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    Side sleeper in bed as well. When I first started hammock camping, I realized side sleeping wasn't very comfortable for me in a simple, gathered end hammock. I couldn't get comfortable until the second night of a camping trip.

    Then I suffered a back injury. I could not sleep at all in my bed, so I hung a hammock in my office. I learned to sleep on my back, and after about three months of sleeping in that hammock, my back finally healed. Since that back injury, sleeping on my back in a hammock is easy. Before I go on a camping trip, I usually spend a couple of nights in my office hammock just to get re-acclimated.

    Other side sleepers sometimes decide they can't change their sleep habits, so they end up going with bridge hammocks or similar. Personally, I find it easier to change my behavior than throw money at the problem. It might take a while, but I think you can change the way you sleep.
    "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    Quote Originally Posted by EricMancung View Post
    As a side sleeper who in normal-bed life typically turns over and faces the other direction one or more times per night, I'm wondering whether that becomes complicated in a hammock. Isn't it a little tight for your face if you switch from facing outward to facing the inward/gathered part of the hammock?
    Some side-sleep looky-sees......
    Good luck on the snooze quest.
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    I am a side sleeper and flip and flip some in a regular bed. I also flip both directions while sleeping in a hammock too. I can recall many nights in my blackbird with my face into the fabric.
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    I toss and turn and roll around a lot on a bed. In my hammock I have woken up after six or eight hours still holding my stemless stainless steel wineglass, unspilled. Don't judge me like that. Who hasn't accidentally fallen asleep chilling in their hammock. Anyway, come morning I'll often go to partially or full on either side or sometimes ball up in a fetal position but overall I am much more still in a hammock. Absolutely love my full size UQ because it puts up with my various flip-floppings without too much fuss.

    I went to mostly full-time hammocking within about a month of first sleeping in a hammock on a lark during a rafting trip precisely for this reason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GilligansWorld View Post
    Nope I'm a flopper - my hammocks is a standard 60-in wide, never been a problem

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    Quote Originally Posted by Silverpalm2x View Post
    I am a side sleeper and flip and flip some in a regular bed. I also flip both directions while sleeping in a hammock too. I can recall many nights in my blackbird with my face into the fabric.

    Like GilligansWorld & Silverpalm2x, I side sleep and change sides "flip and flop" in my hammock too, and I've never had issues, or an problem, with doing it. Been doing it right from the start - no issues at all.

    We three are not the only three either. As Shug wrote,
    "Some side-sleep......"
    willin'

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    In a bed I flip and flop from my back to my side to my other side. Each position is only comfortable for an hour or so.

    In a hammock I usually lie on my back, and stay like that all night. Occasionally I get restless and sleep on my side, and it "works", but I don't stay on my side for more than an hour or so. It's just not as comfortable for me.

    I use an asymmetrical UQ, so I don't flip from head-right to head-left. I'm able to sleep on either side; they feel different as one has my face facing the open centre of the hammock and the other has my face nestling into the wall of fabric. Different, but equally fine.

    Just my experience after sleeping in hammocks for about 50% of nights over the last 5 years or so.

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    I switch sides all night long. When I turn to my left, since I'm a head left, feet right asym, it puts my face nearly into the hammock body. I find by sliding my Nemo Fillo over until it pushes into the hammock body, it shoves fabric comfortably away from my face.

    Right now, its not part of my UL hammock set up, so I'll have to try something else, but this works for me every night at home. For those that use a camp pillow might be worth a try.
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    I side sleep every night at home in my big Brazilian hammock, bot sides, no problem. I had an ENO single nest, no problems. Now I have an 11’ Trail Lair. Fewer nights in it, but no problems so far.
    I do find that I like a small pillow or balled up puffy under my neck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OlTrailDog View Post
    I constantly rotate through left lay, right lay, right side lay, and left side lay every night.
    Can you explain for me the distinction between "left lay" and "left side lay"?

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    left lay = feet left side of hammock and head on right side of hammock (also called reverse lay). right lay = feet right side of hammock and head to the left side of hammock (also called normal lay).

    left side lay is just my way of saying that I am laying on my left side. I do this with my feet on the right side and my head on the left side. If you look at Shug laying in his hammock in the video picture he is doing this position. To lay on my right side I lay on the tangent with my feet to the left side and head to the right side. Of course it is possible to do the opposite, but if you do you are looking into a wall of fabric created by the tangential lay.

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