or ‘ability’ even. (damn me and my stupid brain. Or ‘fuck me, and my stupid brain’)
P.S. I don’t like swearing. But when in rome…
Cotton sheets are the only way to go, man. Satin-good god, you SLIDE all over the place! And I hate flannel sheets-even when it’s cold it makes me sweat.
So, do you people prefer having lots of blankets, one big heavy blanket, or making the room warmer?
Well, that’s actually a word I misused somewhat, I think. A durometer is an instrument used for measuring the hardness of objects. Whether this word is actually a verb I haven’t the slightest.
Ah, damn, Guin, you snuck right in there and made me look even lazier! 
That last post addresses Lobsang.
Well, to feed the hijack ( 
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These mattresses are great. The Mrs. and I stayed at a hotel in Seattle that had one in our room. We went and got one The week we got back from vacation. We did not spend $2500 on it. I think we spent about half that much.
I don’t like sleeping on the setee or the hammock or even the three legged moss covered family credenza. They make my spine curve in uncomfortable ways. Plus they are not good for fucking. Especially the credenzas the moss collects in the most embarrassing places.
I’m your counterpart. I’ve fallen asleep in airport chairs … and they’re designed not to let people fall asleep;) I managed to sleep 4 or so hours on the floor of Pucette’s apartment NYCDope Jan 2002. I used a chair cushion as a pillow. The floor was cold and hard, and I used a towel as a blanket (but I still managed to be decently-well rested).
I can sleep on pretty much anything:D
Put me firmly in the freezing room under a nice big comforter camp.
As a kid I would often make up my bed on the floor and sleep there. Now I don’t like the floor so much but only because I didn’t have a bed and slept solely on the floor for about 3/4 months, then a love seat for another 3/4 (I’m 6’ tall amazing I could get comfy because loveseats usually are very uncomfy to lay on but these were nice and soft, easy to curl up in)
Then when I finally got a bedroom it was back to the floor till I got the sole mattress I have right now. I have these nice cotton sheets I dunno what the tc is but they are nice. A lovely shade of purple too 
Oh almost forgot. I like my room cool with only a sheet and a quilt with a lighter blanket on top if I get chilled in the night. If I need more than 2 heavy blankets it’s too damn cold!
Fuck beds?!
I don’t mind a cheap date myself, but that’s outrageous! 
I have a Craftmatic bed (model 2), and it is awesome!, I would not consider going back to a flat bed. Every bed should have a heater and a massager built in and the adjustability is seemingly infinite (with programmable presets).
$2700 for a queen size model
unclviny
I love my bed it’s big and cushy with a feather top. Heaven.
In winter all heat to my bedroom is turned off. I don’t care if it’s 10 below outside. Then flannel sheets a highpile blanket and grandma’s quilt. It’s a patchwork quilt that she used wool army blankets in for batting.
I’ve been sleeping on the floor in my living room for a week. It’s too damn hot to sleep upstairs with no air conditioning.
Me and my wife slept on the floor for about 4 years because we kept forgetting to go buy a bed.
Personally, I prefer the floor and no bed is firm enough. But a bed is good for watching TV and reading.
As for fuck beds, here are the 8 Principals for a Fuck Bed:
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Firmness is better than soft. If too soft, things seem to shift around to easily. Disrupting rhythm and causing knees to slip. Tight fitting sheets are also important.
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The bed should either be firmly attached to the wall or completely separated from the wall. If you live in an apartment, the neighbors will thank you. If you live in a house, the paint on the walls will thank you. Also, I personally find the noise of a headboard banging into a wall distracting.
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Headboard and footboard should either be slatted or have corner posts to which things can be tied.
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The bed should be firm all the way to the edges, and maintain the edge when bearing weight. Nothing worse than hanging off the edge for whatever reason and finding yourself sliding to the floor.
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The mattress should be large enough in some dimension to allow oral sex to be performed with both people layed straight out without requiring someone to bend or twist. That is, at minimum, the diagonal dimension of the bed should be greater than the sum of the taller persons height plus the length of the other person from crotch to head.
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The height of the bed should be within a range that makes the variations on man standing/woman on bed a comfortable way to have sex. If it is comfortable for a person kneeling on the floor to perform oral sex on a person sitting on the edge of the bed, bonus, but there is most likely other furniture nearby that can be used for that.
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One side of the bed should be close enough to a wall, that the standee can place his heels against the floorboard to prevent slippage and provide a righteous pounding to the layee.
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It goes without saying that all components of the bed should be tightly put together with no squeaking. You shouldn’t need help from the furniture in creating noise.
I can fall asleep anywhere, in nearly any conditions.
I once fell asleep on-stand (standing on a 24x24 inch platform in a tree) while hunting.
However, no matter where I fall asleep, I will not be out for very long even if it’s the most comfortable of beds. Two to three hours and I’m done for. The nightmares don’t permit more than that.
I like my futon, no sagging, no squeeking. Sheets? Anything short of sandpaper and broken glass will do nicely. I can sleep just about anywhere, bright lights, death metal, pop music, not a problem. If I am sweaty trying to sleep, I might as well just get up and do something else.
As for the temp, as cold as possible, with a heavy blanket.
I have woken up and seen my breath, probably 30 degrees in my room.
And lastly, my bed is not a fuck bed, nor has it ever been, nor will it conceivably be one in the near future.
I’m with fnord1966, I like the room I am sleeping in as cold as possible. Then I have one big blanket and a sheet, and I am the happiest person in the world.
And now that I live by myself, I can sleep in front of the tv, and if I wasn’t already the happiest person in the world that right there would do it. Today was my day off, and I slept in till noon.
This thread is making me tired.
If I’m tired enough, I can sleep almost anywhere, but otherwise it has to be bed. My bed is nice, too - my mattress is awesome.
I prefer to make the room warmer, but failing that, I’ll put a lot of blankets on. Last winter, it was: flannel blanket, electric blanket set to low, two down throws, and a thin throw on top of that. And occasionally my bathrobe on top of that, if I was still cold or if I couldn’t turn the electric blanket on (if I sleep with an electric blanket on, I can’t get out of bed in the mornings). It was probably only 40* in the house, too - not that cold, I guess, compared to how cold it gets in some Doper’s locations.
We all know I prefer the settee, but I have to use my bed despite my dislike of it, so here is my specifications
Big thick duvets are a definate no no. I want something thin and dense, something I can grab hold of and wrap tightly.
One (thin and dense again) pillow, folded. (and then folded again at the edge so that my head does not feel like rolling off the edge of the pillow.
Sleeping face up is surprisingly comfortable, for about a minute, then I get the overwhelming urge to turn back onto my side. Why is that?? I can’t fathom it.
I loathe my particular bed because, to save space, it is a top-only bunk-bed. My computer , chair, and desk are underneath.
It has metal ‘fences’ round it so I can’t dangle my legs out of the bed (which I used to love to do), it is a major chore to get in and out, so I wait until I REALLY need to piss before I act on that impulse. It also means that going to bed is a big final decision, rather than just ‘fall’ into it I have to climb up, and then across, and then realize that it’s too hot, so I have to climb out, then down, and open the window, then I have to climb up, and then in, and once I get relaxed my bladder tells me I need a piss.
So perhaps my bed-feeling are slightly influenced by my life-experience. (I would still prefer the settee over a ‘normal’ bed though.
The good thing about the settee, which I have just now realized - is that you don’t have to take your clothes off to lie on it.
Hmm. I may have to reconsider now that I have testimony from someone who’s actually slept on a Tempur-Pedic mattress. I may be off a bit on the pricing, but I seem to remember a queen-size model running around $1700-1800. I figured up on tax and accessories (pillows, new linens). Maybe next year.