So this one came to me after a miserable weekend after surgery, I had a foley catheter in (its a catheter that is anchored in the bladder with a water balloon and is connected to a pee drainage bag), and in order to sleep I had to connect a big overnight pee bag and put it next to my bed. Now, I’m an active sleeper, I roll around and change positions a ton, so I was terrified of rolling over in my sleep and potentially yanking the catheter out, which would have been extremely painful at \*best\* and probably damaged my insides at worst.
Weirdly though, I slept still as stone, I barely moved for the 3 nights I had it in and I had no issues whatsoever. I’ve also noticed I do this if I fall asleep with my glasses or phone right next to me, I subconsciously avoid rolling over them in my sleep somehow and don’t move around as much.
How does that work? How does an unconscious body “understand” a danger/risk and avoid it?
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I am SO GLAD I didn’t consider this possibility when my injury this year was fresh & I was in hospital with a catheter because I would NOT have gotten any sleep for worrying about rolling over and making it come out!
I DID have this issue last year when there were renovations and I had to move into a smaller room on a top bunk temporarily. I don’t think I slept for 2-3 days cos I lay awake worrying I was gonna fall out of that top bunk, crashing into the floor and hurt myself!
By day 3 I was so tired I finally fell asleep.
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