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Friday Fun Thread for June 2, 2023

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Hammock.. stand ?

That's kind of defeating the entire purpose of a hammock, it being a portable bed you can place anywhere if you have 2 fixed points..

A hammock stand is a good idea if you don't have conveniently placed trees in your yard you can attach the hammock to.

I do this when I'm too lazy to make my bed.

It's OK. You lose a lot of heat out the bottom compared to a mattress, so if you find yourself overheating in that way you'll like it, but there's also not very much support for your head (and it'll be held at a different angle- this might help or hurt an apnea problem if you have one) and if you need to actually curl up around something to sleep it's going to feel weird.

Other than that, there's not much else to say about it- you're not going to fall out, you can put comforters over yourself, pillows are as useful as they usually are, etc.

The Mexican ones made of (many) cotton strings are pretty good -- I slept in one for a week once and it was fine/nice.

They are very stretchy, so sleeping more perpendicular works well.

I'll have a camping hammock hung up on my balcony during the summer months. I wouldn't want to spend a whole night in one but it's extremely nice for a nap on the weekends, or after dinner in the evening light during the long days. Also a prime reading spot. The trick is hanging it with just the right curvature so that you're cradled but not have it so taught that it becomes awkward and sort of traps you inside.

I've napped in one, it's my favorite place to be on Celebrity's large ships.

I've never tried it overnight personally.

I did research it as a camping option at some point. Some of the advice I saw was to sleep diagonally across hammock, if it's appropriately shaped. I don't know if it applies if your hammock has spreaders. I guess it's supposed to reduce the effective curvature of the hang, mitigating the banana back issue people sometimes have with hammocks. Let us know how it goes.