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I find it almost incomprehensible that,
among the thousands of ides already
posted here, there isn't already an idea to
use a revolving bed as a nocturnal
temporal indicator. So let me correct
that:
It's a simple
idea: the bed revolves very slowly - one
complete revolution every
twelve hours -
so that if you wake in the night you can
immediately gauge, from the position of
things in your bedroom relative to you,
what time it is.
Alternatively,
and I think I prefer this, you could set the
bed so that it is in its 'normal' position
when you go to bed and when you want
to
get up (i.e. after one complete
revolution). Then, if you wake in the
night
and
the bed isn't in the right place, go back
to
sleep.
Shameless Self Promotion
http://www.halfbake...ntertaining_20Clock
[Entertaining Clock] [Letsbuildafort, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
More lack of shame
http://www.halfbake...g_20City_20of_20Fun
I want the spinning bed in my spinning house next to a spinning city. [Worldgineer, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Electromagnet mattress
http://www.halfbake...romagnet_20Mattress
[hippo, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Beautiful, [hippo]. Bun [+] |
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With luminous numbers on your walls so you can look between your feet to see the time. |
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Plan on waking up on the wrong side of the bed if you sleep in ... or vice versa. |
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You will wake up facing a yummy croissant tomorrow morning. Brilliant+_+ |
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But honey, you said you can go all night -- we've only moved one degree!+ |
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And then you complain about the electricity bill!+ |
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oh lordy, I need the bathroom - what direction? - "buggar" <bump> |
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beware the ides of March <grin> |
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hippo, don't you damn well correct that typo! |
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(could be a wind up deal, [n w]) |
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Regarding [Worldg] link, it would sort of be like sleeping
on a gigantic [FarmerJ] Fractal Clock. |
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//beware the ides of March// Oh, jeez, I was bun #13! |
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This is excellent. It would actually give you a pretty hazy idea of the time, and reading a clock radio might be easier than trying to orient yourself in a dark room, but there's very little adventure in that. |
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It'd waste a bit of space, though. Unless it was round, and then you'd need an arrow somewhere and the orientation problem would be doubled. But then you could make up the bed as a clockface. |
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can it have a direction control to counteract any bed spin feeling that drinkers occasionally experience |
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Prepare to be awoken with a jolt, twice a year, as the bed suddenly rotates 15 degrees in the wee small hours... |
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It would have to be in the center of the room, or at least out from the room's edges a bit, so as to prevent getting up in the middle of the night on your usual side and walking face first into the wall. |
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Love the idea - espec since the annos clarified it's a horizontal, rather than vertical rotation. |
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Hmm though a vertical rotation you could set so that you literally fall out of bed upon waking, though I think someone's covered that notion before. |
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You need no alignment at all; just set the RPMs (or
RPDs?) for the length of time you want to sleep, (one rev
in 8 hours, ie), then plop down on it facing the way you
want to face when you wake up. Might have to readjust
your blankets, but they'll be in a perpetual state of mess
anyway. |
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if one did go the round bed option, then one could simply have an enormous donut(sp) shaped pillow that sits around the outside perimetre of the bed, and a large round duvet/doona/blanket. that would ease bed making, as there'd be nothing to tuck in, and no need to correctly align the top and bottom of the bed coverings |
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You know, you could get the same effect by having a stationary bed mounted inside a slowly rotating room. That might be better. |
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Or the bed could vibrate - not like the coinop motel ones, but like those tabletop football games. As with the miniature football players, the sleeper would gradually rotate over the course of the night. |
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[bungston] I've already covered that
ground - see link.
[UB] Lovely
image
[wagsqueke] Yes - or,
especially if you live at the North or
South pole, keep the bed stationary
while the Earth rotates. |
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[oxen crossing] It might cause you problems if you set it for a 10 minute snooze.
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[newser] The reason you often awake in the night feeling disoriented is because you owned a rotating clock bed in a previous life.
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[hippo] French pastry as usual. |
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[waugsqueke], we already all sleep on perfectly stationary beds surrounded by slowly rotating stars.
Therefore rotating the room is redundant, like having two hour-hands.
I propose using the room as a minute hand to optimise use of resources. |
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A bedridden Muslim might want the bed to line him/her up to the east five times a day. |
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I turn around a lot in my sleep. Sometimes I wake up with my feet by the headboard and on my pillow. That messes me up quite a bit. On a bed that revolved I may not have that problem! |
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Thank God this fad died out. |
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Why not get the room to rotate instead of the bed? |
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[newser] Because the houses are outside the spinning city. |
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Being a person that already has a problem about being disoriented when I wake up, this would just compound the problem. Sorry. |
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