i'm experimenting transitioning to floor sleeping, let's see how this goes

night 1: slept on normal mattress, but ditched pillow for resting my head on my arms. lots of in and out of sleep. my arm get's tired, and neck get's a little tired.

not horrible, but not a good nights sleep

night 2: used a towel folded four times as a pillow, still on matress. Much better than night before, still noticably different than normal sleep, but solidly "okay night"

night 3: same as night 2. Gonna be more adventurous tomorrow

night 4: first no mattress night! slept from 12-7am, then went to go sleep on the couch 7-9:30

got soooome sleep, there wasn't acute discomfort, but there was a clear sense of not being able to completely relax into the ground

night 5: same setup as last night. sometime in the early morning i swapped the towel for a thin pillow. again, after normal wake up hours I felt like another 2h of sleep on gf's mattress
sleep *feels* worse in some sense, but also I'm not noticing super big crashes during the day

defs noticing this https://twitter.com/ben_r_hoffman/status/1303736494620893184?s=20

when i use my arm as a pillow in this position, there's a lot of sensation in my bicep. at first I thought this was a stretch/flexibility thing, but the sensation goes away sleeping this was with a pillow under the arm, or just flattening myself against the a wall...

so it seems clear that the uncomfy sensation is not "by arm is being stretched" but more my biceps are tense and I'm only noticing when my weight is on them

not too practiced in letting go of tension in my arms

night 6: blanket on ground + thin pillow. eh? my neck felt a bit more tense in the morning, but went away quick. it's very hard to tell the quality of my sleep. the floor doesn't feel *right* but.... it doesn't feel *bad*

maybe I'll spend the day alternating tween soft and hard

@ben_r_hoffman any advice in relation to arms falling asleep? this feels different from the tension aspect. my gut says "you just get used to it after a while without doing anything in particular" https://twitter.com/natural_hazard/status/1305917297891082240?s=20

Night 7: slept on matress, no pillow

Today I'm achey groggy and iritable, only hit me this afternoon

i also had coffee, so that might have helped fuck things up
past 30min of good music has shifted whole body feel and mental energy
to those following at home, this thread probs won't be useful for another month, day to day variance is just A LOT