Always. It has three speeds, so that may vary, but the fan is always blowing when I sleep. I sleep HOT. And when I’m hot, I don’t sleep well. Since I got the triple-paned sliders in my bedroom, the white noise aspect is not as critical, but it still helps a bit.
My bedroom is the coldest or warmest room in the house depending on the season. I’m one that sleeps better with the white noise and air circulation. In summer I have an oscillating pedestal fan, it’s just a touch too loud on the lowest setting but better than nothing. In winter I run an electric space heater.
Only my biggest fan, but she doesnt mind, as long as I turn her on…
…I’ll leave right now
Yes, I have a little personal fan (6 inches diameter or so) clipped to my headboard blowing on my face. The only problem is that it tends to dry out my throat, so I wake up coughing. But it’s either that or wake up drenched in sweat.
For 20 years, this was a (minor) conflict for me and Mr. Celtic Knot. He learned to sleep with a fan in the college dorm. I can’t stand the buzzing or the air blowing on me.
Since he started using the CPAP, he hasn’t asked for a fan. The CPAP makes a white noise, but not the mechanical buzzing of a fan. When we lived in a very noisy apartment, we would have Youtube videos playing white (and brown, blue, pink, and all other colors of the rainbow) noise playing to drown out the various loud media and the screaming arguments, but our new place is much quieter.
He can’t tell me he needs a fan to keep cool. He’s the kind who must have blankets to sleep. Not a light blanket or a sheet, but numerous blankets. If he wants to be cooler, he can get rid of some blankets.
Yes, at least from spring-autumn.
We don’t have a/c (no need for 51 weeks of the year), but when the weather perks up, my Dyson floor fan just takes the edge off. It feels like a cool breeze coming in through the window, which is just the thing on a stuffy night.
No. But only because my wife is convinced, convinced, that sleeping with a fan on is a recipe for instant death. “You’ll die! Everyone knows that!!!”
Well, no. Only a small subset of especially gullible people “know” that. So sometimes I sleep on the couch of my man cave. Wonderful fan and all.
Is she Korean by chance? The only “Everybody knows that!!!” I’m aware is from Korea… I think someone asked Unca Cec about it a while back.
I have four Vornados* that I use almost every night with the A/C on. Three of them are flanking the A/C unit.
Here’s the method to my madness:
One and two are at the foot of the bed, one blowing towards my body (I can’t sleep without a blanket) and the second towards my back (I’m a side sleeper).
The third is blowing at the front of my body from my feet to roughly my shoulders.
The fourth is a compact one situated so it directly at my fact upwards towards by forehead, forcing air up my nostrils.
I’m sure I have sleep apnea as if the fans go off, especially the one blowing directly at my face, I’ll immediately get up gasping for air. To prevent this as much as possible, I have all the fans plugged into a UPS.
The only time I turn the two foot the bed fans off is during the height of winter (60 degrees, brrrr :p) which is usually just a few weeks at most in Hawaii. They’re all on a wireless remote so I can turn them on and off as needed.
I don’t use them until it’s time to sleep as my A/C works better (IMO, cooling the whole room) without them during the day.
*They’re not fantastic bargain they were when they had Lifetime warranties, but they’re built like tanks and many still have a 5 year warranty. My original Vornado is over 30 years old and the repair shop said they’ll continue to fix it as long they have the parts.
Yep. It’s definitely a Korean thing.
I use one for white noise year round. Picked it up when I lived in a tropical climate, and can’t do without it. I’ve taken recently to using a sleeping mask with bluetooth white noise built in however as my wife has become a terrible snorer as of late.
My wife has tinnitus and uses a fan partly for ventilation and partly for white noise. OTOH, I find it drafty, and every night we make microscopic adjustments in an attempt to give her air, and keep it away from me.