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Try reading a book and youll see how difficult it can be to stay awake in a hammock! When combined with a gentle, cool breeze, a generously shaded spot under a tree with rustling leaves, a mildly alcoholic beverage and the chance to sit for a while and do nothing, hammocks can be very seductive indeed. Maybe its a hark back to the womb where all you had to do was be nourished and grow. A cold Margarita and a sombrero to shade your face is all you need! And theres no cause for concern that you may inadvertently fall asleep during one of your hammock lounging sessions. Because the sides of hammocks wrap around you like a cosy cocoon, you can rest easy knowing its pretty much an impossibility to fall out!.Anyone who was brought up watching Gilligans Island is well familiar with the intense laziness that hammocks seem to induce. Hammock aficionados have their favorite materials. Some enjoy the rope-style macramé-like version while others prefer the seemingly stronger canvas kind thats hooked up between two trees with tough ropes. Being cradled and swinging back and forth is a naturally calming sensation. It seems to take more effort than its worth to wriggle your way into one, achieve a level of balance and then finally relax, but once youre in, theres something incredibly mind-numbing about feeling like youre floating in mid-air. Without a doubt, making very good use of two perfectly spaced apart trees in your own backyard is by far the best choice, and if you have one of those gorgeous, multicolored, stripey Mexican hammocks, siesta time beckons whenever you look out the window and see it swaying outdoors with no one in it. Unfortunately, apartment living tends to preclude  hammock-lounging, unless you are lucky enough to have a decent sized balcony and you can buy one of those freestanding hammocks that comes with its own sturdy frame