I have been reading Adam Carolla's book "Not Taco Bell Material" a Memoir. His life and mine have a number of similarities, so reading it has been a compare/contrast exercise. One of his theories has to do with the correlation between how far off the floor you are sleeping and how your life is going.
Being one who has slept on hard floors and about 3 feet off the floor, I think I have the qualifications to comment on this. When I went out on my own as a teen, I was on the floor. First sleeping on a waterbed. I was working an entry level job in Chicago and lived with a roomate. Not the best of worlds, but not all that bad. A good few steps ahead of my high school buddies at the time.
From there, was Houston. Sleeping on a cheap foam rubber mattress. It had a flimsy frame to hold it. BUT WAIT - the San Francisco gig found my then spouse and me back on the floor on a small mattress. A minor local celebrity, until we went to crash.
Quick flash forward, my father discovered a method for raising the bed really high, you almost had to get a step ladder to get into it. I used that method as a (single guy) larger fish in the small pond then known as Clear Lake (Our Bay Area). I did enjoy that time and the tall bed.
That was a long time ago.
My "adult life" has kept the mattress a respectable distance from the floor, although our current bed is a little low. The head board is about right, while the footboard is low. This is due to my habit of chocking in my sleep without the incline. Here's hoping your bed is just about 30.5" from the floor...
Being one who has slept on hard floors and about 3 feet off the floor, I think I have the qualifications to comment on this. When I went out on my own as a teen, I was on the floor. First sleeping on a waterbed. I was working an entry level job in Chicago and lived with a roomate. Not the best of worlds, but not all that bad. A good few steps ahead of my high school buddies at the time.
From there, was Houston. Sleeping on a cheap foam rubber mattress. It had a flimsy frame to hold it. BUT WAIT - the San Francisco gig found my then spouse and me back on the floor on a small mattress. A minor local celebrity, until we went to crash.
Quick flash forward, my father discovered a method for raising the bed really high, you almost had to get a step ladder to get into it. I used that method as a (single guy) larger fish in the small pond then known as Clear Lake (Our Bay Area). I did enjoy that time and the tall bed.
That was a long time ago.
My "adult life" has kept the mattress a respectable distance from the floor, although our current bed is a little low. The head board is about right, while the footboard is low. This is due to my habit of chocking in my sleep without the incline. Here's hoping your bed is just about 30.5" from the floor...
