Disappointing.Įxcessive hunching over my computer to work on this blog was clearly the culprit. Once again, my experience was not as dreamy as my fellow bloggers said it’d be. Some Pain Remainsīased on others’ experiences I read online, I hoped sleeping on the floor would reduce the spasms and tension in my shoulders that I’d started feeling not long after moving to Spain. Sleeping on the floor didn’t offset my pains from too much hunching. Both Kim and I were okay with those sacrifices if it meant better sleep.
Sleeping in separate rooms meant less hanky-panky and late-night pillow talk. And better sleep puts her in a better mood, which is good news for me.
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While she doesn’t have an Oura Ring to back it up, her sleep quality no doubt jumped once I left her free reign to roll about the bed. Kim was becoming a believer in sleeping on the floor, too. My sleep scores jumped to the high 70s overnight.īetter than the bed! And my lower back and creativity continued to feel stronger than ever.Īfter a nightmarish first two-and-a-half weeks, I was becoming a sleeping on the floor believer. I pulled out a thick blanket from the closet and folded it below my yoga mat as an extra layer of cushion between me and the hardwood. A 67 sleep score is closer to what I’d get when I have to wake up at 5:30 AM to catch a flight after a night of drinking too much. Way worse than the 74 I averaged sweating and struggling on the mini bed with Kim. My average sleep score after 17 nights of sleeping on the floor? If only I could find a way to be less delirious and drowsy at the same time. Like fasting, traveling, and other new things to try I mess around with then write about here on The Zag, it proved to be a way to “act your way to a new way of thinking.” Awakening CreativityĪnother silver lining on my miserable yoga-mat-only misadventures of sleeping on the floor:Ĭhallenging the convention of sleeping on a bed seemed to turn off complacent mode in my consciousness. Maybe I was pushing them too hard, but it was long overdue. My lazy little lower back muscles were complaining about having to get back to work after decades of slacking off on soft mattresses. It’s a duller version of what you get from doing back extensions. It’s not the same pain you get from too much slouching on a couch or from lifting heavy boxes the wrong way. The rest of the day, my lower back actually felt better than ever.īack pain from sleeping on the floor is different from the lower back pain I’m used to.
Oddly, as loud as my spine screamed at me during my fitful floor slumbers, the pain vanished within minutes of getting up. I guess that’s I what I get for believing blogs. I tried taking other bloggers’ advice to try stomach sleeping. Same for putting a thin pillow under my lower back and a bigger one under my knees. Other bloggers’ posts on sleeping on the floor said it got better after about a week, so I powered through the discomfort. And every night around 3 AM, my lower back woke me up screaming, “F you!” and didn’t stop until Kim emerged from her now spacious bed telling me it was time to get up. With just a yoga mat for padding on a laminate floor, my arms and legs fell asleep more than I did. Sure, it’s “natural,” but if you transition too hard, too fast, you’ll probably hurt yourself. Sleeping on the floor is not like camping. Oura ring report of my first night of sleeping on the floor. I figured sleeping on the floor would be just like camping in my living room… So without scientific guidance, I winged it. Michael Tetley demonstrates one of many sleeping positions from his paper, Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological and zoological approach to treatment of low back and joint pain.Įven the website Healthline, which tries to convince Google and readers that it’s smart by wantonly linking to as many studies as possible, resorts to mostly anecdotal evidence and speculation in its article on sleeping on the floor. Only this paper on instinctive sleeping positions observed in less-modern cultures, which has amusing photos of the author demonstrating “native” sleeping positions in a Speedo: The most recent review I found, from 2016, sums it up: “There is no high quality evidence currently available to the support advice to use a particular type of mattress for the treatment of chronic low-back pain.”
Nothing about mattresses’ effect on back pain.All I found is this study: 30 people tested had lower body temperatures, and consequentially higher-quality sleep, on non-memory foam mattresses. Nothing about a soft versus firm mattresses’ effect on sleep quality.Turns out science is sleeping on the topics of what sleep surfaces or positions are best: Before migrating to the living room floor, I did some research.
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