why does he sleep on my face?

I have a year old cat named Oreo. Normally he'll go up into our bathroom and sleep on top of the cabinet at night, and I basically have to close him in there. Otherwise he'll do one of two things, either he'll be closed out of our room entirely and will stand outside the door crying to get in all night long and keep us awake, or he'll sleep on my face. He seems to like it up there though, on the cabinet, and no problems have arisen from this perch, so it's all good.

But what is it about cats sleeping on people's faces? Why does he do that? I don't mind him sleeping on my chest or anything, but I can't let him on my face. I'd like to let him sleep anywhere he wants, but like I said, I can't let him do that, I'll never get any sleep, and if I don't, with my line of work, it'll only be a bad thing.

Why does he do this? Anybody know?

I think it's to do with being able to feel your breath? My kitten lies on my face too. He starts off the night on the bed then in the early hours he walks up to my face and sort of flops over so that he's lying on top of my face!

It sounds like he just loves you soo much that he can't get close enough to you! My piggy sleeps with me every night and she always insists on laying with her butt and tail right in my face! If she farts, I'm dead! She also has a habit of swinging her tail around when she is falling asleep so I get continuously slapped in the face with it! I have grown used to it, though, and can't fall asleep unless I have that tail in my face!!!

My cat tries to sleep on my face, too. It drives me crazy! Sometimes he'll sneak onto my face (or neck) when I'm asleep and I wake up feeling like I'm suffocating with a nose full of fur.

Originally Posted by crazy4alero

It sounds like he just loves you soo much that he can't get close enough to you! My piggy sleeps with me every night and she always insists on laying with her butt and tail right in my face! If she farts, I'm dead!

She also has a habit of swinging her tail around when she is falling asleep so I get continuously slapped in the face with it! I have grown used to it, though, and can't fall asleep unless I have that tail in my face!!!

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I definately understand that one. Oreo loves to put his rear right in my face at night. But luckily he doesn't fart much. There again, when he does, you can see the mushroom cloud from Russia!