For the vast majority of my life, I have slept on a waterbed. As tends to be the case when one has “always been” doing something, I never thought of this as being unusual. However, as time goes on, it seems that owning/sleeping on a waterbed has become increasingly rare. I can’t think of the last time I heard of someone buying a new waterbed, and waterbed stores are few and far between.
As best I can tell, having slept on a waterbed is one of the surest ways of quickly guessing one’s age; of the people I know who slept on a waterbed on a regular basis at some point in their lives, all but two of them (my younger sisters) have been at most a couple years younger than me. If nothing else, it’s an interesting cultural artifact of the 1970s and early 1980s.
I too have been waterbedding it for around 25 years.
unfortunately the missus says I snore and booted me from my watery resting place about 3 years ago. I slept on an air mattress in the living room for about 6 months till I got me one of them denver mattresses. Freaking heaven I tell ya. Missed class the first morning, really late the second day.
I still sneak into the waterbed every now and then. And how do I say this nicely (head scratching emoticon) It is more enjoyable when maiking coitus. Maybe it is just what we are used to.
I would always try to sleep on the waterbed at my grandma’s when I visited. Alas, never in regularity.