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The 1/8th Sleep

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Re: The 1/8th Sleep

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Post by JackMorgan »

user_7832 wrote: post #38
JackMorgan wrote: post #4

I was just about to buy almost this exact setup! Excellent to see it's effective. I thought I was mad looking into fish tank coolers. I was thinking though skipping the evaporative cooler and going with a compressor model. Quite a bit more expensive but I think it'll be more effective in the humid North East. I have realized over the years that I need to be seriously cold to sleep well. My health watch always registe…

> My health watch always registers a great sleep and recharged "body battery" when I've been almost shivering all night. Would you mind sharing which watch (model) offers this? I guess a Garmin of some sort?

I see the same results on both the Vivosmart 4 and the original Instinct. Both Garmin.

Re: The 1/8th Sleep

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Post by asats »

user_7832 wrote: post #38
JackMorgan wrote: post #4

I was just about to buy almost this exact setup! Excellent to see it's effective. I thought I was mad looking into fish tank coolers. I was thinking though skipping the evaporative cooler and going with a compressor model. Quite a bit more expensive but I think it'll be more effective in the humid North East. I have realized over the years that I need to be seriously cold to sleep well. My health watch always registe…

> My health watch always registers a great sleep and recharged "body battery" when I've been almost shivering all night. Would you mind sharing which watch (model) offers this? I guess a Garmin of some sort?

I think most Garmins have it. I have a Venu 3 and am very happy with it, the killer feature for me is it getting over a week of battery life on a single charge vs the apple watch with it's 20 hours.

Re: The 1/8th Sleep

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Post by stavros »

flippyhead wrote: post #33

Good! I'm glad for any alternatives to 8sleep. I have two of their beds, and love them, but bought them before they starting requiring a yearly subscription, which I HATE. Unfortunately, they are the best product available as far as I can tell. Though definitely expensive.

They require a subscription? Why does a mattress require subscription?

Re: The 1/8th Sleep

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Post by Xfx7028 »

chairmansteve wrote: post #12

Great hack! I do a cold shower before bed. Often helps. You can start the shower warm and then slowly reduce the temperature.

I also do this.

I lived most of my life in the Mediterranean country and lived in a apartment on the top floor with just a concrete roof where the room temperature was 34°C even at night.

The solution I found was to take frequent cold showers. Stay under the shower for some time, like 5-10 mins, until you get cold, and then without drying yourself, lie in bed naked. I also felt so cool that I even put a blanket over me. It takes a while until you get warm again, so it's enough time to fall asleep.

For more extreme hot situations you can put a wet cloth/t-shirt on your body, but I think that might be unhealthy.

Re: The 1/8th Sleep

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Post by TheCleric »

samtho wrote: post #13

> […] I was put off by the product due to the now-mandatory paired subscription ($200/yr with purchase, annually paired only, can cancel after) […] It is both confusing and fascinating how some companies manage to put out a product with a subscription, the existence of which defies logic and consumer expectation, and yet they manage to find a group of people who tolerate it.

When ARR is the only metric an investor cares about…

Re: The 1/8th Sleep

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Post by at_a_remove »

d0mine wrote: post #36
at_a_remove wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The method works, and I am going to elaborate on it a little. As the poster said, start warm, work your way down to cool, then cold. Very cold. But what really seems to kick one off to dreamland is not drying your hair, instead putting a towel down on your pillow. As your hair dries, you'll get some more evaporative cooling strictly for your head, and that helps even more

Have you tried a hot shower instead just before the bed. The trick is that it cools down the core when you leave bathroom (by bringing blood to the surface). Extremities should be warm, the core(CBT)—cold, to fall asleep easier.

I have tried that, and no luck. I think, for me at least, it's the head cooling that matters most.

Re: The 1/8th Sleep

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Post by telcal »

Do people use this only in the hot months? It's beginning to get cooler where I live and from now until around April we do the opposite and use a heated mattress pad. For me there's nothing better than getting into a warm bed in a cold room. I immediately turn off the heat after getting in though, otherwise I overheat and sweat.

Re: The 1/8th Sleep

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Post by EarthMephit »

nomel wrote: post #34
smithcoin wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Superstition

There’s a little subtlety to it. In some (all?) parts of Asia it’s intentional misinformation to reduce power usage.

No I think that there's more to it than superstition - We often blame things on superstition when we don't understand them ourselves.

I've been playing around with sleeping with a fan & air-conditioning and I always notice that my throat is all dryed out in the morning from the air flow directly over my face.

I need a couple of glasses of water to re-hydrate after sleeping with a fan or air-conditioner, so if its not too warm a night I prefer to leave them off. I seem to get a better night's sleep too, but maybe that's just because it's a cooler night.

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