Do you wriggle to fall asleep?

[maybelou]

I know this is random but I'm about to fall asleep and I'm suddenly wondering if I'm a weirdo. Do you wriggle your body when falling asleep? I literally can't go to sleep unless I'm moving somehow, usually shaking a foot or rocking side to side or something - very annoying, I'm sure

Anyone else like this? It's actually more comfortable for me to fidget than it is to stay still, if I was still I don't think I'd be able to fall asleep, I've always done it as long as I can remember!

Do you have a lot of sugar before bed? I was wondering if that was the reason. Or you just like tap dancing in bed.

I rub my feet together.

Not really! Maybe a couple of biscuits Hours ago though. It's just how I get comfortable, I can't imagine feeling comfortable while lying still??

@RefuseTheLies I do that too!

Not me but DP does. He’s done it since he was a child. He rubs the ball of one foot in the arch of the other. He finds it relaxing and soothing. He does it when he’s going to sleep or if he’s just sat chilled.

I lie like I've been laid out in a morgue has to be pitch black and absolute silence for me to fall asleep.
DH is a twitcher, usually he sort of rocks a bit which makes me feel like I'm on a boat. tonight he's impersonating a train

Became aware while I was reading this that I was rubbing my feet, didn't know I did it! So satisfying 😂

Came on to see if this wriggling was a euphemism. Disappointed.

Dh does and it drives me nuts! I lay down on my stomach and basically don't move until morning, like a log!

I lie on tummy & wriggle/shake my right foot...it is just a comfort thing. My DS does exactly the same thing..

Nope, I need to be still.
I wonder if this is how you self soothed as a baby/toddler and it had carried on?

I do. Not always, but when I'm struggling to sleep. I rock from side to side, my head moves and everything. It's an odd quirck and embarrassing but my DH is used to it. My mum says I did it as a baby.

I've got restless legs and have a quite painful overwhelming compulsion to shake my legs about at night. Arms too sometimes.

I rotate my ankles iyswim

Since I was a child.

I swish my feet back and forth, so does my DH!

I rub my right foot on the mattress/bottom sheet. Drives DP up the wall . DS does it too.

I rock. I sleep on my side and move my hips back and forth sometimes quite violently. 😳 it drives my oh mad. I do it in bed, also do it to my legs whilst watching tv. I thought I was the only one! It's definitely a comfort thing.

I rub my feet together

I like to move one of my feet side to side .
Lol, that sounds mad doesn’t it.
Hahaha

@VettiyaIruken try magnesium

I lie very still. I need the room cold, dark and quiet. I wish I was in bed now.

I rub my feet together.

Me too, and lots of people in my family do.

I rub my feet together too

It's a self soothing thing