Sleeping and Temperature

[J-2739]

As most can recall, Tuesday 19th July was the hottest day of the year. It also left one of the hottest nights on record with the mercury hitting 22 degrees Celsius. Such an awful night . In contrast, on cold winter nights, I fall asleep sooner.
Does anyone else have their own comfort zone when it comes to sleeping and temperature?

 

[507021]

I prefer to sleep when it's cool personally. It takes me much longer to get to sleep when it's too warm, I would leave my bedroom window open but the noise outside always wakes me up before my alarm clock does.

 

[Crossover]

I was driving home that evening at around 22:30 and the car was showing 29C even at that time - so warm!

I also prefer it cooler on a night

 

[SS4]

I prefer it cool as I sweat too much when it's warm and feel all icky

 

[Gutfright]

I need it to be as cold as possible because at night the soles of my feet turn bright red and give off a lot of heat.

 

[J-2739]

Interesting results, seems like 'cool' is winning!
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I'd be surprised if someone voted 'hot', but all to their own opinion, I guess.

 

[Domh245]

I would leave my bedroom window open but the noise outside always wakes me up before my alarm clock does.

I don't really have any issue with noise, but I do have an absolutely awful time with small flying bugs. Indeed, leaving the window open as the sun sets will often result in a small swarm of flies on the ceiling, which has now got lots of brown streaks on it from the sheer amount of midge innards stuck to it.

 

[richw]

If it's warm to hot I sweat and get a bad sleep, if it's freezing I shiver all night and don't sleep!

 

[martin2345uk]

I need it to be as cold as possible because at night the soles of my feet turn bright red and give off a lot of heat.

My grandad used to have the same thing happen apparently, I've never heard of anyone else getting it!

 

[J-2739]

I don't really have any issue with noise, but I do have an absolutely awful time with small flying bugs. Indeed, leaving the window open as the sun sets will often result in a small swarm of flies on the ceiling, which has now got lots of brown streaks on it from the sheer amount of midge innards stuck to it.

I might as well use this thread to voice my hatred of flies, especially the big ones. The noise they make is so agrivating and it's disgusting when they touch your skin. I always try and slap them down with whatever's in my hand.

It's even worse in the dark. One hot, stuffy night I just had to open a window and 3 flies flew in. One of the longest nights of my life

 

[fowler9]

I love the warm weather, except when I have to work, I simply cannot sleep.

 

[DaleCooper]

I don't really have any issue with noise, but I do have an absolutely awful time with small flying bugs. Indeed, leaving the window open as the sun sets will often result in a small swarm of flies on the ceiling, which has now got lots of brown streaks on it from the sheer amount of midge innards stuck to it.

I have one of these in my bedroom for that purpose.

 

[richw]

I need it to be as cold as possible because at night the soles of my feet turn bright red and give off a lot of heat.

My granddad has this issue also. it was suggested by his doctor to elevate his feet so as they are higher than his heart level at sleeping. My granddad reports this solved the issue, and has now built a timber frame to elevate the foot end of his bed!

 

[Strathclyder]

Either cool or moderately warm. Can't sleep at all when it's cold.

 

[507021]

I don't really have any issue with noise, but I do have an absolutely awful time with small flying bugs. Indeed, leaving the window open as the sun sets will often result in a small swarm of flies on the ceiling, which has now got lots of brown streaks on it from the sheer amount of midge innards stuck to it.

Flying insects annoy me too, although they're usually not a problem in my room because I spend very little time in it during the evening, so the light is switched off and the moths and other flying insects don't start coming in and flying around it.

 

[DarloRich]

if i am on my own the temperature isn't an issue. You can regulate it quite easily then but with two of you in bed it is nightmare if a warm night

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I find it easier to get to sleep in those rare hot conditions than in the rest of they year; the range 24°C to 28°C seems to work best for me.

 

[Bevan Price]

I prefer it coolish, but not too cold in winter. I cannot use even a lightweight duvet in summer, because I get too hot & uncomfortable. Sometimes just a sheet, or sheet plus single blanket are all I use from about May to early October (plus shorts, as I sleep with the curtains "wide open" and the house is partly overlooked by neighbours)

Even in winter, a light duvet (4.5 tog) is all I use.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Even in winter, a light duvet (4.5 tog) is all I use.

Good grief - we're certainly different then!

Full winter duvet for us in colder weather.

I'd personally prefer traditional sheets and blankets but I am forced to use a duvet but do tuck it in like sheets and blankets with a sheet between us and the duvet and a bedspread on top, so at least it's nice and tight and don't get feet tangled in the duvet or gaps at the edges. Feet tangling and edge gaps are the worst things about duvets.

 

[90019]

Cool for me - it's easier to warm up when it's cold than cool down when it's hot.

 

[cb a1]

I like a nice warm room, windows shut and thin duvet.

My better half likes a nice cold room with lots of fresh air, an electric blanket and thick duvet.

No prizes for guessing that ... I use any excuse to sleep in the spare room.

 

[pne]

I might as well use this thread to voice my hatred of flies, especially the big ones. The noise they make is so agrivating and it's disgusting when they touch your skin.

One of the advantages of sleeping with a CPAP device, I have found, is that when there's something flying around, you can stick your head completely under the covers where you can't hear it anymore, and still get lots of fresh air

 

[J-2739]

One of the advantages of sleeping with a CPAP device, I have found, is that when there's something flying around, you can stick your head completely under the covers where you can't hear it anymore, and still get lots of fresh air

I just had a read of it on Wiki. Isn't used for people with some sort of issue with breathing, e.g. 'sleep apnea'?

 

[Phil.]

As most can recall, Tuesday 19th July was the hottest day of the year. It also left one of the hottest nights on record with the mercury hitting 22 degrees Celsius. Such an awful night . In contrast, on cold winter nights, I fall asleep sooner.
Does anyone else have their own comfort zone when it comes to sleeping and temperature?

Just as well that you weren't around exactly forty years ago. In Cambridge the mercury didn't drop below 23c for three consecutive nights hitting 36 during the day. The line between Queen Adelaide and Magdalene Road was like a rollercoaster as the underlying peat dried out.

 

[Steveman]

I prefer it coolish, but not too cold in winter. I cannot use even a lightweight duvet in summer, because I get too hot & uncomfortable. Sometimes just a sheet, or sheet plus single blanket are all I use from about May to early October (plus shorts, as I sleep with the curtains "wide open" and the house is partly overlooked by neighbours)

Even in winter, a light duvet (4.5 tog) is all I use.

I don't own a duvet other than the thinnest type and have it on all year, windows always open never ever closed however cold, which is the healthy way to sleep.
Sleeping in a warm room is not healthy at all.

 

[fowler9]

Oddly enough working in housing complaints room temperatures cause a lot of complaints. we get people complaining that their heating isn't working and they struggle to get the rooms above 20 degrees celsius. This is in the summer. For me if the room is over 20 I couldn't sleep, apparently optimal temperature for sleep on average is between 15 and 20. I of course can't tell people they are just wrong, I do wonder why they need their heating on in the summer though. I think since central heating became so wide spread a lot of people have become used to heating their house up to what for me is uncomfortably warm. Bizarrely when I have gone to very warm countries the indoor temperature is often a lot lower than people seem to like it here.

 

[TheEdge]

I most enjoy sleeping in a meat fridge.

 

[pne]

I just had a read of it on Wiki. Isn't used for people with some sort of issue with breathing, e.g. 'sleep apnea'?

That's right - when your breathing stops at night because your airways close up, the slight-overpressure is supposed to help keep them open, giving you a better sleep.

 

[cf111]

I prefer it cool, Mrs cf111, on the other hand would rather sleep in a furnace...

 

[D6975]

Cool
I always have the window open or ajar, even in winter.
I have a 4.5 duvet for the summer, but often fall asleep with it pushed to one side. In the winter I have a 7.5, but again I often sleep with it half off me.
Perhaps it's down to me liking camping, I often sleep in my 2 man tent with the door flap open, looking up at the stars when off a on a trip.

My son likes it even cooler, he usually falls asleep with the duvet off, then pulls it back over him when he wakes up in the morning. I did buy him tops and bottoms to sleep in a long time ago, but he wouldn't wear the tops, now he just wears shorts most of the time in bed.