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Snoring is No Laughing Matter
As innocent children armed with our trusty toolbox of crayons
and markers, we often depicted a snoring person as someone
lying in bed with a series of “Z’s” casually emerging from
a peacefully sleeping body.
However, what we neglected to draw – and again, rather innocently
– was the severe underlying damage that was occurring in
that ordinary picture.
The Damage is Far-Reaching
Damage to whom?
Well, damage to at least one person, and potentially many
more. Primarily, snoring has the very
real potential of causing health damage to the snorer him
or herself.
This damage can range from relatively mild sleep disturbances,
to outright fatal Sleep Apnea (described further in this
guide). Indeed, when looked at under this light, those innocent
Z’s in our childhood drawings don’t seem quite so harmless,
anymore.
Yet is that where the suffering ends -- with the snorer?
Hardly; and this is where the dilemma of snoring – and it
is indeed a dilemma – takes on an added hue of suffering
and misery.
To understand this in its painful clarity, let’s return
quickly to that childhood drawing of the sleeping person
(usually a man) slumbering away after a hard day of work,
possibly dreaming about something pleasant, as Z’s floated
up from his peaceful, sleeping body.
Now, how many of us took the time to draw the person trying
to sleep next to that snoring partner? Hardly any of us,
I would venture to presume, took the time to accurately depict
the total anguish that the non-snoring partner of a snorer
undergoes on a nightly basis.
But really,
that’s where a great deal of snoring-related suffering
is contained: in the life of someone trying to
live (and love!) a snorer. We’ll take a deeper look at the
tragic dilemma faced by these people later on in this
guide.
Snoring must be Solved!
Of course, non
snorers who have valiantly slept in the same bed, or even
in the same house, as a chronic snorer know
precisely how severe this problem is, and they don’t require
any convincing that snoring is a problem that requires
a solution!
Yet there are some, perhaps, who haven’t yet experienced
the true violence of living with a snorer; and for those
people, I humbly invite you to try sleeping with any of the
following devices; all of which have been ranked as emitting
the same or fewer decibels than the average snorer:
- An operational
lawn mower (and not the super-quiet luxury kind, either)
- An industrial
vacuum cleaner (the kind that picks up nails and glass!)
- A
running motorcycle (these things have no muffler, really,
and you can hear them from blocks away!)
- A
passing jet (the kind that wakes up babies, scares cats,
and sets off car alarms)
- An
operational chain saw (hopefully you haven’t actually slept
while one of these things are operating…unless you
were a horror movie actor)
- A
blender, food processor, or hair dryer (not one; all three
at once!)
The Noise is Often NOT Temporary!
And remember, please: we aren’t talking simply hearing these
sounds and then having them fade, such as what we’re used
to when we hear a passing jet (i.e. we only have to hear
it for a minute or so, and then it’s gone).
Imagine, if you can, listening to these sounds all night
long; and then you’ll have a very real and non-exaggerated
sense of what a non-snorer withstands, or tries to withstand,
on a nightly basis when attempting to co-exist with a full-time
snorer.
So in a nutshell: if your exposure to the world of snoring
is simply and innocently depicting some happy Z’s floating
up from a peacefully sleeping person, possibly beside another
peacefully sleeping non-snoring person, then it’s time to
update the records: it’s not a laughing, innocent matter
at all. For both the snorer and the non-snorer(s), snoring
is an extremely serious matter.
And, as you can imagine, because of that seriousness, a
number of people are desperate to end snoring; either their
own snoring, or that of a partner. And as you can just as
easily imagine, that desperation has inspired an array of
so-called solutions; some of which are effective and safe,
and others that are risky and exploratory.
Unfortunately, because the problem of snoring is so acute
– it’s actually fatal in some cases, and you can’t get more
acute than that! – There exists widespread confusion and
misinformation with respect to how to end snoring once and
for all.
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