mopgoblin on 4/6/2021 at 01:41
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I got a natural latex mattress instead, and the back problems went away. Slightly harder than the memory foam, but behaves somewhat similarly. It's also meant to be much cooler than memory foam, so that might be something to look into as an alternative to breathable memory foam. But, again, I never had a problem with the heat with either mattress.
I also have one of these, they're pretty good, and you can get really firm ones that are great for back issues.
Gray on 11/6/2021 at 23:08
I would strongly advise against a heavier blanket. In my experience, one or two cooling fans facing you and just a thin sheet to cover you from their wind helps.
Mattress, sorry, I can't help. I've got a memory foam and it's alright for me.
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I realise I'm not the only insomniac on TTLG, but if there is ONE thing I know really well, it is how to not sleep. 20 years of experience.
mxleader on 12/6/2021 at 02:31
I crank the AC, strip down to nothing and drink enough whiskey to stay asleep for at least six hours.
RK'Spectre on 12/6/2021 at 11:57
During the warm summer nights, I'll leave door to balcony half open and a cooling fan blowing at my bed. But unless the nights are tropical (20°C +) it gets cool enough in the early morning hours and when I'll wake up I'll find the fan turned off. And I almost never remember waking up at night, turning it off.
If I turn it off in a semi-conscious sleepy state, why don't I do other useful household chores while I'm somnambulist. If I'd woke up and the dust would have been cleaned up in my appartment, that would be amazing! :D
zombe on 12/6/2021 at 23:22
I used to sleepwalk. A lot. Crawling up walls. And asking to do stuff - and doing them - skillfully. That was really annoying to put it mildly. It all completely stopped when i got really annoyed by it and instructed my parents to tell me "no, go back to sleep". They never got the chance to tell me that. Seems that the relevant part of my mind finally got the message.
Silence the discord!
Pyrian on 13/6/2021 at 00:18
Meanwhile, your parents are just having you do the laundry and dishes while sleeping and not telling you any more. ;)
demagogue on 13/6/2021 at 08:56
Every time I see this thread title, it makes me think it has the air of something like, knowing how many bodies you have buried down you your basement, how do you sleep at night? (or the equivalent thereof, a la the last line in Sufjan Stevens' tune "John Wayne Gacy Jr") ... inviting the cold answer: I sleep just fine. Juuuuuust fine. Maybe that's just me though. :erg:
On topic though, I do actually sleep just fine. I think things that help are having a job and living situation that aren't really all that stressful, and I have a steady output of work that always gives me a sense of accomplishment, but I still always feel like I'm in a rush to get as much read and done by a certain time, so when I do get a chunk done, I'll feel kind of exhausted, but the kind of good exhaustion that makes me feel like I'm entitled to get a good night's rest or some video game time in, and it feels good.
I realize everything I'm talking about has nothing to do with physiological factors (although when I'm in a habit of running at nights, that's also sure to put me out cold for a deep sleep), but the times in my life where I haven't been able to sleep well, I think at the root of it was either being in a precarious living situation, where I had real anxiety hanging over my head how long my situation could stay stable, or like in school or some deadend situations where I feel stuck in a rut and never felt a sense of accomplishment over time, like the days and nights just bleed into each other as so much dead time of nothing much happening, and then it's night and I wouldn't feel like I'd earned the right to get a good night's sleep; I needed to stay up to keep sending off more pointless applications or working on a thesis that was hopelessly not coming together and I didn't think anything I was doing made a difference or made any progress and what am I even doing with my life...
Anyway, yeah, to me it has to do with the situation I'm in. The physical accoutrements are kind of by the wayside. I can sleep on a bed or on the floor (a regular custom in Japan), a heavy blanket is nice to have nearby, unless it's sweltering like it gets here in August, a swig of ume-shu before bed maybe, and having the fan on is nice, but not necessary. None of it really matters compared to my frame of mind.
Edit: Oh, one kind of big exception, last year when I was going through my peak long covid symptoms, like April and May, my craziest heart arrhythmia, wild vertigo, and delirium dreams popped up like 3 in the morning. So I was dead afraid of sleeping then! For the first like 2 weeks, I literally wasn't sure I would make it through the night. It was like Nightmare on Elm Street, where you try to keep yourself awake in sheer terror until sleep just totally overtakes you beyond your control. Fortunately, once I figured out elevating my head and having water nearby made the symptoms significantly weaker, and they just naturally weakened over time, also Fett's reassurances at the time were super helpful in getting me to really believe that it felt much worse than it actually was--I'm not sure if he registered how appreciative I was for that, but I was--all that helped make the really hard part just a little blip of time I went through. So I suppose I shouldn't really count it for the purposes of this thread.
Leozero on 14/6/2021 at 01:09
I use to have the same issue, I live with my parents still & have fold-out windows rather than pull up, so a window ac unit is not an option.
An AC just moves heat from one place to another & it uses about 300 watts to do that. Meaning by leaving it in a closed system you essentially have a heater, which I had to learn the hard way. However, my solution was to vent the hot air back into the home's central system & close the door thus cooling & de-humidifying my room in the process while letting the central AC remove that excess heat from the home. So I'm just moving the heat from my room to another part of the house, then it eventually gets moved outside by the central ac.
I found an old portable AC unit for $100 & I didn't have a duct so I made a duct tape duct 100% out of duct tape, that's a mouthful. Also, an old mini-cooler is where I put the water (it pulls water out of the humidity in the air). Then I empty that into the bathtub daily. I can have my room at a very nice 65 degrees with this about $120 solution.
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a wank and a stiff scotch
heywood on 16/6/2021 at 14:30
Ditto
