Avoid Sleep Disturbance

• Nudging the snorer to sleep on the side or simply calling out to the person to turn to the side helps open up the airway to enable normal breathing. Snoring sleepers are usually light sleepers so they can hear you and respond to your prompt.
• Escape the snores by going to bed and falling asleep earlier, way before the snorer. Or request the snorer to retire only after you have fallen asleep so that the snoring will start without you.
• Rise up early in the morning, get busy during the day and skip the afternoon nap so that it would be difficult to stay awake at night.
• Wear good quality earplugs not just to filter off the noise but also to protect your hearing. Ringing in the ears is a sign that the hairs in the cochlea (the main organ of hearing) are damaged, this can occur after an exposure to noise above 90 decibels.
• Perhaps listening intently to the snoring rhapsody, figuring how it actually works and observing the breathing pattern, tabulating your findings can cause one to be less disturbed by the disturbance to some extent. Treat it as a bedtime activity that will tire you (or bore you) and put you to sleep.
• When the snoring rendition becomes utterly unbearable, depriving restful sleep and no solution seems to work, switch to another bed in the next room.
• In any case, take it easy, choose to stay calm, do not let the snoring get the better of you because that will further delay sleeping time.
• If snores are heard from a dozed-off snorer who is in a sitting position, gently wake the snorer up and ask the snorer to lean the head forward or bend downwards so as to distance the head away from the seat’s head rest. The snorer can then nod to sleep (if staying awake is difficult) quietly without snoring. This is a quick solution to disrupt any public performance while travelling with other passengers on a plane or a train or a tour coach where silence is best observed.

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