00:00I'm Lucy Fink and this is 5 Days of Sleeping on the Floor.
00:04Here it goes!
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00:14I always ask you guys to comment on my videos with suggestions for future video ideas.
00:19So when I saw that one of you commented asking me to try it 5 Days of Sleeping on the
00:23Floor
00:24and I saw how many thumbs up the comment got, I just knew I had to suck it up and
00:29do it.
00:29It doesn't sound fun though, right?
00:31I mean, it's not something I was excited about, but that's just the way this works and I don't
00:35only do these challenges for myself, but I also do them for you so that I can try things
00:39you might be interested in and give you a little taste of it.
00:41So this one is for you, not me.
00:44The first thing I did today was contact a doctor.
00:46I'm not sure if you know who Dr. Mike is, but here's a brief overview.
00:50He has over 2 million Instagram followers, he's a DO, which is a doctor of osteopathic
00:55medicine and he's a board-certified family medicine doctor.
00:59So he's the real deal, but he's also my friend.
01:01So earlier today I FaceTimed with him because I needed to ask him a few questions before
01:06I just dove right onto the floor.
01:08The floor is so hard, it often cuts off circulation to really important body parts and it puts pressure
01:15on certain body parts that are also very sensitive.
01:18I don't think it's the end of the world, I don't think you're putting yourself in any
01:20danger, but expect to need an extra cup of coffee in the morning.
01:23To take his skepticism one step further, I also came across an article online that was
01:28written by a Refinery29 wellness writer telling me basically the exact same thing.
01:33It's not good to sleep on too hard of a surface, your quality of sleep might be disrupted, etc,
01:38etc.
01:38But, and if you've watched Try Living with Lucy in the past, you know that there's usually
01:42a but.
01:43Not this kind of but.
01:44A quick google search for sleeping on the floor yields a whole universe of positive results
01:49from people who say that they swear by this, and that sleeping on the floor has changed
01:54their lives, improved their posture, corrected back pain, and a whole slew of other things.
01:59That's when it's time for me to just take matters into my own hands and try it myself.
02:03There's my old sleeping spot, and here's tonight's sleeping spot.
02:10Tonight, I'm laying out my yoga mat, one pillow, and one blanket.
02:14Here we go.
02:19Hi.
02:20I had a ridiculously horrific, horrendous night's sleep.
02:26I seriously cannot stress this enough.
02:28I actually started out fine, but as the night progressed, I felt exactly the opposite of what
02:33the pro sleeping on the floor people say, which is that your circulation is going to feel
02:37improved.
02:37I felt like my circulation was cut off.
02:41I'm not sure if this is scientifically what was happening, but it did feel like certain
02:45pressure points on the backs of my feet and also on my back and my tailbone were just digging
02:50into the earth so hard, cutting off proper circulation.
02:54I was also pretty cold, which is no surprise because heat rises, so naturally the floor is
02:59going to be the coldest part in the room.
03:01But the blanket I had to protect myself was just not big enough.
03:04So I would pull it to cover my right arm, and then my left leg would get exposed, and
03:08then I'd try to cover my right leg and my left arm was out in the air.
03:12Highly ineffective blanket.
03:13Anyway, it was just a horrible, horrible night's sleep.
03:16I truly could not not recommend this challenge anymore than I can right now.
03:21It was just total body soreness, as if I had done some sort of rigorous workout the day
03:27before, which I had not.
03:28So I stretched a little bit, and then I did what Dr. Mike told me, and I poured myself
03:32a huge cup of coffee, which I needed to get through the day.
03:36And tonight, I'm just going to do it all over again.
03:38No, no, no.
03:40I really don't want to.
03:42No, no.
03:46You hear that siren?
03:50Imagine hearing that internally just all night.
03:55I set up for the night with my yoga mat, two pillows beneath my head this time, a Tempur-Pedic
04:01pillow beneath my body that I used as a body cushion, and two blankets this time to keep
04:06warm.
04:06I dressed in a long-sleeve and long-pants pajama set just to keep warmer than I was in
04:11my shorts, and I also had Michael tuck me in like a burrito before I was going to bed
04:16just to avoid any exposed limbs.
04:18Got my pimple cream on, ready to get tucked into bed.
04:22For round two.
04:24Completely tuck me in.
04:28So I had my butt on the ground, and then the body pillow was underneath my lower back
04:33all the way up to my neck.
04:34And this caused my back to do a slight arch thing as I was sleeping, which is just not
04:39comfortable.
04:40Don't ever do that.
04:41I don't know what else to say.
04:43And when I woke up in the morning, the arch in my back felt as if I had been doing
04:46cow
04:47position all night long.
04:48And I don't know if you know yoga well, but there's a cow where you're arching your back,
04:53and then a cat where you're actually rounding your spine.
04:56So when I woke up in the morning and it felt like, oh, sirens!
05:00Stop!
05:01I have a headache!
05:02So when I woke up in the morning and my back was arched like this into cow, I needed to
05:06come into the living room and do cat position to counteract that arch.
05:10As you can see here, I've been getting really terrible night sleeps, like on and off, waking
05:16up throughout the night.
05:17I'm feeling sore all over and really disheveled and tired.
05:21So tonight I'm going to try to switch up the sleeping location, and I'm actually going
05:25to try to sleep out here.
05:27And I'm hoping that a location change will help a little bit.
05:30Here goes night number three.
05:33Whoop-dee-doo.
05:37I feel that it's necessary for me to start this webcam by telling you that this is a
05:43perfect embodiment of the way that I feel right now, which is just totally torn apart
05:50and disheveled.
05:52I didn't really think that things could get much worse after Monday and Tuesday, but I
05:58was really, really wrong.
06:00Firstly, I moved away from this floor region and into the living room so I could mix it
06:05up, get a new environment, yadda yadda yadda.
06:07I brought my yoga mat, two pillows, my body pillow, one big blanket, and then one small
06:13blanket because it was warmer, so I didn't feel like I needed two heavy blankets.
06:17And I faced myself towards the television and created a little makeshift bedroom area
06:22for myself.
06:23This time I put my body pillow in a lower position so that it was under my butt too and
06:27it didn't
06:28cause that back arch.
06:29And things were actually going great.
06:31I fell asleep pretty easily at first, but then I was hot.
06:37I was cold.
06:37I was comfortable.
06:38I was not comfortable.
06:40My pillow was too hard.
06:41My pillow was too flimsy.
06:43I must have changed the temperature in the living room 80 times last night.
06:47The body pillow I used was a little too squishy, so I took it off and I replaced it with
06:51a
06:51folded blanket, but that was not squishy enough.
06:54It was miserable.
06:57Miserable.
06:57Les miserables status up in here.
07:00And today's been the worst of the days naturally because it's now been the longest amount of
07:04time that I've gone without a good night's sleep.
07:07So my head has been pounding all day and I woke up this morning and I actually tried to
07:11go to a meditation class.
07:13Forget about it.
07:14I cannot do meditation in the morning when I haven't slept well for three days because
07:18I was just so tired and falling asleep.
07:21And of course part of the meditation practice was lying down on the floor and there I was,
07:25comfortably sleeping on the floor in meditation class, yet I can't do that here.
07:29What is the deal?
07:30Tonight I'm going to go no phone and no TV.
07:33I'm just going to read a book and hope that it calms my mind before I try to go to
07:36bed.
07:40Guess what guys?
07:41I finally slept.
07:44Woohoo!
07:46Last night's set up right here was my yoga mat, one pillow, the body pillow, and one blanket.
07:52So amidst all of my stress yesterday of me telling my coworkers how horribly I've been
07:56sleeping and how restless I've been at night, one of them asked me which direction I was
08:01facing.
08:01And that's not something that ever popped into my mind before.
08:05But I told her I was facing north and her jaw dropped.
08:09She told me to do some research on feng shui and the best direction to face when you sleep.
08:14And as I discovered on many an article on the internet, facing north is a recipe for disaster.
08:21It's called the death position.
08:23So that should tell you something.
08:24So last night, in addition to the zen and calming environment that I created on the floor,
08:29I was also making sure that I was facing west, which is supposedly good.
08:34I lit a whole row of candles.
08:36I did a 10 minute meditation practice sitting up on my yoga mat.
08:40I started a new book.
08:41It was all good.
08:42It was all the best way to put my mind at ease and get ready to sleep.
08:47Anyway, tonight is Friday and it's the last night of this challenge.
08:50And I'm headed back into the bedroom tonight using my yoga mat, two pillows, and two blankets.
08:56I've got to be honest with you here because I always try to be honest on this series.
09:00This is not a challenge I would recommend.
09:03And I'm not doubting that plenty of people out there have found sleeping on the floor has healed their back
09:07pain or corrected their posture.
09:09So by all means, if you're one of those people who loves to do this, you do you.
09:13But I definitely think that the biggest thing to think about here is being comfortable.
09:18And if you're not comfortable on the floor, you're not going to get a good quality of sleep.
09:21And if you don't get good quality of sleep, that's not good.
09:24Getting bad quality of sleep this week has made my mind foggy.
09:27It's given me headaches.
09:29It's made my body ache and more.
09:30So for the rest of my life, I'm going to be on a mattress unless there's not one in sight.
09:34Comment below and let me know what other challenges you want to see me try on Try Living with Lucy.
09:39But remember that I read your comments and I actually will try the challenges that you suggest.
09:44So maybe you might want to suggest something that's like more fun than this one.
09:48Maybe luxurious facials or five days of eating cake.
09:51I don't know, just a thought.
09:52See you next time.
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