Choosing Sides: A Scientific Poll
Moonshot and I have noticed a peculiar trend. We have no scientific basis for believing that it is a trend, but Emilie’s hilarious current post brought it to mind and I wanted to throw out the “scientific” poll on the side bar menu.
UPDATE: Emilie brings up a good point. I'm defining left and right from the perspective of someone lying face-up in the bed. Apparently designers define this differently. Sorry for the confusion. Feel free to change your vote if needed.
16 comments:
Moksha, this comment may well fall under the "Too Much Info" category, but what the hell is that to stop me?!
One of the great benefits of being left-handed AND sleeping on the left hand side of the bed, as well as having a right-handed wife who sleeps on the right side of the bed, is that this particular arrangement lends itself well to the natural order of things when it comes to respective dominant hands being made available amidst the throes of, uh, late night lovin'.
That is all. (But really, isn't that enough?)
Si - No such thing as too much information here, my friend. I have to admit though, this poll is highlighting the danger of proposing a hypothesis based on anicdotal evidence. I thought we'd see more of a conclusive winner here. But...the vote is still young!
He takes whatever side I dont want. :)
This is hilarious. TMI.
Great post Moksha!
I'm assuming here that the viewpoint is when lying in the bed, as per your comment on my post, and not viewing the bed from standing at the foot of it (the interior designer's view) - which is understandly a less fun perspective and so we'll discard that.
12 votes!! ... is that a "Change your vote" button?! I guess some people might change from day to day, depending on mood.
We're pretty much sticking to our sides around here for long amounts of time, part of the reason being that I'm selfish with my pillow. It's just logical, really, that, taking the time each night to wash my face with a decent make-up remover/cleanser, I prefer not to share pillow fabric with someone not-as-interested in skincare.
I'm trying to restrain myself from voting again from my home computer now that I see that the lefties are falling a little behind. Unfortunately, my sense of fair play outweighs my preference for the left hand. This isn't Florida. No hanging chads here.
I sleep on the right side because I have my right arm under my pillow all night, so it is easier to have my right arm stick off the bed.
I rushed to answer the poll question, but somehow didn't comment.
I think for us the trend started when we lived in a place that left about a foot (if that much) of room between the right side of the bed (as you're standing looking at the head of the bed) and the wall. We were newlyweds, and I gladly gave her the more open side (she's a bit claustrophobic).
We sleep this way in hotel/motel rooms, too, and when we visit others.
Has nothing to do with how easily she can grab my junk.
Sadly.
The discrepancy and startling similarity between comment #1 and comment #8 is somewhat alarming.
(PS -- per your update, MG, that's the perspective from which I initially voted. So while I'm still tempted to vote again from my home machine, I will lay off for the time being.)
it's funny, because we chose this arrangement with me being closer to the door to the bedroom in our apartment. I guess the idea is that my scrawny computer programmer self still has the male task of "homeland security". :-) When we moved to the house the door is on the other side, yet we have kept the same sleeping arrangement. I'm trying to take this as a sign of our routine, and not my wife indicating a loss of trust in my defensive abilities...
Of course, the fact that I have not woken up when the house alarm went off surely didn't inspire any confidence...
I had to think about this for a while before I figured out that FreddyJ likes to sleep on the left. I think I did it right...no doubt he'll come along and correct me if I voted wrong. :) His reasoning for this is that he should be further from the door, so that if any burglars should happen along, he'll have a few more seconds to wake up and defend us, because the burglar will be busy dealing with my shrieking, spitting, sratching, kicking and bitting self. :)
Once again, this is proof that anicdotal prrof is a sippery thing. I would have sworn that I was detecting a pattern in which the male tended to sleep to the right of the female. Clearly that is not so universal as I was suspecting.
Granted, this 50/50 split makes much more sense and I'm a bit relieived that randomness is a live and well.
I'm actually enjoying some of the answers I'm getting here, as well. I love that Mr. Funny tries to keep himself between his wife and any attackers whiel FreddyJ likes to use poor Mouse as a buffer.
I have no idea why I started sleeping to the right of Moonshot. But now that the pattern has been created...we do so in no matter what bed we sleep in now.
Emilie - Moonshot is quite defensive about her pillows as well. Doesn't want her greasy-faced husband near them ;)
Si - I'll admit I had to spend more time than I would otherwise have been comfortable with picturing you adn Amy in bed together.
Me: Wait, if Simon's on the left, his right hand is toward Amy. He must have figured left/right differently than me.
Moonshot: [moves her arms a bit as she imagines the scenario] Yeah, you're right. Wait...no. They're rolling toward each other on their sides. He's talking about which arm is free after they roll.
Me: Ooooooh.
Such an innocent question, I thought. ;)
Poor Mouse my big toe! I am ready to take on any fool dumb enough to invade my house!
Have we never told you the honeymoon shampoo-bottle self-defense story?
Moonshot is obviously the genius in the house. Or at the very least gifted with an ability for spatial deductive reasoning. (Uh, if there is such a thing.) It was indeed the "rolling towards each other on their sides" thing I intended to imply.
I thought, too, that I should probably get a little uncomfortable with you picturing me and Amy in bed like that, but then I just up and decided not to care. Easier that way. (I mean, as long as you're not picturing what we may or may not be wearing...)
Si - I'll admit that there were a few moments of weakness during my "spatial deductive reasoning" in which I was picturing you in a crotchless pony suit. But then I realized just how innappropriate that was. (Your patriotic nature would clearly lead you to the moose suit.)
[What happened to this thread? It started out so innocently!]
Honestly, I might stick with the pony. The moose, while being more patriotic as you said, might end up being a little more incommodious, what with the antlers and all.
Innocence is over-rated.
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