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i can't see why the heck a bed should have to face a door. i think it should go where the flow best suits it. my bed is actually on the same wall as my door.

this way, i can lie in bed & look out my huge window & at my huge paintings on the other side. it works for me.

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my thoughts on sleeping; sleep is an 'exersize' that was never meant to be comfortable.
dont like beds myself, prefer to stretch like a cat.

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Actually, Karen Kingston, who's prominently mentioned in the AT book, and whose work I use a lot too, points out in her books that you should never have the foot of your bed pointing towards the door. She calls that "the death position". It's good to see your door from the bed, but having the foot pointing out towards it seems awful to me!

perceived consciousness dictates we "fall head over heals"

paramedics ship head first in the ambulance.
cutting room and morgue doors hinge both ways.
always face the kitchen door when eating.

what ever you do never admit that you prefer to sleep half off and half on the couch or half in and half out of bed or on the floor, dont flip your pillow, dont sleep with your feet exposed.

never, i repeat never admit you just need room in any sleeping position to just be as seemingly foolish as a sleeping cat.

Just to add to Leela's comment, it's also bad feng shui to have a window behind your bed. One of my friends had a room similar to yours, and she put her bed (Ikea MALM) facing the window. With a such a closed, solid headboard, it worked beautifully in the room. Since the bed is to the right of the door, it's also easy to see the door. Good luck!

I posted this to the SF board but wanted to crosspost here, since you have been discussing the issue too:
Hi everybody and thanks for the kind feedback!

Violetrose and others, I have to confess I am a librarian and a dyed-in-the-wool word person (rather than a visual person) so I slavishly look up *everything* repeatedly in an absurd number of sources, but I didn't actually create a bibliography... I can honestly say I saw this same advice many many times.

HOWEVER it should be generally assumed that anything I read which then requires me to visualize something will immediately be visualized incorrectly, so I could well have repeatedly misinterpreted the same tip. I am an astonishingly not-visual person, and following AT I often feel like Margaret Mead observing the detailed ritual and obsessions of an utterly alien tribe, from whom I can learn a great deal but to which I will never belong!

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