diagonal

My bed is now at a diagonal in my room. I've never had my bed like this before; it's always been perpendicular to a wall, or in a corner. Usually in a corner, so the headboard side and one length has been up against a wall. This is a useful position because things typically don't fall off the bed during the night.

Right now, all four sides are wide open. I do need to get a headboard. Headboards (without a footboard) are had to come by, in a decent, comtemporary style. And I don't want a platform bed - because I spent $$ on a box spring, dammit - so this is an even more difficult endeavor.

Anyway, my mind/body is having a difficult time adjusting to this subtle difference in position. In the past few weeks, I have consistently woken up with my body in a diagonal across my bed, so that I am positioned perpendicular to the wall.

How odd is that? For 25.5 years my body has programmed itself to sleep in a certain relation to the walls that surround it. Now that I've re-positioned my bed, it still attempts to hold with tradition!

I tried going to sleep last night at the same angle my bed is at, but tossed and turned for an hour. Only when I put myself at a diagonal did I find relief.

This is crazy!