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    Is there a correlation between lay preference and handedness?

    Hello all,
    Delighted to be kicking around with a new hobby these days. I'm wondering - do left-handers generally prefer a left lay, and right-handers a right lay? The majority of ready-to-order asyms I've looked at seem to be right lay, and perhaps that's a reflection of the majority of people being right-handed, thus prefering a right lay. Just curious about it. -Rata

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    I'm right handed and sleep right too. One data point.

    I wonder if Shug is left handed?
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    I'm a leftie who prefers a right lay.

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    I'm left-eye dominant and write/eat left-handed, but am rather ambidextrous in many activities. As such, I sleep north-south in my right-lay hammock and cross my arms like Count Dracula.

    Truthfully, I don't know if I have a preference since I've only ever owned a right-lay hammock.
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    I’m left handed and prefer left lay, that is my feet to left.
    If I sleep right lay, then all my dreams play out backwards, as if film is rewinding from end, back to beginning.

    Joking aside, sometimes I nap Brahma Bull lay.
    One foot on one side and one foot on other side.
    I’m in-line with hammock, in a straddling position, as if riding a rodeo bull. And just got bucked back, and still holding on for dear life.

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    My wife mildly prefers feet left vs feet right. I feel like I'm going to fall immediately when I go feet left. We're both right handed.

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    I should have noted - I'm left-handed and very firmly left-lay.

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    I'm a lefty and sleep head right...feet left. Always felt the best to me.
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    I'm right handed and sleep head left, feet right, but I started in a Hennessey Hammock so that might be why I sleep in this direction.

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    Righty with a symmetrical, but I'm 60/40 right vs left.

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