The first time I lay down on a waterbed, I thought, “Who wouldn’t want one of these?” The undulating motion of the water, the evenly distributed pressure against my body — so relaxing, and sensual too ...

Though it’s hardly the first time there’s been talk of a comeback, new sleep-focused consumer trends may be turning the tide. It’s a few months back, and I’m settling into my uncle’s property on ...

It was 1968 in San Francisco. One year after the Grateful Dead joined Jimi Hendrix, the Mamas and the Papas, and Jefferson Airplane at the Monterey Pop Festival. A year after 100,000 hippies descended ...

At their height of popularity in the mid-1980s, waterbeds made up one in five mattresses sold in Australia. By the 90s, demand had collapsed and waterbeds were left with a reputation of being daggy, a ...

I never throw anything away. That’s why I still have the waterbed, its mattress bubbling and gurgling like a mountain stream. I bought it in the 1970s, when waterbeds were all the rage. They became ...

Prior to my old waterbed finally springing a fatal leak a few years ago, I had a vivid, recurring dream in which I was drowning. In retrospect, I now realize my waterbed had sustained a series of ...