Does anyone sleep on the ground or on Futons?

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  1. Deleted member 41274

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    Are any Japanese in this forum or people who have been there and know more about the sleeping habits there? Correct me if I am wrong, please, but I think they sleep on Futons. I'm just curious, because I like sleeping on the hard ground, when it's even and my body doesn't sink into some matress. You know what I mean right? The futons you see in anime. Anyway, I like a lot of things in Japan. They are really clean, Japanese take there trash home and have probably the cleanest country in the world as a result. China is kinda polluted, I imagine that jogging there with that air ain't really fun.
    The food in Japan is great, the life expectancy too and the fish and beef.
    It's a beautiful place with temples and shrines and beautiful nature. People there seem nice too. They would rather commit a lot of suicide instead of commiting a lot of homicide. That sounds kinda hard, I just thought it's nicer if you don't hurt others.
    But marriage seems not to be a thing the generation there seems to do a lot. I heard there population is decreasing because many men there are single and have pressure, so they want to get a good carrier first before they get married and kids, which is a logical thing to do. That was some random 1 am thoughts. Yes, back to the starting question.
     
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    But I like my bed :hmm:
     
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    Usually, you would only sleep on a futon in washitsu (Japanese style room), so you would be sleeping on top of a tatami which is different from a hard type of flooring. There are different kinds of futon and the one you sleep on is just like a soft mattress, called shikibuton. The duvet is called kakebuton. Not all apartments have tatami rooms anymore. The rule of thumb is that for western-style rooms, one will use a bed. I slept on a futon in the last place we rented in Tokyo and it was very comfortable.
     
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    Know nothing of Japanese futon culture, but I sometimes like to lie down on the ground.

    I've slept many times on the roof in my hometown. The stars are just too soothing. It's just that the gravels and constant insect raids makes it hard to sleep.

    I'd take a guess, the futon is just a traditional reference and don't think many follow it, when you got a bed why waste it XD.


    But daily I think I'll never get used to it.
     
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    Mhm, I've been trying it for the past few days. I can sleep reasonably well on the floor (not futon, just two carpets, because of weird landlord and a bedsheet.) What I have found is that I can simply just continue to sleep, because I'm to lazy to wake up. On my bed I can probably squeeze another 4 hours of sleep if I really wanted to, on the floor maybe an hours max and that would be pushing it. It's like after my body had enough rest it starts saying, "I had enough of this shit, so wake the fuck up!"
     
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    I'd like to try sleeping in zero gravity. :hmm:
     
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    I have to say that green thing distracted me.

    I slept on a bamboo bed before. Does that count?
    I like a bed more though but I can sleep on most things as long as it doesn't move. i.e. watterbed,hammock and the like.
     
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    As a kid, I used to sleep on the ground during summer, bcoz back then we had no ac, load shedding was a common occurrence everyday, and the floor was really nice and cool since my apartment was on the ground floor. I would still be sweating buckets, but at least the mattress would be spared.
     
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    deepon One who inevitably awakens

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    Just a fun fact, in zero gravity, sleeping is no different than standing, the only difference is wether you are asleep.
    Edit: Because without gravity to tell you up from down, there is no such thing as "lying down" you might as well sleep on the wall or ceiling by strapping yourself, or just hover midair.
     
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    I do. My room contains one of those tatami panels. It's not soft enough alone though. My futon is one of those memory foam mattress topper.
     
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    I slept on the floor a few times but with soft mattress. I tried with only a carpet and woke up in pain:sweating_profusely: Hard mattress is still better than hard floor :blobjoy:
     
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    I've slept on a rug floor with a futonmodoki (just a duvet covering the floor), does that count? (One of the rooms in a house I stay at occasionally has a covered floor and it feels so nice... Don't know if it's carpet or something else though)
     
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    Oi, you use the forum for enough time by now to get this right. Put this GIF in your signature within a spoiler, it's a pain to scroll through the thread with this big of a GIF in it.
     
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    when I was a kid we didn't have enough money to buy beds so we would sleep on straw made bed the straw would be cut into tiny pieces and would be filled into a sheet almost like a over sized bean bag.
     
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    I prefer bed and it must come with at least 4 pillows. Preferably a body pillow for hugging. I love having pillow between my feet for rubbing?? purpose. My feet need the frictions.
     
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    Japanese food is great?
    You surely are joking right? What do you expect from a civilization that think raw fish is their cultural heritance?
    Their sweets are kinda decent though

    Their people are nice?
    Holy shit, so we pretend WW 2 never happened?

    Back to the question

    I like sleeping on the floor with just a thick blanket
    I don't know, can it be considered a futon?
     
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    I take it someone has never heard of steak tartare or steack à l'Americaine lol.
     
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    When I used to visit my family in Korea I feel that I only slept on hard surfaces xD
    One house the bed is legit the floor (albeit not as hard as wood, but still pretty hard), with just a few blankets as padding, with the other house having a stone bed lol. I never had a hard time falling asleep, and when I was younger I would always fall asleep on my not-so-soft carpet and hardwood floors so maybe I'm just used to it.:blobReach:
     
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    My boyfriend is trying to convince me to change beds and he wants a futon or something short but I hate the idea of sleeping too close to the ground, I don't know why. However I prefer read sitting on the ground.
     
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    I would love to toss my bed out and get a futon, but unfortunately, it's too much of a pain to haul the frame out of my house...