Dopers: do you sleep better in the nude - or in nightwear?

For a time I lived with my partner and a female roommate and all of us slept naked.

This made for several rather embarrassing moments, mostly to do with bathroom trips and unexpected houseguests, and with one notable sudden midnight rainstorm that led to all of us running around trying to simultaneously close windows and avert our eyes and avoid being seen through said windows … ah, good times.

No - it’s natural and normal. The specks are very small, but they’re always there.

Except that there is a lot of difference between clothes – which are more fitted to your body and are attached to you – and sheets.

Well, Freud, to me it seems “most likely” that some people simply move more in their sleep than others. :slight_smile:

I prefer to not wear clothes to sleep because I spend a good portion of the night readjusting my position; I move around a lot, and I get tangled up in my clothes. You, on the other hand, may not move around in your sleep as much, and don’t end up with that problem. It’s really not an issue of rebelliousness as not wanting to wake up and be so tangled in your clothes that you feel tied up.

Of course, because you’re getting up to clean yourself off anyway, right? Tell me you don’t go back to sleep with goo all over your junk.

I sleep in boxers (socks if it’s super cold; t-shirt if we have guests) and I agree that even a loose t-shirt can getting twisted up and become uncomfortable, but for the love of sanitation, cover your junk for the 8+ hours you occupy your bed. Unless of course you wash your sheets daily, then disregard. Sleeping in the nude nightly without washing your sheets daily is no different that wearing the same pair of underwear everyday without washing them; seriously, think about it. Yeachh! And this has nothing to do with prudishness. I’d hate to smell this middle area of you nekkid sleepers fitted sheet – week old ass. And no, I’m not a nevernude

Neither natural or normal - if we define normal as being the average person. Your butt has a leak. :frowning:

To the OP, mostly in just BVD’s, the remainder the time stark raving nekkid. :smiley:

I go back to sleep with goo all over my junk. Although I wouldn’t describe it as such, just maybe a light sheen of moisturizer. :wink:

My wife might get up to, well, empty out, but gets back into bed naked.

I move around a pretty good amount, since I don’t sleep well.

I wouldn’t think that there’s much to get tangled in if you’re in just a pair of panties/boxers and a well-fitting t-shirt. Perhaps you all are trying for the oversized t-shirt thing?

puts on detective hat

How liable are bras to get yanked about when sleeping?

yeah, dude, that’s frickin’ gross. do you blow your nose on your shirt, too?

Where did this idea of bodies being nasty in their natural form come from anyways? There is a difference between dirty and disgusting, and natural. I’m not getting up to wash myself off. 3 minutes ago, everybody thought everything was great, now we’re repulsed by it? And that doesn’t mean I wallow in my own filth for days on end, but please, you’re not going to die from some goo. You’re really not even going to smell, unless you don’t take a shower the next day.

My God, come to think of it, I’ve had sex, and then put his dick in my mouth afterwards!! And I didn’t use listerine!! And he didn’t sanitize himself, either!! And OMG, we were naked! In a bed, and it may not have had clean sheets!! It might have not only had a faint smell of bodies, but dried goo, too!! He stuck his tongue in my mouth, am I going to survive?

Remind me never to have sex with you, you’d be horrified. But you’d be back, promise.

Do you menstrate, vomit, deficate and urinate in your bed too? After all, they’re just natural functions, right?

Look, if you can’t see the difference between giving oral sex after coitus and letting your funk sit overnight with your ass grinding it in for good measure, I can’t help you. How any of this relates to french kissing I can’t imagine either.

Any other response I might have is prohibited by the forum.

Always boxers and a t-shirt. Shorts over the boxers in the summer. Pajamas over the boxers in the winter.

Nope, never been a fan of the oversized t-shirt. Usually it’s even an issue with a snug fitting tank top. Part of it is probably because of the way I’m shaped, and part of it is probably because clothes I can afford are not made to accomodate the way I am shaped while I’m sleeping. Wide hips and big boobs do make for a lot of clothes migration for me, though.
Whole Bean, do you not shower in the morning? :dubious:

So, do you change your sheets after sex every time?

Hm, well perhaps it’s a boob n’ curve issue then. I’m a beanpole, so neither of those is a factor.

I guess I’ll hold that as the current hypothesis then.

Nekkid. If I wear clothing to sleep, I feel as though I am being strangled.

Absolutely. I don’t go to bed in the morning, though, so why do you ask? I go to bed at night, after I have been awake, generating standard body odor for about 16 hours. I guess I could shower at night before bed (that would be about half as gross) but then my hair wouldn’t cooperate in the morning. I could shower in the morning and before bed, but that would really dry my skin and it seems wasteful. Look, I don’t care if folks sleep in the buff. Go for it. But I have yet to hear anyone tell me how it’s any different than wearing the same underwear everyday without washing them (unless of course you wash your sheets daily). And I think some of the buff sleepers have never bothered to consider it that way.

Also, let me add this to my reply to dahfisheroo: I’m not saying that sleeping in the nude is the same as soiling the bed (I’ve already said, I think it is the same as repeatedly wearing the same underwear without washing them); I am questiong dafisheroo’s logic as manifest by the “it’s natural, it’s ok” rule. Bodies in their natural state are, by the standards of modern sanitation, nasty. That’s why we bathe, launder, deodorize, etc. Nature smells. Cleaning up after sex is no diffeent than wiping your ass after a shit.

Not after the times I have sex somewhere other than in the bed, why would I do that? Of the times I have sex in the bed, yes, many times I do change the sheets, but not always. There is not always goo on the sheets, but unless you’re doing something wrong, there is always goo on the people - condoms help cut down on that some.

So, you wash your sheets after, every time?

Sex, 2.8 minute post coital relaxation, then the * I must change sheets now* klaxon goes off?

“Honey, get your stinky ass out of bed, there’s sheets that need a changin’!” I’ll come back to help you after I get done in the bathroom scrubbing your funk off.

You romantic, you…

Reread the post you responded to. Your question is answered there. And yeah, that’s exactly how it happens. :rolleyes: I guess I should just start rolling around, encourage my wife to scoot accross the bed like a dog with worms to insure maximum coverage, then let it all sit for a couple of days, just the way God intended. Nothing says romance like crusty sheets.