I have been sleeping in a hammock at home for over a dozen years now. For the past four years going into year five now I have been sleeping in tight spaces, with the spacing getting tighter and tighter, aka smaller and smaller, aka more and more energy efficient. I'm down now to using a 3x6 room wrapped in R60 insulation. Even the home built room, 4x8, that I was using the past two years I still had some problems with foot bunching, now I have it big time.
I sleep in the hammock straight not at angle to the direction of the hang of the hammock. Since I am highly active it helps with recovery overnight to have your feet above your head when you sleep. The position is very comfortable other than the bunching of the material down at the feet which also like to put a crease up the derriere. I am using a 60 inch wide piece of, I think, polyster, which I have tied the knot into and hung up through the u-bolts I inserted into the walls. I do need to go back to sleeping with knots tied in the fabric versus using any of the other crazy methods as it seems the hammock keeps slipping on me each night because of an insecure knot, aka the wrap the string around the folded over hammock method.
The problem I am seeing is the ridge which forms right in the center of the laying po sition. It makes for small, annoying foot pockets, and my feet are not that far from the u-bolt. It also puts a crease right in the center of the laying position, feet extending up to the butt. It's almost like having a ridge and half of your body in one side and the other half is on the other side.
Is there any way to get rid of the problem when sleeping in confined quarters?
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