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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.

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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

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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

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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).

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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

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O.01% of the population, roughly 1 person in 10,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus

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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.

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This woman is dead. Her stomach is coming out of her body and her arms are under her esophagus

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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.”
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29 points

The throat anus, for those not used to the medical terminology.

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1 point

Upper bunghole, if you’re nasty

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25 points

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.

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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.

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Thankfully Omeprazole keeps me from choking on my own acid now, but yeah, that sucks.

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5 points

I’ve got gas in my stomach somewhat frequently…

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3 points

Have I got a solution for you!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What’s wrong with gastric acid being in the esophagus? I sleep on my right-side a lot.

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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

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4 points

Dumbass DNA. Why make a human capable of eating a baconator if doing so melts your body from the inside.

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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.

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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.

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It’s corroding you from within.

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5 points

I’ve always been a left side sleeper, so this makes me feel happy

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3 points

Same. Yay us. For once my random behaviors are correct without even knowing it. :)

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1 point

Occasionally, I bumble my way into a good life decision!

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3 points

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

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3 points

Vamakukshi – India’s post-lunch nap, always on your left side

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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.

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3 points

Weird. I have to sleep on my right side or else my stomach gets upset.

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2 points

can confirm. As someone with acid reflux, sleeping facing right is hell

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3 points

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.

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The cardiac sphincter prevents reflux of gastric fluids from the stomach to the esophagus.

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Thank you for the info, I hope it helps

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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.

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10 points

It’s your left, not the left of the dude living in your attic peeping down at you.

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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.

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But your left hand is always the left one. It’s relative to you, not to your direction.

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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”.

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Bacta-tank is the best

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Floating in the diaper tank

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…blessly

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I thought that was just to bring his internal temperature up to get Luke warm.

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Nah, it’s sci-fi healing fluid.

You could do the other thing with a blanket. Or a Tauntaun.

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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.

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2 points

That’s what a passionate kiss from his sister was for.

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Fantastic

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Sleeping on matter is detrimental to your health. To avoid back problems, learn how to sleep while levitating 3 feet off the floor.

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I genuinely sleep in a hammock and have done now for years.

It’s not levitation but it is great.

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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

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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?

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Sorry, but sleeping in levitation has been found to be detrimental to your health, you need to sleep in a 0g environment

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i hate to be the bearer of bad news but air is still matter

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Sleep on antimatter

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But only very briefly.

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Levitate and create a vacuum around your body. Don’t let that pesky air give you a kink in your neck.

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Levitate upside down to decompress your spine

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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

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Don’t sleep, it’s bad for you . Just keep working.

-*CEOs

*Typo fixed.

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CEOs*

No apostrophe in a non-possessive plural noun

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25 points

Go ahead and cc everybody on this one, it’s needed.

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Bold of you to assume I can control how my body moves while I’m asleep.

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