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[Zegras11]

WHICH IS THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BED?

Got into an argument about this recently with my GF.

Option 1:
You walk into the bedroom. You are standing at the end of the bed where your feet would be, looking at the head board. Is this the LEFT side of the bed on your left as you stand at the end and center of the bed?

Option 2:
You are lying on your back in bed, with the back of your head on the pillow, looking at the ceiling. The pillow is close to the head board. You extend your left arm out and it hangs out, over the edge of the side of the bed. This is the opposite side of Option 1.

WHICH IS THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BED?

 

[rockaction]

I think you're intimate enough with your bedding to make it a this side/that side sort of thing. Like you point to it and go "this side" or "that side."

Otherwise, I say it's when you're standing at the end of the bed where your feet would be and looking at the head board.

 

[Galileo]

Yes

 

[Skipdog77]

We use east/west/north/south, and always have a compass on us. Keeps arguments to a minimum.

 

[jwb]

my side / your side.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I just realized that I sleep with my head pointing west. Is this supposed to be a good thing?

 

[brun]

Option 2 agrees with adjustable bed controls that I've seen. Don't know if all brands are the same but I'll stick with 2.

 

[InDitkaWeTrust]

Option 2 agrees with adjustable bed controls that I've seen. Don't know if all brands are the same but I'll stick with 2.

Tell me you're old without telling me you're old.

 

[the moops]

I just realized that I sleep with my head pointing west. Is this supposed to be a good thing?

My head also points west. Good feng shui

 

[rockaction]

My head also points west. Good feng shui

Pointing west is like totally gnarly, bruh. Good feng shui points east.

 

[Max Power]

Talked my wife into bunk beds. Best marriage decision to date. So much space for activities!

 

[Schmeabs]

option 1

 

[the moops]

But seriously Option 2 is the answer. You spend 99% of your time laying in the bed, not standing at the foot looking at it. Thus the left side is the side that is in your left side while laying on your back.

 

[Dezbelief]

But seriously Option 2 is the answer. You spend 99% of your time laying in the bed, not standing at the foot looking at it. Thus the left side is the side that is in your left side while laying on your back.

Agreed

How is the left and right side of a vehicle determined? From the sitting behind the steering wheel POV.

 

[mr. furley]

how's the room feng shui?

 

[Nipsey]

The correct answer is Option 2. Think of the bed as a stage. If you're on a stage, stage left and stage right are determined from the perspective of the performer on stage looking at the audience, not from the audience’s point of view.

 

[zamboni]

I'd probably go with option 2.

Of course, you could always get a water bed and really spice the decision up.

 

[B Maverick]

But seriously Option 2 is the answer. You spend 99% of your time laying in the bed, not standing at the foot looking at it. Thus the left side is the side that is in your left side while laying on your back.

Agreed

How is the left and right side of a vehicle determined? From the sitting behind the steering wheel POV.

Driver and passenger sides of course. Does anyone say left or right?


How is left and right field determined in baseball? Standing at home and looking out over the field.
Hockey, Soccer, Football? Standing at the end looking up the field,
Same works for the bed, standing at the end looking at it.

 

[Dezbelief]

Driver and passenger sides of course. Does anyone say left or right?

Mechanics and repair shops.

 

[kutta]

The correct answer is Option 2. Think of the bed as a stage. If you're on a stage, stage left and stage right are determined from the perspective of the performer on stage looking at the audience, not from the audience’s point of view.

Exactly. Stage left is left.

 

[the moops]

Driver and passenger sides of course. Does anyone say left or right?

Just wait until driverless cars with no steering wheels take over

 

[Zegras11]

But seriously Option 2 is the answer. You spend 99% of your time laying in the bed, not standing at the foot looking at it. Thus the left side is the side that is in your left side while laying on your back.

what side is it if you lay on your stomach to sleep?

 

[the moops]

But seriously Option 2 is the answer. You spend 99% of your time laying in the bed, not standing at the foot looking at it. Thus the left side is the side that is in your left side while laying on your back.

what side is it if you lay on your stomach to sleep?

Stomach sleepers are monsters

 

[Zegras11]

The correct answer is Option 2. Think of the bed as a stage. If you're on a stage, stage left and stage right are determined from the perspective of the performer on stage looking at the audience, not from the audience’s point of view.

so what you're saying here is you like to perform in front of others....

 

[playin4beer]

Driver and passenger sides of course. Does anyone say left or right?

Mechanics and repair shops.

Wrong... Mechanics and repair shops INVENTED the "driver's side" and "passenger's side" because people are dumb.

I remember asking a customer, "driver's side or passenger's side" and she repeated over and over again and louder each time, "RIDER'S SIDE!!!".. wtf??

Driver and passenger takes the guess work out of LEFT or RIGHT..

 

[Zegras11]

But seriously Option 2 is the answer. You spend 99% of your time laying in the bed, not standing at the foot looking at it. Thus the left side is the side that is in your left side while laying on your back.

Agreed

How is the left and right side of a vehicle determined? From the sitting behind the steering wheel POV.

Driver and passenger sides of course. Does anyone say left or right?


How is left and right field determined in baseball? Standing at home and looking out over the field.
Hockey, Soccer, Football? Standing at the end looking up the field,
Same works for the bed, standing at the end looking at it.

This is excellence in posting right here.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Driver and passenger sides of course. Does anyone say left or right?

Mechanics and repair shops.

Wrong... Mechanics and repair shops INVENTED the "driver's side" and "passenger's side" because people are dumb.

I remember asking a customer, "driver's side or passenger's side" and she repeated over and over again and louder each time, "RIDER'S SIDE!!!".. wtf??

Driver and passenger takes the guess work out of LEFT or RIGHT..

In order to not sound like a noob, I always say passenger side/driver side when talking to a mechanic. I like to think it somehow saves me money on my bill, but probably not.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

But seriously Option 2 is the answer. You spend 99% of your time laying in the bed, not standing at the foot looking at it. Thus the left side is the side that is in your left side while laying on your back.

Agreed

How is the left and right side of a vehicle determined? From the sitting behind the steering wheel POV.

Driver and passenger sides of course. Does anyone say left or right?


How is left and right field determined in baseball? Standing at home and looking out over the field.
Hockey, Soccer, Football? Standing at the end looking up the field,
Same works for the bed, standing at the end looking at it.

This is excellence in posting right here.

Hmmm... standing at home plate is also the beginning, and the beginning of the bed is the head (if, by your logic, the foot of the bed is the end). Option 2 is still correct.

 

[BlackCrowes]

can't wait to have this argument tonight

 

[Jaysus]

Much like a car, beds have a driver side and a passenger side.

 

[TennesseeJed]

Does not matter. Stripper pole can go on either side.

 

[Zegras11]

Hmmm... standing at home plate is also the beginning, and the beginning of the bed is the head (if, by your logic, the foot of the bed is the end). Option 2 is still correct.

bad logic here. You walk into the bedroom, and 99 times out of 100, you'll be at the end of the bed first. That's the beginning, or home plate as eloquently stated before.

 

[B Maverick]

But seriously Option 2 is the answer. You spend 99% of your time laying in the bed, not standing at the foot looking at it. Thus the left side is the side that is in your left side while laying on your back.

Agreed

How is the left and right side of a vehicle determined? From the sitting behind the steering wheel POV.

Driver and passenger sides of course. Does anyone say left or right?


How is left and right field determined in baseball? Standing at home and looking out over the field.
Hockey, Soccer, Football? Standing at the end looking up the field,
Same works for the bed, standing at the end looking at it.

This is excellence in posting right here.

Hmmm... standing at home plate is also the beginning, and the beginning of the bed is the head (if, by your logic, the foot of the bed is the end). Option 2 is still correct.

Do you place the foot of your bed nearest the headboard or wall of your room? Much like the outfield wall being the "top" end of the field, the headboard is as well. You start at home, or at the foot of the bed.

Option 1 is still correct.

 

[the moops]

What if my bed has no headboard and floats in the middle of the room?

Floating Bed

Elected best invention of 2006 by Time Magazine

www.universearchitecture.com

 

[B Maverick]

What if my bed has no headboard and floats in the middle of the room?

Floating Bed

Elected best invention of 2006 by Time Magazine

www.universearchitecture.com

As you are a footballguy I would expect nothing less.

 

[the moops]

What if my bed has no headboard and floats in the middle of the room?

Floating Bed

Elected best invention of 2006 by Time Magazine

www.universearchitecture.com

As you are a footballguy I would expect nothing less.

But which side is the left side??

 

[B Maverick]

What if my bed has no headboard and floats in the middle of the room?

Floating Bed

Elected best invention of 2006 by Time Magazine

www.universearchitecture.com

As you are a footballguy I would expect nothing less.

But which side is the left side??

STRONG SIDE!!!!

I would ask about the pillow placement but you'll tell me that you have your pillows in the middle of the bed



(FYI, pillows would be the side that normally gets the wall or headboard, so in essence nothing has changed. Left side is the side on your left, while facing the bed from the foot of it, or the opposite side of the pillows)

 

[Bob Loblaw]

But seriously Option 2 is the answer. You spend 99% of your time laying in the bed, not standing at the foot looking at it. Thus the left side is the side that is in your left side while laying on your back.

Agreed

How is the left and right side of a vehicle determined? From the sitting behind the steering wheel POV.

Driver and passenger sides of course. Does anyone say left or right?


How is left and right field determined in baseball? Standing at home and looking out over the field.
Hockey, Soccer, Football? Standing at the end looking up the field,
Same works for the bed, standing at the end looking at it.

This is excellence in posting right here.

Hmmm... standing at home plate is also the beginning, and the beginning of the bed is the head (if, by your logic, the foot of the bed is the end). Option 2 is still correct.

Do you place the foot of your bed nearest the headboard or wall of your room? Much like the outfield wall being the "top" end of the field, the headboard is as well. You start at home, or at the foot of the bed.

Option 1 is still correct.

Where are one's eyes, or one's brain? In their head, right. So directional POVs come from one's head. Where does one place their head when they sleep? At the foot of the bed, or at the headboard? Option 2 is still correct.

 

[B Maverick]

But seriously Option 2 is the answer. You spend 99% of your time laying in the bed, not standing at the foot looking at it. Thus the left side is the side that is in your left side while laying on your back.

Agreed

How is the left and right side of a vehicle determined? From the sitting behind the steering wheel POV.

Driver and passenger sides of course. Does anyone say left or right?


How is left and right field determined in baseball? Standing at home and looking out over the field.
Hockey, Soccer, Football? Standing at the end looking up the field,
Same works for the bed, standing at the end looking at it.

This is excellence in posting right here.

Hmmm... standing at home plate is also the beginning, and the beginning of the bed is the head (if, by your logic, the foot of the bed is the end). Option 2 is still correct.

Do you place the foot of your bed nearest the headboard or wall of your room? Much like the outfield wall being the "top" end of the field, the headboard is as well. You start at home, or at the foot of the bed.

Option 1 is still correct.

Where are one's eyes, or one's brain? In their head, right. So directional POVs come from one's head. Where does one place their head when they sleep? At the foot of the bed, or at the headboard? Option 2 is still correct.

And when you lie down on your stomach, with your head at the headboard (obviously), the left side is still the left side making option 1 correct.

 

[urbanhack]

Yes

yesno

@FullbackFro

 

[B Maverick]

And all of this is why, when asking a gf what side of the bed she likes to sleep on, its prefaced with "while standing at the foot of the bed facing it...."








Which also happens to be the correct way, and Option 1.

 

[-fish-]

We just had this discussion since we put an older sleepnumber bed in the guestroom. Needed to designate sides on the remote. After my failed attempt to convince her to use port and starboard, we ended up with window and door as the identifier for the respective sides. Only one that we agreed was idiot-proof for guests.

 

[belljr]

It's a head board and foot of the bed for a reason. Just like a car, a boat a plane Option 2

 

[the moops]

And all of this is why, when asking a gf what side of the bed she likes to sleep on, its prefaced with "while standing at the foot of the bed facing it...."








Which also happens to be the correct way, and Option 1.

If you have to preface it….

 

[the moops]

It's a head board and foot of the bed for a reason. Just like a car, a boat a plane Option 2

You don’t call the left side of the plane the left side as you are walking down the aisle? Geez

 

[belljr]

It's a head board and foot of the bed for a reason. Just like a car, a boat a plane Option 2

You don’t call the left side of the plane the left side as you are walking down the aisle? Geez

WHERE IS SEAT A?!?!?!

 

[B Maverick]

And all of this is why, when asking a gf what side of the bed she likes to sleep on, its prefaced with "while standing at the foot of the bed facing it...."








Which also happens to be the correct way, and Option 1.

If you have to preface it….

Wouldn't have to if so many of you weren't getting it wrong....

 

[arrow1]

I just realized that I sleep with my head pointing west. Is this supposed to be a good thing?

My head also points west. Good feng shui

My head points north...fml

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Hmmm... standing at home plate is also the beginning, and the beginning of the bed is the head (if, by your logic, the foot of the bed is the end). Option 2 is still correct.

bad logic here. You walk into the bedroom, and 99 times out of 100, you'll be at the end of the bed first. That's the beginning, or home plate as eloquently stated before.

Bad logic is not following the design of the equipment. Where your head is at determines what is left and right.
By this logic the first place i usually see my car is at the bonnet/hood, so left would be, in your case, the passenger side.
But logically using the vehicle, in your case, you drive on the left side.
What is the left side of the car?

 

[Snoopy]

The 4-post bed has 4 poles.