How is it that we don't fall off the bed while were sleeping?

Answer 1

Some do.

Most chill.

Answer 2

many children do until they learn not to. Most adults, having slept on beds all their lives, learned about edges and falling and it simply doesn't happen to them. Until of course you are very elderly and senility sets in, then it seems bed edges is a skill we lose and the elderly often fall out of bed.

Answer 3

Okay well there is actually a scientific approach to this question. As we get older our minds actually paralyze us as we sleep. (This is why people, like me, have sleep paralysis where they wake up and they can't move because their mind hasn't told their body to wake up yet-- this is mostly due to stress or fear) Some people may have an imbalance in the chemical that paralyzes their body, thus leading to sleepwalking or mimicking the moves in your dream in real life as well. If our bodies didn't paralyze us while we slept we would engage in every move that we do in our dreams. That would be chaos.

Answer 4

Of course some do but most don't because even when asleep our brains monitor things like balance and edges. This stems right back to our early primate ancestors who used to sleep balanced in the branches of trees

Answer 5

when you were a little baby, you learned that falling out of bed is no fun, it says to your brain, watch out and know where the edge is. !!just like bed wetting your body and mind remembers!!!

Answer 6

Most people scoot over in their bed and have sense of direction. In spite of that and a slight problem with the latter, I've done it!