<p>If your school has any singles--you (or roommate) would have good grounds to get one next semester. Your room has to allow you the possibility to sleep. Might even be worth trying to enlist parental pressure on housing folks.</p>
<p>You poor thing! (also poor dude that snores... i snore sometimes and you are right that he really cant help it :( )</p>
<p>My mum snores so she sleeps with a firm pillow that changes the position of her neck which i think in turn is supposed to open the airways. It helps a little bit but does not stop snoring unfortunately. Although the list of advice someone posted on the previous page said sleeping without a pillow is a good idea. </p>
<p>Good luck with it! give us hints if you find anything works...</p>
<p>Push him out of bed.</p>
<p>My roommate last year snored badly. In the end, of course, there wasn't anything she could really do about it (she didn't need to lose weight, she didn't drink, and she snored no matter what position she was in). Ultimately, I just got used to it. After a few weeks of getting practically no sleep, I was exhausted enough that, while I couldn't completely sleep through it, I would be able to get back to sleep after a couple of minutes. I've slept with a white noise machine for years (personally, I find that white noise drowns out sounds better than the noises like running water and things like that), and that helped. Ironically, I was scared to take it to college for fear that the noise would really annoy my roommate, but after the first night, there was no doubt that I needed it. </p>
<p>For nights when it was worse than usual, I also bought a white noise CD that I kept in my CD player next to my bed so that I could slip my headphones on without getting out of bed and then turn my CD player on loud enough to drown the noise out. The headphones (earbuds) would usually fall out sometime in the middle of the night, but once I was deeply asleep, I could usually keep sleeping even with the snoring.</p>
<p>Before your roommate heads to sleep, lie down and pretend to rest. Begin snoring, gradually increasing the volume. Then, and only then, present your case to your roommate.</p>
<p>Slorg,</p>
<p>How does that change anything? It's not like the roommate is doing it on purpose. Last time I checked, most humans aren't concious when they sleep.</p>
<p>Buy yourself soft earplugs. You can get a whole bag full of cheap, disposable ones that people use when they work in factories or with loud equipment. It is not likely that you will be able to stop someone else from snoring. All measures that are described are time consuming and require effort on the part of the snorer! Since it rarely bothers the person snoring (unless it is bad enough to be classified as sleep apnea, which does wake up the snorer and deprives them of sleep), it will be difficult to get anyone to dedicate so much time to preventing it for someone else's sake. Sorry. I am the snorer, and I have had the surgery. Although it cleared up MY problem, the sleep apnea, and cut the noise level by half, it is still annoying to anyone who may have to be in proximity!</p>
<p>Slorg, i am pretty sure the guy most likely feels bad that he keeps his roomate awake. Nobody wants to be annoying.</p>
<p>Slorg that's really immature. Trust me, those of us who snore don't do it purposely, and not all of us have causes that are easy fixes. Heck I don't know what the cause of my snoring is, but I've snored my entire life. I snored when I was off the charts skinny, and I snore now, when my weight is right about where the doctors want it. I'd love to just stop snoring. If I could do something simple to stop, I would. I hate even the possibility that I might be keeping my roommates up, but they've all accepted it, and seem to have adjusted to it.</p>
<p>Slorg, </p>
<p>Thanks for the recommendation whether it was in humor or in good terms. I will echo what others have said too many times, theres nothing the guy can do. I'm not even sure if I snore (I don't think I do, but I'm sure my roomate doesn't even know). </p>
<p>It is quite ridiculous that I can't even sleep in my own effing rooming. The university has got to allow some change, or else I wouldn't mind seeing someone in court.</p>
<p>pinch his nose for 3-5 seconds, and then he'll snort before becoming quieter.</p>
<p>My roomies tell me that I talk in my sleep.... I always apologize but they've said it's cute and doesn't bug them <3</p>
<p>have you even told him that he snores? maybe he'll find out and invest in some nose strips or whatever they are.</p>
<p>Depending on the cause of the snoring, those Breathe Right Nasal Strips (helps to open nasal passages) or Snore Enz (spray that coats throat with a lubricant) might help.</p>
<p>try going to sleep 15 minutes before him. That way you wont have trouble falling asleep and when you're already in deep sleep the snoring will probably not wake you up.</p>
<p>one stops snoring when he or she sleeps on her side. If your roomate is sleeping on his back, then tell him to sleep on his side.</p>
<p>My roomate snores so loudly that the other guy who lives with us can hear it from his room. He's also one of those "insta-sleepers" basically, if he lays down in bed for a minute or two, he'll just fall right to sleep. It's incredibly annoying trying to sleep, but we have an agreement. He sleeps AFTER i sleep, unless i sleep at an unsually late/early time. It usually works out since i sleep aorund 2-3 and he gets to sleep around 4 (maybe later). You should definitely try to sleep before he goes to bed, unless your a light sleeper.</p>
<p>clothes peg his nose :) lol. actually yea i have a problem with snorers too, so you might wanna get sth to drown out the sound of snoring. either that or have an arrangement where u sleep first, then him</p>
<p>I know there's at least one object on the market to prevent snoring. Maybe get him one and very politely tell him that he's snoring and ask that he use the product. I imagine that most ppl would do so to help you sleep. : )</p>
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<p>My roommate last semester snored and it was horrible! I knew she couldn't do anything to stop it (she told me that she'd tried the strips and spray and it didn't help), but it made me resent her so bad because she'd be sleeping peacefully, though loudly, and I wouldn't be able to sleep at all. I wanted to like her, but it just made me start to hate her after a while! </p>
<p>After the first two weeks of living in the dorm, I got earplugs. They REALLY helped, but were so annoying to deal with. Then of course, there'd be the times when they'd fall out in the night and the snoring would wake me up again. And eventually they started giving me ear infections where my ears hurt too bad to wear them, but then I'd hear her snoring all night and couldn't sleep and had to stuff my pillow over my head. Eventually, she moved out which I am forever grateful for. I'm in the room by myself now, and it's so much better. </p>
<p>So if you can, maybe try and see if one of you could move into another room with a friend or a single.</p>