Whose Bed, Now?

I've always been bothered by the phrase "You made your bed, now sleep / lie in it." It is usually used as a response to somebody who complains about problems for which they themselves are responsible.

But it doesn't really make sense.

The proper response would be "You've slept / lied in your bed, now make it."

To make one's bed is to put something disorganized back into order. It is a process of making something messy into something nice. That is not what we mean when we use this colloquialism.

Turn the phrase around and it makes much more sense. After one has slept in one's bed, it is messy and disheveled. To make the bed is to restore order, to fix one's mistake, as it were.

I don't know. Makes sense to me.