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Can you sleep uncovered?

110 replies

Aparecium · 25/06/2024 22:55

I can't. Even in this heat I need to have a blanket of some sort. Not for warmth! But I need to feel covered, preferably with a bit of weight, so a sheet isn't enough for me.

Currently have a cotton counterpane over me.

OP posts:
oakleaffy · 25/06/2024 23:53

No...In case a Monster comes in and sees me... {Truly!} 😱

Soitis83 · 25/06/2024 23:54

Nope! I remember even as a teen at house parties if I crashed out I needed a random coat or towel over me

oakleaffy · 25/06/2024 23:55

nocoolnamesleft · 25/06/2024 23:21

Generally need a light cover on. I presume it's fear of getting darked on.

silent film vampire GIF by FilmStruck

It's the monsters...that creepy ~ass clawed hand that steals around the door...and LOOKS at you...

nocoolnamesleft · 25/06/2024 23:56

oakleaffy · 25/06/2024 23:55

It's the monsters...that creepy ~ass clawed hand that steals around the door...and LOOKS at you...

Note to self: make circle of salt around bed.

ChewbaccasMrs · 25/06/2024 23:57

No cover on in this heat,no clothes on and fan on,I think I'd melt half way through the night otherwise .

AmelieTaylor · 25/06/2024 23:57

I didn't used to be able to, then I lived in Valencia one summer, in an apartment without air conditioning. I learned 🤣🤣🤣tonight I have no covers & the oscillating fan on high. Didn't used to be able to sleep with that on either, but.

i don't know if it's menopause or diabetes but my feet are burning hot at night it's SOOO uncomfortable

brendafromacrosstheroad · 26/06/2024 00:00

FictionalCharacter · 25/06/2024 23:01

I can’t. I’m using an empty duvet cover. But weirdly I don’t need my legs and feet covered, just my top half.

I'm exactly the same. I actually can't sleep with my feet covered.
I've got a duvet cover at the moment because it's so hot. I've always slept naked too

poshsnobtwit · 26/06/2024 00:01

I'm like this OP, and I remember being in a maternity hospital in the height of a heat wave and I was telling the woman in the next bed I couldn't sleep uncovered. She said she was the same, even on holiday she had to have a thin towel over her when lying on a sun lounger!

IPoopRainblows · 26/06/2024 00:05

I have to be covered from head to toe, tucked right up under my chin, DP thinks I’m a weirdo. He on the other hand pulls the cover down to his waist so it ends up diagonally
across the bed.
On warm nights I use a light wool blanket, it’s lovely and cooling.

We are moving house next year and will be getting a super king and two single duvets.

itsgoingtobeabumpyride · 26/06/2024 00:07

Nope because everyone knows that spiders 🕷️ rub their willies on you if you sleep uncovered

oakleaffy · 26/06/2024 00:10

nocoolnamesleft · 25/06/2024 23:56

Note to self: make circle of salt around bed.

Good idea!
Garlic, too.

ginandheels · 26/06/2024 00:11

Naked, no covers and the fan on here. Monsters and spiders be damned!

FeelingHotHotHotFeelingHotHotHot · 26/06/2024 00:13

NO! I need a light sheet at least. But I can't explain why. I feel weirdly vulnerable and exposed!

Fuckitsstillraining · 26/06/2024 00:17

In bed I have to have at least a sheet over me, if in our holiday home I sometimes stick a sheet in a plastic bag and into the freezer during the day and then use it at night, saves running the aircon (I hate running aircon, I've a mental block about saving to have a place to go for heat and holidays and then spending money to cool the house down, I know I'm odd!!) At home I have a winter and summer duvet, the summer one is very light and has silk strands as a filling, my late mother brought it back from China years ago and since menopause it's been great. I keep a camping pillow and a light fleece blanket in the car (and a heavier bamboo cotton crochet blanket) for naps if necessary, I have fibromyalgia and if I really need to sleep I don't risk continuing driving, I find somewhere to nap but have to cover myself with something, yet I can lie in the garden on a sunbed or in a hammock without anything and sleep for hours, if it's sunny and hot I'm in the hammock snoring for hours, it's possibly the best sleep I get. We are odd creatures really. Regarding sleeping so well in the hammock I think it's the motion because I was the same on an ancient swing seat I had years ago, it had proper springs and the squishiest mattress that was so thick and comfy but I've never seen one like it since.

Snugglemonkey · 26/06/2024 00:20

I have a couple of thin, apparently cooling quilts that I alternate during the summer instead of having a duvet. I have wee ones for dc too.

I need a bit of weight as well as coverage and cannot handle even very light duvets in summer.

I need my legs covered and then, I also need something that I can hold on to at chest height. I don't understand why, but it is really the best way for me to get sleep, so I do it.

HollyKnight · 26/06/2024 00:26

Feet must be covered to prevent ghosts from touching them while you're sleeping.

QueenBitch666 · 26/06/2024 00:34

Massive no here. The under bed monster will get me 😳

Copperoliverbear · 26/06/2024 00:41

I am just using a duvet cover at the moment, but like you I need something. X

Flavabobble · 26/06/2024 00:42

Talipesmum · 25/06/2024 22:56

No, but a thin sheet works ok. Or empty duvet cover.

I use an empty duvet cover too. Bit more substantial than a sheet and feels 'right'

GLC789 · 26/06/2024 00:45

No! Because the monster will grab my foot!! I have to have waist down covered!

From a 36yo actual adult 😂😂😂.

AnCùDubh · 26/06/2024 01:00

I can sleep with most of my body uncovered, so long as my feet are covered (up to at least mid calf)

darksigns · 26/06/2024 01:15

Alwaystired2023 · 25/06/2024 23:04

Yes, I could literally sleep in the middle of Tesco

Same. Just give me a horizontal surface. Actually I’d enjoy sleeping in the Tesco chilled aisle at the moment.

mathanxiety · 26/06/2024 01:17

SirQuintusAureliusMaximus · 25/06/2024 23:39

There's a reason for this.

Your skin can sense light so if you are fully covered (assuming your room is not pitch black with no light pollution or leaking at all) it will help you sleep because your body skin "thinks" it's night as well as your eyes.

How the skin senses light:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389556721000022

That makes sense. I sleep under a blanket year round even in summer, which can be very muggy here. I also need a completely dark room to sleep in, and I wake around first light.

Magpie50 · 26/06/2024 01:23

I have to be completely covered....head to toe. I'm extremely short sighted and I don't like to poke my head out until my glasses are on!

I do mean totally covered though. I was 'rescued' by friends and family several times over the years coz they thought I would suffocate!😂

Chucklit · 26/06/2024 01:32

This is my current dilemma. I have Raynaud's that mainly responds to heat. I always run hot. So I’m a lobster red person who can't sleep without a cover and to boot I have to wear earplugs to sleep and the bloody sound of the fan being on breaks through.
I was happy to see sunny days but fuck this heat! And fuck massive Daddy Long Legs coming in through open windows at night when you're trying to get cooler air in!
Very angry and red goth who can't even wear black (everything I own) without boiling alive AngryAngryAngry