alt Hacker NewsI had one of the best sleeps of my life on a bed of soft sand, in the curve of a dry creek that I really should not have slept in due to flash flood risk. Since then I've wondered if ancient people might have made mattresses of sand, but they were so simple and evanescent that they left no trace.
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bell-cot • today at 5:23 PM
Possibly - but if they transported the sand to where they slept very often, that would show up in archeological digs.
Sand is a pretty good heat conductor. It’d probably be ok on hot nights, but not so much in winter.