Is it better and easier to sleep on the floor or sleep on a bed?

If you are heavy most likely sleeping on the floor is uncomfortable and bad for you spine. It you are thin no problem you can probably sleep anywhere barring any specific injuries you might have.

@JLeslie Being thin tends to make bones closer to the surface, so it hurts to sleep with your hipbones pressing against the floor.

I guess a benefit of sleeping on the floor is that if you can sleep there, you can sleep anywhere.
It might be cheaper, but if I slept on the floor I’d be so achey and tired all the time that my quality of life would almost certainly diminish.

It is easier to get in and out of a bed.

Have you tried a futon? It folds up easily and gets put away when you don’t need it.
Check out pictures of Japanese tatami room futons . It’s quite comfortable.

@Likeradar being big and curvy means your spine is whacked on the floor, because you butt or hips or stomach can’t sink into the cushion. When I was young I slept on the floor for a few years, my sister and I used to make a nest on the floor in my bedroom. I was thin, not an ounce of fat. Plus heavy people weigh on their body, what I mean is their own fat and muscle, and water, and other tissues put pressure on themselves and their organs. But, what you wrote might be true?

@JLeslie I wasn’t trying to imply that it’s more comfortable for one body shape or another. :) Sleeping on the floor sucks for pretty much everyone. Somehow kids seem to be able to do it with no problem though!

I think sleeping on the bed is much better unless you sleep on the top bunk of bunk beds and you have a tendancy to roll out of bed. Or if you sleep in the bottom bunk and the person above you loves a little late night urination.

I’m a “fluffy, white, down-filled, plush to an extreme, bedding” kinda gal. On a bed with a comfy mattress and box spring.

This is kind of like asking if it would be easier to go to the bathroom in the yard instead of having a toilet in your house (because there would be more room in the bathroom without one). Easier, maybe, but we live in the modern world. It’s not that difficult to pack up a bed along with the rest of your stuff when you move, unless you move every month? Not sure why anyone would need to move that often. But if you have to, I would say that a camp cot and a sleeping bag would be much better than sleeping on the cold hard floor. Am I missing something here?

Nobody mentioned the possibility of spiders. That’s the main reason I don’t sleep on the floor. A bed (especially one with a frame) tends to keep the crawling spiders off you.

@Likeradar I felt I was not clear why being heavier is more difficult on the floor so I was just clarifying. Generally fat people are more curvy, more bumps.

When your rat trap fails to catch the varmint, and when the millipedes are running around at night, you might think twice about sleeping on the floor.

Just saying.

Depends. In Japan you can sleep on a futon on tatami matts and it is very comfortable and much better for your back.
However, unless you have a thick futon it is very uncomfortable sleeping on the floor. Plus you are closer to dust mites. An no matter what you do your floor will always look messy unless you have no other furniture in the room and make an effort to keep the futon neat as possible.
Again which was easy in japan. But with lamps on the side table and alarm clocks it was a real pain and I had to give in and get at least a futon sofa and sleep on that. It was annoying to have the lamp on the floor and the alarm.
Plus in the winter, heat rises, so the closer to the floor you were the less likely you got the benefit of the heat. You had to over heat the whole room just so you feel a little warm. And when you stood up it was hard to breath with all that sufficating heat.