1. How Might You Get Sleep When
you Sleep with a partner who
snores and keeps you Awake
Brainstorm by Creativity Rocks: A
team of one
2. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Develop an allergy – such as to dust or hay fever –so
that you constantly have blocked ear tubes with fluid
so that the snoring noise does not bother you
• Take up swimming and don’t wear ear plugs. This way
when you get water in your ears – don’t’ shake it out –
keep it in, so that you don’t hear as well and then the
snoring won’t bother you
• Change careers and become an airline flight attendant
and when you fly do not adjust your ear pressure when
you land this way it will be hard to hear and you will
not be bothered by snoring.
3. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Move your house half way up a mountain and
every night before you go to sleep run up and
down the mountain until your ear pressure is out
of whack then run into bed and go to sleep – the
snoring won’t bother you as you can’t hear well
• Take medication that minimized the amount of
sleep you need to function (e.g. some people can
function on 4 hours sleep a night where other
people need 9 hours sleep to feel well) so that
your snoring partner does not have such a big
impact on you.
4. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Hire someone to watch your partner when you go to
bed and have them roll your partner onto their side if
they start to roll over into the snore position, this way
they don’t snore. This person would be called a “snore
sitter”. No snoring – you sleep.
• Hire 4 people to carry your partner out of the room
when they start to snore, so you can sleep in that
room. And in the morning before your partner wakes
up…they carry your partner back into bed – so your
partner doesn’t know that anything happened if they
sleep through the night. You get a good night sleep.
And 4 unemployed people have a job.
5. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Get a physicist to create a black hole in your
bedroom, and when your partner starts to snore push
them out of bed into the black hole. Pull them out of
the black hole when you get enough sleep. You don’t
hear anything in a black hole, so you can’t hear the
snoring.
• Get a physicist to create a black hole in your bedroom
and when your partner starts to snore – you jump into
the black hole with a rope tied around your waist.
When you get enough sleep – you pull yourself out of
the black hole using your rope.
6. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Do a very mundain task lying down and you can’t
sleep until it is done, so the snoring is a helpful
tool to keep you awake to do this required task –
use the snoring as a positive tool and then sleep
during the day when your partner is awake.
• Take your partner to a dentist to get fitted with a
mouth piece that positions the jaw open to
prevent the ‘snoring noise”
• Agreed to be a flu vaccine clinical trial patient so
that you constantly have blocked ear tubes so
that the snoring noise does not bother you
7. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Get your partner to drink sticky honey before they go
to sleep this way the back of the throat won’t rattle – it
will be stuck with honey so it won’t fibrate so loud and
then you will be able to sleep
• Hire a monkey to throw little jelly beans into your
partner’s mouth when they open it – so they will close
their mouth to chew the candy and thus not snore.
• Move your house to an airport runway or flight pattern
area – so that the noise of the airplanes taking off
drowns out the noise of your partner’s snoring – so the
snoring doesn’t bother you.
8. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Create a waterfall bed, where the waterfall falls
between the two of you. When you want to sleep, you
roll over into the part of the bed so that the waterfall
comes between the two of you, thus drowning out the
snoring noise
• Create a special room, when your partner starts to
snore, the sound causes the bed to separate and move
on auto rollers out of the room...you continue sleeping
and your partner does to…but moved into a different
room.
• Put a clothes pin on your partners nose when they go
to sleep to stop the snoring
9. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Become so sleep deprived that you stab your partner
from a mental break and get put into jail for 5 – 15
years. You will not be able to hear your partner snoring
from jail – so you will be able to sleep.
• Hire a surrogate sleep partner for yourself and for your
partner. This way you both get to continue to sleep
with someone. Your surrogate does not snore.
• Get a job as an airplane pilot on intercontinental flights
– that way you don’t sleep at home – but in different
countries on a regular basis – so you get to sleep.
10. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Put a multi-layered circular tube that connects to their
mouth on your partner – that way the snoring sound
travels round in circles rather than amplifying out to
you – so the snoring noise is not so loud and you can
sleep
• Tape a harmonica to your partner’s mouth so when
they blow out a snore it becomes a tune/music which
is easier on the ears and you can fall asleep to
• Give up sleeping altogether.
• Donate your hearing/ears to the organ donor bank and
go deaf and that way you won’t hear your partner
snore
11. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Create a new bed for snorers – a machine will monitor
your partners heart rate and breathing rate and when
they approach the ‘snoring range” the monitor will
trigger a sound proof bubble to gentling come down
from the ceiling and encapsulate your partner – so you
don’t hear their snoring. When they stop snoring the
monitor triggers this, and the bubble lifts and goes
back to the ceiling.
• Send your partner away to a sleep rehabilitation centre
– so he learns how to modify this snoring behaviour
• Put a deep sea scuba driver’s helmet on partner’s head
before they go to sleep to drown out the noise
12. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Create a new bed for snorers – once they fall asleep, their
half of the bed tilts down with their head at the floor and
their feet at the ceiling to stop them from snoring – unable
to roll onto their back in this position on this bed and snore
• Create a new bed for snorers – the bed has a trench that is
cut into the mattress. The width of the trench only allows
the person to sleep on their slide. Your partner slips into
the mattress trench when they want to go to sleep.
• Create a new bed for snorers - it has a machine that
monitors the heart rate and breathing rate of your partner
and when they move into the “snoring” range, just before
they start to snore the monitors trigger a white noise
machine to start – so that you don’t notice the snoring
noise.
13. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Take your partner to a shaman to perform a “non-
snoring” ritual on your partner to stop them from
snoring.
• Work out (physical activity) at night to the point
beyond exhaustion – and that way you fall asleep – and
nothing will wake you – you can even fall asleep
standing
• Create a new bed for snorers – like a massage table –
where you lie on your stomach and your face goes
through an opening – so you can breathe freely – but
there is no room for you to roll onto your side.
14. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Take Buddhism classes and figure out what karma
gave you a partner who snores and resolve that
karma debt so that you don’t have to sleep with a
snorer.
• Pray you fall asleep and get a good night sleep.
• Pray your partner stops snoring so you can sleep.
• Pray doctors find a permanent medical procedure
to stop people from snoring.
• Pray a creative person develops a new product
that captures 100% of the snore noise so you can
sleep and that it is an affordably priced product.
15. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• If your partners snores through their mouth, take a
flute to their mouth so when they blow out a snore it
makes music with is soothing and pleasant and easy to
sleep through or go back to sleep with
• Take meditation classes from a Tibetan monk and learn
how to release and let go of all tension so that nothing
disturbs you so it doesn’t matter what is happening
around you, you will always be peace and calm and
therefore can get sleep anywhere
• Take Buddhism classes and let go of your attachment to
sleeping – so the snoring is a non-issue.
16. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Hypnotize yourself into thinking that whenever you hear
your partner snoring you are actually hearing whales song
music and this relaxes you and makes you fall asleep/ or
back asleep
• Hypnotize yourself into thinking that whenever you hear
your partner snoring you are hearing the sound of waves
gentling reaching a beach and this relaxes you and your fall
asleep or back to sleep.
• If snorers don’t wake themselves up with their snores, go to
sleep at the same time as your partner every night and
snore with them at the same pitch and intensity. This way
your partner’s snores sound like your snores and you won’t
wake up due to snoring.
17. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Hypnotize your partner to make their snoring sounds
to sound like waves crashing – so the sound is soothing
and it makes you sleepy and fall asleep.
• Hypnotize your partner to make their snoring sound
like a various noises you would hear in a rain forest at
night and a) tape it and sell these tapes so you make
money; b) it makes you relax because you know you
partner is making money even when they sleep so all is
well regardless of this terrible economy.
• Hypnotize your partner to make their snoring sound
like whales singing and this makes you relax and fall
asleep
18. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Hypnotize yourself so that every time you hear snoring you
think it is the most beautiful sound in the world
• Hypnotize yourself so that you think the sound of snoring is
a lullaby and this sound now lulls you to sleep
• Hypnotize your partner to stop snoring
• Hypnotize yourself that when you fall asleep, whenever you
open your eyes and wake up you feel fully rested regardless
of the amount of sleep you have
• Hypnotize yourself into believing you are deaf when you
sleep with your partner so that you don’t hear any noise at
all. If there is a fire or a child cries - your partner has to
attend to it and/or wake you up
19. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Explore ways in which snoring energy can be
captured and stored and hook your partner up to
a Nano snoring energy capturing device so that
you see snoring as a positive energy source that
saves you money (e.g. power your lights with
snore power rather than electricity– so you
change your feelings towards the value of snoring
and not your partner (e.g. like a wind turbine at a
Nano level). And saving power/energy is such a
good feeling that this makes you relaxed when
you hear snoring and you fall asleep listening to
this wonderful eco-friendly activity.
20. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Go to sleep before your snorer
• Ask NASA to design a new head box for snorers to
wear, that they put on before they sleep. It
would be permeable and yet keep the sound
inside around the person’s head and not travel to
others¬¬¬¬¬
• Have the snorer hooked up to a snore bag – so all
of their snores go into a sound proof bag that
covers their nose and mouth – and not into the
atmosphere. Snores won’t reach your ears!
21. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• If it is true that you only snore when your mouth is
open, then get your partner to learn to sleep with a baby’s
soother/dummie in their mouth. If babies can do it……
• Swaddle your partners’ head so that their mouth remains
closed when they sleep.
• Put large elastic bands over your partner’s head and under
their jaw to keep their mouth closed when they sleep- so
they don’t snore.
• Hook up your snorer to a small electrical devise that gives
them a small jolt to wake them when they start to snore –
so that is doesn’t get very loud and it doesn’t wake you but
wakes them and they stop snoring
22. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Buy a special neck pillow that is locked to the bed. Once
your partner puts their head in the pilot it gently locks
them in place so that the head stays in the sideways
position. They can’t roll onto their back so no snoring.
• Buy a special leg pillow that is locked to the bed. Your
partner puts their legs in this pillow to keep them sleeping
on their side – so they don’t roll over onto their back and
snore.
• If it is true that you only snore when you open your mouth,
put a small surgical tape vertically down their mouth at the
centre as a small unconscious reminder to keep the mouth
closed. Note sides of mouth can open so no choking.
23. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Make a snorer sleeping gown that has a spring lever
sewn into the back, so that if your partner rolls onto
their back to snore, they will be pushed back onto their
side (in which position they will not snore).
• Make a snorer pj bottoms that has latches that match
to the bed, so your partner puts their pj latches into
the bed that holds them into a side sleeping position
and they can’t roll over onto their back –(so won’t
snore).
• Buy a special neck support pillow that positions the
head and neck so that it minimizes snoring
24. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• If it is true you don’t snore when you sleep on
your side, put your partner in an ankle bungee
cord and another bungee cord around their chest
that is attached to either end of the bed to hold
them in place lying on their side or on their
stomach.
• Make a snorer night shirt that has tennis balls
sewn into the back of the nightshirt so that your
partner cannot roll onto their back comfortably
and stay on their back and snore.
25. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• If it is true that you don’t snore when you sleep on
your side construct a narrow box wall on the bed that
only enables your partner to sleep on their side – there
is no room to roll onto their back
• If it is true you don’t snore when you sleep on your
side – get a medical team to create a back brace that
your partner puts on every night so they can’t roll over
onto their back to snore.
• If it is true you don’t snore when you sleep on your
side, put spikes or tacks on the bed that your partner
would roll onto if they went on their back, so that they
get a reminder to stay sleeping on their side
26. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Leave your partner – then you don’t have to sleep with
them. Which means you won’t be kept awake from
their snoring.
• Get a divorce so you don’t sleep with that person
anymore
• Take a sleeping pill and go to bed before your partner
• Get drunk and pass out before your partner goes to
sleep
• Go to a swinging singles party and hook up with a
different partner every couple of nights to catch up on
your sleep
27. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Arrange a different sleep schedule with your
partner: you sleep for 3 hours when you come
home from work, and then you sleep again the
last couple of hours while your partner is getting
ready for work the next day – e.g. split the hours
you sleep to get all of your sleep hour
requirements.
• Change jobs to one where you need to travel, like
a regional or national sales manager so you get to
sleep away from your partner 3-4 days a week
and catch up on your sleep
28. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Get a shift worker job that is on a different
sleep schedule from your partner – so you
sleep at different times in the day
• Nap throughout the day so that you don’t
need much sleep at night – you’ve got it
during the day and go to sleep before your
partner – so if you are awakened from snoring
– you’re not sleep deprived
29. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Play music in the same tone in order to make the noise
invisible so that all you hear is the music
• Hook up a microphone next to your partner so that when
they snore it is amplified and they wake up, so that you can
learn to sleep with their mouth closed and don’t’ snore
(sleep behaviour training) and you sleep with them with
construction ear protection – so if they ask what
“happened, why did they wake up, you can say it was their
snoring that woke them up.
• Have your partner agree to sleep with someone who snores
louder than they do for 3 weeks and then see if they wish
to explore options to minimize their snoring so you can
sleep (e.g. they have an experience so they know what it
feels like).
30. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Ask your partner to spray a numbing liquid in their
mouth and at the back of the throat before they go to
sleep in order to relax the “flab” so that it does not
vibrate and therefore reduces the snoring sound so you
can sleep.
• Sleep with ear plugs
• Sleep with construction worker’s grade ear protection
• Sleep with air traffic worker’s ear protection on
• Play music to drown out the noise
• Fall asleep with the TV on so that this is the noise hear
vs. focusing on the snoring
31. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Play white noise to distract from the noise
• Have your partner wear a sleep apnea mask hooked up
to oxygen to minimize or stop the snoring
• Ask your snorer to put on the sleep aid nose Band-Aid
before they go to sleep to minimize the noise level
• Have your snorer go in for surgery to minimize or
eliminate the snoring i.e. there is throat surgery to
keep the “flap” open which either eliminates or
minimizes snoring
• Ask partner to get an injection of muscle relaxer for the
back of the throat so that the flab at the back of the
throat does not vibrate and make a loud snoring sound
33. 100 Ways you might get sleep..
• Buy the house next door and sleep in different
houses
• Sleep in a different room – one partner upstairs
and one partner downstairs
• Have his and her sleeping rooms same floor
• Build a Soundproof snorer sleeping room and you
sleep in a different bedroom – this way the noise
won’t travel and keep you awake
• Get a cat who likes to sleep on your snoring
partner’s face (likes the vibration and noise) to
muffle the level of snoring