Anybody sleep on a futon?

[Eli]

Originally posted by: mi xiao
i sleep on one. have had one for 5 years or so.
it is a nice 8 inch matress with different layers - foam and that other stuff??

no complaints.
nice sleep. except the wood frame IS LOUD. help!

will get new frame/futon when i move.


i can sleep on regular beds, but they need to be harder. i don't like soft beds or soft pillows = sore back and neck.

Same.

My girlfriend is opposite. Quite the conundrum.

We need one of those Sleep Number beds... lol

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I slept on one with my gf all last school year.

I got the frame for free from her older sister (one of those crappy cheap metal ones).

I replaced the craptastic pad with a 10" foam one that I got at a store called "bed and bunk".
Then I put a few layers of cardboard between the pad and the bars.

I have some pics of the cardboard in my sig under my bass shaker installation .

I didn't have any problems sleeping on it / using it in other ways.... and would have slept next year on it too, but my gf was not too pleased with it.

So, I got to get new speakers and she got to buy a bed for us

 

[monk3y]

I slept in a futon for the 3 months that I was in Baltimore. NOT a good way to sleep at all. My back was giving me problems and if you want to sleep with someone else on it... forget it, it gets 10 times worst.

 

[Tiamat]

My back was in pain, thus i got a real bed.

Sofa beds are alright, an improvement over futons nonetheless. Ikea sells them.

 

[mrrman]

I use to, cant stand them anymore...it killed my back

 

[lightpants]

I have one similar to the one you linked to. I have no problems sleeping on it, I like a firm mattress though.

 

[PatboyX]

i currently do.
fine on my back, i would say great for fornication, in that it takes up little room but can expand to larger.
but mine is broken (granted, after about 7 years) and is stuck down.

 

[PatboyX]

should add i used to sleep on a wooden one at my buddies.
it was ok.
liked my metal one better. but i had a really thick mattress on it. thickest they had. 8 inches or something.

 

[GeekDrew]

I had a metal one... slept on it for a few weeks, while I was getting a new bed. I didn't have any problem with it... could feel the frame a little, but not *too* bad. If I had to sleep on it more permanently, I would definitely get a very thick mattress, and put it on top of the crappy one that's on it. I doubt I would have too much of a problem with that.

 

[mindmaniac]

I've been sleeping on one for over three years. Granted it's an inner spring mattress and I have a down pillowtop on top of it. I can't stand even sitting on those metal framed thin mattress ones though, I can see that really screwing up your back.

 

[Ns1]

Thanks guys General consensus is buy a baller ass futon mattress. Got it