I have one of these that I roll up to bolster my back when it is playing up on me. Then, this is what I use as a pillow when I am napping because it is soft, lovely, and warm but also a tiny bit alien so I don’t fall into a very deep sleep and become a zombie for the remainder of the day.
It naturally warms up in the morning. Like, if you sleep in an unheated place, it will get cold at night and warm up around sunrise.
But yeah, i live in an artificially heated house.
I actually have my thermostats on a timer in all of the house except my bedroom, which has an old-fashioned single-setting thermostat. But i think heat leaks into my bedroom from downstairs in the morning. At any rate, i do sometimes cuddle in my quilt for a little before braving the cold bedroom, but it’s not a big deal.
A cold person here. Getting out of bed in the morning when it’s so cold in the room doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t spend any extra time in my bedroom. I hop out of bed and go directly into the bathroom which is pretty warm. I get dressed, etc in there.
We keep our house on the cool-ish side during the winter for energy reasons - I own long-sleeved shirts and I’m not afraid to use them. But sometimes I’m feeling a tiny bit chilled when I’m doing stuff around the house. If it’s time to relax, I’ll flop on the couch, with one ancient afghan folded in a triangle to make a shawl of sorts, and a fleece throw (small blanket, designed for couch-napping, for non-US’ers) from the armpits down.
There is something about having been a little cooler than ideal, then getting toasty warm, that knocks me out almost as fast as an IV sedative.
Years back, when we had a waterbed, the heat had a similar effect. We went from that to a Sleep Number bed which was temperature-neutral, then from THAT to a memory foam mattress which, as I’d heard, sleeps “hot”. So now we’ve had to start using the ceiling fan in the bedroom during warmer months.
Lights: I hate when the room is completely dark. Too many instances of needing to get up at night to use the bathroom, and I hated having to deal with either going in the complete dark, or blinding myself. Never occurred to me to get a nightlight for the bathroom when growing up. When we were newlyweds, we lived in an a apartment with a streetlight outside the bathroom window - and the lightbulb figuratively (and literally, I guess) went off. Ever since then, we’ve always kept a nightlight in the bathroom - hell, we even have them in our travel toiletry kits for hotel stays.
Of course that backfired when we got a cat who loved to chase shadows. He’d be in the bathroom at night, frantically trying to catch those damn shadows that kept eluding him. Rather a dimwitted cat, all in all. We had to make a point of closing the bathroom door so he couldn’t get in when we were trying to sleep in the next room.
I absolutely and unambiguously will not sleep a wink unless I’m flat (no sleeping in a car) and there’s white noise, ideally from a fan (no sleeping in silence). Other than that, I can largely get by.
This. I sleep so much better if I am chilled before crawling into bed. The nighttime bathroom trips, I don’t notice the cold so much. In the morning, the cold wakes me up faster.
Does anyone else wish they could go to sleep spooning with their SO? It sounds good to me in theory, but after a short time I feel like my skin is going to melt. We mostly sleep cheek to cheek, in a manner of speaking.
Yeah, we try it for a few minutes every night, but I end up bailing.
My husband and I always laugh when we see a couple on tv sleeping with the woman’s head on the man’s chest and his arm around her. You can do that for about 10 minutes and then your arm starts to ache, you can’t move without disturbing the other person, you can’t breathe properly, the list goes on.
Nude.
I can sleep with my wife in a double bed, I can sleep on a camping mattress in a sleeping bag, I can sleep on a beach, hell, I’ve even slept in a 6 foot plastic body bag in a flooded cave. But always nude. I hate the constriction of even the softest clothing.
It does make for slightly awkward awakenings from time to time.
My boyfriend was sleeping on the couch for a while but now he’s in the guest bedroom and he absolutely loves it. He brags to all his friends about it and they are jealous! We actually have our “together time” in the guest room on the twin bed, then I go off to my bed with the dogs. This way, we don’t interrupt the dogs or have to fight with them for space.
Anyway, I like it cold and dark. I’m naked. I fall asleep with the tv on. As soon as I put on my CPAP I’m asleep within a few minutes. It’s me and 2 medium-sized dogs in a full bed. I don’t get much say in how I am situated. I’m situated around the dogs. I don’t use an alarm, my dogs wake me up.
I’m considering buying a king bed soon.
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I have to have a cool bedroom. I want to cuddle under the covers but, to do that, I need a cool bedroom something on the order of 55 to 60 degrees.
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My bed has to be absolutely clean. I never eat in bed because, if I found a single crumb, I’d have to strip the bed and put on clean sheets even if it was the middle of the night.
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I have no TV in my bedroom. Sure, I can doze off on the couch while I’m watching TV in the living room, but I can’t stand any sound when I actually go to bed.
Here’s my thread from a couple of years ago about sleeping with your mobile phone in the bed.
Temperature is anything comfortable. I’ve got a friend who has stayed over a few times but he puts the apartment into absolute deep freeze. Drives me crazy and I end up having to put on a hoodie.
I have to wear some clothes to sleep in, maybe it’s all the years of having roommates or family that didn’t respect privacy.
I prefer flannel sheets and usually use them mid-September until May.
I will always listen or watch something before bedtime. I don’t have a TV in the bedroom because I have the iPad. Occasionally I’ll steam music and read before bed as well.