5) 10 min.

5) five minutes

5) Same as #2.

5) Void.

5) Don't know.  Never excluded "play" time (really).

5) same

5) 15 minutes.

5) Answer same as 2) when there's no lovemaking; with sex before sleep,
I tend to fall asleep quicker.

5) Same time from try to sleep to sleep.  Longer due to cuddles pre
sleep.

5) Same as two, I am including the "cooldown time" that results from
extended play time as part of the play time.

5) Not applicable

5)  This often will extend to an hour or more.  (It's a guaranteed way
of getting the other person's undivided attention, and is often one of
the few chances I get to talk to her privately.)

5) same as #2

5)  FEW MINUTES.

5)  A little longer.  I am not always as tired as she.

5) N. A.
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6.  Same as question 3 with a partner.
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6) Easy to wake up with a partner (the above is for the last two years
when I haven't had a regular partner, was more like the first three
when I had a live-in girlfriend).

6) It varies a LOT.  Really couldn't guess.  Besides, we usually sleep
together only on weekends, so neither HAS to get up the next morning.

6) Basicly no change.  However, I might try a morning cuddle if my
partner

6)  My SO and I like to wrap around each other in the morning.
Sometimes we nest like spoons, sometimes one person is one their back
with the other on their side with an arm and a leg draped around the
flat person.  My SO likes to play in the morning and I like to doze, so
eventually one of us ends up really waking up.

6)  My SO has a terrible time waking and getting up, so I usually get
wide awake from having to get HIM awake.

6) Same as #3, except that I am less likely to make effort to get up
and out of a non-empty bed.

6) Worse.  Am tireder!

6) very easy, no alarm

6) Much easier than without someone else there. No, I never use an
alarm in this situation.

6) Void.

6) Get up easily without alarm (anxious for more "play.")

6) She will not tolerate the snoozing, so I usually get up in 15
minutes.

6) Still with difficulty but usually on first try.  Don't hit snooze.

6) Same answer, pretty much, though it depends on who I'm sleeping
with. If it's someone who wakes up promptly, I'm more likely to do the
same; if they're slow to wake, like me, then I don't change.

6) Same difference.

6) An alarm is needed but I almost never use the snooze, probably
because it's play time again! (It's not unusual to awake before the
alarm with my partner in my arms)

6) Not applicable.

6)  It's more difficult to get up (minus alarm) when there's a soft,
sexy woman next to me!  Wait... Maybe I'd better rephrase that to "get
out of bed".

6) same as number 3 except girlfriend is more violent that alarm clocks
to turn off!!!!

6)  EASILY... NO.

6)  A little longer.  She usually gets up first.

6) N. A.
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