I can tell the author is a smaller person. Someone over 195cm (6'5") does not feel like there are oceans of bed.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2025
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Exactly. It's just a bed that I can finally lie in without my feet dangling off the end.
You want the California king then. It's the same size in width but longer.
Edit: Never mind, they actually do shrink slightly in width.
A California King is 4 inches (10 cm) longer but also 4 inches narrower than a regular King.
I like my feet dangling over the edge.
No, that's the Stockholm Syndrome talking.
I feel safer with my knees hitting the back of the seat in front of me, it's cosier that way. And if my head scrapes the ceiling I can push up and stabilize myself if there's a sharp turn. These are perks, I say.
Pain is not a perk. And of course I'm just about to board a plane.
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Dutch person here. My bed is 220cm long. Default size here is 200cm long (basically a king in length) but 210 or 220 are not hard to get.
Also if you both snore you're going to end up in different beds anyway.
That's 86.61 freedom inches for our American friends
I’ve lived in the US for too long. How many bananas is that?
55/2286ths of a football field.
I think it's primarily written by someone used to a queen. When my wife and I had a queen, I'd get to bed a little later than her, have to shove her over to her 3/4 of the bed, and sleep while doing a delicate balancing act on my little sliver of bed.
After about a decade doing that we got a king size bed. I no longer have to shove her to get room for myself, but I still sleep on a same-size sliver that I'm used to. If I reach for my wife I can just barely reach her. It would be easy to reach her if I slept on a reasonable area of the bed, but that's not what I do.
TL;DR: They've maintained the same distance from the edge they were used to, so all the new bed real estate ended up as a chasm between them.
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What a wonderful collection of words. I love this. This is a modern form of poetry, unironically. This fills me with glee.
I got a Cali king because it’s the only bed big enough for two that my feet don’t hang off the end of.
A cali king takes 4 inches off the length and adds it to the width. As someone who also deals with feet hanging off, I prefer those inches to be on the length.
Not that it matters since you can rotate, but you do have that backwards. They define the Cali King as the tall one and the King as the wide one.
Just... Turn the bed?
Unfortunately, that’s not how the maths math.
King: 80x76
Cali King: 84x72
Rotating a king gets 76x80
Are you for real rn? You could have 84 inches of length and 72 inches of width by just rotating the bed 90 degrees so you're basically laying on it "sideways."
Indeed I am. On god no cap fr fr etc etc.
I bet there’s a market for rotated cali king furniture for tall people.
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Yeah... As a over 2 meter Peter my partner and I were finally looking at upsizing our bed from a queen, only to discover that a king doesn't get any longer!
Wtf is that shit.
That would be one of those American king-sized beds which have their own ZIP codes
Look up the Alaskan king
For when you need the dogs to sleep with you but not fight with the cats.
As a kid I just assumed a queen bed was larger because in chess the queen is more powerful than the king.
Same is true in real life
Well, I'm not saying you're totally wrong, but my first thought was Henry's wives...
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I'm a skinny guy and this has never been the case, even in a California king it's not so big everyone can sprawl out and not touch (dog instead of cat).
cali king is equivalent to two twin xl next to each other
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THE FACE MUST BE SLEPT UPON!
- all cats I've ever had
A lot of married couples end up sleeping in different beds eventually, but I think king sized beds are a solution for that. You can share a bed and snuggle, but also can scoot away and have your own space if you're having trouble sleeping. Best of both worlds.
I don't understand the appeal of separate beds at all. Wife grabs me like I'm trying to escape and locks on tight. Jetpacking I believe the kids call it?
She grabs on then gets real hot, I tell her shes cooking me and then she says I'm the one making us sweaty.
Then she rolls off, I come up behind her and start the hotdog and bun show. Lift a cheek, insert hot dog. Sometimes she swats me off, sometimes she pushes back and there is a lazy butt-facing shag. Those are great.
Then there are the side snugs, or she will sleep on my chest for a while.
No idea why people sleep separately. Snugs are awesome.
I prefer to share a bed but have a guest bedroom. It means sometimes we have friends or family visit and sometimes when I snore I don't get kicked every time I fall asleep
Unless you're my wife, and you roll to the exact centre of the mattress and splay yourself out to steal as much area as possible
Me and our dog are exiled to a tiny sliver of bed. Thankfully we have separate blankets so im not totally fucked
Separate blankets are a must! My wife somehow rotates the blanket exactly 90° every night. I want no part in that.
I'm glad that your dog has a separate blanket.
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3 adults and a dog gets a little cramped, but it's more manageable than on a queen
And yet my twenty-five-pound dog somehow manages to take up the entirety of our king-sized bed.
You got your California king, your Wyoming king, the Texas king, and the Alaska king. That’s the best.
And the California kong, which is two California kings tied together with gorilla leather.
Sounds like heaven.
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