Side-sleeping can be a quick fix for snoring and can help to improve breathing, more so than lying on your back. Plus, sleeping on your side (the left side in particular) has been reported to ease troublesome digestive problems like acid reflux and heartburn. The downside, as most side-sleepers know, is the dreaded “dead-arm” and finger numbness from this position. Sleeping on your arm for too long can cut off bloodflow and nerve function. You can wake up feeling that someone played a prank on you and slathered your arm with novocaine.
