Sleeping on Your Side is the Most Common Position, Plus Three Other Facts About Sleep

 

The people at Tempur-Pedic have released a bunch of new stats about how Americans sleep.   

 

--57% of people sleep on their side, which makes it the most common sleep position BY FAR.  17% sleep on their back and 11% sleep on their stomach.  Most of the other 15% say they switch it up.

  

--The average person changes sleep positions about 12 times in a night.  But all of us shift anywhere from three to 36 TIMES over the course of a night.

  

--The younger you are, the more likely you are to switch positions in the middle of the night.

  

--The average man sleeps with two pillows on the bed.  The average woman sleeps with four.

  

(Wall Street Journal)