# What do/can you sleep under in summer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 22, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-can-you-sleep-under-in-summer/565067 "2010-12-22T12:59:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-can-you-sleep-under-in-summer/565067/21 "2010-12-23T08:42:16Z")
Nothing, regardless of the season. Occasionally I’ll cover myself with a sheet, but kick it off after a few minutes. My partner is the opposite: blankets, quilts, cap, socks, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-can-you-sleep-under-in-summer/565067/22 "2010-12-23T20:39:22Z")
Lightweight doona, until it gets pretty hot, then nothing\*, then A/C with a lightweight doona. The reverse cycle kills my electric bill, so I wait until it’s one of those 38 degree humid nights with no wind. Ugh. (Although this is a lie, sometimes if it’s very humid with no wind I don’t wait for it to be hotter.) What is in a sheet set will be printed on the side of the plastic cover, but it is usually bottom sheet, flat sheet and two pillow cases. Whatever time of year, I sleep with my husband, which is the equivalent of sleeping with a furnace. \*Nothing meaning no sheets. Must have some jammies always. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-can-you-sleep-under-in-summer/565067/23 "2010-12-23T21:38:00Z")
Can I ask for a translation? Is a duvet in Australia more like a comforter or a bedspread? I thought it was the former, but **Sattua** ’s comment about “all” that is needed confuses me, since I’d associate “all that’s needed” with something being too lightweight not too heavy. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-can-you-sleep-under-in-summer/565067/24 "2010-12-23T21:53:49Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Can I ask for a translation? Is a duvet in Australia more like a comforter or a bedspread? I thought it was the former, but **Sattua** ’s comment about “all” that is needed confuses me, since I’d associate “all that’s needed” with something being too lightweight not too heavy. Duvet = comforter = doona. Bedspread…er…they have them here but most people use a duvet or a doona. However, I find that you can get really lightweight ones, which are closer to a bedspread, which I didn’t really see much of in the US states where I lived. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-can-you-sleep-under-in-summer/565067/25 "2010-12-26T08:05:00Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > Duvet = comforter = doona. > > Bedspread…er…they have them here but most people use a duvet or a doona. > > However, I find that you can get really lightweight ones, which are closer to a bedspread, which I didn’t really see much of in the US states where I lived. Ah, okay, so I wasn’t wrong. In the US something lightweight but not a bedspread or mere blanket is more likely to be a quilt than a comforter. I know there probably are heavy quilts, but the ones I’ve seen in person have been surprisingly lightweight. (um…only surprising because in many books from the 1800s, they refer to quilts as being warm.) ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-can-you-sleep-under-in-summer/565067/26 "2010-12-26T10:32:55Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Ah, okay, so I wasn’t wrong. In the US something lightweight but not a bedspread or mere blanket is more likely to be a quilt than a comforter. I know there probably are heavy quilts, but the ones I’ve seen in person have been surprisingly lightweight. (um…only surprising because in many books from the 1800s, they refer to quilts as being warm.) Ya, like a quilt, but meant to be put in a cover like a duvet or a comforter, is what I mean by a lightweight one. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2010, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-can-you-sleep-under-in-summer/565067/27 "2010-12-26T11:23:11Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > Duvet = comforter = doona. > > Bedspread…er…they have them here but most people use a duvet or a doona. > > However, I find that you can get really lightweight ones, which are closer to a bedspread, which I didn’t really see much of in the US states where I lived. I always understood duvet was the fabric cover to go over a comforter so youwere not always washing the comforter…? I need to be refrigerated to sleep, winter I am happy with the window open, summer we use the AC to refrigerate the room. I sleep with a heavy comforter and my husband the furnace in winter, and in summer the furnace and I sleep under a topsheet. I have to have something over me or I literally can not sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-can-you-sleep-under-in-summer/565067/28 "2010-12-26T21:29:47Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Ah, okay, so I wasn’t wrong. In the US something lightweight but not a bedspread or mere blanket is more likely to be a quilt than a comforter. I know there probably are heavy quilts, but the ones I’ve seen in person have been surprisingly lightweight. (um…only surprising because in many books from the 1800s, they refer to quilts as being warm.) I grew up using homemade quilts made by my Mennonite mother and grandmother, and they were heavy as anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-can-you-sleep-under-in-summer/565067.md?page=1)