The Playbook: Bedtime Stories

This is the most traumatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast. Chris Harrison and Lauren Zema coming to you at the end of another beautiful week to open up the playbook, and we're bringing up a subject that it shouldn't have shaken me this much, but just the thought of it made me think that these people were psychotic.

This is cringe, This is scary, This is unimaginable.

Could you imagine a partner that said to you, I don't care what side of the bed we sleep on, and in fact, we're gonna switch from time to time. We don't have specific sides of the bed. We just I guess whatever side we feel like getting in that night, that's where we sleep. There is a couple in la that has gone viral via TikTok or one of those things that they don't have a specific side of the bed and that they switch from time to time for

Not even sure if I believe them.

This is why is this shaking is so much.

This story comes from Yes, the California TikToker who posted and basically said, so, my husband and I just like switch sides. We don't have a specific side, we switch it up, we get in different sides of the bed all the time. Does anyone else do this? And I almost think it was. They call it comment baiting when you like, will post something that's wrong or nuts just to get people to like like your video and for your video to get more views and to get more comments.

It's so benign. Is it that wild or is it just us that reacted this way?

No?

I think everyone well, because have you ever known anyone ever who's ever done this? No, everybody has a side of the bed. It's like how you have your side of the closet where all your stuff is. And as I think about that, it is a little unnecessary, Like we don't need a side of the bed. You have a side of the closet because you need to put your stuff away and you need.

You don't want to move your stuff every day.

Yes, but we don't need a side of the well you know what, No, maybe we do. You have your nightstand, That's what I was going to say.

I mean, just why this makes no sense? Logistics of like my side of the bed. There's my book, I have some readers that I use from time to time. There's just stuff over there, right, that is mine.

Why are these people switching sides of the bed?

They're psychotic?

I want to know and reach out to us on the most dramatic pod ever, or of course you can find out loren'szmaur at Chris B. Harrison like DM as, is this as crazy as it sounds to us? Do you do this as anybody else in the free world? Just haphazardly jump into bed? And I would be what's interesting to me? Is is it like calling DIBs? It's like calling shotgun in a car like I would walk in.

What are you doing? That's that's my side.

Well, that's why I don't believe it is, because then how do they make the decision every night?

Right?

You come in the room and you're like, you just pick. I would find myself thinking about it. I would. I don't know. It just doesn't make any sense. Now, I will say we do have this discussion in hotel rooms, yes, And the reason that we have the discussion, and we probably have it every time we go to a hotel room, which side of the bet are you're going to be on and which side of this bathroom counteror do you want?

And then in.

The bathroom counter in a hotel room, you will usually give me like the side that might have the most space because I more stuff.

If there's plugs on one side, or what is more space?

That is your side, although a lot of the time in the hotel room we still end up sleeping on just what is our normal side?

Yeah we're just in a room on vacation last week, and yeah I was on my right side.

So why is that? I don't know.

If it's dive into the why why does this make us feel so uncomfortable?

The idea of switching over and over, I don't know. I don't know what that is.

It's but there My thought when I heard about this couple was even in the chaos of not picking until you get to bed. There's probably some sort of method to your madness, Like did you would have had to have thought the night before while I was on the right, I'm going to get on the left. There's still a decision being made in your quote unquote chaos.

Theory right, which is why it makes no sense.

I think for us, it's just there are things that I think it goes along the same theory of when you're in a hotel room or when you stay somewhere different night one, typically you don't get a great night's sleep because you have this fight or flight deal where your instinct, your body scientifically has been proven to protect itself. You don't feel quite comfortable in the surroundings.

Yet your body's going what are the threats in this new place?

Yes, so typically you don't sleep great and you question things that has been proven. So I think it may go along the same lines of sleeping on the right side of the bed the same side every night, of you just feel comfortable, you feel safe.

That's I was going to say. There's so many factors for me, at least I'm trying to go to sleep that I don't want to change anything up. I've noticed even in our own bed when you're not home, I struggle to sleep, And if I'm alone in a hotel room, I really struggle to sleep. What's interesting is if I'm alone, I still go to my side. I don't like sleep in the middle of the bed. That's why these people are so wacky. I don't trust them. I don't believe it.

It's nuts.

That's a funny theory too, because I'm the same way. If I am in a hotel room by myself and you're in a big bed, the other side of the bed doesn't even need to be made. Yeah, I mean it looks like a human was not even in the room. My side I sleep, and you know me, I sleep so close to the side of the bed. I slip in and I slip out.

Can we get one more third opinion on this? I'm going to call in Kendall, producer. Kendall, is this just us or do you agree that you got to have a side of the bed.

You have to, Like I have my aqua for I have my phone charger. I pee all the time during the night, Like it just is a thing.

So do you believe these people that they just get into bed every night, or do you think this is a farce.

I mean, I guess I have to believe them, but we hope for the best.

We hope they're not on Kendall, Are you a forty eight year old woman?

Because I am my sleeping socks, I put my vasoline in my gloves.

So you and your significant other, you have your side to the bed and you keep it that way.

Yeah, I don't think we change when we go to hotels. I'm trying to think about it. I'm always closest to the bathroom, so it's just always that side of the bed.

Yeah.

That would probably be the only time we change if we're at a hotel, is that it's just too big of a walk and there's things that you're going to run into in the middle of the night.

I know some women who always put their husband closest to the door, Yeah, because their thought is like he's gonna protect And then I've really laughed with some women about that because I'm like, once Chris is asleep, like he's not waking up, so it would take like I actually think I should be closer to the door because if I see the threat, I'm gonna I'm going to be more likely to wake up scream, and then you can act.

By the way those if those two feet really make the difference, we got bigger problems if I had only been on the other side of the bed. That is kind of an old school thing of you know, it's the never having your back to the door type of a feeling. Some women don't feel comfortable just being the closest to the door. I've heard that too, and so they just like sleeping on the other side.

Yeah, I mean, I think ultimately I'm a big need your your space person, Like I'm okay with not that much space, but I need to know this is my space, where my stuff is, and like I need to feel that comfort no matter what part of life I'm in or where I am. I'm like, even I was a camp counselor this summer and I was okay living in

Well, look, I'm all about spicing it up in the bedroom, changing things up, keeping it fresh.

And yet at the same time. We are in no way about that, and stay on your side.

I don't know, maybe maybe you know what. Tonight, We're going to go crazy. We're going to role play. We're just going to just jump into whatever side of the bed we want to get into and we'll see how it goes. Let's give it a shot.

Great.

I can't wait to get zero sleep tonight. Everybody, please dm us and let us know if we're nuts on this. I need to know.

Maybe I need to be called out.

We all agree these people should be locked up. They are not safe to be roaming around in the free world. Whoever these people are, and if there are more out there, I want to hear from you, but I think we're going to stick to our side of the bed, in our side of the world. Thank you so much for joining us today. Love opening up the playbook, love having these innate, insane conversations with you.

We appreciate you.

So very much, and we will talk to you again because we have a lot more to talk about.

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