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A new scientific study reveals (yawn) that the position you sleep in reveals your personality<\/a>. By looking at your usual position<\/a>, the scientists say, you can tell things about yourself.<\/p>\n

Or not. The descriptions (at least as digested down for the press) are vague to the point of being fortune cookie fodder (“You are a good listener who likes to help whenever needed”). <\/p>\n

It’s also unclear to me, at least, that everyone sleeps in a consistent fashion — I usually start out the evening as the Soldier, go into the Freefaller position later on, but often wake up as a Foetus or a Yearner.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’m just a complex personality.<\/p>\n

(via Defective Yeti<\/a>, who has a different take on this …)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new scientific study reveals (yawn) that the position you sleep in reveals your personality. 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