Are you stomach sleeper? If yes, You are tend to have more sexier
dreams than you have in other sleeping positions , as per one study conducted
by a researcher of Hong Kong.
A dream researcher of Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, Mr.
Calvin Kai-Ching Yu, has done a research on impact of your sleep position on
dreams. He surveyed 670 participants,
mostly university students, two-thirds of whom were females. The participants
had to answer for many questions based on the intensities of their dreams,
specific themes of dreams and personality traits. It also included the sleep
position on bed i.e. their sides, face up, face down etc. The conclusions are drawn on the basis the
Dream Intensity Scale, Dream Motif Scale, NEO Five-Factor Inventory, and
Marlowe–Crowne Social Desirability Scale. The study report s indicate that
sleeping in the prone position may promote dreaming of sexual, erotomaniac, and
persecutory material, such as themes involving “having a sexual relationship
with a big wheel or celebrity,” “being smothered, unable to breathe,” “being
locked up,” and “being tied, unable to move.”
According to the study, sleep position has great impact on
the contents of dreams. According to Kai-Ching Yu that prone position provides
more intense physical stimulus, for example, making our bodies feel more
constricted. He further added “the unconscious brains of the dreamers try
to make sense, and even make use of, the external stimuli. It’s something like
the dreams we have – common across cultures – when we have to urinate. We’re
sleeping, but the pressure begins influencing our dream content so we start
dreaming about bathrooms, or having to go. Also, when we’re face down, our
genitals are receiving more stimulus from the bed and sheets, he speculates, so
our brains incorporate that into sex-related dreaming.”
But from this research we cannot finally conclude any
theory, because the problems with dream-related researches calling the dreams
accurately and describing them as you have seen. And it is difficult to tell
which sleep position you were, while you dreaming. Often it goes wrong. Any way you can try by yourself to sleep in
various positions and check what kinds of dreams you are getting? Sweet Dreams!!
