Facts about beds

13 facts about the history of the bed

After a long journey, there’s nothing better than climbing into one’s own bed. But there's so much more to a bed than just getting some well-needed shut-eye.
In Ode to Bed, the poet Rachel Long talks to other writers, at night, about the ways beds run through the poetic imagination. From a space for dreaming and desire, to a stage for the erotic. A site of birth, sleep, illness and death.
To mark the programme, we've got 13 facts for you about our most beloved and poetic furnishing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ar...t9mS1GR/13-facts-about-the-history-of-the-bed

 

One of the most expensive beds in the world 'The Baldacchino Supreme' at $6.3 million dollars

 

Over a lifetime the average person spends approximately 33 years in bed.

Yes, that includes the 7 years we actually spend trying to fall asleep.

 

How often do you change your mattress?

 

• The word mattress is an Arabic word meaning “throw” ...
• The water bed is more than 5000 years old and used to be made of goat skins. ...
• The first coil springs were used for chairs. ...
• A mattress has between 100,000 and 10 million dust mites in it. ...
• Mattresses can double in weight over 10 years.

 

Beds make awesome rides.

 

How big is your bed?

 

What was the first bed ever made?
An important change was raising them off the ground, to avoid drafts, dirt, and pests. 23-5 million years ago, before the advent of humans, apes began creating beds composed of a sleeping platform including a wooden pillow. Bedding dated around to 3600 BC was discovered in Sibudu Cave, South Africa.

 

I have a single bed but I aim to get a few models for it soon.

 

Oh yeah? lol

 

Approximately 65 Years Ago, Eugene Aserinsky Discovered REM Sleep. ‍It was Sigmund Freud who stated, "Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious." Eugene Aserinsky (May 6, 1921 - July 22, 1998), a pioneer in sleep research, was a graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1953 when he discovered REM sleep.

 

Yeah.

 

In 1985, the Hurricane Bed was patented in the USA. It consists of a bed in a drawer which can be closed in a cabinet to protect you from hurricanes.

 

Pull-down beds called “Murphy beds” made to be folded into the wall were patented by William Lawrence Murphy of San Francisco around 1900.

 

Murphy bed snaps up and killed man: suit

A Staten Island man trying to install a Murphy bed in his apartment was immediately killed when the contraption suddenly broke, his family claims in a lawsuit.

Joseph Annunziato, 32, had purchased the queen-sized bed, which connects to the wall and can be folded up and hidden away, from Murphy Bed Express in Manhattan, according to court papers.

Murphy bed snaps up and killed man: suit

 

It has been estimated that one in ten of all living Europeans were conceived in an Ikea bed.


One in Ten Europeans Were Conceived in IKEA Beds

 

They was selling there longtime before us, anyway there are not that good, now mine is hand made by me, been about tens years old, just right for a good hump.

 

Hmmmmm .That would be my choice for a night of fun and a sleep after

 

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