Sleeping on the couch

[Rhody31]

Not for being in trouble.
Is there something weird with me? While I love my bed and sharing it with Mrs. Rhody, there's something nice about laying down and falling asleep on the couch. Maybe it's because I'm too lazy to go upstairs, take my contacts out and brush my teeth. When I get upstairs, I'm pumped to be in bed, but if I sleep on the couch I don't think it's that big of a deal.
Anyone else do this?

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I like the couch.

 

[Care Bear]

YGBFKM will be all over this thread. He slept on a couch for years and didn't even own a bed. He finds nothing weird about that.

 

[JackReacher]

On nights prior to a day off (of which there are many now -- suck it, journalism!), I always fall asleep on the new couch in the basement. If I knew it wouldn't lead to immediate divorce, I'd sleep there every night. But it would, so I don't. I totally could, though. Silliest couch ever.

 

[Big Circus]

No way. I might have agreed with this until recently, but then we got our new bed and it is MAGICAL. Take it away, Drew Magary:

The key to a decent existence is owning a good bed. Most of your future life will be consumed with addressing reams and reams of tedious bull****. You'll have to work. You'll have to run errands. You'll have to clean **** and pick **** up. Your only salvation is that ****ing bed at the end of the day. So make sure it kicks ass in every conceivable way. Get it all: the pillowtop mattress, the egg crate, the featherbed underneath, the nice comforter on top… ALL THAT ****. No day is ever that horrible if you have a sultan's rest awaiting you. You'll still wake up at 6AM involuntarily. But at least you'll still be nice and cozy when you do.

 

[TrooperBari]

Not for being in trouble.
Is there something weird with me? While I love my bed and sharing it with Mrs. Rhody, there's something nice about laying down and falling asleep on the couch. Maybe it's because I'm too lazy to go upstairs, take my contacts out and brush my teeth. When I get upstairs, I'm pumped to be in bed, but if I sleep on the couch I don't think it's that big of a deal.
Anyone else do this?

The experience depends on the quality of the couch. Two couches ago I had one that was squishy, too small for me to lay in head-to-toe (and I'm not that tall) and a pain on which to sleep. The last one was firm without being hard, long enough with a couple inches to spare and had corners that made good places to rest one's head. I really liked that couch and spent at least as many nights there as on the queen-size bed that came with the apartment.

It's not weird at all, especially if you're not one who tosses and turns at night. I'm not married, though, so our situations aren't completely simiar.

 

[outofplace]

I doze off there on occasion, but I've never spent the night there. Maybe I just need a more comfortable couch. I know if I sleep there, my back and neck will bother me the entire next day.

 

[Big Circus]

I should mention that I'm 6-5. Rare is the couch that can properly accommodate my lankitude.

 

[JackReacher]

No way. I might have agreed with this until recently, but then we got our new bed and it is MAGICAL. Take it away, Drew Magary:

The key to a decent existence is owning a good bed. Most of your future life will be consumed with addressing reams and reams of tedious bull****. You'll have to work. You'll have to run errands. You'll have to clean **** and pick **** up. Your only salvation is that ****ing bed at the end of the day. So make sure it kicks ass in every conceivable way. Get it all: the pillowtop mattress, the egg crate, the featherbed underneath, the nice comforter on top… ALL THAT ****. No day is ever that horrible if you have a sultan's rest awaiting you. You'll still wake up at 6AM involuntarily. But at least you'll still be nice and cozy when you do.

Here's the thing.....we just bought a new bed also, and it's the best damn bed I've ever had. Love it. But I'm telling you, my basement sofa is that damn comfy. Really, it's epic. I wish I knew what it's called; I'd link it. But, I have no clue. Just that we got it from Ashley Furniture and it costs more than my life is worth.

Edit: Here it is....

http://www.ashleyfurniturehomestore.com/catalog/product.aspx?group=LivingRoomFurniture&category=LivingRoomSectionals&id=68404U2&spi=0&ref=search-t

 

[cranberry]

No couch is as comfortable as my Heavenly Mattress. But I've found myself asleep on the couch, fully clothed, TV blaring, half a beer on the table, at 4 am a few times.

 

[kingcreole]

When I stay at my brother-in-law's house, I take the couch in the basement. For reasons I can't explain, I never sleep better than when I'm on that couch.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

Falling asleep on the couch after work/immediately after dinner and then again LATE at night are seriously two of my favorite things to do.

It started when I was in high school, I'd get off the bus (I lived in the countryside) and would fall asleep on the couch at like 3:30 p.m.

And, in high school, I never had a "bed time" anymore so I'd do my dammedest to stay awake for the late shows (and usually fail) and instead fall asleep on the couch.

I loved my parents couch so much that my dad said I could have it when I moved out. I moved out in my second year of college. Just basically up and left when a sweet deal was found on rent near my school.

I packed up and left in about a day and took the couch with me. My parents came home to no couch. They were pissed for about five minutes, that's when I said "hey, you made the deal." My dad laughed and starting furniture shopping that night.

I put the couch in my bedroom. There was about two or three feet between my twin bed on one wall and couch on the other for about three years in college.

I'd often sleep on the couch instead of the bed.

 

[holy bull]

How many times has this happened:

You can't keep your eyes open on the old couch, and can't force yourself to go to bed. You finally do, to a bed that's infinitely more comfortable and luxurious ... and can't get to sleep.

On a somewhat unrelated note, when in doubt, take the offer of a couch at a friend's house instead of the three-hour drive home, as I found out last night. Got pulled over three times for a headlight that is scheduled to be fixed this afternoon. The last stop was literally two blocks from my apartment. Guess which one gave me a ticket.

 

[Stitch]

I can't sleep on the couch. I ache all day if I do. I have the joints of an old man and I'm just in my mid 30s.

 

[mjp1542]

How many times has this happened:

You can't keep your eyes open on the old couch, and can't force yourself to go to bed. You finally do, to a bed that's infinitely more comfortable and luxurious ... and can't get to sleep.

Happens to me all the time. And on the couch, I can doze easily sleeping on my side, but in bid, no way in hell. It's a crazy world.

Also, I've been pulled over a half dozen times for a headlight being out. Only twice did I get tickets, and once I even had a receipt for the new light I had installed at Pep Boys that day. Pep Boys, in their infinite wisdom, changed the wrong light. I fought that ticket and won.

 

[spikechiquet]

No couch is as comfortable as my Heavenly Mattress. But I've found myself asleep on the couch, fully clothed, TV blaring, half a beer on the table, at 4 am a few times.

I hope you at least finished the beer before you went to bed...otherwise, that's alcohol abuse!

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Right now I have an IKEA matress and a hand me down couch, and I alternate between the two. The bed has nice sheets that I bought a couple of months ago, but the couch is in front of my only TV, and I long ago got in the habit of sleeping with it on, so when I feel the need to do that, I go to the couch.

Neither are tremendously comfortable. I'll wake up in the bed with a numb or tingling arm (sometimes both) or forehead if I fall asleep with my hand on it, shake it off and go back to sleep. It doesn't happen as much on the couch, but I'm more likely to have an achy back there. I have a blow up bed for guests that I might try next.

I plunked down damn near $1,000 almost seven years ago for a pillowtop queen, and that was better, but not so great that I felt it was worth it. The bedroom where I am now is probably too small for it, and it'd be a huge hassle to move it from where it is now, so I've given it to my mom and will probably buy a new double mattress at some point.

If I could get the voices in my head to sing lullabys at night, I'd be set.

 

[proudpittsburgher]

Nothing better than getting home from work on Saturday late morning, eating late breakfast/early lunch, laying down on the couch to college football games and waking up three hours later when the good games start. Wife always asks me to go upstairs and I think, "Why in the hell would I do that? This is fricken perfect"

 

[Rhody31]

I love my bed. It's a king and I have as much room as I need, but when I'm tired I'll watch a tv show and barely make it through the opening act.

 

[Buck]

Falling asleep on the couch on a Saturday or Sunday watching football is sweet.