sleeping on a wooden board

[Guest Gnome Chomsky]

Does anybody do this? I used to do it but stopped for a few years. I just started doing it again and now I remember why I loved it so much. Brief background story: I've been living in Miami the past 6 years. I'm moving to Seattle in mid-September for grad school. I moved to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, about a month ago to stay for the summer, make some money working, and relax a little. When I got here the bed didn't have a mattress so I slept on the box spring for a month. The guys downstairs were doing construction and had some extra 6' x 4' wooden boards. They let me have one and I put it over the box spring and threw a couple sheets and quilts on top. It's pretty awesome. A bit awkward if you're used to regular, fluffy mattresses. Anyway, I've heard it's supposed to be really good for your back and can improve your posture. Plus, it's much cooler to sleep on because it doesn't absorb all the heat like a mattress does. I want to do this when I get to Seattle too but I'll be living in university apartment and they might not let me throw my mattress away. Anyway, does anyone else do this?

[spunky]

Anyway, does anyone else do this?

 

i sleep on the floor for maybe one or two weeks out of every month sometimes, particularly during the summer.

 

just 2 covers on the floor (which is all covered in rug so it isn't too cold/hard) and one cover on top to keep me warm.

 

does that count?

[Guest Gnome Chomsky]

i sleep on the floor for maybe one or two weeks out of every month sometimes, particularly during the summer.

 

just 2 covers on the floor (which is all covered in rug so it isn't too cold/hard) and one cover on top to keep me warm.

 

does that count?

I'd say that counts. I like sleeping on the floor. But I'm loving the wooden board on the bed. I was inspired because I go in the dry sauna in my building for like an hour a day and I lay on the wood. It's comfortable. Now I sleep on it every night.

[maelia8]

I've never slept on a board, but I have slept on the ground a lot while backpacking (ground, tarp, sleeping bag, me layered on top of each other), and it was actually quite painful for the first few days until I got to the point where I was tired and didn't care anymore. Perhaps it's because the ground is so uneven compared to a board, but it really made the bones in my hips and shoulders ache, and I would wake up during the night with numbness in my thighs and upper arms. I felt like the only way to sleep successfully was on my back, but then my tailbone and lower back would ache Anybody else have experience with this? 

[fuzzylogician]

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[spunky]

Several posts have been removed from this thread. Please try and keep things civil.

 

you took down the ONLY witty post i've ever made here! and it was a good one! XD

[spectastic]

Several posts have been removed from this thread. Please try and keep things civil.

I was wondering when a mod would interject. had this been a different forum, I'd have been banned about 100 posts ago

[DeafAudi]

Well now, I'm intrigued. haha. 

[maelia8]

Yeah, I posted in here before anything subject to deletion was posted and am now wondering what the heck I missed that was so spicy it had to be deleted before I even got back.

[spectastic]

well gnomsky was expressing his concern about making boom boom, and I made a comment about getting a splinter in the wee wee, and it started escalating

 

 

but to actually contribute to the topic, no I've never slept on a hard surface (actually I probably have, but whatever). A good option might be a nice air mattress. I slept on one for months until I adopted a cat that started stretching on it with his claws.

 

also, a mattress isn't hotter because it absorbs heat. a mattress is largely air, which an insulator. It conducts heat very poorly, so it stays in the body. on the other hand, a wooden board conducts heat much better, meaning it'll take it away from your body much easier.

Edited June 11, 2014 by spectastic

[spunky]

well gnomsky was expressing his concern about making boom boom, and I made a comment about getting a splinter in the wee wee, and it started escalating

 

you forgot a reference to the movie Inception right there!

 

my brightest moment in this forum and you just shoved it under the bed!

[spectastic]

ok, spunky brilliantly made a reference between a splinter and inception. it blew my freaking mind

[gingin6789]

Never slept on a board, but, when I was 15, I slept on my sister's bedroom floor for six months because a trailer for a scary movie kept haunting my dreams O.O;

 

...it was comfy enough for me!

Edited June 12, 2014 by gingin6789