DO YOU SNORE?

Some how I have lived 80 years and really never known for certain if I snore. I have been told on occasion that I make gentle snuffling noises sometimes but since I am a side sleeper, I understand that position makes snoring difficult.

It's funny when you ask people if they snore, they will deny it but their spouse will either roll their eyes or flat out roar,"Yes you do!!!!"  Snoring evidently has the similar stigma of passing gas.  Few brag about passing gas and hopefully there is a dog or cat in the room to take the blame.  I said no one but there are always the "pull my finger types."

When I was a child we  lived with my grandmother in Key West.  She was the epitome of a proper lady.  She never came out of her room in the morning unless she was completely put together. Hair styled, girdled, hose, some makeup, and a
fresh dress. No slippers and jammies for her.

She use to remind me that ladies didn't sweat, they "glistened".  Pretty sure if I had brought up snoring she would have said that "women don't snore, we purr."  I am almost certain she never passed gas. Not sure how she would have explained that in a genteel fashion.

Because she drummed some of these notions into my head, I have always had a horror that I snored. I have all ready shattered the sweating and passing gas rules so anything was possible.

Why is snoring usually attached to masculine, burly men?  He snores like a truck driver, a stevedore or a lumberjack.  Maybe if the comparisons were more genteel such as she snores like a church lady or librarian, we ladies wouldn't feel so mortified.

In the relationships I have had, snoring was never mentioned. Still I wondered but not enough to ask. My best shot would have been my ex-husband but he was such a sound sleeper that a little snore wouldn't have awakened him.

Well the mystery is now solved. Now I said before that I sleep on my side but lately for some reason I started to nap on my back, the perfect position for snoring.

The other day I was napping away when a noise woke me.  Callie was taking a nap with me so I blamed her. Sometimes in her dreams she is chasing bunnies and makes all sorts of snuffling, growling and even barking sounds.

I wasn't finished with my nap so I went back to sleep.  Eventually that noise woke me again. It wasn't loud but was really in my ear. I looked for Callie but I was alone.

Then I started laughing. The 80 year mystery was solved. I can snore and I do it loud enough to wake myself up.  Oh the shame. I'll just have to remember to never take a flat on my back nap if I have company.

Do you snore and if you do are you loud and proud or do you purr?