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    Right vs Left Lay

    Why do you lay the way you do? Is it a conscious decision, or do you just do what "feels right". Do you change up your lay based on where you set up and the view you will have, or is it the same most all the time?

    I'm looking at buying another hammock (with integrated netting) and this one is set up asymmetrically (due to netting I suppose?). I switch my lay throughout the night and wonder how much of an issue this will be? I gravitate to left lay, but will also go to right lay if the view is better from there.

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    Unless your hammock has a built in foot box then its a matter of what works for you.
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    I'm definitely a head right, feet left person. Can't sleep the other way. I'm not sure why, but it doesn't feel right.
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    All depends on the way I feel so I guess I will never buy a hammock with a foot box. ;-)
    YMMV

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    I wonder if it has anything to do with the right or left hand dominance? I am right handed but play golf, hockey and bat left. I also sleep head right, feel left.....
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    i found that i tend to sleep left lay, dont know why, but i do. I even bought right lays after finding this out because i can do right lay, it just seems more natural i guess...or perhaps because i sleep that way in my house hammock???? hmmm thoughts to ponder
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    My Hennessy hammock has an Asym tarp, which implies a left to right lay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gunner76 View Post
    Unless your hammock has a built in foot box then its a matter of what works for you.
    Even if you have a built in footbox, you can still lay the other way. You just lose the benefit of the extra room of the footbox. I believe that Shug talks about this in one of his videos, and that he lays the "wrong way" in a WBBB.

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    For me it depends on the view. I like to do porch mode, with the closed side into the wind (unless it's hot) and adjust my lay for the best view.
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