Swinging bed

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I can never fall asleep anywhere but a bed cough or the floor. I never understood how people could fall asleep in a car or other places. Plus the background noises and the tempature of a place effects me just as much.

Here's a pretty simple design I just found that looks easy to make yourself: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KXJ5Au3IDsU/S ... nging1.jpg

Well just a suspended bed, wouldn't be enough, imo. It would have to have a motor that keeps it rocking like those swings they have for babies.

I would absolutely love one and I don't understand why they don't have them. I think many people find the rocking motion soothing. It might be stigmatized as being chilish.. maybe thats why they don't make them.
I bet they have them in Japan.

There's some suspended beds here: http://dornob.com/hanging-furniture-sus ... e-shelves/

Although I think they're just designs. :-\

Hammock's are available with stationary stands... I do not see any motorized ones. However, I do see through google that there are patents pending on motorized hammocks. With the right futon style mattress that could be very comfortable. So it could be soon?

I agree that the first bed pictured is very cool, and I do not even like modern design all that much! It would probably drive my husband nuts though... I move a lot in my sleep.

Plus if you had a shag in it you would end up crashing through the wall and rolling down the road.

I've been having problems sleeping, but I know because it's because the TV is still on at midnight, as well as the fan, as well as someone walking in high heel shoes.
Still I should just get a hammock for my room.

I'd recommend trying out a Brazilian hammock. Byer makes one out of a parachute-like material that packs up really small and is a breeze to hang up. Best part is it only costs around $20. I rigged one up under my loft bed during college and slept in it many nights when I couldn't fall asleep in my regular bed. The way it holds you when you lay in it is very comfortable, and with a blanket it feels like a roomy cocoon. I tied a rope long enough to reach into the hammock to the leg of the loft frame and then I pulled on it to get myself swinging. It worked really well to get myself to sleep.

You'd just have to chock the rockers, front and back on both sides if you wanted to engage in non-sleep recreation...

I don't know about all that... I don't think it would be *that* much of a problem.

No worse than a large rocking chair.

I'm neutral on bed motion - travelling by ship slep neither better nor worse. Not really into rocking or the hammock chair.

But as a baby our son sometimes would ONLY sleep in the car. One day coming home he was asleep, we were crashed into, big noise, brakes, impact, pull off the road, switc h off - he wakers up. Other times, he sleeps WHILE i walk with him at speed; later, I do the go to sleep dance holding him.

I've never been able to fall asleep in a moving vehicle. If I'm really tired (i.e. not had enough sleep), I may be able to "nod off", but as soon as we hit a bump, slow down, or turn a corner, I'm wide awake again. Even when I was little, I was always the last one to fall asleep on long road trips.
For planes, I could probably sleep, but since I usually fly coach, it's not likely

I'd love to own a swinging bed. That would actually make me excited to go to bed, at night.

That sounds like a good idea.