I am wondering why small kids ( even a few years old) fall down from the bed while changing their position but bigger children /adults do not, no matter how much they move while sleeping?
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When i was a baby, my mother woke up one night after hearing me cry in my crib. I was in the same room.
She was reaching for the bedside lamp and couldn’t find it. She had fell out of her bed.
It can depend on the bed big time. As an adult, I used to fall off the twin beds that my parents had for guests. Eventually dad changed it out for 1 queen size and I stopped rolling out of bed there
I am a grown adult and have fallen out of bed a few times, usually when I am super tired and restless
I slept in a very rustic cabin this summer, on a friend’s property. Three levels: concrete floor with carpeting and a stone sink and counter, then a wooden ladder leading ~10 feet up to a 8′ wide platform, with really no rails besides support posts near the head and the feet. Open middle area that you could have scooted forward and jumped off if you wanted to. Then there was a third level at the top for storage and whatever.
That night, I smoked a joint with friends before bed and tried to sleep. However, I could not shake the thought of what would happen if I rolled off the platform in my sleep. I tried to rationalize to myself that I haven’t had any history of rolling of the bed at home, and wasn’t likely to do so there, but I basically had to wait an hour or so for my brain to tire itself out, before I could sleep. Not a very restful stay in that place…
I fell out of bed 3 months after a hip replacement. I landed kind of on both my knees but thankfully I was wrapped in my duvet cover so quite padded.
Adult. Just an idiot.
One counter example doesn’t destroy the rule, but as an adult, I fell out of bed and degloved a finger. If you don’t know what that means, leave it alone and don’t Google it.
you guys dont fall out of your beds?
There is a fallacy in your premise. Many adults do roll out of bed, and not all children do. Two examples of the first from my life:
We moved our bed so I could sleep against a wall after I rolled out of bed into the nightstand. I was over age 30.
Also, as a teenager I once somersaulted out of bed in my sleep. I hit a dresser past the foot of the bed hard enough to leave large bruises but still didn’t wake up.
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