Guess What I Did Last Night?

[ladybirder]

I fell out of bed. I was trying to get up but fell and smacked my mouth and wrist on the bedside table and hurt my knee on the (carpeted) floor.  Lucky I never lost any teeth but do have bruises on my wrist and knee.  The most painful bit was trying to get up again as the pain in my knees was agony.

I've fallen into bed many times but never out.  What about you?

[Rosetta]

Ouch, poor you. Its a nightmare of mine that if I fell I wouldnt be able to get up off the floor again

[Ken4155]

Good job you don't sleep on the top bunk😉

I don't recall ever falling out of bed but i once woke up on the floor. Mind you, i was fully dressed and had had quite a skinful the previous night, so i may well have missed the bed completely🙃

[rowanwitch]

Was a regular occurrence for me, had to move the bedside table because I kept hitting my head,have a small guard in place now,

[naomi24]

Oh crikey, LB.  What a fright.  I bet you're sore today.

 

I can't ever recall falling out of bed.

[Patsy33]

Aww, poor you. That must have been such a shock! Hope your bruises heal soon. I have fallen out of bed, it was a few years ago now but luckily had a soft landing..😁

[bednobs]

poor you.  It IS odd that people stop falling out of bed when they grow up though (i have never thought about that before!) 

[ladybirder]

Getting up was actually the worst bit Rosetta, by far the most painful.  If my bed had been any higher I don't think I'd have managed it.  I do always take my mobile to bed with me so that would have been useful had I not managed to get up.

Very funny Ken.  I've woken up fully dressed on top of my bed once in my younger days.  Carried up by friends apparently,  Cringe.

Very sensible Rowan.

Naomi amazingly I am not sore at all.  Blue/black marks on knee and wrist that's it.  If I couldn't see the marks I'd probably think I'd dreamt it.  Flipping dog didn't help at all, just burrowed deeper under the covers.

It was a shock Patsy, poor me.

Bednobs I'm as grown-up as I'm ever going to be.  More getting ga-ga now:-(

[bednobs]

there must be a bit of the brain that develops as we grow up i reckon that keeps us aware of the edge of the bed even when we're asleep.

[bhg481]

In my late teens I was living in a hostel next to the Ministry of Aviation establishment I was working at. The beds there were the classic metal tubing head and foot with a metal-framed sprung base and a 3 or 4" mattress. One day they decided we would all have new matresses but insisted on leaving the heavy-duty polythene bags on "to keep them clean" but making them rather slippy. The following morning I woke up on the base frame with the matress on the floor. They allowed me to remove the polythene bag.

[ladybirder]

But you slept bhg.  Wow.

[fiveleaves]

Funny how rarely adults fall out of bed. How do we sense where the edge is when we are asleep?

[juliecarlstan]

I fell out of bed when I had vertigo. Do you experience half waking dizziness?

[david small]

When my wife and I shared a bed, though king size, I would end up on the mattress beading. More than once I slipped onto the floor. Strangely, even though we now have our own bedrooms, I still sleep on the beading. I have fallen off once since. No alcohol involved.

[Peter Pedant]

Getting up was actually the worst bit Rosetta,

I slept walked when I returned from Egypt and tried to throttle an on-call junior doctor next door - -  luckily he had a sense of humour. ( alot of army juniors milling around etc )

rosetta - egypt - geddit?

1959 a  boy at my  school slept walked out of a second storey window - landed on his feel ! and made a bliddy great dent in the lawn. - we all went and looked at it - unhurt

[Peter Pedant]

When my wife and I shared a bed, though king size,

My parents slept in separate beds ( 4 children). My mama commented " o god I got tired of being kicked out of bed during one of his  nightmares about POW camp"

( a lot of arm chucking and German)

 

[William51]

 I hope you are now okay Lady. I have never fallen out of bed but have twice hurt myself in bed, when i moved my legs awkwardly and pulled the Soleus muscle at the back of my leg, it is agony but luckily only lasts a couple of minutes.