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

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Our cat is the culprit in our household. It's ok when she sleeps at the bottom of our bed as a gentle, well aimed nudge will stop her. But if she chooses to sleep out on the landing or in her own bed then we can't reach her! Bless!

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Snoring can create problems between two people in a relationship. My husband would actually get irritated due to my snoring habits. He could not sleep well at night and often used to complain about my loud snoring. I tried few home remedies to get rid of snoring and these remedies seemed to work for me. According to my husband I don't snore too loud now.

Like a few other people have said, unfortunately it's me that snores the most in our house (or so my hubby tells me, I don't believe him though as I've never heard myself snore)!

The other week my long suffering hubby came downstairs at 4am as he couldn't get back to sleep with the noise I was making (I'm sure it wasn't that bad). And settled downstairs to try and get a bit more sleep. But, he then realised our 10 month old pup also snores so he still didn't get any sleep.

one day our little girl was sleeping with us..she got up due to my husbands snores...and said.. what is daddy doing..why is he making sounds like Peppa pig's daddy? It was difficult to explain. I normally turn him on his side ...but he snores really loudly !!

I love to blame my husband for many things but have decided that the dog's snoring is far worse than his and has an amazing capacity to last forever!

What is it about movies and snoring!

A couple of weeks ago husband and I, both having the day off, decided to go to a 4 p.m. movie we had been looking forward to, not least because of recommendations on these forums. (The Grand Budapest Hotel). Happily chatting on the way to the movie house about what fun it was to go to movies in the day time and how one day when we are both retired just imagine how we can just off to see a movie etc etc.

We settled into the wide comfortable chairs (it's a small art house type cinema) and soon the opening scenes came on.

About an hour later, his snoring woke me! . Thank goodness the movie house was relatively empty.

We made a vow never to go to a movie during the day again at more or less what could be "nap time".

Couldn't tell you what the movie was about!

My OH snored his way through all three Lord of the Rings films!

I am afraid that I am the snorer in this house, and I have sleep apnoea. My poor OH has to put up with it. He turns me on my side to stop me snoring/get me breathing again. I am afraid that it keeps him awake.

Many years ago a couple of teenagers were kissing goodnight on the front door step when... An almighty roar came from within the house. 'What the hell was that asked the young man .' Dying of embarrassment I explained it was my sister . She has a very small throat and this causes the snoring. Then more loud roaring snores erupted and we started to giggle and my mother then shouted down that were making a lot of noise ! Luckily this revelation did not put him off. We have been snoring ( yes we too snore ) together for 38years.

One morning,my husband was checking out of a hotel. As he asked for the bill for Room 8, the Receptionist looked at him and said " Ah... so you're Room 8 are you - I've just had two complaints about you".

My husband was staggered.

The Receptionist explained that the people in both the rooms either side had been unable to sleep because of the noise of his snoring, coming through the walls.

One of his neighbours actually asked the Receptionist to pass on his personal condolences to anyone forced to share a bed with him on a regular basis !

I visited my mum with my daughters early one morning,opening the door with the spare key. I told the girls to go in while I went back to the car to get some things out. Suddenly the girls appeared at my side saying they were too frightened to go any further than the hall as it sounded as though wild animals were in the house. Turned out it was granny still in bed snoring !!

I haven't got a funny story, but I wanted to add its not just adults who snore. This last week I've been regularly disturbed by the extremely loud snoring of my two year old grandson. He doesn't usually snore loud enough to wake me (unlike his Dad, who even though his bedroom is downstairs often disturbs my sleep). I'm hoping its a temporary disturbance due to a heavy cold, rather than inherited genes from his Dad and its not going to be a regular nightly occurence. The thought of snoring in stereo on a regular basis is not appealing.

That has got to be a winner!

When our son was about thirteen we set off for a long weekend on our 5 berth cabin cruiser. He wanted to bring a friend so they decided to camp on the river bank because there wouldn't be room for everyone on the boat. His friend was a lovely lad but, boy, could he snore - we could even hear him on the boat!

Just before dawn, our son who was desperate for sleep decided to sneak back on the boat and chance his luck on a tiny floor area in the cockpit. He grabbed his sleeping bag and wriggled towards the tent flap trying not to wake the source of the deafening noise although it did occur to him that his friend might think he'd been abducted/kidnapped/drowned.

He didn't get very far. On poking his head through the flap he came face to face with two puzzled looking cows who were obviously investigating the racket.

Three nights of very little sleep led to one very grumpy teenager. It was an experience we NEVER repeated.

My husband and I went on holiday to Turkey with two friends. We were all on the same side of the hotel though not in adjoining rooms. Each night there was a guard dog who barked all night in a semi built hotel opposite our rooms.Our friends asked to be moved but I really wasn't worried as I had a selection of Arctic animals in with me each night. Yes a walrus, whale, sea lion and then just as dawn was breaking a polar bear all courtesy of my husbands snoring. Needless to say a dog barking was nothing compared to that!

You win!

Mr Aka was away overnight recently. That night I was half woken up by him snoring even more loudly that usual and shuffled around in bed crossly through gritted teeth gently muttering 'you're snoring again' dearest (!!)' (my usual tactic for making him stop). Sure enough it worked for a while then started up again.

By now I was really waking up and remembering he was away

I quietly slid out of bed, grabbing the rounders bat I keep handy for such eventualities a handy stick, groped my way to the light switch prepared to bludgeon the intruder.....only to find the dog had taken advantage of the empty pillow and sneaked onto the bed.

It's not just the snoring habit he shares with Mr Aka either, so bedroom wind outs windows had to be opened as I banished him back to his own bed.

The snoring is the least of it, generally if I reach out and put my hand on his arm he turns over in his sleep and stops for a while. Its the nightmares that end in odd situations that are the occasional problem. Like the night he woke me (and probably the entire hotel) with red indian noises at the top of his voice! He was dreaming about being attacked and for some reason that was the only sound he could make to warn me! The thing is that being woken to loud menacing noises like that really does sound like you're about to be attacked and has had me scream on more than one occasion! Luckily afterwards we're usually in fits of laughter about it, but it takes a while to get over the shock!

My husband refused to believe me that he snored but one night he woke up coughing and spluttering to spit out a moth! He had to accept then that 'maybe' his mouth does 'drop open' when he's asleep!

When my husband and I stayed over a friends house we were told that we snore in sync with each other and with the same patterns as well. Although my husbands snoring does wake me up sometimes so he does get prodding alot.

one night the other half was impersonating a thunder storm,when as usual he was due a nudge in the ribs,but he turned over at the same time as the elbow was poised,needless to say the snoring stopped,but he had a good nosebleed as his punishment!HA!