The bed of nails and how to do it the scientific way

Quite rightly the prospect of lying down on a bed of sharp pointy metal things isn’t something to be done lightly, because, lets face it, its going to hurt.

Or will it?

The bed of nails trick is, when taken apart by science, not as painful as you might first imagine.

Think of it this way. You can press your fingertip lightly on a nail without it hurting. If you put the other end of the nail on a scale and then press, you can see how many pounds of pressure you can put on one nail without it hurting you. Don’t press too hard!

Suppose the answer is one pound. You can press down on a nail until the scale reads one pound, and beyond that you don’t want to press any harder. Okay, one pound of pressure per nail is safe for you. So, if you weigh 200 pounds, you can lie on a bed with at least 200 nails on it and not be hurt. That’s because each nail is supporting only one pound and your weight is evenly distributed.

And there you go, how to lay on a bed of sharp objects without the need for any guru’s, incantations or other mumbo jumbo.

Lay carefully and evenly though if you don’t want to become a human pin cushion.