Bedside Manners

[jamesq]

While lying in bed last night I realized that I only use half my bed and that for most of my adult life, I've used the same side. This leads to me rotating the mattress every few months to keep the wear even. I even arrange new rooms (or my tent/cot combo while camping) to follow the same pattern. About the only time I don't follow it is if I'm sharing a hotel room - then I'll usually want the bed closest to the door and I'll use the side of the bed farthest from my roommate.

So I thought I'd see if there was any pattern to this - i.e. if we pick up how our parents sleep and unconsciously mimic it. It's a crackpot hypothesis, but that's what LJ polls are for!

Answer honestly - don't use that one time in 1997 when you slept on the left side of the bed to suggest that you use both sides evenly. I'm interested in preferences, not examples of OCD.

[Poll #1659732]

Comments

[ya-inga.livejournal.com]

I used to sleep on the right side when I was young but that was cause I hate sleeping right next to a wall

As an adult though I have always had a preference for sleeping on the left side frankly because every partner I have had seems to prefer the opposite and now after years of coupleness can't really sleep on the other comfortably. The funny thing is that I accordingly now sleep on the same side as my mum did.

So if all the boys I have shared sleeping space sleep on the other side - does that mean that there is some gender thinger going on here?

Interesting

[jamesq]

Left side as a kid, right side as an adult. This seemed to depend on room layout until I was out of my parents house, when it "set".

I don't have nearly enough data to start assigning reasons, but that's never stopped me before. Perhaps cavemen wanted their primary arm away their mates so that they can cuddle and club away rivals simultaneously.