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Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by pbiggar »

quesera wrote: post #47
pbiggar wrote: post #29

As far as sheets go, if money is no object, these are absolutely fantastic: https://www.sferra.com/products/sferra-giza-45-sateen-collec... . Warning, a full set will come to about $10,000 (though they do periodic 20% off sales). I also got a duvet from them so that the duvet cover would match the size of the duvet. Also, they'll customize the sheets to your mattress if you send them measurements. I haven't found any…

I cannot imagine any way to derive $10,000 of value from a set of bedsheets.

You're not the only one: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/sleeping-on-2000-she...

Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by fwipsy »

I sleep in a tent in the backyard all summer. The cooler temperatures mean I can use heavy blankets, which I find comforting, and the light makes it easy to get up early in the mornings. It's just a Walmart-style tent with a twin mattress inside, the fly usually stays off unless it's rainy, with a sheet, two blankets, and a sleeping bag unzipped on the top. Very comfortable.

Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by vinni2 »

fwipsy wrote: post #72

I sleep in a tent in the backyard all summer. The cooler temperatures mean I can use heavy blankets, which I find comforting, and the light makes it easy to get up early in the mornings. It's just a Walmart-style tent with a twin mattress inside, the fly usually stays off unless it's rainy, with a sheet, two blankets, and a sleeping bag unzipped on the top. Very comfortable.

> the light makes it easy to get up early in the mornings

I guess it’s safe to assume you don’t live in Scandinavia or northern Canada where it can be 18-20 hours of daylight in summer.

Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by surfsvammel »

I had it all figured out. Dark room. Just the right temperature. Big enough bed. The perfect mattress. Cool, high tech, fabrics. Nice and thin pillow.

Then along came The Kids. Two of them. They have, of course, beds of their own, night lights, all that stuff. But they are now the ones enjoying my wonder of a bedroom. And me, I'm sleeping on the couch.

Some nights, one of The Kids, seems to feel even the couch is to comfy for me. One of them comes wandering over to the couch to sleep next to me, often ending up pushing me out altogether. Those nights I end up sleeping, all curled up, in their small Ikea Växa-beds.

But, I'm not morose. Im just tired.

Good luck with your sleep palace, pal, I sincerely wish you get to enjoy yours.

Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by surfsvammel »

cannam wrote: post #70
femto113 wrote: post #30

Just leaving this here in case it saves someone else a little suffering: it was life changing to start sleeping with a pillow between my knees. I used to wake up with debilitating lower back pain every morning, which I worked through with stretching and yoga and such but then I saw a commercial for one of those bowtie shaped foam pillows that go between your knees and figured "what the heck" and ordered one. It was w…

If anyone else is as baffled as I was by why you would put a pillow between your knees: the idea is apparently to improve your alignment if you happen to sleep on your side. (I do sleep on my side, but this idea has never occurred to me, and I tend to picture other people lying tidily on their backs - so I was picturing someone sleeping on their back with a pillow placed in an unaccountable position.) Will be trying…

I have done this my entire life. I think. When I met my partner, she found it strange and hilarious. Now, she is the one who always need a knee-pillow.

Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by surfsvammel »

ryanwhitney wrote: post #20

I started sleeping on the floor about six months ago. Carpet, thin duvet folded beneath me. I’ve looked at a dedicated shikibuton-type-setup, but the paradox of choice has stricken pretty hard. It wasn’t from any sort of plan or goal, I just started doing so after some time spent crashing on my living room floor watching movies with my roommate. I like that I get up quicker in the morning. And it’s been a more dedica…

When our first kid fell out of our continental bed and smashed his mouth all bloody. We started sleeping on the floor. That was 4 years ago, and we have moved twice since. we are still sleeping on the floor.

We wan't to get bed, but a very low one. Mattress on the floor is nice, but it's actually good have have some kind of airflow below the mattress, I guess for ventilation.

Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by dzhiurgis »

femto113 wrote: post #30

Just leaving this here in case it saves someone else a little suffering: it was life changing to start sleeping with a pillow between my knees. I used to wake up with debilitating lower back pain every morning, which I worked through with stretching and yoga and such but then I saw a commercial for one of those bowtie shaped foam pillows that go between your knees and figured "what the heck" and ordered one. It was w…

Pregnancy pillows are the best lol

Re: Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

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Post by dzhiurgis »

surfsvammel wrote: post #77
ryanwhitney wrote: post #20

I started sleeping on the floor about six months ago. Carpet, thin duvet folded beneath me. I’ve looked at a dedicated shikibuton-type-setup, but the paradox of choice has stricken pretty hard. It wasn’t from any sort of plan or goal, I just started doing so after some time spent crashing on my living room floor watching movies with my roommate. I like that I get up quicker in the morning. And it’s been a more dedica…

When our first kid fell out of our continental bed and smashed his mouth all bloody. We started sleeping on the floor. That was 4 years ago, and we have moved twice since. we are still sleeping on the floor. We wan't to get bed, but a very low one. Mattress on the floor is nice, but it's actually good have have some kind of airflow below the mattress, I guess for ventilation.

Japanese use futon driers, partly because local weather, partly because they need to be ventilated.

We’ve slept on the floor for few months after childbirth, but then tried bed and were like “ah damn this is so much better”…

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