Gutsy move for a Dung_Beetle. Front foot or back foot?
Had to look that one up, never heard of it. Imagine my surprise when I found out it’s what we would call a baby stroller over here. You wacky folks from the upside down part of the world sure have different customs.
Me three or whatever. I did it even before my military service. I think part of it was from being poor and having to cram nine kids plus parents into two or three bedroom places.
I can also do a thing that’s somewhere between sleep and meditation. I just close my eyes, control my breathing and I get a pleasant light headed feeling. I can hear everything going on around me. It’s a bit like being high. Comes in handy waiting for appointments or when taking a break when hiking.
White noise is required. I currently use an air filter that has a sleep setting. Night wear is a tshirt and sometimes nothing. Body pillow on my left, huggable smaller pillow on my right. I’ve been dealing with frozen shoulder for too many months and it has screwed up my sleep positioning. Now I sleep on my right side with top leg on the pillow. A sliver of light through the curtains. Ursala Kitteh is always welcome but most nights she stays downstairs. Winter blankets are a Vellux with a Peanuts throw. Summer is just the Peanuts throw. Summer also has a floor air conditioner at the foot of the bed.
In the winter, heat on 67, long yoga pants, tank top, t-shirt, sweatshirt, socks. Cotton sheets, six cotton blankets, and one feather pillow. No people or pets allowed! A fan blowing on me and my phone on a white noise app.
Not much different in the summer, but I lose the sweatshirt and a few of the blankets.
Normal routine is to lotion my hands and feet, climb in, drink a glass of wine and read the 'Dope on my laptop until 11:00 or so. Weekday alarm is 6:45, but I’m almost always up before that, even on weekends.
I need it dark. As dark as possible. At home, we have blackout shades on the windows. In a hotel room, we’re very careful about closing window curtains as completely as possible, often moving pillows or furniture to push the curtains up against the wall. I have some homemade LED nightlights that provide a very minimal glow under the bed, and some glow-in-the-dark tape on the corners of various room objects. They provide enough beacons for nighttime navigation to/from the bathroom, but virtually nothing to see when lying in bed.
Gotta have white noise. Have a deluxe noise machine at home, and a smaller portable one for travel. When traveling very light (eg. motorcycle trip, or when flying with carry-on only), I pull up a super-long stream video (like **this one) on my cell phone at night.
I cannot fucking stand any weight on my feet/toes. I have to sculpt the comforter to form a self-supporting cave around my feet.
I grew up sleeping with the window open, winter or summer so I like a cold room, and airflow [I cheat and use a small fan] I like a moderate blanket [most of the time I use my husbands issue woobie as a blanket, we do the European thing of each having our own blanket, he uses a heavy winter weight comforter all year around] One pillow, we have to have microfiber sheets - my skin is hyper sensitive to the feeling of coarse common cotton poly sheets [the pilling feels like someone dumped a scoop of blaster media into the bed when making it] I can sleep anywhere from anechoic chamber silent to airport at rush hour level. [I have been known to catch naps on the floor of airports while stuck waiting - now I can’t because I can’t get up and down from the floor] so the tv may pr may not be on as it just doesn’t matter.
Can’t be too hot (80s F) or I can’t sleep.Can’t get too cold or I’ll sleep for an hour, then wake up from a nightmare scared and cold with a low body temperature. A fan is useful for white noise, and creating breeze if it’s a bit stuffy. I need to have room to move around or roll from side to side or stomach, and I tend to sleep better if I can curl a bit. And, unless I’m wiped out, I can’t sleep on my back.
I also often fold over my pillow, but it’s not absolutely necessary. And I sleep better when my (15 year old) puppy cuddles with me.
Room must be dark. We have blackout blinds in the windows of the bedroom and they’re a godsend. If I climb in bed and get comfy and realize that I left the bathroom door ajar I get mad at myself: there’s a night light in the bathroom and I don’t want the light coming into the bedroom.
White noise is mandatory. It’s impossible for me to sleep without it. A small desktop fan sitting in the corner of the room works well.
Room must be cool. Or better yet, cold. The vent for the furnace is closed year-round. On the rare times my wife is out of town I’ll turn the furnace off and crack the window a bit, even in the winter. As long as my legs stay warm I’m good.
A cotton sheet and a thick blanket, with another blanket covering the lower half of the bed for leg warmth. If I had my way I’d sleep with just a duvet and no top sheet, but my wife refuses. No PJ’s or clothes of any kind, I find they bunch up around my neck and legs as I toss and turn during the night.
A hug pillow is welcome but not mandatory. I’ll bunch up the blanket and use it if I have to.
I sleep on my side and turn over many times per night, which is annoying as I wake up each time.
I sleep with a CPAP. Won’t even attempt to sleep without it.
No pets allowed in bed when I’m sleeping. The sensation of an animal silently walking across my bed in the dark sets off all sorts of anxiety.
left to my own devices I’ll go to bed around 10 and wake up around 8. On nights I have to work the following day I go to bed around 2030 and get up at 0500. Thus an alarm is a must.
No real “bedtime routine.” I make sure to visit the loo before crawling into bed. But I don’t read or watch TV. Just turn off the light and wait for inevitable mental cacophony of thoughts that prevent me falling asleep in short order.
That is one of the meanings and I got what it was from the context of the post, but I googled to see if it was a sheet-like thing or a blanket-like thing. Google showed me a page of strollers with the brand name Doona when I searched for it. I had to look at images and duvets was one of the sub categories.
The most important thing is that the air is cool. I really have trouble sleeping when it’s warm. Even as a kid. My mom didn’t believe in air conditioning, and I had some sticky uncomfortable sleepness nights.
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I get nightmares if I get cold, too. If I have a warm enough comforter, I don’t get cold, though. I can sleep in air close to freezing with a down quilt over me.
We usually sleep with a light cotton quilt in the summer, and a down comforter in the winter.
Yeah, cleaning the duvet cover is a bitch. It’s totally worth putting a sheet in there, sheets are easy to wash, and keep the upper layers clean.
Other than that… I don’t like moving lights, like when there’s traffic and headlights move across the room, but unless I have a bright light in my eye, constant light doesn’t bother me. I think complete blackness would creep me out, but I don’t think I’ve ever experienced it.
I guess my quirk is that I find white noise annoying. I’m okay with crickets, and distant cars, and gentle snoring, and hearing the murmur of people talking a way away. But the noise of fans and similar “white noise” annoys me, and I always feel a sense of relief when those noises go away
Room has to be cool-cold, very small amount of light, not pitch dark, pillow has to feel cold as I’ve been a “head sweater” since I was a child. I use one of those “curved” chiropractor pillows, really helps my neck. I sleep in t-shirt and boxer shorts but only wear pajamas if it’s exceptionally cold, bed clothing has to be loose around my feet, can’t be tucked in.
For me it’s a comfort thing. I spent ~19 months living apart from my wife while I was finishing college and I developed a few bachelor routines that I realized I really, really preferred. One of those was the “duvet only, no top sheet” setup. I don’t remember why I had to configure my bed that way one day – I assume my sheets were on the line drying and I foolishly only had the one set – but that night I slept with just the duvet and realized “oh my God, this is sooooooo much more comfortable!” The top sheet tends to wrap a bit around my ankles and lower legs and, while I was never really aware of it, that’s really uncomfortable. After using just the duvet that’s definitely my preference. A sleeping bag provides the same comfort for my legs, but isn’t comfortable in… well, pretty much every other aspect.
That’s interesting to me, because that’s exactly what my dad uses for his bed. He keeps the room cool enough that it doesn’t get too hot, and then rolls out his sleeping bag on his bed, unzips, and gets in. He also keeps his pillow on the side, along with a little Zillow (stuffed animal/pillow hybrid) my sister gave him.
He also just generally needs the air to be cool to feel like he can breathe.
That’s me, too. I sometimes tuck the sheet in at the end of the bed, but it must be loose all along the sides. I need to be able to toss and turn comfortably. Also, add me to the “stick my legs out” club. I think that’s how i thermoregulate. If I’m cold, i keep my feet under the covers, but if i overheat i shove them out into the cool bedroom air to let off steam, so to speak.
(Tucking the sheet at the end avoids the “wrapping around the legs” thing.)
My husband and I sleep in separate rooms. He’s a terrible snorer.
Temp: Cold! I bought a thermometer for my bedside table to see how cold my room was. Last night it was 54F. When I’m snuggled under the comforter I don’t notice that it’s that cold.
Noise: I have a fan on a dresser about 10’ away. That blows all night, every night. In the summer I use a window fan for most of the season + the dresser fan. If and when we get our heatwave, I have a window AC unit running along with my dresser fan.
Sleep clothing: I wear a sleeping bra and underwear.
Bed: Top and bottom sheet, comforter in the winter, and quilt in the summer. I use flannel sheets in the winter. When we get our cold snap (like now!) and it’s way below 0, I use polar fleece sheets. In the summer I use regular sheets. I only use one pillow.
Light: I don’t like regular night lights. I have a Halo Light that’s probably 20+ years old. It’s a disc that is under my bed. It has blue lights emitting from the disc sides. So there is a soft blue glow on my floor.
Door: Must be closed!
Rituals: I don’t think I could ever just lay down in bed and fall asleep. I take one Tylenol PM(Walmart brand) and then I either read or watch something on Netflix or Amazon on my tablet until I can’t keep my eyes open. That happens anywhere from 15 - 30 minutes. I also say a prayer.
Temperature: cool
Light: Mostly dark, but a little light bleeding in from the streetlights outside is ok.
White noise is a must. I have a white noise machine in my bedroom at home. If I’m in a hotel room I’ll set the AC unit to run the fan constantly. Although many hotels nowadays have the AC controlled by a wall thermostat rather than the controls on the unite itself, and most of these thermostats don’t have an option to just run the fan. But I do have a white noise app on my phone that I use in those situations.
My clothes: underwear and a t-shirt.
Bedsheets: I like having the foot end tucked in.
I have my smart thermostat programmed to crank up the heat to my normal daytime temperature 30 minutes before I get up. So by the time I get up it’s not actually cold anymore. Although that does have the side effect of sometimes being awakened by the sound of the furnace coming on 30 minutes before I want to be awake.
