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On 10/16/96 23:17:44 Gary Crowe wrote: > >I have experienced vivid dreams for some time now, >during my nightly adventures I seem to invariably end up on the floor. >Falling and sometimes leaping out of bed has never hurt the floor but it >has, on occasion, damaged me. > >I was wondering if anyone else has had a problem staying put at night and >if not, what did you do to solve the problem. The only thing I can think >up is putting up rails or getting a much lower bed. >. . Gary: My husband insists there is a direct pipeline from his mouth to his bladder that goes into action at night. The result is that he is up and down like a yoyo and is wearing a groove in the floor between bed and bathroom. While that sometimes drives me crazy, it is the times when he falls out of bed while asleep that terrify me. The other night, for example, I was awakened by a loud thump, and awoke to find him flat on his back on the floor. We still can't figure out how he did it, but he thought he was getting up on the other side of the bed, lost his balance, and went over the edge backward. He said he saw stars. But I saw the sharp edge of the dresser that his head had just missed. Neal probably missed his calling in life and should have been an engineer. Some time ago, he looked at his bed and decided to make himself some bed rails out of PVC pipe. There's a bit of Rube Goldberg in my spouse too. So we went out and got an assortment of elbows and connectors and pipe and put together a fairly effective pair of bed rails. Unfortunately, they cannot be raised and lowered, which means they cannot extend more than a third of the way down the length of the bed. Longer ones would make it hard to get in and out of the bed. Since the fall, however, we are planning to make another section and just leave a minimum opening in the middle. (We aren't ready for a hospital bed just yet.) Besides, he thinks it is great fun to put these adult TinkerToys together. The ones that are in place have already prevented some spills as he twists around in his sleep. Someone suggested a bicycle helmet for bathroom safety. I have threatened to get him one for a nightcap if he falls out of bed again. Martha Rohrer CG for Neal 76/11