For me, there's a privacy dimension. I don't want people to see what I look like, or am doing, when I'm asleep, when I don't even know what that might be. Although, the privacy feeling might just be my subconscious brain's way of telling me to get a blanket.
Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
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#132Does anyone else feel that they sleep more deeply if they have an animal curled up next to them? I have a cat, but I'm sure when I sleep with him next to me on the sofa I sleep more deeply than normal.
I always wondered if there was some sort of caveman-type response, in that we knew the animal would be more alert and would wake us up if danger came near.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely. You know when you get an x-ray at the dentist and they put that lead blanket over you? I love that thing. I wonder if they make those in a king size...
Look up gravity blankets.
Also called "weighted blankets".
The rule of thumb for optimum blanket weight is 10% of body weight + 1lb.
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#134In Sicily during summertime definitely no blankets...
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#135For me it was just a habit thing. I was used to having a blanket and felt uncomfortable without it. I realized this was silly, and made a conscious decision to try sleeping without a blanket. After a couple of nights, I got used to it, and it was not a problem.
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#136>You may think it’s unnecessary to use a blanket at 10 p.m., when it’s still hot, but by 4 a.m., when it’s colder and you’re unable to shiver? You might need it. We have a common saying for this in Turkish. When somebody feels hot and insists on sleeping without something covering them, we say something like "it snows on a sleeper at night, you better take this on you" and hand them a minimal sheet to sleep under.
Quite randomly, regarding Turkey, I just watched the movie Midnight Express. Then watched Midnight Return right after. Only because I saw someone on HN talking about how many cats there are in Istanbul, and name-dropping the movie. Now I really want to go there. Without smuggling any hash of course. Crypto hashes are okay right? ;-)
Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#137If it's too hot, I use a sheet. I think the explanation is pretty simple: crawly things that may come and bite us.
How would a sheet help with that?
Where I live the state bird is the mosquito. Which doesn't really narrow down my state of residence LOL. Here I am daydreaming my way to sleep counting sheep and a touch/pressure sensor in my skin spontaneously fires as they sometimes randomly do, and ugh there's a mosquito or fly or whatever on me wake up and swat it. Now wrapping in a blanket means the pressure sensors saturate full on all the time so I don't startle. I suspect its worse for men with body hair. Randomly a leg hair catches airflow and red alert a bug has landed on me! Its the same as the tickle reflex, leaning on me while cuddling on the couch is comfy and sleep inducing, tickling is not even remotely sleep inducing.
Speaking of pressure, I sleep on my side with my legs partially up and if I force myself to sleep otherwise, I wake up in that position, so may as well give in. So... maybe TMI but without squooshing at least a thin blanket between my legs there's kind of a self inflicted thigh-vise on my male parts which as any male will attest is uncomfortable. This is a universal problem for males who lift weights and sleep on their side, unless you guys have invented an interesting hack for this problem...
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#138Re: Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
#139I'm reminded of why we have a need for soft, comforting things (Harlow's monkeys): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrNBEhzjg8I
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#140>You may think it’s unnecessary to use a blanket at 10 p.m., when it’s still hot, but by 4 a.m., when it’s colder and you’re unable to shiver? You might need it. We have a common saying for this in Turkish. When somebody feels hot and insists on sleeping without something covering them, we say something like "it snows on a sleeper at night, you better take this on you" and hand them a minimal sheet to sleep under.
Quite randomly, regarding Turkey, I just watched the movie Midnight Express. Then watched Midnight Return right after. Only because I saw someone on HN talking about how many cats there are in Istanbul, and name-dropping the movie. Now I really want to go there. Without smuggling any hash of course. Crypto hashes are okay right? ;-)
have you watched KEDi? :)