I live in a courtyard building, and there’s one guy’s bedroom that is across and down one floor from my bedroom. He never closes his blinds - I’m not sure he has any - and tends to leave the light on all night. I haven’t been able to help noticing him fast asleep at times, because I go to bed at weird hours and often between 2-5am when normal people are fast asleep.
He’s always sleeping with his feet at the “head” of the bed. It appears that the bed spread gets moved to one side, and he sleeps with his head at the “foot” of the bed with no pillows or covers. I’ve been thinking this is really weird, but when I got to thinking further, well, how much do I really know about other people’s sleeping habits? Just what’s assumed from TV and movies, right? Otherwise, pretty much just what’s observed around significant others, family, and very close friends. Not that big a pool to observe from.
So, which way do your feet go when you sleep? I go the way I figured was the traditional route, with my head closest to the wall at the “head” of the bed and feet at the “foot,” though sometimes I may be diagonal, it’s still the same orientation!
Most of the time, head toward the wall. However, my old house was a 1.5 story, with the entire upper floor being my 35x12 bedroom. The ceiling sloped down on either side, so I slept with my head in the middle of the room, directly beneath the skylight.
Two apartments ago, the bedroom layout wasn’t condusive for the bed to stick out from the wall, so it (full sized) was parallel to the wall.
I’m a skosh confused by the OP - what designates the sleeping guy’s “head” of bed? Is it simply because it’s the end against the wall, or is it a bed with a definite head and foot?
Our bed is head against the wall, with a little walking space around each side and the biggest open area at the foot. It could pretty much be a sitcom set, if there was anywhere to squeeze a camera set up in here. We both sleep with our heads toward the head, nearest the wall, as Og intended.
It sounds really weird to me to regularly sleep with the head towards the foot. Nothing that’s going to change my life or anything, but yeah, it’s strange. If I were to walk into a person’s room and see that, I’d assume they were either a really restless sleeper who flipped around while asleep, or had gone to bed drunk/stoned/exhausted and didn’t care which way he lay down. The fact that it’s a regular thing sort of blows my mind a little bit.
Oh, and our heads are in the West. Is that bad Feng Shui? Is that why we’ve had so many money problems?
Head at the head, but it depends on whoever’s on the bed with me: partner, cats, dogs. Sometimes I have to take whatever space is left. It’s a king-size bed, but it’s amazing how fast the space is used up.
This, exactly. His bedroom is set up pretty similar to mine though not as big, but if the bed were made “normally” with the linens in the usual place, his head should be by the wall. I should only see his feet if I happen to glance out there while I’m closing my blinds, but instead it’s his torso, facing the “wrong” direction.
Based on the poll so far, I guess my own sample pool isn’t so far off from “normal” and he really is a weirdo. Though I suppose if he were to open his eyes at just the right time, he would consider me a perv! If he’d just turn out the lights I wouldn’t see anything!
For some reason, I don’t find it quite so odd because it’s only the proximity to the wall indicating the head. If there was a headboard, or a sleigh bed (like mine) with a high “head” and a lower “foot”, it would be much weirder. That he’s effectively oriented the head of his bed in the middle of the room and the foot at the wall is odd, true. But it’s only convention that the head, not the foot, goes at the wall…there’s a slightly stronger argument that the head goes at the head…y’know, it’s in the name…
I’ve slept every which way, depending on where my bed is. Right now the side of my bed is against the wall, but there’s open space on each end. So it doesn’t really have a head or a foot, and I’ve slept both ways on it. (Did that sound dirty?) Normally if an end of my bed is against the wall, I sleep at the end, but I technically slept at the “foot” last time I had my bed that way. It was only because my bed was up against the same wall as my TV, so if I slept at the head of the bed, I couldn’t see the TV.
I voted head at the “head,” but, thinking back through my beds and sleeping positions, there was one futon in a studio apartment I had in which I slept with my feet at what I guess you’d consider the “head,” since it was abutting a wall. The reason for this was the layout of the room and the location of the television. In most circumstances, I would consider it weird, but it felt normal in that room.
Looks like I’m in the minority with the “other” option - my bed’s along the wall, not perpendicular to it. Guess most people here have bigger apartments/houses.
Thinking back I’ve spent most of my nights in beds like this. Longest period of having a bed’s head against the wall was my 8 months in the army … that was fun, 190cm long beds for a 198cm tall guy.
Currently, the head of my bed is against the wall. I have a waterbed, not so easy to move and I’m pretty lazy. A while back, the only place to put the head of my bed was against the apartment wall and…well…my head was only a wall away from someone who had rather noisy bedtime activities. It really felt strange to sleep in the other direction. It also bothered me in a very irrational way to not be able to reach my hand to the headboard and find books.
I started sleeping with books on my pillows, and because I was studying, often had them all up and down the bed.
Your neighbor seems to be making his bed in the traditional way and then changing when he goes to bed. I am now wondering what people would think if they looked in my window and saw my bed made the wrong way and my body pillow of books and cats.
Head towards the wall, side closest to the door, hubby sleeps on the side away from the door.
If hubby isn’t around, I will sleep on the sofa about half the time.
At mom’s house I tend to sleep in a recliner or on the sofa, the bedrooms are all up stairs, and I do not handle stairs all that well any longer. Since we are only there for a couple days each month, I don’t tend to need a shower so I don’t need to go upstairs.
Same here; one side and the foot of the bed are against walls, my computer desk tucked between the head of the bed and the outside windowl. I set it up that way so light from the window doesn’t shine right in my face when I’m in bed.
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I make my bed with the pillows at the head of the bed, but I chose Other because I actually sleep every which way. Last night I slept with my feet facing the head of the bed, the night before that my head was there. Sometimes I sleep diagonally, and sometimes I even wake up sideways on the bed.
I usually sleep by myself, so if the mattress gets hot I move over to a cooler part of the mattress, which is how I sometimes end up diagonal or sideways. If I’m sleeping with someone else, I can’t move over so far, so sometimes I’ll just move my pillow to the other end of the bed. And sometimes I just get bored of one direction or one side of the bed, which is why I slept with my feet facing the headboard last night.
head to the east at the head of the bed, but that’s more a by-product of a master bedroom longer than it is wide with an odd little L turn at one end. that severely limits where to stuff in a king-sized bed with regard to wall space.
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