That’s how almost all the beds I’ve ever had have been oriented, too, with one long side against a wall, but I’ve also always had one of the short sides against a wall, too (often, with an explicit headboard to define the head.) Do you not have a short side that you can call a “head” in your configuration, or do you not have the bed in a corner?
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My bed lies in the middle of the floor, adjacent to no walls. I use the back of a dresser as a headboard, and I sleep with my head closest to it.
On a floor mat, without a pillow. so I have neither head nor foot.
Generally I sleep with my head at the end of the bed that butts up against a wall.
There have been times when I’ve slept the other way around, usually because it’s been summer, and the end of the bed away from the wall caught a better breeze from the window.
A more interesting poll would be to ask in what posture do you tend to slumber (on your back, on your stomach, or on one side or the other).
The last “bed” (futon really) that I slept in was against a wall but it wasn’t in the corner, because it was a big room and it was easier to make the bed that way. I would switch the side my head faced every couple weeks or so but it didn’t seem to matter. Now I sleep in a real bed, that’s in a corner of the room, and my head is always up toward the wall. Otherwise I’d wake up with my pillows on the floor (I tend to move up as I sleep).
Between having read the thread title and the OP (a space of about thirty seconds), I did some mental geography trying to work out which compass direction my feet are pointing when I sleep. :smack:
FTR: Northeast.
Me too - West.
Both ends of my bed look exactly the same, neither having any sort of headboard. One end is almost in a corner but the bed is between the wall and the computer table so while you could in theory call it the “head”, sleeping with my head right next to a whirring computer in a narrow cul-de-sac wouldn’t be very comfortable.
But when the bed is against two walls, what does the “closest to” and “furthest from” part of the poll questions mean? Sleeping at the head or foot of the bed isn’t going to change the distance from the wall.
I guess I’m one of the oddballs who sleeps with head at what seems to be the foot of the bed. It’s our awkward room layout that forced it.
We have a king-sized bed without headboard or footboard, in a very small bedroom that has no wall space to serve as headboard. Every wall has windows and doors. I also like to sleep with a window open, but find cold air blowing on head and neck kind of painful. So we sleep with feet closest to the wall/window.
It’s nice to lie in bed, staring out the windows at the sky. To help with the creepy feeling of being so exposed in the middle of the room, I put a big old piece of furniture against where the “head” of the bed is. It’s pretty cosy, in a weird way. I can see how it would disturb some, but I like sleeping in all different directions.
I’m picturing a bed in a corner. One of the short sides is going to be against a wall, the other isn’t. Most often, except for this one apartment, the head was the short side lined up against a wall. Here’s one typical example.
I sleep with my head closest to the wall, but at one time, the head of my bed was under a window, and during the cold month, I found that I was less likely to wake up with a sore throat if I slept with my head at the foot of the bed.
I only did that for a few weeks out of the year when the temperature falls below 40 degrees, and it seemed weird, but it really kept me from getting sick.
I normally put my head at the head, but I sometimes flip it around, especially if I’m having trouble sleeping. It’s just a new position, and that can sometimes help
I also often sleep diagonally (but still head at the top), and I often wake up with my feet hanging off the bed and my head halfway between the head and middle.
I just thought I’d share this: http://www.uclick.com/client/mny/dp/2011/04/25/
when you’re there I sleep lengthwise
and when you’re gone
I sleep
diagonal in my bed
Which ever way means I get less light in my eyes, which is currently with my head next to the wall. This also has the side effect of getting me five feet further from my mom’s snoring. When I lived on my own I slept with my head away from the wall (or rather the dresser, since it was between my futon and the wall).
As far back as I can remember the long side of the bed has been against the wall, but I’ve either had futons or daybeds with drawers underneath.