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    i slept in a hammock for a week and now i can't get comfortable in a bed

    i went to the beach with my family for a week. my friend and i set up our hammocks under the house and slept there the whole week. i've been back for 2 days now and haven't gotten a good night sleep in my bed. the first night was bad, i couldn't get comfortable and i felt like crap for work.

    now i need to adjust the mounts in my room to fit the extra large hammock i made so i can sleep in my hammock more often.

    this was our setup.

    http://i.imgur.com/aLOVxaA.jpg

    the one up front is the hammock i made. it makes the extra long underquilt look a bit short.

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    Yup, went and snuggled with my grand-daugther till she went to sleep. Dang near wrecked my back.

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    Re: i slept in a hammock for a week and now i can't get comfortable in a bed

    I have the same problem... After a few nights I get used to it again... But it's not something I like doing, but my house won't hold mounts. Too small for stand, so I sleep outside to get ny fix...
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    when sleeping in a bed my legs just don't feel as supported as they do in a hammock. i'm just tossing, turning, and waking up a few times throughout the night. its amazing how much better i sleep in a hammock. i rarely wake up in the night in the hammock. the worst part about it is that my bed is almost brand new, less than a year old. it was so comfortable when i first got it and now i wanna toss it out.

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    Thats funny, I'm in exactly the same situation right now. Just returned from a weeklong camping trip sleeping in the hammock the whole time. Once I went to bed, I didn't move at all untill I woke up in the am. Now, being back in a bed at home I toss and turn all night.

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    Beds suck.

    Two days is my limit anymore. The pain is terrible for about twice the number of days that I slept in a bed. Got stuck a couple of nights in a Kansas snow storm a few weeks back and had to stay in a motel for two nights. It took a full week before I felt right again. Granted, they were extremely cheap mattress when they were purchased in 1954, but even the "good" beds make me hurt for at least a day.

    I have definitely hit the point of no return when it comes to a sleeping surface. I can't see myself reverting to a Cro-Magnon man and sleeping in a bed again, but I do admit there are some negative aspects of sleeping in a hammock full-time. Mainly, that you can't really go back again and hotel chains have just not caught wind of how much beds suck yet.
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    After our last hammock hiking trip, we got rid of the beds completely. Duffy hasn't been this rested in a very long time, and the difference is obvious. We have a bed in our camper but that's only for overnights, and I'm always more tired the next day, and in a hurry to get home to my hammock!
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    It is hard to imagine going to "bed" before hammocks came into my life. I know I did, and somehow got some rest, but since last spring, actually about this time, I have been full time hammock sleeping. The only way to get me to quit will be to bury me, I have even figure out how to get in and out if I get OLD. The amusing thing to me is that my kids, their kids, all of our friends and any one else who finds out that I sleep in a hammock, all feel sorry for me. Ha, ha, the joke is on them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by old4hats View Post
    The amusing thing to me is that my kids, their kids, all of our friends and any one else who finds out that I sleep in a hammock, all feel sorry for me. Ha, ha, the joke is on them.
    Some of the people at the vet hospital where Genuine Draft works offered to buy us a bed because they were concerned that she "had" to sleep in a hammock all this time. I got caught off-guard by the offer and I'm pretty sure snot came out of my nose when I laughed.

    Almost certain that they were about to offer psychiatric help when I told them my hammock collection was likely worth about 3x what they paid for their fancy-what-the-doctor-recommended mattress. Luckily, I walked off before they could think of words to use in their response; just blank stares.
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