Correlation does not equal causation!

It's possible that there is a confounding variable not accounted for in the study. Unless there's a double-blind study where different sides of the bed are the only variable held constant, no dice.

Well, I'm a leftie and I DO think I can handle stress better than my partner. That said, I always like to be on the side furthest from the door ---- in case of an intruder? I dont know.

Good old pseudoscience. Ridiculous.

Eeek please don't start posting drivel from The Daily Mail! Everything they write is barely fact checked properly or misconstrued.

So silly.

I'm a leftie -- it' the side closest to the bathroom.

i pick the side closest to the bathroom too

so since i live at home and take up the entire bed, i get the bed of both worlds, right?

I also prefer the window side, whatever side that may be. Although if I ever were to be a mom, we would have to swab sides, since there is no way the crib can be on window side and I'll probably be the one up all night (:

While I don't think that simply left or right has anything to do with it, my husband and I switched sides of the bed so I'd be closer to the bathroom for my 7 pregnant visits per night. I attributed most of our discomfort and battling over body pillows to my changing body. I needed to take up almost the entire bed to be comfortable and considered moving him out to the sofa which we would both hate. We switched back recently and I sleep like a lamb on roughly 1/4 of the space of the bed. So sleeping on "Your Side" might be more important than sleeping on the right or left.

I sleep closest to the bathroom as well. Last year, I rearranged my bedroom and switched sides of the bed. Recently, my boyfriend and I ended up sleeping on the "wrong" side of the bed and he commented how weird it felt. And then I nearly tripped on a pillow trying to skirt the edge of the bed as I made my way to the bathroom while half asleep.

I don't know if this is common, but a little informal survey of my friends showed that the vast majority of righties are women.

i prefer the side
farthest
from the entry door
i will let my husband
be closer to the boogey man
upon entrance to the room

~Chesterandtrudy...

I am with her!!!

We have two houses, in my partner's house I sleep on the left side, in my own house on the right. So what do I make from that?
Happy as it is, no interpretation necessary.

I sleep nearest the heater since I'm always cold at night while my husband is warm. We're equally crabby.

So, this study is referring to the side of the bed that you sleep on, not the side of your body that you sleep on? Like I sleep on the left side of the bed compared to my fiance, but I usually face to the right.

My scenario is completely opposite of the study then. My fiance sleeps on the right and loves his job and is usually more calm. I sleep on the left, I hate my job, and I make more money.

I agree with the correlation =! causation comment.

I alternate sides, depending on how fluffy each side of the mattress feels.

I thought about the bogeyman side, but since I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night far more often than a bogeyman visits (usually a raccoon that scampers across the roof), the bathroom side won.

I agree with the first poster - this "study" has plenty of limitations. But if there is some validity to the results, I'm glad I sleep on the right -- I'll take higher income over being cheery and upbeat anyday.

I hate it when AT does these pseudoscience type posts.

Well my ex earns way more money and sleeps on the right, and as a lefty ordinarily, I'd say I'm calmer and better with stress -- but not so much more cheery!

However, I'm now more of a bed opportunist. Since we don't share a bed any more, even though we are "domestic partners", I find that I start out on the left (which is nearest the door, my night stand, my lamp, etc.) Then I move around the bed in whatever way feels comfortable at the time, and with at least one cat settling in somewhere... I have wakened to use the bathroom to find myself horizontal from side to side of the bed... since I'm short, that isn't as nuts as it sounds, although it IS disorienting! I probably throw the whole "study" off single-handedly! ;^)

Right or not, this post totally applies to me and my boyfriend. Ha. Can you guess who is the lighthearted, life loving leftie? Me! haha. And no matter what house we're in, where the door or bathroom are located, we always manage to stay on those sides. And I'm with Fifthpocket, when we do switch, I'm all over the place, but back on my side, I sleep peacefully on the 1/8 of a slice of bed-edge he leaves for me. So it might just have to do with finding our "right" side.

What about those of use that sleep in the middle of the bed when left to their own devices? Which I do when sleeping alone. When sleeping with my boyfriend we switch it up mostly because I don't have a "side" and it never occurs to me to sleep on the same side of the bed each time and I normally get in bed first.

I've noticed that my wife sleeps furthest away from the door no matter where we move. My friend's wives are the same way when I ask them.

I sleep on my left side because I have acid reflux. Sleeping on my left keeps my stomach lower than my mouth and stops the acid from leaking into my throat. Otherwise I get a sore throat and a cough. So I guess sleeping on my left makes me happier.

I really wouldn't listen to anything from the Daily Mail. It's a disaster of a newspaper.

I sleep closest to the window so the light wont disturb the hubby prone to migraines. Our arrangement happens to oddly correlate with the effect described above.

When we travel, I prefer the side that is farthest away from the door or closest to a wall. (And I see I'm not the only wife that does this!) It must be a security thing! I'm on the right side at home. But I think I'm generally "cheerier" than my husband...although he is more confident, calmer and deals with stress better than I do. I don't make more money that he does though, he's the breadwinner of our household.

Well, if it's a UK study, it must be the opposite side in the US. :)

Sadly, both my husband and I prefer the same side (the left.) I let him win this one, but whenever I sleep alone I take it back!

I have to sleep on my left side on the left side of the bed. I feel all confused and messed up, if I don't. But, I don't think any of the personality stuff fits at all.

I sleep on my left side but on the right side of the bed. Always. Because I have to be on the edge and I would not be able to face the middle of the bed. I prefer my side of the bed to be facing the wall (in my current bedroom, it is facing the window, which I can tolerate) but to be able to sleep on my left side facing away from the bed takes preference.
I cannot even rest comfortably on my right side. Somehow, my right arm seems to be always in the way and I don't know what to do with it. Even when cuddling with my BF, I have to be on my left side.

I sleep on whichever side is closest to the door, because I get up several times during the night. End of story.

Hubby and I switch sides every so often. Our personalities do not change accordingly.

I can't sleep on my right side due to hip pain, and therefore prefer to be on the left side of the bed where it's easy to sleep on my back or my left side (fetal). I can sleep on the right side, but prefer the left so my husband can spoon me -- otherwise I spoon him, and he prefers to be the spooner than the spoonee.

Sometimes I just make him scoot over and sleep on the opposite side so I can spoon him, but we always default to me on the left, him on the right.

Side of the bed or side of the body? Either way, it's a moot point - I switch between lying on my right side and lying on my left, and I sleep in the middle of the bed XD

I'd say the study is drivel.

The way our room is set up (and pretty much the only way it can be set up) means that it makes more sense for my husband to sleep on the right, closer to his dresser, the door and alarm clock since he gets up bright early every weekday. I sleep on the left with the lamp on my side of the bed since I sometimes stay up and read at night. But after he gets up I tend to roll right into the middle, haha. My side used to be the right side in our previous apt. but it just didn't make sense here.

Aka this study is crap and I think practicality and room layout are probably the biggest factors.

Also, lol @ErinC4 for "Well, if it's a UK study, it must be the opposite side in the US. :)"

Bollocks.

yes, drivel. I sleep on right and my husband on left. He sleeps on left to be closer to getting out since he has insomnia (the bed's right side is along a wall). He is way more stressed than I am.

So silly. Its a shame with people fall for these pseudoscience claims. Correlation does not equal causation and all that jazz... remember folks. P.S. the Daily Mail isn't known to be the most reputable/respected of news sources...

That so-called study was without validity. Thanks to commenters who pointed out its silliness. Completely coincidentally, my husband sleeps on the right side of our bed for only two reasons. 1. He lies on his left side to mimimize prickly sensations from his left kneecap, which has permanent nerve damage from a school sports injury. 2. He likes to face me as he falls asleep.

I make him sleep on the left because it's the away-from-the-door side. He always piles a bunch of junk on the floor next to his bed - and this way you can't see it from the door! Most importantly for my sanity, *I* can't see it from the door, so I can pretend it doesn't exist, so I can remain married to him.

Like Home Body, I prefer the same side as my husband does, the left. I also let him win; I'm just grateful he doesn't snore or flail about.

I once knew a guy who could only sleep with his head to the North, regardless of the orientation of the bed. Has anyone ever heard of this? Apparently he'd tested it out, trying to sleep in hotels or when staying with friends without knowing the direction of the room or whatever, and always finding out after the fact that he had ended up pointed North.

Oh, The Daily Fail. Newspaper of special snowflakes the world over.

I always sleep on the side next to the wall (I've never had a room big enough to not have a side nearest the wall. Sometimes I sleep upside down.

who decided this story was worth posting on here?

seriously, nothing better?

When I had a high risk pregnancy my doctor's told me to try and sleep on my left because this helped with blood flow because your heart is located on the left side. Maybe this is the actual benefit?

I hated my job when I slept on the left side. I woke up grumpy, too. I'm on the right side now because I'm preggo and it's the side closest to the bathroom. However, I do hate my job more now, but that's because I can't make the hour drive without having to pee, not because I'm on the grouchy side :)

I can't help but laugh at this. I'm a leftie and I'm always in a happier mood but my sweetie is the breadwinner, works long hours and is always cranky LOL.

Tripe!

I'm stupid - is that 'right' and 'left' when you're standing at the foot of the bed looking at the headboard or is that 'right' and 'left' as you're laying there in bed and looking over your feet?
:0
I've done both.
I'm still the same person.

Well, at least this post nabbed a reasonable number of posts, which I suspect was the true intent in publishing it.

Diagonal sleeper here, switching sides of my body frequently (a bit like I'm on a roasting spit) due to hip/back pain. Cannot sleep if bed is against an exterior wall.

I thought about the bogeyman side, but since I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night far more often than a bogeyman visits (usually a raccoon that scampers across the roof), the bathroom side won.
posted by mschatelaine

I laughed so hard at reading this that my coworker came in to check on me.

I sleep on the left, my partner sleeps on the right, I'm much cheerier and handle stress well and he does make slightly more money.

I sleep on my left side because my back will hurt any other way.

The last time I tried to sleep on the wrong side of the bed, I was house sitting and almost rolled off.