# Do you wear socks when you sleep? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 17, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248 "2012-12-17T01:10:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/61 "2012-12-17T20:11:10Z")
If I have cold feet at bedtime (which happens fairly often), I’ll wear socks for the first 5 minutes or so, then remove them after I’ve warmed up. Occasionally I’ll conk out first, though. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/62 "2012-12-17T20:13:12Z")
On a very cold night, I wear slipper socks. Otherwise, no. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/63 "2012-12-17T20:59:45Z")
Forgot to mention this earlier. One time I had a really bad cough at the tail end of an illness. Standing, I was fine but as soon as I laid down, I’d start coughing and it would last for hours. After a few nights my wife found a homespun coughing remedy online- slather the bottoms of your feet with Vick’s Vapo-Rub, put on socks, and go to bed. It was supposed to make you stop coughing. At that point I would have tried anything, so I gamely pasted the bottoms of my feet with the smelly stuff, pulled on a pair of socks, and laid down. For the next hour I nearly went crazy from the very odd and quite unsettling sensation of Vick’s cooling and heating my feet, combined with the very uncomfortable feeling of having socks on in bed, especially since the rest of me was naked as per the norm, while coughing all the while. Fuck that, I gave it an hour, I’m done. I walked on my heels into the bathroom (to keep from squishing the Vick’s onto the rug), washed that shit off, and went back to bed. I still coughed, but at least I wasn’t also going insane from the discomfort to my feet. So even that night I didn’t wear socks. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/64 "2012-12-17T21:24:00Z")
Always. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/65 "2012-12-17T21:24:02Z")
I know I’m a freak in that I keep my feet covered at all times, except when I’m in the shower and whatnot. And so, I _always_ sleep with socks on. I don’t go so far as to sleep with shoes on, but I will put on slippers to go to bathroom should I need to do so in the middle of the night. But what gets me is how many people are so vehemently in the other camp. Weird. I’d figure most people wouldn’t care either way. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/66 "2012-12-17T21:31:03Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I used to when I was a kid (for some reason, my parents made me), but after age 12, or so, I never did again. > > My father slept with them on every night all of his life, though…and I’ve heard of others doing this regularly too. > Do you? When my feet are cold, I do. Otherwise, no. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/67 "2012-12-17T22:53:02Z")
I can’t stand having anything on my feet whenever I’m in the house . . . especially when I’m sleeping. No blanket either. My partner, on the other hand, has to be all bundled up in bed, including woolen socks (sometimes 2 pairs) and a knitted cap. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/68 "2012-12-17T22:56:11Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > I know I’m a freak in that I keep my feet covered at all times, except when I’m in the shower and whatnot. And so, I _always_ sleep with socks on. I don’t go so far as to sleep with shoes on, but I will put on slippers to go to bathroom should I need to do so in the middle of the night. > > But what gets me is how many people are so vehemently in the other camp. Weird. I’d figure most people wouldn’t care either way. My husband (who doesn’t read this board) does things your way. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/69 "2012-12-18T18:31:42Z")
I only wear socks outside the house; that is, I am always barefoot in the house, including when I sleep. (when I was a kid, I would even often go outside barefoot, leading to several nasty encounters with broken glass - ouch) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/70 "2012-12-18T18:52:02Z")
If I fall asleep at work, I’m not about to bother taking off my socks, so _sometimes_, I guess. 😃 Really, I don’t fall asleep at work; that was a joke. ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/71 "2012-12-18T20:08:07Z")
I’ll generally wander around the house in socks, then get into bed and wiggle them off during the night when I get too warm or they feel too constricting. I fight with the blankets too. :eyeroll: ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248/72 "2012-12-18T23:06:43Z")
Sometimes, when it’s cold. We don’t run the heater much at night during the winter (we’re in the SF Bay Area, so it doesn’t get _really_ cold) so I’ll sometimes wear socks to bed. It’s not a regular thing, though, and definitely not when it’s not cold. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-socks-when-you-sleep/644248.md?page=3)