To obtain a more precise frame of reference, physicians have developed an objective classification system for the amount of noise produced by snoring.

Mild snoring: Occasional snoring, usually while the sleeper is lying on his back and is overtired or has drunk too much alcohol or eaten too much.

Moderate Snoring: Frequent snoring, occurring in all body positions.

Severe Snoring: Very loud snoring throughout the night in all body positions, heard from one or two room away.

Heroic Snoring: Extremely loud snoring throughout the night in all body positions, heard from three to four positions away or throughout the entire house.

Snorers graduating with such honors are sometime known as stentorian snorers. Their title is deservedly in tribute to stentor, a legendary Roman herald, possessing a voice which equaled the volume of fifty ordinary men.

Depending on the hearing acuity and tolerance of the snore, one reasonably reliable method of assessing any snorer’s damage control is to estimate the distance from which he or she can be heard. Hence, one room, two room, three rooms and even across the street snorers. Enough to make a social pariah has led to any number of colorfully descriptive terms, including major league snoring and baritone saxophone snoring. Judgment solely by volume, therefore, could ultimately result in the cruel yet candid, one more night of this and I am filing for divorce snoring!

Through far from exact, these descriptions do allow us to explore the cause of snoring by it with two distinct facts. First, snoring occurs only during sleep and second, the sounds of snoring are produced in the air passages of the nose and throat, which we refer as the upper respiratory tract.

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