Simply put, the bed collapsed. Well, I haven’t been sleeping on a bed in my apartment for the last six months, but rather a borrowed air mattress. The other morning as I was rolling over, the mattress’s shell popped and the air expelled as I clambered to wake up and flee my fall.
Instead of getting another air mattress, I decided to try sleeping on the floor. This is pretty much the way a lot of Filipinos do it in the province. You lay down a grass mat on the floor and that’s it. So I bought an exercise mat and tried it for a few nights in a row. While the mat provides some cushion, I just can’t get a full night’s sleep, which has me walking around in a daze. Chalk this up to a failed experiment. I’ll be back with an air mattress soon. But at least it’s portable. Once the air is out, it can be stored easily and doesn’t produce clutter.