# Sleeping in the nude?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 21, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052 "2000-11-21T00:53:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@insider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/insider)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/1 "2000-11-21T00:53:45Z")
What percentage of men/women sleep in the nude?(all the time, most of the time, some of the time, once in awhile)Just taking a poll…
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### Author:  [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/2 "2000-11-21T00:58:19Z")
Me- 99.95% naked, all the time in bed.
the wife- same
the 4 year old, well it all depends. she just likes to be naked, and she tends to take her clothes off just before bed time.
We’re hoping this practice stops before high school.
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/3 "2000-11-21T01:13:06Z")
I would say 99% of the time as well.
Only varies when I am visiting someone else’s house, or if I am very cold. Even with the cold, I usually just put another blanket on the bed.
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/4 "2000-11-21T01:16:28Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by insider \*
> \*\*Just taking a poll… \*\*
[algore mode]:: sigh ::[/algore]
Off to IMHO.
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### Author:  [@Stylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stylus)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/5 "2000-11-21T01:25:22Z")
My girl always sleeps in the nude. I however get cold really easily while I sleep. This leads to me waking up with a runny/stuffy nose. So I now usually sleep with my lamb suit (Just soft fuzzy pjs)on. My girl hates it. She prefers to feel my skin against hers, but I hate waking up with a cold. When we first started seeing each other she would always call my room “the Sahara”.
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### Author:  [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/6 "2000-11-21T01:34:54Z")
I sleep in just my underwear most of the time, no bra though. I always have horrible dreams that make me wake up drenched in sweat, so it just feels yucky to be wearing clothes at this time. But now that it’s getting colder out and snowing I tend to wear clothes now.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/7 "2000-11-21T01:48:20Z")
Apart from showers, I don’t do anything in the nude.
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/8 "2000-11-21T01:51:58Z")
As long as there’s no one who is sleeping in the same room that objects to it, I sleep naked. I’ve even been known to strip clothes off of me while I’m asleep.
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### Author:  [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/9 "2000-11-21T01:52:06Z")
I always sleep naked unless I am with somebody who would be offended, but since there aren’t many people who don’t want to be near me naked, it really doesn’t matter.
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### Author:  [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/10 "2000-11-21T01:52:08Z")
I sleep in the nude all the time.
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### Author:  [@Meephead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meephead)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/11 "2000-11-21T01:59:57Z")
I would say that 80% of the time I sleep sans-clothing. It is the natural way, right?
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/12 "2000-11-21T02:06:44Z")
Until the morning of the Northridge quake in '94, I did sometimes. (No, I wasn’t naked then, but up until about a week before, I had been sleeping in the nide pretty regularly.) If something is going to get me out of bed in the middle of the night, I’d much rather be clothed.
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### Author:  [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/13 "2000-11-21T02:09:37Z")
I prefer to sleep naked, but I rarely do.
I still live with my parents, and my mom checks in on me every morning. I’m also a terribly modest person, so unless it just ends up that I sleep nude, when I sleep at my bf’s I wear t-shirt and boxers.
Usually just a t-shirt. When I move out (not for a while, though) it’ll probably a different story.
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### Author:  [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/14 "2000-11-21T02:18:45Z")
All nude, all the time
and socks in bed? Aarrgh…
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### Author:  [@caircair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caircair)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/15 "2000-11-21T02:32:20Z")
Before I married, I usually slept in a very loose nightgown with nothing underneath. Now we both sleep in the nude unless:
One of us is ill (most recently me, with a cold) or:
We’re at someone else’s house (most recently his sister’s, who has two young kids)
OR
It’s too damn cold to sleep without something on!
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### Author:  [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/16 "2000-11-21T02:35:00Z")
I used to sleep naked all the time, but now I have a roomie, so it’s only when she’s out of town.
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### Author:  [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/17 "2000-11-21T03:49:37Z")
Boxers and a t-shirt for me, thanks.
No socks!
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### Author:  [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/18 "2000-11-21T04:03:24Z")
I wish I could sleep in the nude, I usually end up wearing as little as I can get away with or really cute PJs but my mom checks in on me at night, or at least she used to and I do have the tendency to kick off blankets at night if it gets hots. Not a good combination. Oh well, when I move out things might change.
Kitty
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### Author:  [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/19 "2000-11-21T04:09:26Z")
I sleep naked almost all the time in the spring/summer/fall. In the winter when it’s colder, I’ll start out wearing something on my _really cold_ feet along with a tshirt type thing, but they’re always off by halfway through the night. Unfortunately, this is not because there is someone there taking them off. ☹ Once I get a nice down comforter (shopping around for one now), I’m thinking naked all the time. I must have flannel sheets in the winter or I never really warm up.
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### Author:  [@Disembodied\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disembodied_Head)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-in-the-nude/42052/20 "2000-11-21T04:23:18Z")
I tried it once, it felt very weird, but in a good way, I haven’t tried it since, because normally i sleep with one leg above the sheets and the other beneath… and i roll around while i’m sleeping so by morning i somehow always end up on top of the sheets with the comforter on the floor. When i get my own house i’ll probably try it out some more.
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