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The simplicity of this technology boggles the mind and that's what makes the value of this practice so underestimated.
Who ever said that a bed has to be horizontally flat.
We usually sleep on flat beds because our friends and families sleep on flat beds.
Our parents and their parents before them slept on horizontally flat beds. But are there any deviations from this horizontal sleeping practice?
Turns out there is, actually way back during Egyptian times Royalty used to sleep on beds that were raised an average of 6 inches higher on the head end of the bed.
The "head" board on the lower end of the bed is actually the footrest and matrass stopper.
This inclined geometry of 5 to 6 degrees is a very deliberate design feature of ancient Egyptian beds and makes you wonder why they wouldn't just sleep flat like we all do.
As it turns out, inclined bed sleeping has many many subtle, yet crucial benefits and health effects that we miss out on because we have tradition of sleeping perfectly horizontally. As you might have experienced that when you sleep on a declined bed (with your head lower than your legs) You might notice pressure build up around your brain, stuffy nose, bloated eyes, headaches etc. That's because all of the blood and other liquids tend to pool at the part of your body that is the lowest elevated part of your body due to gravity. As a matter off fact NASA extensively studied the effects of gravity on sleep and the body because lack of gravity was detrimental to the health of the astronauts.
(link to article of NASA research)
How to earn €18,000 for 2 months' work all without leaving your bed
An engineer named Andrew Fletcher figured out by studying the water/sap distribution of trees that gravity has a vital role in bodily circulation that get's cancelled out when people or animals sleep horizontally flat and has achieved extremely remarkable results by adjusting the sleep position to a 5 to 6 degrees incline. I could list all of his research and results here but he already has created a very extensive website and forum about Inclined Bed Therapy
Home - Inclined Bed Therapy IBT - Restore & Support Your Health
It's remarkable how simple, cheap and effective this method is and it is also remarkable how little attention and research from the medical field this has received. Obviously you can't make a whole lot of money from curing ailments by raising a bed a couple of inches, so there's no incentive for any commercial field to take this seriously at all. The upside on that is that there's also no financial incentive to sell this idea as a cure-all snake-oil salesman either, all you need is a bed and a couple of books to lift one end up a couple of inches and you're in the Inclined Bed Therapy business. There has been some anecdotal evidence that during the 20th century Inclined Bed Therapy was utilized in Medical institutions and that there we're measurable results from this practice. But it's so subtle that it is hard to make out on photographs. Below is an excellent photo of a females ward with custom inclined beds.
Medieval painting of a sick ward showing inclined bed therapy being utilized to treat illness. Note the front legs being remarkably shorter than the back legs.
In nature animals apparently prefer to lay down with their heads pointing up hill and tend to sleep in this orientation as well. Which makes sense if you've ever tried sleeping with your head pointing down hill you know that it is extremely uncomfortable.
When you start digging into historical depictions of beds and people sleeping Inclined beds are very prevalent. From Egyptian small statues to medieval and Victorian paintings. The beds all appear to have an incline of at least 3 degrees or more.
This knowledge of Inclined Sleeping used to be prevalent. Especially amongst royalty. Sometime in the 19th or 20th century bed manufacturers apparently have decided for us that sleeping is best done perfectly horizontally and that there are no other options available so don't even think about it.
NASA was confronted with the detrimental health consequences of their astronauts due to lack of gravity managing the bodily circulatory processes during their sleep. The health benefits and other side effects of inclined sleep is absolutely remarkable and it's not strange that Egyptian royalty head their custom made beds on a 6 degrees incline, this calculates to a approx 6 inch higher head rest when your bed is 6 feet long.
There are many reviews and testimonials of the effects of incline bed therapy from health effects, to better sleep performance to more lucid dreaming experiences.
In my experience, more clear and lucid dreaming is one of the effects I've definitely experienced, and the health effects are subtle. But this "technology" if I may call it that. Or rather very subtle efficient knowledge has been deleted and is being kept out of our field of view for at least a century.
I would highly recommend checking out the Inclined bed therapy website for more information, and even try it out for your self. If you already have a bed, which is very likely, and a couple of old books, It's actually free.
Home - Inclined Bed Therapy IBT - Restore & Support Your Health
Let me know in the comments if you have any experience or are keen to try it out. Thanks for reading
Who ever said that a bed has to be horizontally flat.
We usually sleep on flat beds because our friends and families sleep on flat beds.
Our parents and their parents before them slept on horizontally flat beds. But are there any deviations from this horizontal sleeping practice?
Turns out there is, actually way back during Egyptian times Royalty used to sleep on beds that were raised an average of 6 inches higher on the head end of the bed.
The "head" board on the lower end of the bed is actually the footrest and matrass stopper.
As it turns out, inclined bed sleeping has many many subtle, yet crucial benefits and health effects that we miss out on because we have tradition of sleeping perfectly horizontally. As you might have experienced that when you sleep on a declined bed (with your head lower than your legs) You might notice pressure build up around your brain, stuffy nose, bloated eyes, headaches etc. That's because all of the blood and other liquids tend to pool at the part of your body that is the lowest elevated part of your body due to gravity. As a matter off fact NASA extensively studied the effects of gravity on sleep and the body because lack of gravity was detrimental to the health of the astronauts.
(link to article of NASA research)
How to earn €18,000 for 2 months' work all without leaving your bed
An engineer named Andrew Fletcher figured out by studying the water/sap distribution of trees that gravity has a vital role in bodily circulation that get's cancelled out when people or animals sleep horizontally flat and has achieved extremely remarkable results by adjusting the sleep position to a 5 to 6 degrees incline. I could list all of his research and results here but he already has created a very extensive website and forum about Inclined Bed Therapy
Home - Inclined Bed Therapy IBT - Restore & Support Your Health
It's remarkable how simple, cheap and effective this method is and it is also remarkable how little attention and research from the medical field this has received. Obviously you can't make a whole lot of money from curing ailments by raising a bed a couple of inches, so there's no incentive for any commercial field to take this seriously at all. The upside on that is that there's also no financial incentive to sell this idea as a cure-all snake-oil salesman either, all you need is a bed and a couple of books to lift one end up a couple of inches and you're in the Inclined Bed Therapy business. There has been some anecdotal evidence that during the 20th century Inclined Bed Therapy was utilized in Medical institutions and that there we're measurable results from this practice. But it's so subtle that it is hard to make out on photographs. Below is an excellent photo of a females ward with custom inclined beds.
Medieval painting of a sick ward showing inclined bed therapy being utilized to treat illness. Note the front legs being remarkably shorter than the back legs.
In nature animals apparently prefer to lay down with their heads pointing up hill and tend to sleep in this orientation as well. Which makes sense if you've ever tried sleeping with your head pointing down hill you know that it is extremely uncomfortable.
When you start digging into historical depictions of beds and people sleeping Inclined beds are very prevalent. From Egyptian small statues to medieval and Victorian paintings. The beds all appear to have an incline of at least 3 degrees or more.
This knowledge of Inclined Sleeping used to be prevalent. Especially amongst royalty. Sometime in the 19th or 20th century bed manufacturers apparently have decided for us that sleeping is best done perfectly horizontally and that there are no other options available so don't even think about it.
NASA was confronted with the detrimental health consequences of their astronauts due to lack of gravity managing the bodily circulatory processes during their sleep. The health benefits and other side effects of inclined sleep is absolutely remarkable and it's not strange that Egyptian royalty head their custom made beds on a 6 degrees incline, this calculates to a approx 6 inch higher head rest when your bed is 6 feet long.
There are many reviews and testimonials of the effects of incline bed therapy from health effects, to better sleep performance to more lucid dreaming experiences.
In my experience, more clear and lucid dreaming is one of the effects I've definitely experienced, and the health effects are subtle. But this "technology" if I may call it that. Or rather very subtle efficient knowledge has been deleted and is being kept out of our field of view for at least a century.
I would highly recommend checking out the Inclined bed therapy website for more information, and even try it out for your self. If you already have a bed, which is very likely, and a couple of old books, It's actually free.
Home - Inclined Bed Therapy IBT - Restore & Support Your Health
Let me know in the comments if you have any experience or are keen to try it out. Thanks for reading
The theory makes a lot of sense to me and I intend to try it out. I remember that as a child (which is a very long time ago now,)my parents would always make me sleep in a semi-reclining position when I had respiratory problems, like asthma for instance. Unfortunately, my bed has no legs so achieving the inclination requires some ingenuity, but I will report back after I have tried it out for a while. What convinces me more is that I could only find one single supplier of a full length mattress "wedge," but it was unavailable in every European Amazon and also the UK one. It's possible to get one fabricated, but it's cheaper to buy an entire new bed.
