To sleep in a 12 degree C bedroom?

[TirisfalPumpkin]

My ex used to have the bedroom radiator on full whack; I'd overheat and have nightmares.

Dumped him, everything is better, but I'm now wondering if my cold-loving sleeping habits are eccentric. I do have a big pile of blankets and flannel PJs. I checked my security system (which has a temperature sensor) and realised it's 12 degrees in there. AI BU?

We never have the heating on at night unless we are in a Beast from the East type scenario when pipes might freeze! I like to be warm and cosy, but couldn't sleep with the heating on! I don't know what temp our room is overnight but I'm guessing it could get a lot lower than 12 degrees. I grew up with ice on the inside of my bedroom window too.

Do the people who like the temperature to be 12c have very powerful air conditioning that they use in the summer?

If not, even on ordinary (not especially warm) nights, do they struggle to be comfortable?

It’s not healthy to sleep in a warm bedroom. The heating dries your throat out and makes you more susceptible to colds and sore throats etc. What is good is a really warm bed with a thermal type duvet and a hot water bottle.

That would be ideal for me. I have windows open and fan on all year.

Our room was 9 degrees when we got up this morning, perfect for me!

When I was a child we had ice on the inside of the windows on the farm and my grandmother would have the window open all night and there would always be a fine drift of snow on her bed which was by the window.
It was the 1960's and although we always had piles of lovely warm blankets the sheets were that silky polyester stuff that was as slippery as ice so invariably during the night the whole lot would end up on the floor and you'd wake up frozen. How we laughed......now that we have central heating

*Do the people who like the temperature to be 12c have very powerful air conditioning that they use in the summer?

If not, even on ordinary (not especially warm) nights, do they struggle to be comfortable?*

I don't use a fan or air conditioner, but I sleep under a sheet when it's warm (19+ degrees in my bedroom). I never seem to sleep as well or as deeply in warm weather, lots of tossing and turning.

The radiator is permanently off in our bedroom I would much rather be warm under blankets. Stuffy dry heat makes me feel ill.

I have window open all year round. Love an icy bedroom.

I don't heat my bedroom but do have an electric blanket which gets turned off when I get in bed. I think it's healthier.

I'm guessing the class thing might be, if you grew up in a cold house due to economic necessity, you might enjoy being able to put the heating on when you fancy, whereas if you're from a more comfortable background it doesn't have that baggage.

I don't have AC or any way to make the house cooler; in summer I just do less blankets. Can't sleep without some sort of cover, feel vulnerable. I guess it's the old childhood rule about monsters, they can't get you if you're completely covered up.

If not, even on ordinary (not especially warm) nights, do they struggle to be comfortable?

They probably have some sort of insulating covering on the bed. Blankets or a duvet, for example. A time tested method of staying warm at night going back millennia.

I don't have air conditioning. In the summer if it's too warm in my bedroom I have a tower fan next to my bed that I put on sometimes.

@RandomLondoner

Do the people who like the temperature to be 12c have very powerful air conditioning that they use in the summer?

If not, even on ordinary (not especially warm) nights, do they struggle to be comfortable?

If only! I felt like I was dying of the heat all summer.

I've just about got as far as occasionally having both legs under the (summerweight, but warmer than the old 10.5 tog synthetic) duvet by about 3am.

It's the drop in temperature that triggers sleep, so there are good reasons for bedrooms being cooler at night.

DP tries to get me to close the windows at night, but I wake up with a headache or feeling like I'm suffocating unless there is a proper pool of cold, fresh air near my face, so we generally compromise in that I have the nearest window open a crack and he wears warmer nightclothes and has more of the quilt than me.

God help me (and him) when I hit perimenopause.

Having said that, I do like the heating to come on just before I get up at 5.30am - because I don't like cold bathrooms - so I try and set it to fire up at 5am to get up to 19 degrees (19.5 is my maximum daily temperature).

My house is on 13 now, rarely put it up unless someone's coming. The bedroom radiator is never on and the window is often open a bit, I've actually woken up to snow on the windowledge a couple of times.

My house is on 13 now

The whole house?

That is far too chilly for me. I like a cool bedroom for sleeping in, but I have the heating timed to come on about half an hour before I get up. I hate getting up in a cold bedroom.

Doesn’t your nose get cold?

@toria658

Doesn’t your nose get cold?

That's how you know it's the right temperature.

I love a cold room. In fact I only use the central heating for a few minutes a day in winter in the house.

I hate overheated rooms and houses, they make me panicky.

I also dislike flannel textured anything, clothes, blankets etc. I like my sheets white, cotton and stone cold.

@RandomLondoner

Do the people who like the temperature to be 12c have very powerful air conditioning that they use in the summer?

If not, even on ordinary (not especially warm) nights, do they struggle to be comfortable?

Unfortunately not but I have a fan on full pelt pointing directly at me.

Summer is a struggle because of the humidity, I can never get properly dry.

@RandomLondoner

Do the people who like the temperature to be 12c have very powerful air conditioning that they use in the summer?

If not, even on ordinary (not especially warm) nights, do they struggle to be comfortable?

Yes, I hate being hot at night and find an "ordinary" warm night too much. I am fine with no cover though. Anything over 20 is roasting to me and I'd be in just shorts and vest with no cover.

My heating is set to 10 after 8pm.

You’re all bonkers! Our heating kicks in if it goes below 18°, I’d prefer it to be 20! I’d freeze my bollocks off if it got down to 12...

I remember reading somewhere that, prior to Central Heating, houses in the UK in winter had an average temperature of 13C. We have become used to much warmer homes.

If you are happy at that temperature, fine. But if you live with others they may prefer a higher temperature.

I can’t sleep when it’s too warm. No central heating where I live (in Australia) so 12 degrees and colder is a normal winter bedroom temperature for me. Only problem is getting out of the lovely warm bed into the cold house in the morning.

Was shocked at how warm hotel rooms are kept in the UK and Europe in general during winter. At one Austrian hotel I complained that my room was too hot and the poor owner looked at me shocked and said ‘but it is not possible for the room to be too warm’

Erm . . . but what about a warm bedroom for DTD?

Or does that have to be under the duvet too