What is the appeal of sleeping on the couch?

I never did it, my kids didn’t do it or ask to do it. There is nothing special as far as I know about sleeping on the sofa. I, myself, have slept on the sofa a few times in the last year when it was very very cold. The den would be heated but not the bedroom and when I got ready to go to sleep I just didn’t see any reason to go into the freezing room when the den was toasty.

I sleep on the couch if I’m sick. I don’t know why, because it isn’t closer to the bathroom. It just feels like the place I should be while sick.

Is there perhaps a TV involved?

@zensky Maybe? haha. They do have a television in their bedroom. (I know. Bad parent! Bad!)

I do it every so often. I would generally rather be on the coach than a seperate bedroom from my husband. Usually when I fall asleep on the coach it isn’t my intention, I just do while watching TV. My husband is a very light sleeper and I hate the hours he keeps. He will not fall asleep with the TV on, even if we set it to turn off by itself. Sometimes I am on his routine, up at 5:00, asleep around 9:00. I hate it. I think I prefer the couch, because it isn’t as lonely as a separate room, plus I have always hated to go to sleep. I fall asleep easiy, and sleep well usually (especially when I was younger I always slept through the night, now my sleep is sometimes disrupted) but I am a night person and like being up at night and resist the idea of putting myself to bed.

Usually I do sleep in bed with my husband, and I love my bed, but I totally get the appeal of the coach,

@PurpleClouds This past winter I broke down and left my bedroom a day here and there, maybe 10 total, to go to the guest room put the space heater on all the way and get warm. If your den is warm that makes perfect sense to me.

Getting away from the snoring, tossing and turning, talking in one’s sleep and other unintentional sleep disturbing habits of ones bed mate.
For kids, I think it’s the change of scene they like, but you might ask them. Maybe the couch is more comfortable than the bed.

Couches are low maintenance. Seldom do you need to make a couch like you would a bed the next morning. And it’s a different thing like a novelty to just camp out in the living room.

When I was little I liked to fall asleep on the couch because my big brother would carry me to bed and tuck me in.

When I was a kid it felt rebellious. I was outside the borders of my bedroom & sleeping behind enemy lines. Plus there was a TV there. There’s an odd satisfaction when a mundane/routine task is done outside of the designated room for that activity. Sleeping outside of your bedroom. Pissing in the backyard. Drinkin’ a cold one while in the shower.

I’ve considered replacing my bed with a couch. I fall asleep much faster on a couch. It might be some kind of maternal thing, but I love being cradled in the couch cushions. On a bed you have just the one cushion, the one beneath you. A couch has that cushion and a wall of cushion you can snuggle up against. I love it.

I frequently sleep on the couch myself, because our bedroom is unheated and the couch is pretty comfy. My kids do it sometimes, too, for various reasons, even though they all have TVs in their rooms at their dad’s house. One of them always sleeps on the couch at my house, even though she has a bed in the bedroom here. She just prefers to sleep away from her sisters, and they all have to share a room at my house.

To those who don’t have heated bedrooms, what heating arrangements do you have?

I used to have a TV in my bedroom, but it was stolen during a burglary in 1980.

I didn’t bother replacing it, and now I sleep in the living room with my Samsung flat-screen. My couch is about 7 feet long, so it has more than enough space.

I can nap on any couch in creation, but sleeping overnight is not my thing. I had to do it too much when my marriage was falling apart, always falling into the spaces between cushions.

A year ago I was the odd man out on a vacation rental in Hawaii, and got the couch. Never again.

For me a soft, deep couch feels like a cocoon—there’s something comforting about my body ensconced in 90 degrees of fuzzy support. Plus, for a long time, the couch was the only place I could get away from the ex.

Now, that wonderful, comfortable couch went with the ex and I am currently couch-less and sofa-hunting!

@Brian1946 We use a small space heater in the bedroom, but it’s never as warm as the heated parts of the house.

I’m with ya @chyna, the sofa is the place to be when I’m sick :) I think when I was a little kid, it felt rebellious and just special because it was out of the ordinary, and it’s nice to have something ‘special,’ no matter how small, when you’re sick. Also, it’s closer to the fridge ;)

I slept on my couch just a few weeks ago, because I was real sick with a sinus infection and was sleeping like 18 hours a day, and I just got bored to death with being in my bedroom. It’s also where I head if I have insomnia. Sometimes just changing my routine a little bit helps with that.

It hurts my back whenever I nap on the c- ouch.
So-fa away from the comforts of a bed.

I have always found sleeping on the sofa very comforting. If I am ill or sad I would rather sleep on teh sofa than in my bed. I couldn’t tell you why though.

My wife and daughter occasionally like to “camp out” on the couches in the living room. I’ll remove the coffee table and slide one couch to meet the other (face to face, as it were) – thus creating a couch-bed. My daughter thinks its the greatest.

I occasionally sleep on the couch in the den because it’s more comfortable than my bed and (unlike @ucme) better on my back.

Couches provide variety. It could also mean one is marking his territory. Lol.

Um, couches can be very comfortable…....Have you ever slept on a wide seated sectional?

For me, it is definitely the fact that the couch has a back. I like to curl up into it or push my back into it. I must find it comforting. I had my bed pushed against the wall when I was single for the same reason.

Falling asleep on a couch is like falling asleep to the sound of conversation at a party. Sometimes the TV takes the role of the party attendees. But conversation of live people is better. There’s nothing quite as comforting as falling asleep surrounded by friends having a good time.

Hmm, funny you should mention that @wundayatta… Since i was a little kid I have thought it feels just delicious to fall asleep kind of in secret while other people are watching TV or a movie :)

I get the same comforted feeling when I am the passenger in a car and I fall asleep. I’m a bit like a baby when I’m travelling as a passenger in a car, I can be asleep within a few minutes of the vehicle starting to move!!!

@Leanne1986 : To this day, I still fall asleep in a few seconds if I’m the passenger in the back seat of a car.