Do you usually take a glass of water to bed?

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New couple. One always takes a glass of water to bed. The other never does. Both think the other is strange (light heartedly). What is normal for you?

Yep , I almost always wake at night for a loo break ( old woman here ) after that ,I have a swig of water and hopefully go back to sleep
What ever is left in the glass , waters one of my indoor plants in the morning

I take a (refillable) bottle of water up. If I take a glass my cat drinks it

Yes, don’t most people? I prefer the filtered water from fridge hence taking it up

My water bottle is never out of my reach.

Always, my dh doesn't but sometimes drinks water from the tap when he gets up to go to the loo in the night

I think the bacteria from your mouth can make the water go a bit funny, especially if warm / room temp.

Yes, a water bottle as I've been known to knock over a glass of water! I get dehydrated easily so it really helps.

Haven’t you ever woken up with a dry mouth or coughing?

I have a Stanley with water in beside my bed. I rarely drink it, I’d maybe sip from it one night a week after I go to sleep, but I do tend to have a big swig before I go to sleep.

Yes I do. I don’t want to wake up with a dry throat and have to go and get one in the middle of the night.

DH does. Wakes in the night and takes one noisy sip. Drives me mad!

Same.

Gosh! I use (and refill) a 750ml bottle endless times before the top is fusty enough for me to think “Yep, need a new one”! Maybe every couple of months?

I’m immunocompromised too, but my fusty water bottle hasn’t killed me yet 😆

Yes, every night.

I have a waterbottle too. I have got an annoying dry cough. Nothing wrong, have had it about 10 years, get worse when I have hayfever and a sip of water sorts it. I wouldn't want a glass as I always sleep with the window open and wouldn't want to swallow a drowned insect.

This is so clever! I've used mine to water the plants sometimes but I enjoy the kettle plan.

Always have - drink it as soon as I wake up as am very thirsty.
Husband has one, and usually leaves it untouched.

Always. It's been normal for me since childhood. I often wake up thirsty in the middle of the night, especially after takeaways.

Although I have it in a bottle rather than a cup to avoid spillage and prevent the cat drinking it.

I take 2 water bottles (totalling 2.5 litres) 🤣. Not unusual to finish them.

Breastfeeding and thirsty ALL the time!

Normally, outside of breastfeeding or pregnancy I’d just take one bottle (1 or 1.5l) to bed.

I often wake thirsty & get migraines if I don’t drink enough.

We both have a small carafe with a glass by the bed. It’s become dh’s job to refresh them each evening once we’re heading bedward. Helpful for evening and morning medications (mainly me!) but also good, also for mainly me, for getting up for a drink in the night. I’m disabled and getting up is a full on production including getting to my feet and putting the en suite light on which is bound to wake Dh. A bedside class is so much better for us both!

Same but have more so during these hot nights we've been having. Winter not so much.

I inevitably wake during the night thirsty and with a dry mouth

No, it's something you learn not to do when you have cats 😆.

I wake up every 2 hours and always have a drink out of my glass. I can drink half a pint a night.

An unbroken sleep right through I'm also jealous not had that for years.

Cup with a lid here so I don't have to worry there's an insect in it in the dark