the bed was going to tip.
Referred to in Singapore as the " whirling pit ". Leave the light on, the fan stays still and the room goes round. Switch off the light and the bed starts to pull up into a loop, and you just KNOW there isn't enough speed to get over the top.
One solution, (never tried it) was to put the bed against the wall, mattress under the bed, wardrobe on its side next to the bed, crawl in from the foot end of the bed, and sleep knowing that whatever the bed did you could not fall out .
The other was to sleep in the wardrobe.
Not sure how we got from navigational problems onto this. Anyone would think we had been drinking too much Tiger.