the autismos on this site are about to give a nice boost to the weighted blanket industry
Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
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Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#62My 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 m…
Wet bath towel sounds...horrible! Wouldn't you develop something like 'trench foot' after a while from being constantly wet?
Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#63If it's too hot, I use a sheet. I think the explanation is pretty simple: crawly things that may come and bite us.
Blankets and sheets also protect from ghost, witches, monsters from under the bed... ask any child, if you're under something that hides you (or that you cant't look at), automatically you won't be found. Things that you can't look at can't look at you, too.
There's also the unspoken rule that hanging a foot or hand over the edge of the mattress fair game for Monsters Under the Bed.
Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#64My 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 m…
Wet bath towel sounds...horrible! Wouldn't you develop something like 'trench foot' after a while from being constantly wet?
I have definitely used a damp sheet and a small fan to keep cool on very hot nights. Idk about a towel - but the damp sheet felt great. When it's that hot you're already laying there soaked in sweat.
Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#65If it's too hot, I use a sheet. I think the explanation is pretty simple: crawly things that may come and bite us.
In all seriousness, they protect from anything hunting via heat. Snakes and a great many insects wont notice a warm body covering in an insulating blanket as they would bare flesh.
Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dunno about crawly things, but mosquitos definitely first go for body parts not covered by sheets.
which is pretty ineffective since mosquitos are quite good at finding the body part that's uncovered. If you sleep like a cocoon and don't move i guess that works.
That's... why you sleep under a sheet... so your body parts are covered. It definitely reduces the number of bites I get.
Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#67My 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 m…
When it’s hot, life is always better if it’s not also humid!
Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#68It's currently summer where I live and my wife has been sleeping upstairs at our room with two freaking blankets (one of them pretty heavy). Since NYE I have been sleeping at the ground level of the house where it's cooler, practically naked every night, desperate to be able to sleep without sweating profusely. I guess my wife really likes her serotonin bump.
Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dunno about crawly things, but mosquitos definitely first go for body parts not covered by sheets.
which is pretty ineffective since mosquitos are quite good at finding the body part that's uncovered. If you sleep like a cocoon and don't move i guess that works.
>If you sleep like a cocoon
That's basically how I sleep, though I do move around a bit.
Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#70If it's too hot, I use a sheet. I think the explanation is pretty simple: crawly things that may come and bite us.
Blankets and sheets also protect from ghost, witches, monsters from under the bed... ask any child, if you're under something that hides you (or that you cant't look at), automatically you won't be found. Things that you can't look at can't look at you, too.
> Things that you can't look at can't look at you, too.
This is why, as every seasoned hitchhiker knows, always travel with a towel.