I need a full time hammock sleepers help, but first let me give you the details-
For hang details: I am very short and very small. 5'0 tall and 105lbs. The hammock dimensions are 12 ft by 4.9 ft. It is hung 6ft high and the walls are 11ft apart hung at an angle.
I have slept on my stomach and side for my 27 years of life, and I am absolutely addicted to it, but it hurts my entire body. I have tried many methods to train myself to sleep on my back in a bed, and I always wake up on my belly any way. So I bought a hammock, because I heard they would force me to sleep on my back, while at the same time being amazingly comfortable and relieving pressure points. I also just wanted a new lifestyle and to get rid of my unhealthy western style of sleeping. I don't want to be a hunch back.
So I studied all about hammocks, and researched how to hang, and it's hung loose. I lay diagonally. I had 50$ on an amazon card and bought the best brazillion hammock I could afford at that moment (or so I thought). It's a very large double hammock. Here it is:
https://hammocksky.com/collections/h...ant=6561447491
but the strange thing is that the person who sells them only has one type of hammock on their website, and offer nothing else. There were tons of bad reviews but I assumed these people weren't laying diagonally or hanging it right, so I tried to have hope, and when it came it looked pretty normal.
Here it is in my room:
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The hammock stunk like old dust and mildew. I aired it out and got over that problem. At first it hugged me too tight so I kept loosening it. Solved that problem as well..
So here are the problems I can't solve =[
1. It is very hard cloth, and kind of itchy like wool. Even hung loosely it still feels stiff. (Is this normal? Is it optimal for full time sleep?)
2. When I lie down to sleep I feel like my body from my shoulders down feels amazing, and my back feels like it's lying on a cloud, but my shoulders and up to my head feel extremely uncomfortable and I can't find a comfortable place for my arms or head. I have scooted up and down and nothing fixes this problem. I have tried a small pillow, no pillow at all, and a neck pillow. Still the same. Also my head points down and squishes my chin down to touch my neck. I don't want my chin and my neck to touch all night, it makes my neck hurt.
3. This is the biggest problem and what I want to solve most. I wake up every few hours tossing and turning like I would on a hard floor. It just feels like I can't get comfortable. It gives me the strongest temptation in the world to drag my bed back into my room and sleep on it at 3am but I ignore this urge and keep fighting it with no prevail. I want to stay on my back all night and not move an inch.
4. If I do happen to sleep on my side and stomach it hurts my spine and internal organs extremely bad. Is this normal?
5. My last and final problem is that I feel extremely cold even if I wrap myself in thick blankets and wear socks and long pajamas. It feels like I'm outside in wintertime naked.
I can't go back to a western bed. I will sleep on a tatami mat before I do that. I want to solve these problems so I don't have to. I feel like I have changed my entire life by doing this and it makes me feel so good. I just can't go back =[
Am I doing something wrong, is it a bad hammock? or is this all because I am deeply programmed to sleep on my stomach? Any advice at all?
Thank you very much and sorry for the amount of words.
TLDR version: My hammock is hung correctly, and loosely. I am deeply programmed to stomach sleep and want to stay on my back and I toss and turn all night and can't get comfortable, waking up with spine and organ pain. What do I do?
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