Apart from children, who usually don’t snore. People have told me I don’t snore at all. No one has told me I do and I even recorded myself asleep once.
It’s totally possible. It’s also possible to snore only sometimes depending on head position, food eaten, age, and alcohol taken.
I have positions where I snore, where my wife then has to smack me in the middle of the night, I re-adjust and then I usually stop snoring.
Apparently she also smacks me when she needs cuddles, and apparently I understand the difference in smacks while I am asleep.
sleep on the side, it prevents snoring. but you should get checked for sleep apnea, which is common in people who are overwheight.
Wedge pillow works very well also
I don’t snore at all though, but thanks!
i like to add, people with deviated septum would be susceptible too.
After a certain age, older people often start to snore. Everything starts sagging, including the soft part of the upper palate.
I think most people don’t snore most of the time actually. I’ve observed different people sleep several times in my life and the vast majority mostly didn’t snore.
Interesting, thanks!
Generally, not snoring on a regular basis is the default.
There’s a ton of things that lead to snoring, and if you factor in temporary side effects of illnesses, it would be unusual for anyone to never snore their entire life. But, depending on exactly how you want to phrase things, I don’t think snoring could be called the norm for the average person on a typical night. Obviously, those are imprecise terms, but it conveys the general situation, I think
There’s numbers out there if you go looking, but I don’t reckon you care about those if you’re asking here.
Ah, so I must be the norm! Thanks
As far as I know, it’s kind of common. Neither I nor my wife snore AFAIK.
To live an entire life and never snore? Probably not. You’ll probably get sick and stuffed up and snore at some point in your life. Is it possible to generally not snore? Yeah, maintaining healthy weight, good sleep hygiene, not being sick, avoiding allergens, and proper sleeping ergonomics will probably prevent 99.9% of snoring
good sleep hygiene
Me, hosing off the bed because it refused to get up and shower: “I told you, now it has come to this” turns up the water pressure
From what I gather after a quick web search it seems about 40% of the population does not snore, so I guess it is pretty common.
Oh wow, interesting indeed! I’m one of 40% of the world
I’ve never snored. But I have woken myself up talking in my sleep. Most people I’ve slept in the same room with also have never snored. The only person I know who snores is my sister.
Have you said anything weird??
Usually this only happens when I get so angry in a dream that I find myself shouting at them irl
Eat a better diet and get more exercise.
I don’t snore though
Most people don’t snore unless they’re overweight
That is so untrue is approaches absurdity.
Edit: Now, if you’d said something about apnea rather than snoring, it would be only mildly inaccurate.
Overweight people are more likely to snore because excess fat around the neck and throat can narrow the airway, increasing resistance to airflow and causing vibration during sleep.
So how exactly is that ‘absurd’ lmao?
That’s not what you said before
Most people don’t snore unless they’re overweight
That’s what you said.
If you had said that obesity increases the probability of snoring, that would be accurate. If you said that a higher percentage of overweight or obese people snore, that would have been accurate. But that’s not what you said
Overweight and obese people do have a higher percentage of all snoring people, particularly when the snoring is more severe. But that’s also not what you said.
You said that “most” as in at least half by any standard issue usage of the term, people don’t snore unless they’re overweight. That doesn’t match incidence rates, and it’s phrased in a misleading way.
There’s even some early indications that snoring may be causative to overweight and obesity, or at least make people more prone to it. Which makes sense in a lot of ways, but isn’t really directly relevant to either of your comments
Look, maybe you thought it was just an offhand comment. And it definitely read like you put zero thought into it, and that’s okay. Nobody has to be detailed every damn time they make a comment. But, if you’re going to throw out low effort comments about medical issues, you gotta also be okay when people come along and object. Shit is important; there’s people that don’t think they snore at all, because they don’t fit what they think snoring is. Then they spend years ignoring what’s actually apnea, and is fucking up their body.
So misinformation like your offhand comment merits a low effort counter comment. At least then the one skinny dude that’s going to end up with cardiovascular or cardiopulmonary issues from apnea at least doesn’t ignore their issue because they aren’t fat. Which isn’t some random unlikely occurrence. There are people that genuinely think that they can’t have apnea because they aren’t overweight at all
Most people don’t have sleep apnea or a medical condition that causes snoring.
Most people are overweight.
Hence, most you encounter won’t snore unless they’re overweight. Medical conditions are the exceptions to the rule, I didn’t say ‘People can’t snore unless they’re overweight’, which is what you seem to be assuming oddly.
You really aren’t bright at all
Rich coming from someone who can’t read.
or they have breathing related physical issues
