It’s 2 a.m. and you are half–asleep, scrolling through TikTok when a video that feels especially harsh and targeted shows up on your feed: Side sleeping is ruining your face. I fell for the “facial symmetry” trap—wondering if my side-sleeping position was truly to blame.

Facial symmetry has become an obsession online. Blaming your sleeping position is a neat theory with just enough pseudo–science to stick, and TikTok has never met a half-truth it couldn’t turn into gospel.

But here’s the reality: perfect symmetry doesn’t exist (not even Bella Hadid, Gigi Hadid, or Kendall Jenner have both-sides-of-the-mirror identical faces), and most of us only notice tiny differences when an algorithm points them out. Before twisting yourself in bed, remember it’s mostly time, gravity, and genetics a

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