cats

My 20-year-old baby girl insisted I face her as well. She would paw at the back of my head until I rolled over or moved her in front of me. She only started doing that over the past two years or so, but for about five years she would paw at me to lift the covers so she could snuggle under them or to hold her in my arms.

I had to put her to sleep just over two weeks ago on October 5. I miss her waking me up all the time for snuggles. I would trade every night of solid sleep in the world to have her with me still.

I have two cats and neither do this, but one wants to put her face as close to my mouth as possible. I can’t trust her though because sometimes she’ll touch my lips with her paw which is gross, and other times she’ll just sneeze onto my face from 0.5” away.

The other likes to sleep on me but panics every time I move even a little bit.

Not only facing me, but up IN my face to the point where it's hard to breathe.

3AM:

Mine will only sleep on my hip. If I roll over and he falls off? Back on other hip.

You have a Schrödinger's cat. It needs to be observed in order to collapse its wave function, or it can't know what state it's in.

You should probably get another one so they can observe each other.

They sleep on the space next to me. It’s a queen-sized bed, so there’s plenty of space. I used to sleep on the sofa and they’d get ~~in~~ on my chest, mostly during cold months.

Cat 1. Sleeps at the end of the bed. Cat 2, 3, 4 will sleep against my butt, not usually at the same time. Cat 5 sleeps on my second second pillow. Cat six sleeps against my chest and screams at me as he crawls back in to place after I roll over.

Our cat will put us to bed. When we turn the light off she will lay on my hip for 5-15 minutes then once she’s convinced I’m asleep (I’m not) she will hop off the bed and go do cat things (she tells us it’s catslified and we can’t know she does these cat things). She sometimes will lay on my wife for 30 seconds, maybe a minute but always lays on me. She’ll pace around too until I lay on my side so she can put me to bed.

In the winter she’ll come back and snuggle up with one of us because she likes the warmth and we keep it cooler at night. In the summer she’ll lays a bit further away near one of us (usually pinning the blanket down so I can’t get up). She is truly a creature of habit.

My cat exhibits the same behavior

This might be blasphemy in this sub, but my dog has to sleep on my pillow. Doesn't matter if there is another of the same pillow right next to it. She has to have some part of her body on the same one I'm on. Usually, she'll be there before I get to bed and hogging the whole pillow.

My siamese liked to sleep between my legs, my tortie likes taking the pillow as her property and my other cat waits for me to stay still, then she very gently lies parallel to one of my arms or legs.

My cat gets around this by sleeping on my neck

My cat used to do this. She always had to be the small spoon

My girl sleeps in my face. Like she's a pillow that I have to touch. it doesn't bother me too much because I sleep belly up (yes like a dead person) but when I turn to be on my side, if I'm not facing her, she will stand and go over my head to the other side util she lays down on my face. Not.very gpod.for alergies but I think she is so sweet that I just let her

I also have a queen size and another cat and a dog and all of them sleep with me (not forced but they want so I let)

We have one that does the hip thing, another that sleeps near the feet end. The first cat I had was also a feet sleeper but would sometimes snuggle like the small spoon. If I were to move at all, it was off to the couch and staring at me.

Haven't experienced that with my cats. Mostly they just want the warmth of armpits or for my legs to make a convenient bed for them.

I like to lay on my side in bed and read, and my cat will snuggle up in front of me. Often I'll later flip around, and we'll have each others' back.

I tend to flip around a lot before falling asleep, so she'll usually go lay at my feet (preferably on my blanket), but she's good as long as she's close.

Don't cats have a protective instinct as well, where they face away from one while being comfy together?

It depends how much tossing and turning I’m doing. If I can find a comfortable spot and I’m not moving around too much, he’s the little spoon. And glares at me until I tuck him in.

If I’m moving around a lot trying to get comfortable, he’ll go sleep at my feet.

Yeah, I have to be facing him to start, but he often ends up behind me at some point in the night.

yes

I don't have a cat.