...Does anyone sleep on the floor?

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This is probably abit far fetched/out there. But i'm tentatively wanting to get myself a new bed/mattress as my current one has a dip in it, or maybe even contemplating sleeping on the floor.

During a period in uni I had a very firm foam bed that i actually rather liked. Many a time during my young/late teens and early adulthood i'd sleep round friends houses, sleeping on the floor with some padding/bedsheets underneath, gotta say i didn't ever have a bad sleep. For this reason i'm exploring the idea of sleeping on the floor. Especially as a means to make more space in my room, and just to make it more minimal, with things I can fold/roll out.

But does anyone here do it? has it improved your back/posture or anything else? I doubt there'd be anyone on here that does but who knows.

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thanks for the replies guys, this is largely why i think i want to get rid of the mattress and sleep on the floor, mine has a dip in it which i feel might not be helping my posture or back. my bedroom hasn't got carpet, but laminate flooring, so no doubt i'll need some kind of padding/foam and/or afew layers beneath me.

as mentioned, the main reason is just to have a more minimalist room, with things I can fold up/away when not in use and bring out specifically when I want to sleep (instead of just laying on the bed whener i feel a little tired during the day). I just want a bed that's really low to the ground.

henrycrun said:

can you borrow an aerobed (built in pump inflates in 60sec)

i don't have that brand, but I do have an inflatable bed that ive used many times, i even used to take it with me to friends houses to sleep on, it was good, but i think it must've had a puncture as by the time I woke up in the morning I had sunk down to the floor. I also have one of those spare folding guest beds too.

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Mojooo said:

Did you do this OP?

I am going to try it for an extended period as I had to throw my bed out.

I bought a thin duvet and will put that straight over carpet. Surface should be quite hard.

I have also been experimenting recently with a really flat pillow. I am a side sleeper so usually have a deep pillow. I wonder if I sleep with no pillow whether my body will try and sleep flat by default.


I went to a bed store a while back and the lady said hard surfaces were not flat and we need a soft bed to mould to our body. I can see the reasoning but our ancestors all slept on hard surfaces (and many still do in poorer countries - it can't be bad can it... I wonder if the whole soft mattress thing is just a con. We has ridiculous sofas and office chairs these days that are comfortable but clearly are not good for out posture. Is it possible a soft mattress is actually bad for our bodies?

im bloody lazy, i haven't done it yet. still sleeping on my crappy sunken in mattress. i'm not sure what things id need to buy to layer up for sleeping on the floor. My bedroom floor is hard laminate flooring too, not carpeted.

i agree with the softness being a con. infact frrom what ive read soft is more suitable to smaller/lighter people. the larger or heavier you are the firmer your bed needs to be to provide support, otherwise you'll sink in unevenly

going back to my floor, the other concern is well.. my bedroom floor gets very very cold!