I don't sleep like that anymore because I find it stifling but I totally used to do that

also I was going to make some sort of garfield joke but I guess there wasn't a good place to work it into that other sentence so GARFIELD JOKE

oh yeah that does look like the "Garfield blanket lump" XD

Oooo, you compared her quality of art to Jim Davis. RIP you...

thats why you create a small hole near your nose/mouth

Yeah, the terrors of the night are inevitably stymied by the impenetrable barrier of the blanket. :)

(Just like the monsters under the bed stay under the bed, so you're safe as long as you don't dangle limbs over the side as a bait.)

Oh my god yes, I used to do some olympic leaps into my bed when I was younger just so I wouldn't have to get close to it. XD

Same here... I think mostly everyone did that at one age or another. :P

Monsters? F that. I was scared of raptors!

D: That reminded me of that Disney movie from like 12 years ago. "Don't Look Under the Bed"

i used to do that all the time, ha, and sometimes for the same reason

I used to do it because I was afraid of the dark too.

... I still do it because it keeps your ears soooooooo warm though.

I usually do that when I sleep alone... I used to have to do that when I was a kid to shut out the noise of older siblings or my mom staying up and watching TV.

I had to do that when I was little just to not be eaten by mosquitoes. Damn hobos, stealing all my hard-earned childblood!

@_@ I do the same thing, but it stems from living where there would be bugs, mainly mosquitoes so I ended up just sleeping completely under teh covers.

Used to do that for that reason. Now I just do it to block out that nasty sun! D:<

I often sleep on my stomach cuddling a pillow- but when I wake up my shoulders always hurt from being outstretched above my head all night.

Use to sleep under the blankets as a kid, or 'almost' where it was covering half my face. I think I just get too hot at night sleeping to do that anymore.

your not the only one that believes in this XD though these days i do it just to keep spiders from ever crawling over my face

I totally do the same thing.

I think every kid believes the blanket will protect them from monsters. As Ursula Vernon once said, "it's one of those things you're born knowing."

I SO DID THIS.

Technicolour potato.

Aw man I hear you. I'd do the same thing to hide only from aliens though. But now a days I only do that after I've seen an alien movie.

You look like Garfield in the blanket o.o

I do something similar, but I sleep in a sleeping bag on my bed. X3

Like in...well...intercourse,I sleep on my side snuggling my love :D

i thought furries reproduced by splitting in two, thereby creating twice the lulz in one action..

No, furries reproduce by biting normal humans.

:D Like amoebae

i use to sleep like that but not any more and how i didn't suffocate was i would use air relays as i sleep i wake up and let air in thru a little crack and breath but some times i would sleep thru the whole night and then bust out of my blankets grasping for air thinking im going to die but realize i slept thru the whole night and didn't die and why you don't suffocate is because your body uses less air when you sleep then when you are awake

I tend to do that too. I have no idea where it comes from though.

Blankets: For when you want to piss off ghosts.

Ah, the irrationalities of youth.

*snrk* I stiiill do that more often than not too! Makes it daaarker, and warmer! There is a big logic behind it, besides a mighty bump-in-the-night barrier!

Same here, it's such a habit and I can't stop, I feel naked not doing that while I sleep.

o__o
Wow.... I know exactly what you mean.
I was afraid of the dark in my room till around 15yrs of age.
It was so bad sometimes i'd get terrified and freeze up, unable to scream or move. To me the blanket
was the only thing keeping me safe, not so much from what might get to me, but from me having to
see what it was. This is actually the reason I don't toss and turn in bed.
Now I can sleep without having to be covered completely, but I still sleep much better that way.

couldn't stand that D:

if feels so stuffy D:

I still do this because I'm prone to hallucinations.

If I happen to be looking into a dark room and start hallucinating it's just that much more terrifying.

Hallucinations? D:

Ever in broad daylight? Are they bad? Am I asking too many questions? ._.

Yes, and in broad daylight as well.

Sometimes they're scary and sometimes they're just odd. And no worries about asking.

Well you got me all curious now... what kind of hallucinations are they? If you can make sense of them?

People, random body parts, dogs, flickering lights. Sometimes there will just be fuzzy patches (hard to describe exactly what they look like, it's almost like 'seeing' sound) or faces on things there shouldn't be.

I used to have a girlfriend that would sleep face-down in a pillow. I never understood how she woke up every morning.

I cocoon myself in the blanket when I'm cold. That strategy worked well when I used to be homeless.

Same here.

To this day, I never sleep with my legs together.. so I can kick the monster in the face if I need to..

I used to Always do this as a little kid. My comforter was a friggin' blast barrier to what I would always imagine creeping around my room D:

Always had this quirk that if any part of me was visible to the outside of the covers, I was vulnerable, wigged my parents out when they'd see me completely smothered by the cloth. x3

I still do that, too.

I blame the close-up mugshot of the Jacquio from Ninja Gaiden 1 on the NES scaring the shit out of me as a kid.

"Well...time to go to bed.

SHIELDS UP."

I used to make pillow forts with my three pillows, well it was more like a pillow head cave. Too this day I feel really comfortable sleeping with a pillow pulled over my head.

Other wise I can usually be found sleeping comfortably in the most awkward places like under a table or curled up in a ball some where out of the way, the more uncomfortable the position looks the more comfortable I tend to be. x.x

I sleep mostly the same way.. but with one little area to leave my mouth uncovered.

Face down in my pillow, all day ever day.

Haha for similar reasons I can't sleep without a pillow over my head

is it weird that.. on top of doing that, I surround myself with a barrier of pillows?

.....

.............come to think of it, I never knew ghosts were afraid of fabric!

I sleep the same way after watching a scary movie.

Or after Amnesia.

Didn't think it was possible to sleep after Amnesia XD

This brings to memory this story that I read once: Deathflash, by Auline Bates

'It' cannot get you in the light. 'It' cannot get you if you are completely covered...

Very good. And thanks for the spur to find the name again.

i used to have that same belief lol

lol when I was little I jumped into my bed from like 5 feet away because I was afraid monsters were under it and would grab me if i got to close xDD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f__yTmKmVA8

Why do we have this irrational fear of monsters under the bed and in our closets that transcends childhood and follows us into out adult lives? Maybe it's an inborn instinct from when predators really did lurk in the shadows and we had to use fire to protect ourselves... maybe it's just too many stories about the boogie man...

I'd really like to know why we're all so afraid of the dark! D:

Hey, when I go camping, I climb in head-first. It can get stuffy and my feet turn to blocks of ice, but it's how I do it.

First rule of childhood: blankets protect you from everything! :D

lol i used to sleep like that too xD but latley i sleep with my head outside the blanket since i find it hard to breath now a days XD

i still sleep like that, with the opening pushed against a fan. The sound of the fan just helped keep the quietness of the night away.

I still have moments where something i in my room and I have to sleep that way, thanks brain.

I sleep on my side, with a blanket up to my neck, and a pillow under my head, like a normal person.
But after seeing all these comments I begin to think sleeping normal isn't normal no more.

I used to sleep in the fetal position with my hands over my head, I wasn't afraid of the dark, but I had two sadistic older brothers... I didn't sleep well for the first 17 years of my life.

Now I go to sleep on my back and usually wake on my stomach facing the total opposite direction... sometimes in different rooms in the house... sometimes outside... LOL

Damn, I do the same thing

It used to be that I couldn't sleep unless I was buried under every plushie I owned. These days I can just about manage having my kitten curled up by my legs without getting uncomfortable. Funny how that works eh?

Fav'd because of the first comment XD Also, it's very cute. =]

I'd like to sleep under my blanket because it feels comfy, but then I'd have a hard time breathing. D:

Remember Gary Larson's snorkle that allows one to breathe while under the covers?

I was afraid vampires were living under my bed...

I used to do this too!

Or I'd wear a hat to hid my head

as I was always frightened something would try and cut my head off if I stuck it out of the sheets

You too?

I used to do that...until I farted.

That's completely adorkable.

Fffff I used to do that when I was little =D

I don't bother with sheets, just a nice comforter, summer or winter, its the same thing. <3

this is why I cant sleep without some kind of plush in my arms..when I was a kid I used to CLING to one because I always thought it would come to life and protect me somehow I got so used to it it feels strange when my arms arnt curled around something

though sometimes my fat kitty has to substitute cus hes fluffy and adorable and loves to sleep under my covers

How do you not suff...
Darn, way ahead of me.

The only way I'm comfortable sleeping is on my back with my arms crossed over my chest like I'm lying in a coffin. I think it was because as a kid I was obsessed with vampires for a bit (note: this was WAAAAAAY before Twilight).
But I was also scared of them, so I absolutely HAD to have the blankets covering me from my feet up to my neck, with only my head poking out because your head is the only place where vampires can't bite you since all the blood vessels are so close to the bone it makes it difficult to bite effectively.

I know exactly what you mean. :O I have to keep my ears covered or I can't sleep.

Unless I'm sleeping with someone, I've found out. :3

I think it's a pretty common fear. I was the same way, though I no longer can breathe like that.

that would make snuggling a little bit on the difficult side I would think...

i do exactly the same

I did this to, no one can enter my impenetrable fortress!

>.> I sleep oddly myself...My face is like buried in the pillow, when I sleep on my stomach.

Man I don't even know HOW I sleep anymore, it always takes so long to get comfortable and fall asleep. The only rule is that my face must be uncovered so I can feel the fan blowing over it. (I can't sleep without a fan)

I used to sleep like that all the time! I can't do it anymore though, or I get short of breath...

That's actually adorable.

I still sleep like this.

has someone ever mistaken you as an empty bed and like yanked the covers off?

I like sleeping under blankets, too. It's cozy. :3

what about illegal aliens

What about ANCIENT aliens?

what about ANCIENT illegal aliens

I hit ctrl+f and typed in Garfield, that didn't take long :v

you, too?

I do the exact same thing

I do this too.
I look like a cocoon.

The one problem is that it gets hot under there! How do you do it!?

I'm 25 and still afraid of the dark, I'm pathetic.

I used to do that when I was little, but I had to stop because it would get too hot and stuffy under the covers. I eventually weened myself off of using night lights and such, which was pretty hard.

Of course I was more afraid of ninja assassins and horror movie esque slashers. Maybe it's a boy thing. :U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f__yTmKmVA8

It also prevents creepy staring at you when you sleep.

One russian artist even made some comics strips about ghost, bunch of aliens and two squirrells. =) Pretty silly though. =)

I do the same but uhh, It's mostly for mosquitoes

I still do that to this day, because of a story my father told me...

LOL I do that too and I'm still semi-scared of the dark XD Ha ha

... am I the only one who really didn't feel safer with the blanket?

Just more comfortable ^-^ I like/liked to go all the way under but leave a small open fold for air XD

Also while I liked having a night light for when I got up at night, the shadows and such were more disconcerting than the dark :P

I'm not afraid of the dark but of toilets because I think a severed hand is going to come after me strange I know

o.o Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask... look up inn bathroom from that game

O.o strange and creepy

I am in the exact same situation!

HA HA that's awesome! I used to do that too

I still do this...for the same reasons

I can't staaand that. Warm air is just uncomfortable to breathe. I also used to always have to have my feet sticking out from under my blankets. My grandparents would always tuck in the ends of the bed and I always tore it all out so my feet could breathe.

I'm pretty sure that's an autistic thing, really. XD I do the same thing. Summertime sucks, 'cause it's like... HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SLEEP IF I'M GOING TO SUFFOCATE OR DIE OF HEAT STROKE? I mean, goddammit, how am I supposed to SLEEP without those ten tons of covers? >:/

I dunno why, but that's just adorable.

comforters: the master race of bed spreads.

I had the same thing when I was little too, only I thought if I pretend I was asleep and didn't move they would leave me alone. Kinda like playing dead. Also, alien and ghost movies still scare the crap out of me. O.O

I have three blankets on my bed. I'll let you draw from that what you will.

OMG O.o I thought i was the only one Q.Q

This is funny because I still do this too and for the same reason you did. because I didn't like the dark and the blanket felt kinda like a barrier. Now I'm most comfortable sleeping totally covered up by my blanket. h

>dat feel when I'm NOT the only one who did and still does this. :O

Ghosts and aliens? I was terrified of them too! Especially once E.T. came out! *shudders*

Heh....I sleep like that too....because of mosquitoes... I leave a sorta breathing hole though...

"Not only is it a blanket, it's a PURPLE one."
"Son of a bitch. We may as well retire."

My sister always used to call me the Sleeping Sausage.

Yup. That's exactly how it goes on.

*raises a paw* Guilty of this as well.

Then: keeps the nightmares at bay.

Now: room is a freaking ICEBOX! *shivers*

This is great, haha. XD I've only recently stopped sleeping like this and I'm 27, lol (and still tend to end up like this from time to time). It was for almost the same reasons too! I used to be absolutely terrified at the idea of aliens showing up at night to get me. XD

i cover my head with the blanket because i am an alien ghost and the protection works both ways

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I still wrap my feet up in my blanket at night for the same reason. I'm also still freaked out by closets being open while I'm trying to sleep.

I cocoon myself, save the head, to prevent being attacked by anything crawling under blankets.

Oh, and I used to have a row of stuffed animals stacked at my pillow to protect me. I don't play around!

uh this comes to mind >_> http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/68684/detail/

Hahaha, me too. Except I leave a little space in the blanket near my mouth for ventilation. It's actually a super comfortable way of sleeping, completely covered in a blanket, and it keeps the light out of your eyes too!

diddo only way to sleep...

I feel most comfortable sleeping that was as well, even though I can sleep without covering my whole head, it just feels better if it is full covered.

Never done such things.

I always thought this was a common way of sleeping... I've upgraded from being completely under the blanket to having my head sandwiched between two pillows... I've often heard it called a blanket cocoon.

The ghost and the alien must be related somehow to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Trall (from the "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"), which can be foiled by wrapping your towel around your head; the Bugblatter Beast is so mind-bogglingly stupid, it assumes that if you cannot see it, it cannot see you.

You're actually not alone! I used to do that 'till I was 17. It felt comfortable no matter what. Scared or not XD

I have the lovely habit to sleep anywhere and any pose. The ability of a cat! That's what they say.

I was never afraid of the dark, I was actually... afraid of the light! Cause in the dark I could see everything, and in the light couldn't. There are things hiding in the light that are more scary than those in the dark. >_>

I used to wrap up in blankets and walk around to avoid bad things in the dark when I was younger too. The blankie was the number one defense against anything potentially scary and evil!

Do you still use pillows or are they purely decorative? =3

how does one not suffocate?

invisible snorkel :V

my god

BEST SHIELD EVER!

I once defeated a ghost with only a sheet, a toothpick, and a picture of an alien I drew in 5th grade.

funny how the mind sometimes reverts back to childish habits when a person is scared of little things like the dark. oh night light. only you can keep me safe when i'm not in the company of others. X3

I totally do this too, except I keep my face uncovered. But I cocoon in much the same way. Like you said, it's become wired into my brain that that's "comfortable."

I am not the only one!
Whoo hoo!

I sleep sprawled out in a strange unnatural position like a corpse.

It led to some interesting wake-ups in summer camp when people thought I was dead.

Also one incident when I fell asleep on a couch at a science museum.

heh, I can totally relate, only difference is that I saw Aliens when I was little and believed that my comforter could protect me from face-huggers

I use to sleep under me blankets too until I stopped because I need air. Even when it's open slightly, I still need to get out.

I also thought that hiding under the blankets I am safe from bad dream monsters and other creatures. And zombies.

Can't sleep with my sheet not over me unless its 30+ degress C... then its impossible to stay under the sheet! D:

XD I also sleep like that too

Even as a kid I wondered how a blanket could keep me safe from monsters and murderers.
Nevertheless I hid underneath too.