What is Snoring?

Snoring is when your body makes loud sounds while you're sleeping because your airway gets blocked a little bit.

Imagine you're trying to drink from a straw, but someone squishes it a little, the more they squish it, the noisier the drink goes. That's kind of what happens in your throat when you snore.

Your throat is like a tunnel that air has to go through while you sleep. Sometimes, the muscles in your throat get relaxed and loose, making it narrower. This makes the air have to push harder through the smaller space, creating vibrations, which sound like snoring.

Snoring can be as soft as a whisper or as loud as a toaster going off in the kitchen. Sometimes it even sounds like someone is trying to hum a song while they sleep!

If your throat is really blocked, you might even stop breathing for short times, that's when snoring becomes sleep apnea, which we can talk about another day!