Spend more time in bedroom than downstairs

[ofwarren]

I find that I spend lots of my time in the bedroom, sprawled out on the bed in different positions. Usually on my phone, reading, watching documentaries or listening to music. I just don't find sitting in the living room comfortable.

I find the sitting part so uncomfortable, it's like I can't sit normally in a chair. I end up slumped or with my legs across the arm so I end up coming upstairs to get comfy.

As a child I mainly lay on the floor but my mum had carpet and we have hard flooring.

Does anyone else do this?

Yes I find it really uncomfortable to sit "normally" on a chair or couch. My mum always moaned at me for lying down on the couch all the time as a kid. I quite like sitting cross-legged but much prefer slumping and twisting, preferably to my left. The ultimate is lying in bed tho. That's the dream, to carry out all my daily duties from there lol.

I slump to the left too, with my knees up and feet bent to the right.
I also sit on my left hand with the wrist bent downwards.

Lol I'm doing that as we speak (type)!

Could you get a mat or something so you could lie on the living room floor? I don't know what they're called but those folding mattresses which are like 3 square blocks of foam, with a fabric cover so they easily fold up into a cube. I feel like they would work well, if you have the floor space. With a non-slip mat underneath you could lean up against the when you felt like sitting.

There's nothing wrong with lying on the floor, as long as people don't trip over you!
I've heard physios say that people should get rid of sofas- that we should just have floor cushions as you naturally shift position on the floor and don't end up sitting motionless in the same position for hours.

I don't spend a lot of 'awake time' in my bedroom as it's a designated space for sleeping ( life long insomnia/need sleep only space). I don't have devices in my bedroom - no TV, laptop not allowed etc

I have a reclining chair in the living room and that's 'my chair' to lounge around on as I please!

Possibly
I really need to consider the best way to make me feel comfortable

I prefer to be in the bedroom. I think it’s an escape mechanism honed over decades - I need to escape from people and as a child/teen/early 20s my bedroom was the only place I could be left alone. So now I’m an adult in a 3 bed house and I still go and lie on the bed because it’s what I’m used to. If DH and the kids are home I’ll go and lie on the bed to get away from them. But even when they’re not in I prefer to lie on the bed.

Also partly because people knock on the bloody window if you don’t answer the door, and if I’m visible in the living room they expect me to answer the door! But if I’m upstairs in the bedroom they think I’m out, and I can peer out of the window and decide if I want to speak to them or not. When I’m downstairs I feel exposed all the time and like someone could descend on me at any minute; I feel safer upstairs.

I think there is am element of that with me too.
Even if I am alone in the house, I will go upstairs.

Yes, for me too my bedroom has been a sanctuary throughout life especially during many years of house sharing as a young adult.

I spend a lot of time in my bedroom. Not fully laying down but propped up on a firm wedge cushion, reading or playing games. I don’t find my sofa comfortable in the living room.

For me I love sitting upstairs in the bedroom. I feel safe and enjoy the peace of it. I’m up here now but wish I had room for a nice comfy chair instead of being propped up with cushions.

This is me! Love my wedge cushion