I haven’t had the time to do the proper bed raising. I have a king size so it’s a little bit more of a project for me. Anyways, Luckily my wife has about 10 pillows on the bed, so I started with one under my butt and added a pillow each time on the way up to make kindof a ramp up to my head. I guess the guy said it wasn’t the best way to do it but better than not doing it. I did wake up mad early and was wide awake. It was pretty noticable how good I felt. I also did the same thing two nights ago and had similar results upon waking. Last night I went back to sleeping flat on my memory foam, and I have a sore lower back this morning. Go figure.
Ok, if anyone else is doing this, maybe they can chime in. I have been having crazy nightmares since doing this. I have never had them before, and these are so bad they are waking me up, and i am actually a little spooked, they were so real.
maybe it is part of the “emotional release” they were talking about…
[quote]honest_lifter wrote:
Ok, if anyone else is doing this, maybe they can chime in. I have been having crazy nightmares since doing this. I have never had them before, and these are so bad they are waking me up, and i am actually a little spooked, they were so real.
maybe it is part of the “emotional release” they were talking about…[/quote]
Dream Journal, write that shit down, it’s the best way to cure them, you will eventually become aware in your dreams and be able to change them. There was a lenghty discussion on dreams not that long ago, you should check it out.
[quote]honest_lifter wrote:
Ok, if anyone else is doing this, maybe they can chime in. I have been having crazy nightmares since doing this. I have never had them before, and these are so bad they are waking me up, and i am actually a little spooked, they were so real.
maybe it is part of the “emotional release” they were talking about…[/quote]
Dream Journal, write that shit down, it’s the best way to cure them, you will eventually become aware in your dreams and be able to change them. There was a lenghty discussion on dreams not that long ago, you should check it out.
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Like you can get inside your own dreams and change the outcome? dude, i have got to check that out.
Update: Still haven’t moved the best up to 8 inches. However, i was out of town this weekend, so i didn’t sleep on an incline and all three nights, i had to get up to go to the bathroom and i didn’t have a single nightmare. seems to be a correlation. Upgrading bed to 8 inches tonight.
I’ve slept on a 5 inch incline almost all my life and I’ve enjoyed it more then sleeping perfectly flat. I’m going to try and raise my incline a little bit more to see what happens.
I just got my bed up 5 inches in the back yesterday. I need a support or two for the middle as i’m getting a sag, but anyways, wife and I still tried it out last night. No problems at all, I have memory foam so I didn’t slip to the bottom of the bed and I feel good today. On thing I noticed, I had a sore back this weekend, not sure what it comes from but it acts up now and again. I think it’s my posture sitting as I have anterior pelvic tilt. Anyways, I woke up this morning and my lower back/upper hip was tingling. Not like bad or anything, it just felt a little numbish. After I showered I noticed my low back didn’t really hurt anymore. I mean it wasn’t killing me or anything, The tingly feeling was just odd and it’s pretty coincidental that this happened on the night I raise my bed. Anyways, I’ll be hitting up some supports for the middle and i’ll try to keep posting as the weeks go by if I notice anything significant.
[quote]Petermus wrote:
I tried it and could not get enough back support. I tried it for two nights and my back hurt like a bitch[/quote]
would you be able to explain this more?[/quote]
Yea, You mean yours was sagging? Mine did this I just need to reinfroce the sagging areas. It really should take a load of pressure off your back, not add to it.
Still haven’t gotten the rest of the supports up but it seems to be doing a good job of whatever it’s doing anyways. Went to bed “fell asleep” at halftime of the football game last night. Wife woke me up at 4:30 AM when she gets up for work so I could snow blow the driveway. I usually get up at 7:00 for work. I woke up with no problem and was refreshed and ready to go. I usually am a slow starter in the morning to boot. Hell I got it done so fast by not turtling around I even got to play an hour of dragon age origins before work.
Update: first night with the 8 inch incline. Here is the timeline:
Went to bed at 5:30p (really tired), woke up at 10:30p. *this was at 4 inches
did some studying and watched favre be awesome again, and peterson not be awesome
went back to bed after raising it to 8 inches @ 12p
got up at 5:30a COMPLETELY IN A STUPOR. tried to wake up, but decided to go back to bed until 7:30.
7:30 rolled around and was SO SLUGGISH.
not sure if i was tired from maybe NOT getting a good sleep, OR if i was tired from getting TOO GOOD of a night’s sleep. i am guess the later, because now that i am awake, i am not tired at all.
i will have to give it another night, but MAN it felt like i was on some sleeping medication or something this morning.
How does doggy style or cowgirl/reverse cowgirl work on an incline? Do you slide down towards the foot of the bed? Should I add some belay lines to the bed to hold onto? Hmmm, actually the belay lines sound like fun. I think I will put them on anyways regardless of incline.
[quote]Bujo wrote:
How does doggy style or cowgirl/reverse cowgirl work on an incline? Do you slide down towards the foot of the bed? Should I add some belay lines to the bed to hold onto? Hmmm, actually the belay lines sound like fun. I think I will put them on anyways regardless of incline.[/quote]
It is always nice when you are able to work through things on your own, and reach a conclusion.
Update, finally got my ass to home depot to get some more lumber. Did the supports up right and it made a huge difference. Slep great last night. That is all.