hate waking up sweating because the morning is not as cold as the night and now I have too many blankets
yeah and its like a temp feels fine one day and not another. thing is I love covers and the feeling of being bundled up in one or near a fire. So like its kinda nice being cold. Similary its great for it to be hot when you have a place to swim. The cool water feels so nice.
Your natural body temperature is not uncomfortable for you, it’s natural because it’s perfect for you. What you don’t like is ambient temperature to be equal or higher than the body temperature, because that means that your body now has to do more work to get to the optimal, natural body temperature.
Equating ambient and body temperature is just a mental fallacy you’ve fallen victim of, you could just as well say “oh 25°C being perfect for us is bullshit”. Why is it bullshit? You don’t like the number? It just doesn’t mean anything.
As to the topic at hand… I don’t understand why you can’t just remove/add layers of blankets dynamically based on the temperature around you?
Adding/removing blankets…easy to do before you go to sleep. Annoying to wake up with the balance wrong when you’d rather have slept in comfort for another half hour.
our natural body temperature does its best to perfectly balance out to 36.6C, but you are a biological machine, you keep generating heat by just existing, and you need to release the excess. it’s much easier when the air around you is colder, but when it’s starting to reach the same temperature as your body then your the “uh oh sweating time” triggers to help you along
You may be suffering from synthetic fibers, check your clothing and bedding for polyester. It has very poor characteristics for comfort and feeling hot and sweaty is a key characteristic. This isn’t some hippie shit, you’ll genuinely be much more comfortable in real non-plastic fibres and you’ll significantly reduce your microplastic generation and exposure as a direct byproduct.
After abandoning plastic fibers, I can’t even put on a polyester jumper in winter without overheating and getting sweaty. Real organic fibres are so much more comfortable and only marginally more expensive.
Of synthetic, I can recommend rayon (that’s made from bamboo), also known as viscose. While it is synthetic, it breathes wonderfully.
I believe it also breaks down organically? So probably not one to be grouped with the plastic threads like nylon, acrylic, polyester
I second this. I’m almost always too hot and realized years ago that polyester fabrics made it worse. It’s one of the reasons my ex and I used different blankets - I used a 100% cotton sheet, but he was the type of person who’s usually cold, so he used fuzzy polyester blankets. He thought my blanket was too light, while I thought his was too hot.
The struggle to avoid polyester is the hardest part. I have a significant yarn collection for all my art projects, but over the past few years I’ve been trying to avoid polyesters (to avoid contributing to microplastics.) The only polyesters I bought since then were either made of recycled materials, or were special glow-in-the-dark kinds (because I haven’t found cotton or bamboo yarn with that feature yet.)
Preach!
With some very specific exceptions, natural fibers are far better.
Give me a wool blanket or sweater (jumper in your terms I believe).
Wool is freakin magic.
My only exception is workout gear - the specialty synthetics are fantastic.
Hemp is also amazing and doesn’t involve animal cruelty
The real preach! I really wish hemp becomes more common for many things, as it used to be.
I love my linnen bedsheets in the summer, expensive as hell, but damn, they have the perfect temp for me.
Just switched back to mine as well after a short while with some polyester stuff and the difference is just night and day. No sweating, no overbearing heat. The blanket is the same but the linnen sheets just work so much better
Linen sheets are top tier. Hemp too.
All animals are producing heat by metabolism, and so are naturally hotter than their environments. Being in an environment that is as hot as your ideal body temperature means your metabolism raises your temperature above the ideal.
The only way around this is active cooling - like sweating - which is generally uncomfortable as a signal that you are expending energy on keeping cool and try and get somewhere cooler where you won’t have to expend as much energy on that.
Hate the laws of thermodynamics? Put that hatred to good use and become a mechanical engineer! Doesn’t matter if it’s aerospace or manufacturing! We all hate that doing fun stuff generates heat, so we design complicated systems to make things like 1% more thermodynamically efficient 👍
(This sounded funnier in my head)
Found Samanthan Rutherford’s Lemmy account
Sweat is a perfectly normal process, though. Being able to sweat a lot and having it evaporate quickly (little bodyhair compared to most other mammals) is one of humanity’s big evolutionairy advantages.
Endurance hunting FTW.
I like to think I’m not sweaty - I’m just an effective endurance hunter.
Is going to be earlier and waking just before things start heating up an option? Here in rural northeastern Japan, we do that to beat the heat of the day for work outside (getting up right around 4 or a bit before when days are their longest) and a lot of folks are asleep by 20 or 21.
Ah yes, damn our natural state of multiple blankets
blankets don’t generate heat
But you do, and the blankets retain it.
yeah, it retains, and as I said, our natural body temperature is uncomfortable for us, and that’s bullshit design
that’s bullshit design
We were not designed: we evolved into something that will survive in its current environment just long enough to reproduce, for a number of different environments and despite a number of antagonistic factors.
The fact we generate heat is a really minor issue, in the grand scheme of things, that evolution didn’t fix. Were we endothermic instead, for instance, we’d still need to find or create areas of better environmental comfort from hour to hour or day to day. Our fix for the necessity of creating surplus heat through our metabolism or exertion is to sweat. It’s our heat sink. It’s enabled us to run hotter glucose-driven brains to figure things out better and, thus, out-compete lizards and bears and badgers.
You can hate it, but you do need to understand it’s unavoidable – but it can be minimized, and that is how you cope with it. But I understand the frustration: sweating can really suck sometimes. Sometimes, though - and this is the ironic part - sweating from wild exertion can feel amazing. I bet it’s from the endorphins or whatever, and that the sweating is only correlative, but still, good times.
Anything which produces heat needs cooling to maintain an even temperature. What’s uncomfortable for you is when your temperature is higher than your natural temperature due to lack of cooling.
Some basic math - we’re a species who’s body generates heat, so works best in conditions with a temperature lower than our body temp. Otherwise we need to sweat to efficiently transfer heat.
Memory foam traps heat.
And is your blood sugar good?
It might not be either of these things, but they are worth crossing off the list of reasons. Along with what the other poster said about synthetic fabrics.
I’m assuming you’re all from a place where society collectively decided to burn energy 24/7 to control the temperature in the whole house instead of just putting on or removing a layer of clothing… in about 90% of the world the reason is just because it’s cold or hot outside, then it’s a bit cold or a bit hot inside as well.
So your complaint is that the sun comes up every morning?
local Internet user complains about something and guilt trips others for wanting to be comfy when they offer good advice
I say “morning is not as cold as the night” and the comments are about fabric, then the person does not know thermostats are an exception and not a rule… and yeah, I find the normalization of the idea of burning energy to control the house temperature 24/7 disturbing - you find it normal? let’s hope other societies don’t, because we’d have to destroy way more of the world just to produce the energy.
You’re on an English speaking forum. Yes, climate control is normal for most here. This is rage bait.
you layered yourself in blankets the other person is trying to help you make choices about your fabric choices because they affect both your perceived and your actual body temperature and help equalize your comfort between morning and night
they suggested a solution which ACTUALLY FITS YOUR WORLD VIEW of using less electricity or fossil fuels for comfort purposes and you berate them for it.
also, the idea that using energy for climate control is evil is an odd take IMO. not everybody lives in a temperate climate! people would literally die if you just deleted every HVAC system on the planet. and as much as I think it’s silly that Phoenix, AZ exists, the concept of forcibly displacing people from their current home is often frowned upon.
i thought the other guy saying you’d be fun at parties was going a bit far at first, but now I have to agree. There’s no need to be this argumentative or unreasonable and contrarian. unless you’re a misanthrope in which case carry on i suppose?
Well, you seem like a delight to be around.
