ZZZZzzz... It's National Stop Snoring Week!

DH is a snorer who was in denial until the night the noise of his own snoring woke him up with a start. Half asleep and having given himself a fright he was convinced something was in the room making a noise so flipped over quickly in bed with the intention of leaping up and confronting it. In the process he dislocated his shoulder. Now I know it was terribly mean but I did laugh and at last, he believed his snoring was real. Now I'm off to the Tesco website to check out these pillows . . .

I'm the snorer or rather i used to be - I have sleep apnoea & it's not funny either for the partner or the sufferer. I now have a CPAP machine to ensure I keep breathing. My husband, on the other hand rarely snores but I have not been aable to sleep though laughing at some of the noises he makes a few weeks ago he spent a fair time making animal noises.

If your OH snores & gasps for air get them to see their GP as i can be treated

My other half is a really loud snorer especially when he's been drinking. So last year when we were on holiday in Turkey it got so bad I thought i would record it on my ipad which i did. The following morning I was awake before him so sat in bed reading on my ipad Just as he was stirring i pressed play on the recording of the snoring. You have never seen anyone jump out of bed so quick shouting 'what the bloody hell was that'. He thought it was an earthquake. I have never laughed so much and he could not argue that he obviously snored loud. I had great fun getting revenge playing it to the other guests at the hotel who agreed i needed a medal for putting up with it

I have mentioned before that Mr P could qualify as an Olympic medal standard snorer, but he insists he is actually "purring". On one occasion when I was getting particularly irate about it, he had the nerve to respond "I can't help it, I'm a martyr to it!" Oh yes, he's the one suffering..........NOT

Well, not long after we adopted him at the age of two, young Digby decided that he was going to be a "Daddy's boy". He absolutely loves Mr P, gazes up at him adoringly, demands pick up cuddles from him and generally thinks that Mr P is the centre of the universe. (Never mind that it's me who changes the litter tray, makes sure that Digby gets more jelly than meat when dishing out the cat food etc.)

Mr P always mutes the volume on the TV when the advertisement break starts. A while ago he did this as usual, but instead of silence, we could hear a strange noise, something that was hard to describe. Rhythmic, yet slightly hoarse and a bit "groany". After due investigation, we found it was emanating from a comatose Digby, stretched along the back of the far end of the sofa, on his back, legs in the air..............................

No wonder there's such a bond.....................

My daughter's St Bernard dog snores really loudly & we joke she must have learnt it from my son in law.

Feel sorry for my mother because she is completely unaware but when she is asleep her snoring is so loud it can wake up the next door neighbours, even though the walls are not that thin!

I have accepted the situation that when I go on holiday with mum, I know not to expect any sleep unless I remember my trusty ear plugs.

I don't have the heart to tell my mum about her snoring, I would rather go without sleep for a week than upset her!

The second time we went abroad, we had to catch a night flight home, and everybody had a long wait in the large main foyer for the coach to pick us up. Most people were quiet and dozing, until my husband started snoring! He woke everyone up, and got a standing ovation for the 'quality' of his snores, with everyone cheering and clapping him. He was so embarrassed that he didn't want to go on holiday after that, but now has a sleep apnoea machine which has solved the problem. I am gradually losing my hearing, so it no longer keeps me awake, but that's rather a drastic solution I'm afraid.

My partner is dreadful.
He regularly falls asleep at family get togethers where I have to constantly knock him to wake him up.

We went on holiday the once and snored the whole way on the plane, I did try to wake him up but once I'd realised people around us were laughing, I just pretended to not know him instead,

He wakes me up every morning with it and I can never watch the films I want to watch when we're together because if he doesn't like it, he'll fall asleep, snore and I won't be able to hear a thing.
I have even started to record him and play it back to him during the football to get my own back!

I laughed at first - then thought - if you do have a snoring partner, it's really not funny unless you can sleep the sleep of the dead.

So for a perhaps not very funny story, I give my parents as an example. We had a very large old house with thick walls, so it wasn't an issue for us as children, but I was aware that my mother was very tired and would often ask my mother if she could sleep in a separate room. He would become very annoyed and tell her she couldn't.( Which I now find rather odd.) Then one night I came home later than usual and my parents were already in bed - and I heard it. It was dreadful. My mother heard me on the stairs and came out and told me that what I was hearing was mild!

Then one day we had all just finished Sunday lunch, and she produced a small machine. We had no idea what it was (shows you how long ago it seems now, but it was only under 40 years ago!) and then she pressed a button and the most appalling noise came out of it. She asked each of us - including my father to guess what it was. He said, a jet engine. I said, a lawnmower, close up. I can't remember the other guesses.

When she told him what it was, he was stunned.

The following week saw the start of the redecoration of a spare room.