A simple sleep & heat related question here..

Raider · 17 Jul 2006 at 20:55

Ok so it's 11pm, i'm watching TV in shorts, t-shirt, quite comfortable really. Not that hot.

11:30pm, strip down to just boxers, lie on bed with NOTHING on top of me, don't move a muscle, now i'm overheating!

Why the hell does this happen? How can wearing less clothes, and not moving result in more heat? Grrr damn you summer!! :mad:

DB_SamX · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:00

Wearing a layer traps air in between, which can act as insulator. Cotton, if this is what your clothes are, are excellent at absorbing sweat.

Raider · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:02

Could it also be because when you're lying down your body is in contact with a large surface, thus trapping more heat? I need to sleep sitting up I think

Dr.EM · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:18

Nah, sleep standing on your head, least contact area

I have also found this, though it is generally too hot in my room anyway.

SourChipmunk · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:23

I've heard you burn more calories sleeping then you do watching television. Calories, of course, are units of heat. Therefore you get warmer.

edit: This link doesn't show that much difference, though.

Wryel · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:30

Were you downstairs before you got nekid? Its ******* boiling on the third floor here.

Syngress · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:33

Dr.EM said:
Nah, sleep standing on your head, least contact area

Problem with this is you lose most of your heat through you head

Try sleeping standing up, or even on tip toes to reduces contact area ;-)

Or take a shower just before you go to bed, but dont fully dry yourself, enough that your not dripping but still leave some moisture on your body, get into bed, have a nice big fan in the room to move the air around, and hopefully you will stay cool for enough to get to sleep

Raider · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:33

In a flat, so everything is on the level here

riddlermarc · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:38

Get one of those plant demister spray things, fill with cold water and spray your nekkid self every so often*.. really helps to keep you cool

* only do this in the privacy of your bedroom with the curtains shut, not in the middle of Argos on a hot day..

Noxis · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:43

Raider said:
Ok so it's 11pm, i'm watching TV in shorts, t-shirt, quite comfortable really. Not that hot.

11:30pm, strip down to just boxers, lie on bed with NOTHING on top of me, don't move a muscle, now i'm overheating!

Why the hell does this happen? How can wearing less clothes, and not moving result in more heat? Grrr damn you summer!!

Crazy timezone madness between London and Oxford its only 9:43pm here. Maybe you are nearer the sun and therefore time moves quicker?

Ex-RoNiN · 17 Jul 2006 at 22:02

Raider said:
Ok so it's 11pm, i'm watching TV in shorts, t-shirt, quite comfortable really. Not that hot.

11:30pm, strip down to just boxers, lie on bed with NOTHING on top of me, don't move a muscle, now i'm overheating!

Why the hell does this happen? How can wearing less clothes, and not moving result in more heat? Grrr damn you summer!!

You're either referring to yesterday, or you're a time traveller, or you don't know how a clock works.

Each of them scary in their own way

Gobbledegeek · 18 Jul 2006 at 01:18

If you ate shortly before going to bed, this would also exacerbate the problem.

I read somewhere, many moons ago, that cleaning your teeth and lightly sprinkling your sheets with talc works......or was it the other way round?

Tom|Nbk · 18 Jul 2006 at 03:14

well i just got up cos there aint no way im shutting off tonight so it looks like an all nighter tbh just as well im off tommorow otherwise id be mighty ****** off

Maxi · 18 Jul 2006 at 03:22

I decided i wouldn't even bother trying to sleep tonight. Far too stuffy, even with the window open

dunc · 18 Jul 2006 at 04:41

Raider said:
Ok so it's 11pm, i'm watching TV in shorts, t-shirt, quite comfortable really. Not that hot.

11:30pm, strip down to just boxers, lie on bed with NOTHING on top of me, don't move a muscle, now i'm overheating!

Why the hell does this happen? How can wearing less clothes, and not moving result in more heat? Grrr damn you summer!!

Get aircon, or at least a fan. The air movement will keep you cool.

Look on the bright side it got to 99F here today, and with the humidity it felt like 108F (heat index). The aircon in our bedroom needs replacing so it is flaky at best. Luckily we have a good fan so it is not too bad. Currently it is 10:40pm and it is 80F outside still :eek:

Luckily it is not August yet when it sometimes gets down to a low of 90F at night.

However, I am not complaining

I love the heat!!

Dunc

Kainz · 18 Jul 2006 at 04:53

I just woke up to get prepare for work. At 04:30 a while ago, it was a colossal 28c in my room. Its NEVER this hot during the mornings ever. This does not bode well.

dirtydog · 18 Jul 2006 at 07:28

Kainz said:
I just woke up to get prepare for work. At 04:30 a while ago, it was a colossal 28c in my room. Its NEVER this hot during the mornings ever. This does not bode well.

28C isn't that much.

This is in my kitchen just now... facing east.

Zuma · 18 Jul 2006 at 08:16

you are hotter when you lie in bed because you effectively have a great thick mattress strapped to one half of your body.

Xinn · 18 Jul 2006 at 08:32

I've bin up all night not been able to sleep but thats also partly because i didn't get up till 8PM yesterday but also becuase of the heat. Sat at c omputer with just boxers all night sweating like a crab (do crabs even sweat??).

Mickey_D · 18 Jul 2006 at 08:47

Meh, ya' bunch of wusses!!

For those that are having trouble reading that (like me) it says 111.5 degrees F. And the clock reads 05:24PM. It was at a perfect 112^ when I retrieved it from my porch. And it was NOT in the sun. And it was dangling by its strap, so it was not laying against anything conducting heat. That was the actual shaded air temp yesterday.