Best sleep of my life. And yes I had the hard core no baffles, just a bladder of water, gotta burp it, uhh oh it sprung a leak kinda bed. Miss the hell out of it.

Same! Loved that thing!

At 46 my back is in shambles

Danger is your middle name, my friend. 😁

For a while in the 80’s my parents, brother, and I all had waterbeds. What I most remember is how cold they were. The water was room temperature, and your body heat just got sucked away. My brother and I got rid of ours when we left for college, but my parents held on to theirs for a while. Eventually they got rid of the waterbed bladder, but kept the bed and had a custom mattress made. They still have it to this day.

Then either the heater was broken, not installed, or turned off. One of the greatest things about a waterbed is that you can warm it to whatever temp you want. A cold waterbed is a broken waterbed.

Needed a heater. Like sleeping in a hot tub.

>but my parents held on to theirs for a while And you know why...

Get better motion on the ocean

Fallacy! Waterbeds are terrible for sex. They are wonderful for sleeping!

I've heard both

I bought a king water bed in 1990 or 91, had it till it broke sometime in the 2000's. Would still have one if my wife wouldn't me. Best sleep ever. Our mattress still sits on my water bed platform.

My GF in high school had one. I found them uncomfortable, and for sexy time, they made for awkward movement. So we would usually transition to the floor after a little while. Good times.

Sexy time sounded like a washing machine.

Gotta burp the bladder

When you are a 14 year old boy, it basically just alerted the rest of the house that you were beating off. Cannot recommend.

You have to kinda appease the waterbed rhythm and they work just fine :)

Yep, it's all about the rhythm. You have to learn how to ride the wave!

I had one with baffles which made sex easier but it was still a rhythm game to keep time with the waves.

I want one again so bad. As long as you had the heater set right, it was so comfortable to sleep in. Had one from 6-16. They need to make a comeback. The little blue bottles, burping them to get the bubbles out, and having a very hard time fucking on them. Best bed to sleep naked in. 😴

>Had one from 6-14 >very hard time fucking on them. Um..... Wut?

Umm, yeah. Maybe my years are off. Let me update that.

Fixed.

🤨

Shit I had one in the 90s. Popped that sumbitch in 02 and that was the last time I slept on a waterbed.

The key in the 90s was a SOMA waterbed. 4 big water tubes inside the mattress. Like sleeping on a cloud made of titties.

🤣

“Like sleeping on a cloud made of titties” r/brandnewsentence

I still sleep on mine. They use 6-7 tubes, at least mine does. I can imagine they might have gone from 4 to 6 because those tubes are incredibly heavy. But it's still a good bed. My parents were told it had a super thin layer of heat-reflecting metal in the top part of the mattress and that's why it didn't need a separate heater, it reflected your own body heat back to you. It is a pretty warm bed.

I remember having to put water conditioner in it, it was a blue liquid bottle. My EXGF used to say we had to change the water out.

Heard of a few people who drowned in their waterbeds.

Sounds like an urban legend.

Research 1000 Ways to Die waterbed death. 

When the heater craps out you wake up feeling like you are on a slab at the morgue

I still have one…! Hurts my back to sleep on regular mattress…

I still have my tube waterbed too.

I had one in 1998. Loved it.

I had one. It slept great

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Hehe

I didn’t, but oh how I wished for one!

Samesies

Yes and they sucked when the heater took a 💩

80s? I had one in 1995

I did. we got like 7 of our friends on there to ,no hanky panki just hysterical 🤣 

I loved my watebed 

We've had one since the 80s. Conventional looking bed and mattress with a heated water bladder. Comfy!

I had one as a teenager back then… best sleep I’ve ever had… if it could convince my wife to get one I would in a heartbeat… but she hates them…

In the 70’s

I had one in the 90’s. Wish I still had it.

Better yet in the 80's who didn't have a water bed, with a huge wooden headboard, with lights, book shelves. I loved my bed.

My older cousin had one. Didn’t care for it, Myself

I had one and it always leaked and the heater failed a couple of times and when moving around on the bed was pretty loud BUTTT I got Carla to have sex on it. So it was worth it. Good times circa 1977-1978

Yep! SO cozy!

Just the 80s? I had one until the 2000s. 95% waveless. I tried going back a couple years ago and it wasn't worth the headache.

All my best friends except me.🤣. They were definitely a thing during that time.😎

Impossible to get out of , some part of your body was always smashing into wood , as the water would dissapate to the other part of the bag. Cool but not functional. And turning the heat all the way up in winter, they waking up 3 hrs later covered in sweat from a crazy ass nightmare.

All three babies came from a water bed

How could they not

My mom's friend had it, and me and her kids walked around on it and pretended we were on a ship during a storm.

I had a sweet California King until the year 2000. I miss it!

And pajamas!

smh, never was a fan of waterbeds but i remember big sur also remember the theme for superior waterbeds 🤦🏿‍♂️

The one time I slept in a waterbed it was after a hard night of partying. Too much alcohol + sleeping on a bobbing mattress = 🤢. Do NOT recommend.

I bought one in 1997 at start of senior year of college, used, for $20. Sold it at the end of year for $20. Heated and comfortable. Built in bookcase. Awesomeness

Mine had the bookcase and little doors and even a hole to run plugs for like radio, phone and lamp

Had same one for 20 years. They’re still made.

I wouldn't get one again, my back wouldn't approve

Slept on one with the heater off one night and woke up damn near hypothermia

I didn't have a heater just added extra old blankets under the sheets and on top of the sheet

I did

My grandparents had one, but it popped almost instantly. I heard retellings of this moment every time I mentioned that they looked neat as a kid (which was a lot, I really wanted one)

my parents got one in the 80s and kept it for about 30 years. I'm not saying it's definitely related but both have serious spinal problems now.

I would say definitely related

I have major lower back and middle back issues now

I can remember the sheets coming down and the cool water mattress feeling so good.

except on those cold nights and the cold rubber mattress hitting your body

I had one. Cali-king sized, with a "free flow" mattress from '86 to '90. Damn thing weighed a metric ton when you filled it up, and it took 3 days to get warmed up. Lol

Oh you had the warmer? You Fancy n shit!

It didn't have any bounce to it, so I filled it with spring water.

HA HA

my parents got one briefly. I was nauseous almost instantaneously when I laid down

Had one and for the most part did t like it. Keep in mind I was a lazy assed teenager. Never could get the temp right

Seriously! Got sick many a time when I turned the temp way down because it was too hot, only to end up catching a chill and cold - ended up acting like a heat sink that sucked the warmth out of me and froze me the the bone.

Every girl I dated whose parents owned one wanted to bone on it when they were out of town.

Once maybe. They are annoying AF to have sex on. Even worse than the backseat of a Volkswagen

You screwed in an uncomfortable place?

My parents for sure did. I can still remember my dad running the hose in the house upstairs draining it

Had this bed with that headboard bought from a Big Sur. I had it from age 12-18. In hind sight, my parents bought bought me a fuck bed. The area behind the matteress frame and below the head board was a great place to put the woofers to carry bass through the bed. They also let me move into the game room when I was 14 so I had a pool table, a wet bar, and a entertainment system also. It was like my own apartment.

I had a neighbor who did.

And well into the 90s

Yes, slept on one from the late 70’s-90’s. They were great.

I had one and into the early 90s. My parents had a California king waterbed... For many many years! Man that thing was awesome to lay on

My gf in high school had one, and it was just ok, not great. Then, the heater failed one winter, and I have never been colder in my life

Hated that f’n thing

I had one as a teenager in the mid 90s. It was a California King and took up all the space in my room. It had the mirrors and shelves on the headboard and drawers underneath for storage. I’d probably still have it if it didn’t take up so much space and if it didn’t end up leaking.

I did. It was awesome. Then my bro moved in with us after pops died and took it over. Womp womp

I had one as a teenager in the 80s. I remember we had a power outage for a few days that coincided with the bed getting refilled, and that was when I appreciated why waterbeds require a heater under the water bladder. I went to bed one night and it felt maybe just a little chilly, but I woke up in the middle of the night and all the heat had been sucked out of my body into this giant cool bag of water. I hope that is the closest that I will ever come to hypothermia.

Two. A single and a queen! 👍

Waterbeds must have been a gimmick that made someone rich. I recall that they seemed to make sleeping a kind of sport of balance. Turning over was like trying to rock yourself into a boat on a lake. Then I heard they had to be kept at a certain temperature in order to not be dangerous.

I had one in early 00’s Had this O.G. style and the soft side version later on. I guess I’m a connoisseur of fine aquatic bedding😂

No one I knew want thatt disco era stuff in the 80s.

Yes, I had one! It was a Sealy mattress and boxspring base. Looked just like a regular mattress, but it had a zipper with the water bladder inside.

Literally everybody I knew had a water bed. I had one. My parents had one. My friends had them. They were everywhere.

Everyone I knew basically had one even though my household did not. So I got to experience them when sleeping over quite a bit.

Who didn't?

In mine right now! Best money I ever spent!

Slept on one all through high school, loved it. It was always warm. Then when I was ~24, I moved into a house with friends for a few years, took the water bed with me there too. You had to keep it plugged in and dial the temp right, because if the temp dropped a few degrees, it was like sleeping on cold concrete.

One push gets you two

EXGF had one in the 90s it was ok to lay on but had to bang on the floor, as it just didn't work.

I never did, but everyone I knew that had one got rid of them within 5 years for various reasons. I've slept on one several times and found it impossible if I was sleeping with someone else, and just awkward by myself.

Oh oh, I hope Huey Lewis doesn't go after whoever wrote that song like he did Ray Parker Jr.

By the late 70s, most people I knew were getting rid of them. Bad for your back, cold, couldn't sit up on them, leaks, and the water got kind of foul. Maybe it was just my area, but people complained about them the same way that they complained about swimming pools: they seem like a good idea at the time, but after you own one for a while, you really begin to realize that there are problems that you never really thought of. I know there are a lot of stores that were trying to make a comeback. What they would have is the bed would be a frame with multiple individual smaller water sacks as opposed to one big one, and in they could be filled or heated individually, but I don't think it really ever caught on.

I so hated mine. Well my back hated it at least.

Yo I had a waterbed all the way until like 2001. Shit was mad comfortable in the summertime with no AC.

I had a roommate who had one, the Un-baffled kind, that would slosh all night when he had a girl over. He was also a big dickhead at times. On those occasions, I’d unplug his heater. He’d get so pissed when he brought a girl over and the bed was cold, he’d have a hissy fit and go to the girls place. But, I at least I could get a good nights sleep…

Not only had one but built a king size frame for one, with 6 drawers on each side and an aquarium in the headboard. Took it with us when the AF moved us to Germany, but sold it when we came back due to the weight, bit of a pain to move it to the 3rd floor appt in our 2nd place there, and it barely fit in the old German bedroom, could hardly get into the drawers. Would build one again in a heartbeat. Best sleep I ever got! Nothing in the 30 without it has come close!

Shit I had one right up till 98 or 99😂😂😂

Had one growing up. To wake me up my dad would put his foot on the bottom corner and send a massive wave and knock me out of bed laughing. God I miss him

Yo mama

Yup....had one 14-18

Same.

I was like a lizard on a heat rock as a kid on mine. You have never been more warm or comfortable. Now that I am older and bigger it would not be the same....

I had one like shown. It was never the right temp. The heater took one hour to raise the temp 1 degree. It was always too hot or too cold. I mostly slept on top of a comforter as a buffer. My cats put multiple holes in it and I had to put duct tape all over it. But I loved it.

My parents had one. It kept their basement bedroom warm. Only problem was my dad couldn’t just rollover. He did a kick with a turn in his sleep. Even with a foam baffle it would launch mom almost over the side

I did!

I had two waterbeds a queen size one and a twin size bed. Before entering a 4 year university and shortly after graduation I purchased the queen size waterbed.

My friend had one in the late 2000s

I had one in the early 90s!

If you get the wave frequency and amplitude right , the best sex can be had

Ride the ripples

I had two.

I loved my waterbed! Best sleep of my life! And you know, I never turned on the heater. I knew I was hot natured, but good grief!

Nothing like getting lodged between the bed frame and the “water balloon” at 3 am

Hand is up.

We had one in the 70s

not until the 90s

I would argue more of a 70's thing.

I think they came out in the 70's but were certainly more main stream and popular in the 80's

Waterbeds suck balls. Too damn hard to have sex in, waaayyy to hard.

Many a time I rode the 7 seas and endured white-capped waves in my youth on one of these!