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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? :)
If 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.
A sheet over the head also protects against killer robots, as it interferes with face recognition. It also protects against alien abductors, as their paralysis-ray guns can't penetrate fabric with sufficiently high thread counts.
These days, I mainly protect myself from the spouse's dreaded fan, that constantly blows the icy breath of Borealis across the bed. But it's nice to be safe from all the monsters, too.
I hate sleeping under covers, and only do it when necessary. On some days I just turn up the heat enough to be able to sleep without them.
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I'm not reading it because I don't sleep under a blanket on the hottest nights - can't relate.
I provide an explanation for why I'm not reading it, and you vote me down. Remarkable.
From the HN Guidelines (which I recommend reading):
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If it bothers you this much, you're better off deleting your comment.
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Have you tried out weighted blankets?
I've looked at them, they are mostly made of man made materials, I don't want to sleep with. The heat is also an issue, none I've seen address this. Cotton knit seems to be the best option right now.
Well, this is complicated. One of the linked studies shows the opposite result claimed in this article. This article says: " About 60 to 90 minutes before a usual bedtime, the body starts losing core temperature. There’s a physiological explanation for that: when the body is heated, we feel more alert. And conversely, when the body cools down, we tend to feel sleepier. Cooler internal body temperatures are correlated…
I've also embarked on long (16 hours at a time) drives, and can confirm starting to feel cold means I'm starting to fall asleep. But what I do next to continue being awake is this - I turn up the A/C. When I'm freezing cold, I can't fall asleep. Similarly, when I'm sleeping at night and the blanket has been ahem, stolen, by the significant other, I wake up from being freezing cold.
So back to the seemingly contradicting data -
>increase in skin temperature... shifts sleep to deeper stages (PLikely, these _ab_normal individuals are past the "comfortably cool" temperature perfect for sleeping and are instead too cold to sleep. Therefore, a thermosuit that negates that effect and brings their temperature back up to at least "comfortably cool" aids these individuals' sleep. The logic behind this also holds for the article's claim that babies (worse at thermoregulation) need more blankets.
Well, this is complicated. One of the linked studies shows the opposite result claimed in this article. This article says: " About 60 to 90 minutes before a usual bedtime, the body starts losing core temperature. There’s a physiological explanation for that: when the body is heated, we feel more alert. And conversely, when the body cools down, we tend to feel sleepier. Cooler internal body temperatures are correlated…
Presumably, there is an optimal temperature range for sleeping, and for healthy (not young/elderly/insomniac) adults, that temperature range is slightly below their normal temperature. That corroborates Tade0's comment below - observing that starting to feel cold at the wheel means the driver is in danger of falling asleep. I've also embarked on long (16 hours at a time) drives, and can confirm starting to feel cold…
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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? :)
It's a weight thing for me, and not a warmth thing. I crave the feeling of something on me when I'm sleeping. Probably a sense of security. I've been on the eternal hunt for something heavy weight, and low heat. Currently using 3 x varying weights of knit cotton blankets, and does the job.
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Damn, my wife is like that. I'm always cold, winter or summer. But i hate heavy bedding, and prefer light sheets and down comforters. But then, for many years, I slept in a nylon sleeping bag on a foam pad.
Got hit with an unexpected blizzard once when I was on an FTX in Colorado, in December. Pure freaking misery (slept in a mummy bag with a watch cap on). Never been so cold in my life, before or since. My right foot still starts to ache whenever I get cold. So, I live in Florida now. Usually sleep with just a sheet, until my wife steals it at 3AM and wraps it around herself 5 times so I can't get it back.