I need something covering me. I’m sure it’s a culture/childhood thing to an extent, but I can’t sleep without a layer. It’s another reason why I always wear shorts and a t-shirt to bed too (plus I can’t stand the idea of making my sheets filthy even more quickly by wearing less).
Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
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#12As we’re seeing here, we don’t always. Taking the premise as true though, maybe it’s modesty, or a way to normalize temperature fluctuations? From my experience in the Phillipines though, I’m with the rest here who are denying the premise of the article. Plus no sheets means no anti-monster force fields.
In my childhood blankets were the bests against monsters. And burglars. Totally agree.
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#13I need something covering me. I’m sure it’s a culture/childhood thing to an extent, but I can’t sleep without a layer. It’s another reason why I always wear shorts and a t-shirt to bed too (plus I can’t stand the idea of making my sheets filthy even more quickly by wearing less).
I’m the same. It doesn’t need to be heavy. During the summer it’s often simply a top sheet. But without it I find it really difficult to sleep.
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#14Do people really sleep under blankets on nights >20C? I don't, despite the 'history of bedding'.
Personally, I have trouble falling asleep without at least a light bed sheet.
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#15I guess I'm one of those weirdos that doesn't. I get hot really easily, so unless the sheets are really light cotton, I roast. Oddly enough, though, I love heated mattress pads. I can crank it up to 10 and sleep without sheets just fine. Something relevant: does anybody have suggestions for weighted blankets? My SO is into big, heavy comforters and other bed coverings (no idea what they're called) and she'd probably…
duvet cover?
No, actually weighted like this [1], literally 20 lb blanket. (Just an example, not a recommendation.)
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B073451HTY/ref=psdcmw_3732181...
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#16I don't, until the mosquitoes come feasting.
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#17My guess is that the warm and snug feeling of behind under a blanket evokes the womb. Same idea for white noise while sleeping.
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#18My dad and his army unit would sleep under wet bath towels in the sweltering El Paso summer nights, in the late 1960s. He would wake up in the middle of the night, when the towel dried up and stopped cooling with evaporation, and have to go get it wet again.
It seems like an evolved reaction - make sure we are under cover, out of sight while sleeping and helpless. But given how much we move around, snore, talk, and make commotion while sleeping, having a simple cover may not help much. Maybe it was evolved for a smaller frame?
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#19I guess I'm one of those weirdos that doesn't. I get hot really easily, so unless the sheets are really light cotton, I roast. Oddly enough, though, I love heated mattress pads. I can crank it up to 10 and sleep without sheets just fine. Something relevant: does anybody have suggestions for weighted blankets? My SO is into big, heavy comforters and other bed coverings (no idea what they're called) and she'd probably…
Hospital blankets must be made from lead, but I don't know where they get them. Quilts are usually pretty dense.
I have this argument with my wife: in the winter we have a very nice down comforter. It is plenty warm on its own. She likes to through a heavy quilt we have on top of that. I say that it makes the bed colder... the quilt compresses the down in the comforter and it loses much of its insulation ability that way, more than the insulation added by the quilt on top. She refuses to accept this argument and says it's warmer with the comforter plus the quilt. I haven't wanted to win the argument badly enough to start taking measurements, but as a compromise, we've worked out having her double up the quilt on her side.
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#20Standard Western bigotry. Here in he middle part of the earth (ie near the equator) it’s super common for people to sleep without any cover. It’s still considered more “proper” to use blanks because that’s how westerners do it, but it needs to be learned. People don’t do it automatically, and kids kicking off their blankets is a common theme between parents. Your hottest nights are just not hot enough.