Why Can I Fall Asleep on the Couch and Not in My Bed?

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[DIRTYSECRET]

It’s easier for a person to fall asleep on a couch compared to a bed because the person isn’t necessarily thinking or worried about falling asleep.

“The awkward angles can really mess with your neck and back,” says Beasley, the founder of Boise ENT. This doesn’t just cause discomfort and back problems; it can also lead to breathing issues that “disrupt your sleep and leave you feeling exhausted when you wake up.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Some people like to fall asleep on the couch, others like to go to bed, others sleep in a recliner. Everyone is different.

Some like to sleep during the day, in a coffin filled with soil from the old country. Avoid those people.

[discostu]

Couches are usually firmer than beds. The mattress industry spent decades advertising that soft is good, and actually soft is bad. It’s bad for you back, and not as easy to fall asleep on. The human body was built for floating on a cloud, it was build for sleeping on the ground.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I prefer a leather couch but right now it’s faux leather-cheaper.

[discostu]

It’s the stuffing inside that matters. But generally we don’t make couches or chair nearly as soft as beds because that just makes it harder to get out of.

[GingisK]

If the mind doesn’t want to sleep, you won’t. So you fool it.

Sounds like Doctor Zhivago re-runs are in order.

[whitney69]

“Sounds like Doctor Zhivago re-runs are in order.”

I put on sports. There is so little talent in pro or college sports that I can look for and see the screwups and it takes my mind off trying to doze off. I’m old enough to have seen Dr. Zhivago in the theaters and I saw a few with their heads back and to the side.

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