Every once in a while I very much enjoy sleeping on the floor, especially if I have a back injury. I've heard there are numerous health benefits. Since I've never found any definitive information I've decided to run a little experiment. If things go well toward the end of the week I may extend the experiment. Night 1 Sleep Time: 5 hours Sleep surface: In a sleeping bag on yoga mat over carpet. Notes: Being primarily a side sleeper I had issues getting to sleep. Once asleep I usually change sides several times throughout the night. I woke up each time I did because of the hardness of the floor. I woke up feeling more rested than usual but a little sore in the shoulders. For Night 2 I plan to build a makeshift futon by folding my comforter and zipping it inside the sleeping bag.
It's part of the continent of "North America" but that doesn't make him "American". This has been done here before.
You could just get a very firm mattress. Often a very firm mattress then padded out with a feather bed does the trick for backs. In a way that just the firm mattress or just the feather bed wont do. Odd that. But yeah granted... a few hundred bucks isn't easy to part with for a quality mattress.
I slept on the floor for a few months. I put my bed in the bath so I had more space to sort through my possessions earlier in the year, and found the floor just as comfy as my ex's £1000 mattress. I don't remember why I have a bed now, I guess coz I was tired of having a stack of blankets and pillows in the corner, it does save time only having to make your bed every few days when the blankets get messed up, rather than every night. Though it's nice when "getting into bed" involves "lying down where you're standing" Oh yeah, it's coz I broke my rib, sleeping on the floor hurts if your rib's busted :s
When I got my first flat I slept for months on a futon on two close decked Europallets joined together with a couple of gate hinges, best sleep ever. Only got a proper bed when my GF moved in.
Night 2 Sleep Time: 7 hours Sleep Surface: Makeshift futon over yoga mat and carpet Notes: My sleep was far less disturbed an the previous night. The "futon" is just soft enough to stop the ground being hard but not soft enough to negate the purpose of the experiment. As I didn't wake up during the night I'm not sure if I slept on my side. I woke up with a slightly sore back which disappeared half way through the day but otherwise very well rested. I used to sleep on a very firm mattress and it seems my back muscles are readjusting. No more sore shoulders though. @slip this is not actually about back issues I just want to see if my sleep quality will improve by sleeping on a hard surface rather than simply a firm one.
Night 3 Sleep Time: 7 hours Sleep Surface: Makeshift futon over yoga mat and carpet Notes: I'm pretty much sleeping normally now. I woke up with slightly sore intercostals because I'm a side sleeper but I think my ribs will adapt. It could be all in my head or that im more comfortable on a harder surface but I think I'm waking up better rested.
I find the same thing about sleeping on the floor, I think il start doing that, beds take up too much space.
Well just a quickie update. Seems my body has completely adapted. I've been sleeping far better than I have on my bed in a long time.
Seven days? In 2013 I will be into my tenth year and find it impossible to sleep in a bed these days.All I use is a thin camping mat covered with a blanket.For the first few months you tend to get pain in the shoulders and hips but once you learn to relax its far more comfortable than a bed. No self respecting martial artist would ever sleep in a bed.
