The way you sleep can give startling insights into your personality, even giving away how stubborn, bossy or stressed you are, a body language expert has claimed.
Amusing though it is, it’s claptrap on stilts – much like graphology or astrology. Faux science that tries to tell us something about ourselves, yet is arrant nonsense from start to finish. Take this, for example:
A further 17 per cent of respondents classed themselves as “freefallers”, sleeping face down with their arms outstretched.
Often clutching their pillow, they can appearing to be “holding on for dear life” in what is thought to be the most uncomfortable sleeping position for adults.
Those who adopt it can feel as if life “happens around them” and they are just “hanging on for the ride”, believing they lack control over what will happen the next day.So-called freefallers can wake up feelings anxious, or believing they still have issues and tasks left over from the previous day.
I tend to sleep face down with arms akimbo and, no, that assessment isn’t within a parsec of being close. Bollocks, the lot of it. Still, amuse yourselves with it, for that is all it is worth. Research, indeed.
‘Research, indeed.’ Or rather, blatant marketing on the part of Premier Inn, whose logo appears clearly in all the pictures – they didn’t even bother trying to make it plausible; outstretched arms = yearning?!!
A cynic might say it is not entirely unconnected with the global TV advertising campaign launched this month by rival hotel chain Ibis.
As you say, claptrap on stilts.
I identified with the comment from a woman that said (parahrased as from memory now)her sleeping position is dictated by which bit of her aches and how much of the bed the dog has allocated himself.
Add another dog, two moggies and the occasional child when they were smaller…not to mention Himself…and that’s me too 😆
Anything up to eight moggies and we are lucky to have any of the bed left.
Now THAT is something with which I can identify. Especially when I poke my feet out from under the duvet and one (or more) of them thinks my toes are toys to be pounced upon and nibbled…
You get that, too?
*nods* and I can’t be the only one here to regularly wake up wearing a cat-hat…
Mine tends to be either grey or ginger.
The other clue that it is total claptrap and not science is that there is a lot of feeling, self assessment, and believing. All too wishy-washy for science.
This is pure churnalism. If the newspaper wants to make money then it should stop such blatant attempts at advertising and ask for money from Premier Inn for proper adverts. Instead it’s just re-printing a press release.
Re printing press releases is what most of them seem to do.