i guess ever since my teenage years, i have struggled so much with the concept of beds to sleep in. i have yet to find one i find genuinely comfortable, i had to make a makeshift-topper filled with pillow fillings to make my current mattress bearable although i got the most soft option i could find... i have tried all sorts of ones and yeah... even though i am skinny and it gave me bruises, sometimes it was more comfortable to sleep on the floor because the mattress situations were so bad and having an honest hard floor was just better than the pretending-to-be-soft-but-then-it-isnt-really mattress (and dont get me wrong, i had one of the expensive swiss ultra-tech-sciency kind back then, not some cheap shit).
i tried topping them with sheepskins (those are awesome, but the underground still sucks), i tried getting used to different sleeping positions to no avail...
now i read somewhere that the concept of beds was to create a feeling of safety by being higher than the floor so (in medieval times) rats and stuff wouldnt get to you... (yikes!) and that in a lot of places, people do sleep in hammocks, or in other places where rodents arent an issue, actually on the floor. which i cant really imagine is good if you regularly get bruises on the hips from lying on a hard floor... but yeah maybe these people dig up the earth a bit to make a mould for their bodies?
anyway, i wanted to ask, is it really that uncommon to sleep in hammocks? i really dont know anyone personally who does, is this an issue of living in europe? if someone has experience or knows someone who sleeps in hammocks at home, how is it?
i imagine that it might give a feeling like being held, cocooned, but i will have to try it to see... i just ordered one and will definitely let you know how it goes when i tried it!
i tried topping them with sheepskins (those are awesome, but the underground still sucks), i tried getting used to different sleeping positions to no avail...
now i read somewhere that the concept of beds was to create a feeling of safety by being higher than the floor so (in medieval times) rats and stuff wouldnt get to you... (yikes!) and that in a lot of places, people do sleep in hammocks, or in other places where rodents arent an issue, actually on the floor. which i cant really imagine is good if you regularly get bruises on the hips from lying on a hard floor... but yeah maybe these people dig up the earth a bit to make a mould for their bodies?
anyway, i wanted to ask, is it really that uncommon to sleep in hammocks? i really dont know anyone personally who does, is this an issue of living in europe? if someone has experience or knows someone who sleeps in hammocks at home, how is it?
i imagine that it might give a feeling like being held, cocooned, but i will have to try it to see... i just ordered one and will definitely let you know how it goes when i tried it!
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