MINI: Sleep Injuries
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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It sounds impossible, but when have you hurt yourself while asleep?
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| 0:00.0 | Christian. |
| 0:01.0 | Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Sometimes it's going to sleep where we should be resting, recuperating, regenerating. |
| 0:09.0 | You can actually get injured in your sleep. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm sure there are people listening to this going, yeah, that's me. |
| 0:14.0 | I've actually injured myself during my sleep. |
| 0:17.0 | What happens to your mate? |
| 0:18.0 | My friend is in a sling because in the restlessness of his |
| 0:22.5 | sleep, he's twisted his arm and he woke up in pain. What's he doing? Sleep fighting. He doesn't |
| 0:27.9 | know how he did it. All he knows is he woke up in pain and now his arms in a sling because he |
| 0:32.9 | twisted his elbow and he's going to be like that for two weeks. And then I was saying in here, |
| 0:38.4 | like, how crazy is this? My friend has injured himself in his sleep. And producer Rio said, |
| 0:43.3 | I think I've injured my butt in my sleep in the past week. He actually told us that he bruised |
| 0:49.8 | his buttocks. I mean, I don't even know. Do you even go to the doctors with someone |
| 0:53.3 | or something like that? How do you do that in your sleep? The wrestling bit I can understand. What do you do? Buttocks, right, |
| 0:59.3 | in a bed at nighttime to get them bruised. Are you bouncing up and down on your butt? I don't even |
| 1:04.6 | know how that happens. Your friend are not going to understand. But to hurt you all that badly, he's really got to be wailing on the duna or punching pillows. |
| 1:13.5 | Well, he didn't even wake up his partner, so his wife's in there with him. |
| 1:16.4 | How heavy sleeper is she? |
| 1:17.8 | There's a guy fighting himself, you know, inches away. |
| 1:20.9 | She doesn't even stir. |
| 1:22.0 | And I guess this is the thing with it. |
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