There is absolutely no object or place in the house that touches us as intimately and regularly as the bed. We spend a third or more of our lives nestled in this surrogate womb. Traditionally, it’s where we are born and where we die. And in between, many of our most essential functions and life passages take place right there. We’re conceived in the conjugal bed, nurtured in the sick bed, and we receive our earliest emotional patterning asleep in the family bed.

It’s as if the bed were a ship carrying us on our journey through life.

So how can we go about making the bed that is capable of being all things at all times? It’s a lot to expect of a simple four-legged platform, but you can do it if you understand the many subtleties of life in bed.

First things first: beds must address the biological basics of sleep and sex. You’d think this is a simple matter, but just go to any sleep shop and watch the time that customers spend going from mattress to mattress, probing the subtleties of foam, batting, springs, and frames. Or consider the millions that Americans pour into sleep medications and sleep clinics. Anyone who has ever suffered from sleeplessness knows that good sleep is indeed a treasure.

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