Preferably with a rolled up towel as your pillow. Why does this feel so much better than in bed with a trash can right next to you?
It usually instantly cures my nausea
Preferably with a rolled up towel as your pillow. Why does this feel so much better than in bed with a trash can right next to you?
It usually instantly cures my nausea
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Because you’re right there next to your best friend, The Toilet. And if this is how you’re going to die, you’ll go out together.
Also because it’s cool and helps with the fever and all that.
Cold floor, well ventilated, toilet
Because with a trash can (or in my case, a designated basin), there’s always the thought that you’ll have to look at it until you have the strength to get up and wash out the receptacle.
Lying on the bathroom floor (or sitting), at least for me, that part has always been uncomfortable. But there’s this sense of camaraderie and “Hello Darkness My Old Friend 🎵” when you’re sitting right next to the toilet (or staring into the bowl wanting to die). And it just feels a little better knowing you can puke and flush, versus having to pathetically stare at your own sick for longer than feels necessary.
When you start feeling sick, you are in soft bed. When you are getting better, you are on bathroom floor. Brain: “Oh it must be the bathroom floor that is fixing this. Let’s do this in the future, if sick”
Because when you are in bed you have anxiety that you’ll puke on your bed and anxiety makes you even more sick to your stomach.
Not sure, cause I actually like a comfy bed when I’m feeling sick, but people have told me they like the feeling of the cold floor
for me, it’s just the satisfaction of knowing i don’t have to get up and walk across the room/house if i feel like i’m gonna throw up. and also won’t have the responsibility of cleaning the puke bucket
Sometimes I get the spins too heavily if I don’t feel properly supported when I close my eyes after a night of heavy drinking. Hard floors give my brain a firm grasp on what’s ground and sky so I don’t get too nauseous. A confirmation bed that once made me feel relaxed and ghosting now just makes me queezy and sick.
It’s cold and distracting
I lay in the tub
Don’t have to go far to puke, poop, or both at the same time.
One thing I know for sure, for sure… is that my bathroom floor is clean, but if anyone ever found me laying on the bathroom floor….I must be dead
I’ve never laid on the floor when sick the bed has always been my happy spot but a hot shower is also heaven please burn me water thanks I call it decontamination showers.
When I have been that sick it usually because of fever. The floor in the bathroom is usually cool. Maybe not the cleanest but definitely the coolest in my house…
Yip. I’ve done that when I was young but recently it was like 14 years ago on an international flight. Felt so bad I went to the toilet and wanted to strip down and lay on the floor.
Floor is. Friend. Always there for you. And now you are reunited.
I’m sure it’s just because anything feels good at that point. Never been that bad so I don’t know.
The hard floor offers great support for achy joints and muscles, which you probably also have if you’re sick.
It’s the cold. For example on tour boats they hand out thin frozen neck pillows to combat nausea.
Your sickness knows when you’re at a convenient place to vomit so it waits until you go back to bed to flare up.
I always thought i was weird for doing this, hah. Did it ever since i was a kid, though much more rarely in adulthood. Only when things are really bad do i do it, and it’s just a natural development
I turn the thermostat to 68F and get an ice pack and stay in bed.
For me it’s the cold floor. Although now my bathroom floor is wood so rip 🙁
Oh heck yeah, I have laid on a cold bathroom floor more than once. I’d usually lift my shirt up let my stomach rest on the floor directly. Helped almost immediately!!
Couldnt be me thats fuckin nasty bro 💀💀💀
Cold floor
Proximity to the toilet. When I’m sick, the last thing I want to do is clean out the container I’m using to be sick in
Tile floor is the deciding factor I think
Cold, hard, and easy to clean
No stress/anxiety/worries about throwing up in your bed or getting up to run to the toilet
Because when you feel ill, you kind of feel like dying. Cave men didn’t die on comfy beds. It’s a neanderthal trait to curl up on the ground.
I always wondered this myself. When I was a kid, my favorite place to be when sick was on the bathroom floor rug. My mom hated it. Now my husband think I’m weird when he finds me like that.
Because it’s cool.
When I feel sick (nauseous) I lie on the floor. Unless I feel like there’s an imminent risk of a mess (which is rare) I don’t lie in the bathroom. It’s usually the living room, my office, or the bedroom. When we first started living together, my husband (then boyfriend) would be rather alarmed to walk into a room and find me randomly splayed out on the floor. He’s gotten used to it. Sometimes I fall asleep. If ever I have a major health issue, collapse and fall unconscious in the middle of our apartment, my husband will discover me, assume I was feeling yucky, lied down, and fell asleep, and will have a fair bit of explaining to do to the paramedics once he finally calls them hours later when he’s unsuccessful in waking me up, as to why he didn’t call earlier. “No I swear, I thought she was just taking a nap… in our hallway… on this hardwood floor…”
I just love laying on the floor in general. Any floor. Especially if it’s that old-style fluffy carpet. Grounds me lol.
For me it’s the nice cold floor. Cool down my tummy’s temperature.
Because in that moment, the bathroom floor becomes your emotional support tile. Bed’s too soft for the kind of suffering I’m committing to.
cold
I had the flu in February and have never felt sicker in my life. I laid down in the shower which gave me more comfort than my bed. I think it was the warm water, the fact that I could just throw up whenever and that it wouldn’t matter where it would go because I could just flush it down the drain.
A study on this would be very interesting since so many have the same feeling lol
There is a common misconception that a bed must be soft and pillows must be fluffy.
Neither is true. What you need is proper support. A soft bed can contour your body, but that makes it hot. Lying on your back on a hard floor won’t contour your body as well, but it does still provide support and it’s cooler than a bed.
As for the pillows, most people use bad pillows. If you are lying on your back, the best pillow is thin, or is designed as neck support. Massive pillows mess up your neck and can cause all sorts of issues, snoring due to compressed throat just being one of them.
When you are sick, your body needs a good heat sink more than it needs support, so the floor will feel better than usual. The stability is also a good thing since your senses are less effective and any movement (including that from your bed) can be disorienting. Having a solid object acts as a point of “anchoring”, a thing that you can know for certain is there.
Because your about to puke and the comfort of that toilet right next to you that will handle all that disgusting vomit and just take it away is priceless
I think cuz the floor is cold
The floor absorbs your body heat, especially if it’s tile, and cools your body. You tend to sweat when you’re nauseous. I think there’s also a certain security in knowing you’re less than a foot from the toilet.
Tile floors are cool and feel good on a fever
Those cold tiles and close to a water source! And close to the toilet.
It’s somewhere that’s not your bed.
When I have trouble going back to sleep when I wake up, the best way to cure it is to lay somewhere else until I get tired again.
It’s best not to force your mind to do something it doesn’t want to do and the best way to feel better is to change it up.
Floor cold feel nice lay on back make stomach settle not move
It really does feel the best. Sleeping on the floor in general always feels best for me though. I’m really comfy on the floor.
Other people have pointed out the cold and well ventilated floor, but there’s also the fact that the floor is more solid than a soft mattress which helps me feel more grounded and less nauseated.
Im not only surprised someone thinks laying on the floor is more comfortable than a bed, but Im even more surprised so many people agree.
Cant relate. That seems nuts to me.
Not the bathroom but I once had a really particularly dreadful migraine, I felt so ill with it and had at the time a tiled kitchen floor. I went downstairs to get some water for taking pain relief meds and just lied on that freezing cold floor for hours….it was bliss ❤️
Psychology giving up feels plasebo good
I agree.
For me it is the cooler floor that I like. It helps me feel more in control.
Hope you feel better
I totally feel this way, too. I think part of it is the “wrongness” of lying in your soft bed while sick, like that is where you’re supposed to feel comfy and relaxed, thank you. And also those cool, hard tiles, oh those tiles.
When you’re feverish a cold surface feels nice.
Because the bathroom floor is cooler and tends to be soothing if you’re nauseous or achy.
Because it’s cool instead of warm. Plus, the floor being hard instead of soft makes it easier to put your feet up, which helps improves blood pressure in head and torso, since nausea often comes alongside lightheadedness due to a temporary drop in blood pressure.
the floor generally is such a nice place when you’re real fucking bad, maybe because there’s no danger of getting any lower…
Its the lack of anxiety probably. You know if you get sick that you’re in thr spot to not make a mess, therefor, you can relax a little. The lack of anxiety “will i make it to the bathoom” probably eases some nausea
It’s knowing you don’t have to travel far if you need to poop or throw up.
well you are breathing germs from everyone elses and yours’ booty
Lying (not laying) on a cold, tile floor always feels good.
Small confined space means that the likelihood of being interrupted by stupid people asking why you ate/drunk so much is very much reduced.
I’m reading these comments and honestly surprised how sick people seem to get. It’s been like 25 years since I had a stomach bug.
Beginning the final phase of colonoscopy prep here in a few minutes. Will be testing out the bathroom floor hypothesis soon.
When you are in this state, you regress into your primordial self as a reptile. As a reptile, you want to lie on cold stone because you are now an ectotherm and a cool dark place to huddle and be safe is what you need to survive. If we are in a cold dark cave, we will be safe. Your bathroom is a cold dark cave with water and you will live here now. There is safety in the stone.
Hahaha you should listen to God’s Bathroom floor by Atmosphere
“Old cold” – karl
Its cold, like how the cold air when you’re hanging your head in the toilet bowl is disgustingly refreshing
Adding something that hasn’t been mentioned: there are many time when lying on a hard surface feels better than lying on a soft one especially for stretching and the back.
If you’re in a warm season or country, soft and cushioning means more heat gathers around you, whereas a hard mattress means more heat dissipates. We would always change our mattresses in summer, not just the covers.
Because the bathroom floor is cool, firm, and close to the toilet — all things your body craves when you’re nauseous or feverish. Beds can feel too hot or unstable, but the tile floor feels grounding and safe. It’s weirdly comforting when you’re at your worst.
Cold tile, toilet and shower nearby. Getting clean when being sick always helps me feel better
I learned this trick when nauseas or having the spins. PUT ONE FOOT ON THE FLOOR. Even laying in bed, put a foot on the floor. It helps your brain orient you in space and stops the spinning. Probably why the floor is better. Brain knows, ah, floor good.
It doesn’t feel better. I go to bed when I’m sick, not on the floor.
you don’t curl up into the shower to regulate your temperature? Rookie
The floor is a totally flat surface, so blood flow is equalized and breathing is easier.
I got the stomach virus in a bathroom with heated bathroom floors and didn’t know how to turn them off and it was AWFUL.
Somehow, your brain is telling you to not be in your bed in order not to spread germs there. Maybe. I have that in my head because I would rather be anywhere except my bed. I sleep on couches, floor, anywhere but my bed.
Whenever I’m passing a kidney stone (and in denial about it.) I’ll lay on the floor to feel better until I have to get up to wake my parents to go to the ER. Also in January I got a stomach bug while taking laxatives (you can guess how that went) and the floor was my best friend until hell broke loose.
I think it has to do with the coolness of the tile or linoleum.
The feeling of being at peace with how fkd you are.
This has never been my own personal experience.
I’ve been really sick the last 3 days and the bathroom is my bestie.
Cold Floor and comfort of being near the toilet in case.
I feel like shit right now,,gonna try this.
Because being dramatic like that helps me get better lol
Coolness and hardness.
I’ve been sick after a nights drinking (when I was a teen) and yes the bathroom floor felt good.
It’s the reassurance that no matter what happens, I’m in a place where I can just hose it all down.
The surety that when you puke you won’t have horrendous cleanup after.
Cold floor. Solid floor. Near toilet.
It’s cold. I do it too.
It doesn’t? I prefer to sleep in my own bed. I’m put a small trashcan next to my bed if I think I’m going to puke.
Bathroom is infinitely more cleanable than a bed.
I literally did this last night & I had been soooo sick I was dripping sweat and so nauseous. I laid down on the bathroom floor and it was gone in about ten min. Of course there was nothing left in my body! But it was so cool and comfy. I’d tried the cold cloth on my neck and face and nothing was working. Until bathroom floor.
Heat distribution. You’re overheating, therefore cold flood is nicer than warm bed.
When I’m sick my body gets sore from lying down very quickly. After a full day of laying in bed there is no longer any comfortable way to lay without putting painful pressure on at least one sore muscle.
The bathroom floor as hard as it is, allows me to find positions that don’t put pressure on those spots.
I took a nap on top of a washer and dryer because it was adjacent to a laundry sink
Bro you are depressed.
I have never felt that way. My bed brings me the most comfort of anything in my life. Get yourself a Casper mattress. Who cares if you’re a bachelor or bachelorette like myself? TREAT YOURSELF!!!
It’s the security of being close to the toilet, the chill of the tile floor. The comfort of knowing you are in an easy cleanup area.
I vomiting into the bathtub while also having the runs. Thankfully the toilet and bathtub were close to each other orcI would have had to vomit on the floor.
It’s a nice cool floor
the calming smell of toilet water