Lying on a bed of nails doesn't hurt because the weight of the body is distributed across many nails, reducing the pressure on each individual nail. This distribution prevents the nails from penetrating the skin, as the force exerted per nail is below the pain threshold. Additionally, the nails are usually blunt rather than sharp, further minimizing the risk of injury.
I would say that lying on a bed of nails would be less painful, as your weight would be more evenly distributed over a larger surface area.
It's all about pressures. If you step on ONE nail, then that nail has to carry ALL your weight, so it goes into your skin. If you lay on a bed of nails then every nail only has to carry a fraction of your weight, which your skin can take.
lying on its bed with wax on its legs shouting ouch that hurt
because they are strong! You don't have to be strong to lie on a bed of nails. The trick is a combination of pain control and physics. The pain control comes from the ability to ignore mild pain and the physics comes from the distance that the nails are spaced which evenly distributes the pressure of the weight put on them over a wide area which prevents the skin from being punctured. a bed of nails has lots of points that are close together -- there's a lot of surface area for the body to cover. Hundreds of nails support the weight of your body instead of just one. The resulting force is distributed over all of the nails, so you shouldn't be injured.
Because there are so many nails that each one only has to carry a little weight, small enough not to hurt the skin. It's like walking barefoot on gravel - uncomfortable but it doesn't hurt you. One piece, sticking up - that'd hurt though.
It is laying in bed
i think its a bed of nails
No one is recorded in the Bible as sleeping on a bed of nails.
When lying on a bed of nails, the person's weight is distributed across multiple nails, reducing pressure on any single point. The nails are also blunt and closely spaced, so they disperse the force exerted by the body. This allows the person to distribute their weight evenly across the nails, minimizing the risk of injury.
I'm lying on my bed.
A person can lie down on a bed of nails as the bed is large and the force is distributed evenly on the bed. Thus, making a much smaller pressure.
The reason why it doesn't hurt when you grow your nails is because nails are dead matter. There is no sensation in the tip of a nail.