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The best mattress I ever had was soft fine sand in the curve of a dry gulch, after weeks of sleeping on hard ground on a long hike. It was also one of the stupi
by hirundo 6y ago
The best mattress I ever had was soft fine sand in the curve of a dry gulch, after weeks of sleeping on hard ground on a long hike. It was also one of the stupidest places I've slept since a flash flood could have ended me.
But if I had to sleep rough in one place for long I might build a sand box bed. If the ancients did that I doubt archaeologists would discover it, since it's just a pile of sand.
- rv-de 6y agoas in you are lying directly on the sand without a separating sheet? i can believe that this is comfortable but only until the first sand gets into clothes, cracks and cavities. or how does it work?
- hirundo 6y agoIn a sleeping bag. I just shook it out as usual before stuffing it.
- rv-de 6y agowhat do you mean with "stuffing it"? you put the sand into the sleeping bag?
- OkayPhysicist 6y agoWhen you put away a sleeping bag, you stuff it into a little sack. He's saying that he slept in the sleeping bag in the sand, woke up, shook out his bag, and put it away.
- analog31 6y agoI've napped on sand at the beach. Yes it gets everywhere. Then you shake it all off, or take a dip in the water.
- yencabulator 6y agoI've seen a few campgrounds with dedicated tent sites that each had a tent-size sandbox.
- basicplus2 6y agoSome indigenous desert people of Australia speak of certain desert sand types being very warm and soft and healthy to sleep directly on where as most other types being bad and unhealty to sleep directly on Sorry i don't have a reference
- econcon 6y agoI use granite slab as my bed. In winters I heat it from below using silicone temperature controlled mats. Am I the only one who prefers flat and hard bed? Granite is my bed and mattress.
- natpalmer1776 6y agoDude, you might be a lizard.
- beenBoutIT 6y agoWhen the temperature drops below a certain point you can find him sleeping underneath the granite slab.
- seibelj 6y agoI have a ridiculously bad back (as does my father) and have developed a large variety of tricks to minimize pain. One is I sleep on a maximally firm futon. When I go on trips, if the bed I’m sleeping in is too soft, I lay a blanket on hard wood and sleep on it. I sleep very well this way. A slab of granite would be fine as a bed. If I was ever put in a dungeon, at least I would sleep soundly on the concrete floor!
- mehrdadn 6y ago> A slab of granite would be fine as a bed. To clarify -- I assume you mean only with the blanket, right? Or are you fine sleeping on it directly too?
- pyuser583 6y agoNo! I love sleeping on hard flat surfaces! Did you make your own bed?
- kshacker 6y agoI do not do it any more due to change in environment (my abode), but earlier once every few months, I would take a thin comforter below me, one thin comforter above me, and all that on the carpeted floor. Any time I had a back pain, I knew this was the way to fix it. Also, my mattresses used to be firm. Somehow my last 2 mattresses have become saggy after just over a year. I dumped the first one, but now wondering what to do for the second one and with the covid situation and not everything open, I just have not had the time to chase things, and my mental estimate is that my body requires one hour less sleep (I am not pushing it, that's how it ends up) on a firm mattress.
- _eht 6y agoI sleep on my camping cot or hammock full time. I should buy a sand box.
- beenBoutIT 6y agoBe sure to factor in the cost of a cat-proof fence or your sandbox will become disgusting place pretty quickly.
- jjeaff 6y agoInteresting. One of the worst sleeps I have had was on a fine sand bed. It was on the floor of an old, abandoned sand mine. The sand was so fine that it sort of just packed under you and didn't move. Perhaps it was a different kind of sand than you experienced.
- el_benhameen 6y agoI would love to hear the story behind this.
- jjeaff 6y agoNot too much story to it. It was just a Boy Scout outing. We usually tried to do interesting and adventurous stuff for our outdoor activities since we were in a rural area with lots of nature to explore.
- saberience 6y agoThw worst sleep I ever had was on the beach in Bermuda. It ended up being far cooler than expected (with a breeze blowing from the sea) so I had to bury myself in the sand. Due to the cold I had to wear a motorcycle helmet to keep my head warm. Also, in the morning I realized my shorts were filled with ants which was a pretty horrific awakening...
- jagannathtech 6y agoOh dear... I'm twitching