right or left lay question

**Frank1960** · 10-15-2015, 06:59

Ok how do you know if your hammock is a left or right lay?

Thanks

**Wanderlost** · 10-15-2015, 08:11

Unless the hammock is designed to be a left lay or right lay, it just depends what's comfortable to you. I tend to go both ways. It's more of a mood thing in my opinion.

**Kvothe** · 10-15-2015, 08:19

But what is the definition? if your head is to the left and your feet are to the right, is it a left or right lay

**Wanderlost** · 10-15-2015, 08:25

It's based on what direction your feet are (to my knowledge).

Feet left = left lay. Feet right = right lay.

**locknload** · 10-15-2015, 08:55

At home I sleep on the right side of the bed (me on it looking towards the foot end) and I sleep on my right side on the very edge, face almost hanging off. Weird, I know. So a left lay (head right, feet left) "feels" more natural for me. If I'm just chillin' out, I can lie either way but in order to get to sleep, I can't have that wall of fabric in front of my face. Maybe it's some small degree of claustrophobia?

**ipokebadgers** · 10-15-2015, 09:06

I recently had an underquilt made by LocoLibreGear. George could make it Right, Left or Center lay. I didn't know what that meant but thankfully he explains it on his website. I thought about it for a long time and realized when I sleep in any hammock I always lay with my feet to the left for some reason. I had him make my UQ with a left lay. I have not had a chance to test it other than in the backyard but it is very comfy and warm (Of course it is still in the 90's here so everything is warm). While trying to decide how to have the UQ made I tried to lay with my feet to the right several times in several different hammocks and it just felt wrong. All of my hammocks are gathered end hammocks.

**Frank1960** · 10-15-2015, 16:08

Oki thanks folks I guess I am a right lay like my head to the left of the hammock

**Spurr** · 10-15-2015, 16:18

I'm a Leftey, (feet left) and for me it's because I like to get on my side on my right shoulder, my normal sleep position in a bed. Sometimes, rarely, I'll switch it up if I'm having a hard time falling a sleep just to change it up. On occasion I've lowered the foot end lower than the head end and slept in the middle of the hammock in a semi sit position. It's whatever works and there are no rules when it comes to falling a sleep in comfort.

**OutandBack** · 10-15-2015, 17:30

Originally Posted by Frank1960

Ok how do you know if your hammock is a left or right lay?

Thanks

If you have an open hammock no bugnet or winter cover there is no left or right, head or foot. If your hammock has an attached bugnet that will determine which lay it is.

Note how the bugnet is attacked. If you layed the other way there would be extreme stress on the net zipper.

**SilvrSurfr** · 10-15-2015, 19:51

Though I use simple gathered-end hammocks (which have no predefined lay), I think the simplest way to say it is "head right, feet left," or "head left, feet right." That way there's no misinterpretation.