# I sleep in my underwear - a survey (TMI?) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295 "2005-07-20T15:14:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/21 "2005-07-20T16:17:51Z")
Shorts and a t-shirt for me. It’s a security thing. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/22 "2005-07-20T16:26:02Z")
> [@EllaBean](#): > > …socks (I can’t sleep barefoot) Even when it’s really warm? I get overheated so easily, I can’t even _begin_ to imagine that. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/23 "2005-07-20T16:31:17Z")
I sleep naked. So does my husband. I used to sleep in clothes, but when I first met him, he convinced me to start sleeping naked. Now I get annoyed when I have to sleep in undies at certain times of the month. E. ---
**Author:** ![EllaBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EllaBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllaBean)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/24 "2005-07-20T16:31:42Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Even when it’s really warm? I get overheated so easily, I can’t even _begin_ to imagine that. I’m very, very rarely “really warm” but if I am, it’s the sweatshirt that gets ditched first. My hands and feet are cold even when the temperature outside is in the 90s or higher. It has to do with bad circulation… I think it’s called Raynaud’s Phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/25 "2005-07-20T16:34:23Z")
I sleep in my clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/26 "2005-07-20T16:35:16Z")
> [@Strinka](#): > > I sleep in my clothes. Freak. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/27 "2005-07-20T16:37:55Z")
Nothing. Regardless of season. Regardless of temperature. Clothes are a nuisance. I see no point in wearing clothes at home at all, day or night. No one can see into my apartment. When I visit family, I wear something but I’m annoyed and uncomfortable the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/28 "2005-07-20T16:44:10Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Ditto. And they have to be shorts/tops, can’t wear long PJ’s, or they get tangled. > > And I usually have a sheet over me, even on the hottest nights…if it’s sweltering, then just draped over my hips and nowhere else. Funny, that…I’ll take off my shirt & wear panties if it’s \*that \* hot, but I’ll still keep the sheet pulled over my hips. It’s a security thing, I’m sure. I have to have at least a bedsheet or i cant go to sleep either…and I agree, it has to be some sort of security thing also. I have a thang against being watched. I tend to wear an oversized tshirt and undies. I have a couple pair of IIRC snugglies brand white cotton undies that are like long bike shorts that are my favorite sleeping undies. I got them to wear under my elizabethan gowns =) ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/29 "2005-07-20T16:46:04Z")
I normally don’t wear anything to bed. However, as I’m going to college in August, that’s going to have to change so that I don’t freak out my roommate. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/30 "2005-07-20T16:50:35Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I have to have at least a bedsheet or i cant go to sleep either…and I agree, it has to be some sort of security thing also. Yay! I’m not the only one! ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/31 "2005-07-20T16:52:06Z")
I wear my underwear to bed, and that’s all. Haven’t worn pyjamas since oh, about 1966. I feel uncomfortable sleeping in the nude, I’m not quite sure why, but I do. ---
**Author:** ![AsecretK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@AsecretK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AsecretK)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/32 "2005-07-20T17:15:05Z")
At home I sleep in pj’s that are shorts and tops. At BF house it is El Buffo. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/33 "2005-07-20T17:15:20Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > “Hi. My name is Asimovian, and I sleep in my underwear.” Me too. Well, that is, I sleep in _my_ underwear, not in **Asimovia** ’s underwear. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/34 "2005-07-20T17:23:46Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Me too. > > Well, that is, I sleep in _my_ underwear, not in **Asimovian** ’s underwear. Thank you. Now I can justify to my wife why I keep my delicates under lock and key. _Unless I can find a way to make some money out of the deal…_ ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/35 "2005-07-20T17:26:31Z")
I used to sleep in just a pair of underwear, but have been sleeping nude for several years. I always have at least one cat sleeping on or around my lower legs, and I’m very sensitive to heat. These are big furry cats that generate a lot of heat (and seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of “too freaking hot”). So lots of times I’ll have the covers pushed almost down to my waist, even though I’m wearing nothing. Whereas if the cats aren’t there, I’m more likely to have the covers pulled up at least to my chest. Either way, I feel uncomfortably warm if I have a stitch on. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/36 "2005-07-20T17:43:01Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Me too. > > Well, that is, I sleep in _my_ underwear, not in **Asimovia** ’s underwear. Damn you. 😛 I wanted to say that. Summer–tighty-whiteys. Spring/Fall–either t shirt & tighty-whiteys, or t shirt & pj bottoms. Winter–pj bottoms & long sleeve undershirts. Except on Leap Year Eve. Then, I wear [ONE OF THESE](http://files.turbosquid.com/Preview/Content_on_11_1_2004_23_47_35/Helmet.jpgb72f6604-bcd2-4a82-9595-8e56431bb9f0Large.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/37 "2005-07-20T17:46:32Z")
“Sometimes she sleeps in pajamas, Sometimes she sleeps in a gown, And when they are both in the laundry, Irenes’ the talk of the town.” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/38 "2005-07-20T17:52:43Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Freak. 🙂 Hey, you’re the one that wears string… > [@Rock-n-Rolga](#): > > Feel highly exposed and vulnerable sleeping nude Yeah, but some of us like that… Buck Nekkid, Texas Ranger!!! ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/39 "2005-07-20T18:00:42Z")
Naked if I’m with my fiance. If I’m on my own a large t-shirt or something similar. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295/40 "2005-07-20T18:21:52Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Yay! I’m not the only one! Nope. I’m with you on that. I may have my legs and feet sticking out the bottom, and my arms out the top, but my middle has to have at least a sheet covering me. AND… I have to have at least shorts (legging-type things in the winter) on my bottom half because I can’t stand my legs/thighs rubbing together. ICK, bleh, awful feeling. AND I have to have at least at t-shirt on the top half because I can’t seem to regulate my temperature without something on… I’ll get cold then hot then cold then hot. It’s awful. Me? Weird? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sleep-in-my-underwear-a-survey-tmi/313295.md?page=3)