Blog 4

 This week's readings was extremely informative but also very very hard. So in this weeks readings of Dreamland by David K Randall it spoke of the issue of sleeping with a partner. This is something I never realized the impacted your sleep quality. I currently sleep in the same bed as my partner each night. I grew up sleeping in my own bed and being blessed with having my own room so I was not used to sleeping with other individuals when we first started to. I hug the edge of the bed curled up in a ball this is the position that feels the most comfortable to me, wether I have the whole bed or just a slice of it. So, when assessing my partners sleep they are one whom snores and moves very violently throughout the night, from tossing and turning just to find the best possible position. They are a very hard sleeper as well so when they are snoring I usually give them a nudge to stop long enough for me to get back to a deep enough sleep not to notice. Yet, this doesn’t always work and sometimes I am woken up by it. In the situations I am woken up by the snoring, I end up going in the living room and staying up by watching T.V. and or playing on my phone.  Now to the hard part of the reading Randall interviews Paul Rosenblatt, a professor of family social sciences at Minnesota University. Randall uses the principle that “ Given that sleep studies consistently find that subjects sleep better when given their own bed at night,” (Dreamland 65) There is study after study proving that individuals sleep better alone, yet due to the social stigma behind sleeping in separate beds such as a poor relationship many prefer to sleep with their partner. This is something that truly shocked me. I would personally like to see if this did affect my sleep yet I do not know if my partner would agree to it. I like having them there to cuddle and hold yet is that worth the harm being done to my sleep?