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Here you go. Just playing is bloody easy, the ruleset is far from complicated. Playing well, on the other hand...

I had a dream a while ago, it was pretty odd.
I was about 10 at the time, and in my dream I was a grown-up sapient snowman, and all the kids in this snowy town loved me, but then the grown-ups hated me, and I hid in an ice-cream freezer. Also, the sun was trying to get me as well.

I have weird dreams.

I ship out to BMT on Tuesday. I have been waiting for this date for quite a long time, and am just happy that the wait is over and done with. People continually ask if I'm nervous about joining the military. I lost all my nervousness long ago, and now am just annoyed with the fact that a solid 80% of my conversations end up being about the military. It's going to be a big change in lifestyle from essentially being a NEET to being a service member, but I am sure that the benefits that I will gain from this far outweigh any reservations I still have. The fact that I'm pretty patriotic probably helps that out a bit too. It'll be a good change for me, and I just want it to begin already. I just want to go away from where I am at this moment, and start with something new. Something that has more hope on the horizon than despair.

Pressure applies about the same while lying on your stomach or back, I find, though AFAIK it has absolutely nothing to do with your ribs. Generally breathing problems with lying on your back tend to be much more related to the affect of gravity on the position of the valves in the throat (like snoring and sleep apnea) than they have anything to do with compression of your actual chest.

I mean when you a re actually asleep everyone breathes in pretty much the same way, regardless of how you breathe normally, and the nifty thing about humans is that we are squishy, which means that all sorts of areas (such as your back and stomach) can expand and shift to allow you room to breathe deeply.

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Can't sleep on my back for no adequately explainable reason, and the sides almost inevitably result in the upward one losing adequate circulation and going all numb and achey if I stay that way long enough, so the stomach is best for me.

Sleeping on the back tends to weigh heavy on the chest, so it can be hard to do it for long amounts of time

Is it due to ribs pressing organs against each other?

I'd assume it has something to do with people who breathe from their chest and not their abdomen not being able to expand their chest and take in enough oxygen without the brain beginning to panic and nightmare your self.