Some people think it is bad to sleep on the floor but that is totally incorrect.
Is it unhealthy to sleep on the floor.
Unless you are feeling back pain already you probably will not see any improvement.
Sleeping without a mattress on the floor as bowman has done for 3 years has numerous benefits.
Sleeping on the floor isn t the easiest thing to get accustomed to doing.
There are many benefits to gain from practicing to sleep on the floor.
It might feel good to sleep on the floor during the summer months.
The main pro for ditching your raised bed and sleeping on the ground is improved overall blood circulation in your entire body.
Sleeping on the floor is not going to be very comfortable in the early goings and you might want to sleep with many pillows.
You ll sleep better achieve a deeper quality of sleep and wake up feeling good she says.
If you regularly need more than 8 or 9 hours of sleep per night to feel rested it might be a sign of an underlying problem polotsky says.
We need to keep our body warm to help prevent other unhealthy issues with our body troy hard to say whether it helps or not.
It s disruptive to sleep says michael j.
However try to use a single pillow only when sleeping as the important thing is not to cushion the back but to support it.
These are similar benefits reported by people who don t sleep with a pillow people who sleep on a mattress directly on the floor also have a significantly lower risk of scoliosis a medical condition where the.
Plenty of health benefits include less neck and back pain.
The floor is hard sometimes cold and uncomfortable.
So sleeping on the ground isn t an impossibility.
However as with anything in life we humans learn to evolve and adapt to changes in the environment.
He also says that sleeping on the floor could over time lead to back pain and strain as.
Chinese medicine says that it is not wise to sleep on a cold floor for hours because it invites the bad yin into our systems.
Others see it as a concern.
Breus ph d clinical psychologist diplomate of the american board of sleep medicine and a fellow of the american academy of sleep medicine.