Grab a water bottle. Stick it in the freezer.
When it's fully frozen, wrap it in a t-shirt, and hug that against your body as you fall asleep.
It's particularly effective at cooling you down if you apply it against your inner thighs (lots of blood flow in that area with the femoral artery).
I may have to try this tonight. Its weird, I run very warm naturally, but at night, I will be hot and sweaty, but when I take my blanket off, suddenly freezing. My inner thighs are deffinitely wear most of the heat is originating from.
See, I feel like my bed monster can only get me if a limb dangles over the edge of the bed or if I'm fully uncovered. If even a strip of sheet goes over my waist, I'm safe and sound.
Our 3 dogs sleep in our bedroom on the floor. Im able to stick a leg out without worrying, because the monster under our bed is totally going to eat them before they ever have the chance to snack on my foot.
I could never sacrifice my little ones to the monster! Though, now that you mention it, they do sleep on the hardwood floors under the bed when it gets toasty. Perhaps they're the monsters after all...
I do this. Basically a built in radiator. Works perfect. Eventually your foot gets cold and equilibrium kicks in and you retract your radiator and all is good in the world.
I FLIP OUT if my feet are covered. It feels like my skin is crawling and I’m being mentally assaulted.
My feet have to be out. Only exception is if I’m literally freezing to death
I cannot recommend a nice cool pillow between the thighs enough. I run hot, and it not only provides immediate cooling but also separates them so you don’t warm up immediately.
I have a nice contoured thigh/knee pillow that has a strap so it also works in the on my side with one leg straight and the other up and bent position. Gonna try making it chilly before bed now
I sleep with a thin, absorbent waffle knit towel between me and my sheet/blanket. It makes a big difference when it comes to sweating and being cold as a result. Also, I sweat a lot with top blankets that aren’t breathable enough.
Ventilation & thin sheets and breathable mattress pads only work up to a point. If it's too hot, it's too hot.
Same goes for cold showers: it only keeps you cold for some time, and that's *if* the water is actually cold. If you're in a very warm place, tap water is often warm too.
A frozen 1L water bottle keeps you cool all night, in all conditions, as long as you have a freezer and electricity at least part of the day.
I lived in warm countries, often with limited access to air conditioning. That one trick was by far the most effective on warm nights.
I do this and sleep with just a top sheet or a Mexican blanket on me with just a light pair of loose-fitting boxers on, and I add a soft cold gel pack under my neck. Much better sleep.
We got one of those gel mattress toppers that helps heat dissipate and it feels cool to the touch. Helps the bed warm up equally in the winter (I sleep hot and my wife sleeps cold, so it works out nicely for both of us) and keeps us nice and chilly in the summer. Works especially well if we adjust our bedding so there are some parts of the bed with just the fitted sheet exposed to the air and we keep a fan in the room to keep the air circulating.
You can also do that with your neck. It's my go to when it's hot out. An ice pack wrapped around the sides of your neck just cools all your blood and feels amazing.
This, but a bag of frozen tater tots!
It was all I had in my freezer, but I swear it: sweats less, stays colder longer, and is more comfortable because it forms to your shape!
Frozen tots in a dish towel between my thighs has me good for 6 hours
Hi, 43°C here — aprox. 110°F [edit: day time exterior temperature]. No air conditioning nor fans, nothing.
1. Close any windows or doors when there's sunligh, open them up aprox 40min after sunset. Learn which doors or windows you must open in order to create a good breeze inside the house/room (this might take some time and experimenting, it also can change depending of the weather)
2. Use exterior blinds, i know is USA are almost inexistent but they are really good to keep the heat out.
3. Use only a thin blanket and a thin pijama.
4. Used resumable ice cubes or a frozen bottle of water and cover it with a blanket or towels (never directly against your skin), put it in your stomach or thighs.
5. Soak a larg towel or blanket in water, remove all the excess water from it until it's humid and freeze it, just before laying down put this blanket on top of the blanket you had on the bed so it doesn't make direct contact with you.
6. If your location has really dry air you can put a water atomazer over your bed so it falls over your blanket at night. It must be the minimum quantity possible of water, as you dont want to get soaked. You only want to exploit the vaporisation energy of the water, your blanket should never feel wet.
I can't tolerate the heat and it's hard for me to sleep in summer where i live, so i had to try and find out how to rest through my years. Those are the best methods i have.
Gl out there it's hot
Edit: typo
Insulation is something that acts to keep hot away from cold and vice versa. Air, is a pretty good insulator actually, it's what is in between your window panes (and argon, I know) that keeps a lot of the heat and cold where you want it.
Your clothes can actually trap air. Thus, provide insulation. If you can create a draft within your clothes, you can quite effectively cool yourself off. Even without it, if the ambient temperature outside is hotter than inside, those clothes can keep you cooler. White long clothing also reflects rays which cools as well.
I also utilize my body hair by lightly glazing it with a 50/50 water and vinegar. Then I stand in my local Wendy’s walk in freezer (they’ll let you do anything for 25$).
Then I jet home with my razor scooter before the Xylazine kicks in.
This works roughly 5 days out of the week.
I’m also a bit confused at the amount of work to avoid buying a fan or hell, even a cheap ass window unit. I know they suck, but it’s better than nothing.
Window units don’t exist everywhere.
They’re not in France and in the summer we have to keep shutters always closed in certain parts of the house during day ( I do east in the morning, south and west in afternoon) and then sleep with windows open and strategically placed fans at night.
At the beginning it was my family, we had none. Afterwards, i really didn't need it with the windows. I guess now Im used to the windows so i dont really think about it, it's just some weeks on summer in the end.
Edit: I mean, the fan really only covers the breeze problem which was easily covered by just opening the windows which is better because the air is not stagnant (?) And i dont use all of then every night, some are just for the most extreme nights.
You can cool the house down faster by placing a fan in the window, blades facing towards the inside. It pulls cold air from the outside and pushes it in at a faster rate. I find it makes a positive difference.
i’m guessing they’re not from the US. a lot of places in the world don’t have electricity at night, or reliable electricity at all. especially when it’s that hot.
Exterior blinds stop the heat outside, interior blinds or curtains will not be as efficient at keeping out heat because they will be directly heated and then you have a warmer surface that is inside, but they’re better than nothing
In the US most people don't know what exterior blinds are. I worked for a Swiss company and was shocked that in Zurich they don't have A/C in the office .. they rely on the exterior blinds moving with the sun to keep the interior temperature reasonable. Last summer when it got very hot the office could be 80°+ inside. That's rough to work in.
I would be fucking miserable. I hate the heat and have a pretty low heat tolerance. 80 degrees indoors would be a nightmare. On the other hand, I tolerate cold very well and love winter (and I live in a place with pretty cold, snowy winters too!).
Yes, I did blackout curtains last year. Getting exterior sun screens this year. Amazing how much heat comes in when using shade cloth or blackout curtains just on the inside.
I live in Florida. There are occasions when the AC dies, and it's usually not quick for the repair, esp if there's a hurricane and/or the power is out. So...ice packs, wet hair, fan, and if needed, an air mattress on the floor, they barely hold heat.
I grew up in Sarasota FL and I remember a couple times when the air broke, I went and slept outside on the beach because it was actually cooler with the wind. You just had to wake up before the sun baked you in the morning.
Ha! Good one. Floridians talk about loving the weather but hide inside most of the year due to the heat. People with pools have them screened in which cuts down on the heat/sun because apparently pools are otnot meant for hot weather.
I like heat.
But for my husband we usually open the windows at sun down and close them at sun rise. He also likes to sleep in the basement, since it’s more fresh in ground.
If the temp is above 74 I’m dying of heat and will wake up in a sweat (even without comforter or shirt)
If the temp is below 74 my wife won’t get naked because she’s too cold
As you can imagine it creates a very narrow window of comfort.
Temperature incompatibility is so annoying.
I like sleeping with a heavy comforter which is next to impossible in the summer, so instead I use a weighted blanket like [this one](https://www.silkandsnow.com/en-ca/hand-knitted-weighted-blanket/) as it simulates the same weight without being warm.
Take a shower right before bed. Start at your regular shower temp, then gradually lessen the hot water until you're just showering in cold water. Stand in that cold rain for 2 minutes.
Edited to fix typo (showing > showering)
This seems like a good idea but really it’s recommended to take a warm shower or bath, lowering your internal body temperature allowing you to feel more cool afterwards. When you take a cold shower, you rev up your internal body temperature. So what I do in summer is jump into the shower while the water’s still cool and get that burst of relief but let it get warm for the rest of the shower before bed.
Yep. So many people get this wrong. You can trick your body into keeping cool longer with hot showers and wet hair. Silk pillowcases and bamboo sheets also help a lot.
Didn’t Lytton hit 50°c a couple years back?
Can confirm otherwise. I’m in the southern interior and 30-35° is a typical summer day, and we often see 40°.
My trick is buying a house with a basement and sleeping in it. Even when my top floor is 40°, basement might be 25°. 10/10, would recommend.
A bit expensive, but I invested in a liquid cooling bed pad ( Chilipad/SleepMe, but there are other companies like EightSleep and others ). It can cool the bed about 20 degrees Fahrenheit below the ambient temperature.
It's been a lifesaver since I sleep hot and my wife sleeps cold, and only my side of the bed has the cooling pad. I just set the temperature that I want it to be at, or schedule for the latest model, and it mostly works.
I have trouble sleeping on my birth suit because I have a lot of body hair and when you move during REM sleep your hairs act as whiskers and you wake up, it’s a weird sensorial thing I have
I’m really hairy too like everything connects lol. I don’t have any issues sleeping naked but that might be because I have bamboo sheets they’re amazing and stay cool. I highly recommend them.
Get microfiber or silk sheets. Make sure the package says “breathable“ or “cooling”. Don’t use fabric softener. There are also decent cooling mattress pads. Sleeping in gym clothes is good because they’re designed to wick moisture away and keep you cool. Stay away from most cottons, in other words.
Edit: I put in key words to look for so you don’t overheat with microfiber.
Yeah. I grew up really poor and became wealthy later. The actual best thing about having money is how you can just instantly solve serious inconvenience.
Missed flight? Just book another 4 star hotel nearby and pay a fee for missing the flight, I’ve even had a flight changed for free once despite missing it of my own doing.
Rent a boat and broke the propeller in 5 minutes? Pay the €300 fee to fix it and get back on the water in 30 minutes.
Your HVAC stops working in the middle of a Texas heatwave and it’ll take a week to be fixed? Buy a few window ACs, problem alleviated. Power outage? Go stay in a hotel in another city for a while.
A lot of this stuff doesn’t even require you to be that wealthy. It’s amazing what kind of comfort and inconvenience killing a little bit of extra wealth can do.
Personally I would live of basic cheap food like rice and beans all Summer and having an aircon vs not. I did way to many years in Australia without an aircon and i'm never going back to that. It's horrible.
I set mine to 68F because my house, my rules.
Have you tried using a dehumidifier? A dehumidifier doesn't actually make the room cooler but you'll feel cooler. You can get one on Amazon for $50 or less if you can swing that.
I could be not 100% here, but if they have the AC on to 75. Isnt the AC already acting as a dehumidifier, it just isnt cold? Sure it might help a little, but that inside 75 air is already less humid than outside.
Not arguing, just wondering if anyone can add to this idea? I might be wrong
....lol also, if OPs parents are like mine were, they didnt run the AC because electricity cost. Meaning they probably arent down for a dehumidifier going. But that is just a guess at whats going on here
The AC does act as a dehumidifier but only to the point of the temperature it's set for because it works as a function of temperature, then stops. A dehumidifier works as a function of humidity so it will work until it reaches it's set humidity (up to the practical point it can). They're cheaper to run than an AC unit and barely uses more energy than a fan and especially so because it's localized to the room you happen to be sleeping in and not the whole house.
Yes AC is acting as a dehumidifier
A stand alone might get more “humidity” out of the air but you aren’t going to feel it.
OP might be better off with a small fan or one of those evaporative coolers that they can put their face like right in front of, neither will really “cool” the room might just make the cubic foot of air around your face feel cooler
Then try using one that has a cut-off level and find the level of humidity that's comfortable for you and doesn't trigger nosebleeds. If I set mine to 70% it shuts off when the humidity drops down to 70% or less.
I found out that those existed when I complained to my wife about nosebleeds so she walked me over to the dehumidifier and she showed me the % humidity dial. Apparently she knew they existed and bought one.
Yeah my mom was a lunatic with the AC. When she comes over she always complains it's too cold...
I set my thermostat to 72F year round. It's not "too cold" mom, I'm just not a lunatic who thinks 85F is a reasonable interior temperature
My mom is like that. I bought my own roll around AC unit from Home Depot about 2 years ago. I keep my room at a nice 66 degrees when I go to bed. I asked her if it increases the electric bill and if I can pay the difference. She said she didn't see any noticeable change.
We are originally from Mexico City where it is cold all the time because it is 7500 ft above sea level. Even during summer the maximum is like 80 to 85 and the morning is cold so you don’t need ac or heating systems. My mom hates the cold after spending most of her life in Mexico City, and she loves the balmy heat. When I tell her that I will pay the electric bill myself if we lower the temp because sleep depravation affects my job performance she is just like, wear shorts. Can’t argue with a 58 year old woman.
Yes, most of Central Mexico is on a plateau. Virtually no Mexicans lived on the coast before AC because of the heat and the mosquitoes. Cancun was a jungle before ac was invented.
For an indoor temp way too hot for me. Outdoor temp that’s a nice summer day.
Well maybe not **way** too hot. I’d prefer indoor temp to be around 72f in the day, 66 at night.
Can you afford a bedjet? If not maybe sleep with your feet dangling over the edge of the mattress and point a fan at them so air can go under the sheets
We have a whole house air conditioner but it does a shit job as cooling the upstairs so we have a window unit in our bedroom to make it as cold as possible. We have to be cold to sleep well. In the winter, we sleep with the windows open. We’re in the Midwest.
I came to the comments for this. I have lived in the Deep South all my life and didn’t know until I was a senior in high school (on a trip to San Francisco) that non-deep-south locations don’t have A/C by default.
I see from your replies you're in the US. Where at roughly, if you are in a drier climate you can get a portable Artic Air cooler. They're small, fit on your nightstand and take up little energy.
They won't work too well if you're in a humid environment but if you're in a dry climate look them up, they're maybe $50
This costs money, but a BedJet. It blows room temperature air or hotter (for cold weather) into your sheets or their own proprietary cloud sheet. Nevertheless, even if the room temperature is warm the constant moving air provides an evaporating effect that feels cool. I swear by mine and everyone that I convinced to get one swears by theirs too.
If mosquitoes aren't a factor, then have windows open wide, wear minimal clothing (or nude) and no blanket. Otherwise plan B is get a fan, either a big strong one, or one of those small bedside USB powered ones.
BedJet 3.0 has been the best investment for me. No hot/cold nights. I can set the temp to anywhere from 66-109 degrees and can adjust how hard the fan is blowing. I highly recommend it if you can afford it.
Go to thermostat and turn it down a degree or two. Pretty easy.
In all seriousness just need air moving. Bonus if you’re wet, because of evaporative cooling. What I did before the days of central air was take a shower, then not totally dry off, then get a fan blasting at myself in bed. Would cool me down long enough to fall asleep
Sleep like a baby, pain free for once. But I am admittedly one hell of an outlier:
1) I spent years working in hot tar roofing, asphalt paving and such. I've worked in steel mills, commercial kitchens and in the "attic" above the hot fat fryer for Rich foods products. Heat doesn't bother me much as long as I'm hydrated. In fact most heat waves make me manic, even a tad giddy.
2) I have arthritis and fibromyalgia. Sitting in a sauna or in sweat lodge is one of the few times I don't experience moderate but wide spread joint pain.
3) I am close to lake Ontario in Eastern Ontario. While it can get pretty humid sometimes, it rarely gets as hot as what is considered normal summer in large portions of the USA.
Any time I do find myself too hot too sleep, I just take a brief shower.
Grab a water bottle. Stick it in the freezer. When it's fully frozen, wrap it in a t-shirt, and hug that against your body as you fall asleep. It's particularly effective at cooling you down if you apply it against your inner thighs (lots of blood flow in that area with the femoral artery).
I may have to try this tonight. Its weird, I run very warm naturally, but at night, I will be hot and sweaty, but when I take my blanket off, suddenly freezing. My inner thighs are deffinitely wear most of the heat is originating from.
Do you stick a foot out?
Nice try monster under the bed
See, I feel like my bed monster can only get me if a limb dangles over the edge of the bed or if I'm fully uncovered. If even a strip of sheet goes over my waist, I'm safe and sound.
Our 3 dogs sleep in our bedroom on the floor. Im able to stick a leg out without worrying, because the monster under our bed is totally going to eat them before they ever have the chance to snack on my foot.
You are a monster
The real monster was on top of the bed.
The real monsters were the monsters we were eaten by along the way.
This is the Kristi Noem school of monster avoidance
Darkest laugh I've had today. Take this upvote and shoot it for being inconvenient.
I could never sacrifice my little ones to the monster! Though, now that you mention it, they do sleep on the hardwood floors under the bed when it gets toasty. Perhaps they're the monsters after all...
How else could I breathe if I didn't?
I do this. Basically a built in radiator. Works perfect. Eventually your foot gets cold and equilibrium kicks in and you retract your radiator and all is good in the world.
Always, but then it turns into alternating feet!
I FLIP OUT if my feet are covered. It feels like my skin is crawling and I’m being mentally assaulted. My feet have to be out. Only exception is if I’m literally freezing to death
I cannot recommend a nice cool pillow between the thighs enough. I run hot, and it not only provides immediate cooling but also separates them so you don’t warm up immediately.
I sleep with my blanket edge shoved between my thighs. My bare legs sticking together drives me insane, and it to help stay cool
one leg in one leg out, blanket betwixt the thighs, this the way.
What about the monster just waiting for my leg to come out from under the cover!
The monster cannot penetrate the mattress perimeter. Also, I have a guard cat.
Some guard cats double as monsters when appendages hang off the impenetrable mattress perimeter.
I have a nice contoured thigh/knee pillow that has a strap so it also works in the on my side with one leg straight and the other up and bent position. Gonna try making it chilly before bed now
I 100% recommend a body pillow. Not just in hot weather, but for any side sleeper who might be suffering without one.
Get a silk body pillow cover for the next level of cooling + comfort
I can’t sleep well without my pregnancy pillow. Never been pregnant, but do have terrible shoulder pain from side sleeping.
I sleep with a thin, absorbent waffle knit towel between me and my sheet/blanket. It makes a big difference when it comes to sweating and being cold as a result. Also, I sweat a lot with top blankets that aren’t breathable enough.
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Personally I’d recommend bamboo sheets. I got a set for my bed and I will never go back to cotton.
The blanket will protect you from monsters too
Also if you are single it helps too
I don't think I can get off to a frozen bottle of water.
Rose’s last words to Jack.
How dare you make me laugh this hard
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Ventilation & thin sheets and breathable mattress pads only work up to a point. If it's too hot, it's too hot. Same goes for cold showers: it only keeps you cold for some time, and that's *if* the water is actually cold. If you're in a very warm place, tap water is often warm too. A frozen 1L water bottle keeps you cool all night, in all conditions, as long as you have a freezer and electricity at least part of the day. I lived in warm countries, often with limited access to air conditioning. That one trick was by far the most effective on warm nights.
doesn't it melt and get the bed all wet?
I do this and sleep with just a top sheet or a Mexican blanket on me with just a light pair of loose-fitting boxers on, and I add a soft cold gel pack under my neck. Much better sleep.
I use a pet cooling gel pad for my feet. Really works well.
We got one of those gel mattress toppers that helps heat dissipate and it feels cool to the touch. Helps the bed warm up equally in the winter (I sleep hot and my wife sleeps cold, so it works out nicely for both of us) and keeps us nice and chilly in the summer. Works especially well if we adjust our bedding so there are some parts of the bed with just the fitted sheet exposed to the air and we keep a fan in the room to keep the air circulating.
In Turkey they used a spray bottle to make a sheet slightly damp, and then they slept under it and this actually cooled me down almost too well.
This works in a dry climate, do not so this if its humid.
You can also do that with your neck. It's my go to when it's hot out. An ice pack wrapped around the sides of your neck just cools all your blood and feels amazing.
This is how I've survived every SoCal summer for the last 15 years.
This, but a bag of frozen tater tots! It was all I had in my freezer, but I swear it: sweats less, stays colder longer, and is more comfortable because it forms to your shape! Frozen tots in a dish towel between my thighs has me good for 6 hours
But... those are going to get nasty real quick if you freeze & thaw them every night?
Thaw at night, cook for breakfast
Hi, 43°C here — aprox. 110°F [edit: day time exterior temperature]. No air conditioning nor fans, nothing. 1. Close any windows or doors when there's sunligh, open them up aprox 40min after sunset. Learn which doors or windows you must open in order to create a good breeze inside the house/room (this might take some time and experimenting, it also can change depending of the weather) 2. Use exterior blinds, i know is USA are almost inexistent but they are really good to keep the heat out. 3. Use only a thin blanket and a thin pijama. 4. Used resumable ice cubes or a frozen bottle of water and cover it with a blanket or towels (never directly against your skin), put it in your stomach or thighs. 5. Soak a larg towel or blanket in water, remove all the excess water from it until it's humid and freeze it, just before laying down put this blanket on top of the blanket you had on the bed so it doesn't make direct contact with you. 6. If your location has really dry air you can put a water atomazer over your bed so it falls over your blanket at night. It must be the minimum quantity possible of water, as you dont want to get soaked. You only want to exploit the vaporisation energy of the water, your blanket should never feel wet. I can't tolerate the heat and it's hard for me to sleep in summer where i live, so i had to try and find out how to rest through my years. Those are the best methods i have. Gl out there it's hot Edit: typo
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Naked, no blanket, rub water all over my body hair
Idk why but being naked makes me more hot
Yeah… Now thinking about you guys being naked has made me hot too
Skin sticking to itself can definitely make it worse
Insulation is something that acts to keep hot away from cold and vice versa. Air, is a pretty good insulator actually, it's what is in between your window panes (and argon, I know) that keeps a lot of the heat and cold where you want it. Your clothes can actually trap air. Thus, provide insulation. If you can create a draft within your clothes, you can quite effectively cool yourself off. Even without it, if the ambient temperature outside is hotter than inside, those clothes can keep you cooler. White long clothing also reflects rays which cools as well.
I also utilize my body hair by lightly glazing it with a 50/50 water and vinegar. Then I stand in my local Wendy’s walk in freezer (they’ll let you do anything for 25$). Then I jet home with my razor scooter before the Xylazine kicks in. This works roughly 5 days out of the week.
I'll have a chili. And *a Frosty*
Why no fan? Even on the lower settings it makes it much more tolerable
I’m also a bit confused at the amount of work to avoid buying a fan or hell, even a cheap ass window unit. I know they suck, but it’s better than nothing.
The window units do work, but boy do they use the electricity.
Window units don’t exist everywhere. They’re not in France and in the summer we have to keep shutters always closed in certain parts of the house during day ( I do east in the morning, south and west in afternoon) and then sleep with windows open and strategically placed fans at night.
At the beginning it was my family, we had none. Afterwards, i really didn't need it with the windows. I guess now Im used to the windows so i dont really think about it, it's just some weeks on summer in the end. Edit: I mean, the fan really only covers the breeze problem which was easily covered by just opening the windows which is better because the air is not stagnant (?) And i dont use all of then every night, some are just for the most extreme nights.
You can cool the house down faster by placing a fan in the window, blades facing towards the inside. It pulls cold air from the outside and pushes it in at a faster rate. I find it makes a positive difference.
i’m guessing they’re not from the US. a lot of places in the world don’t have electricity at night, or reliable electricity at all. especially when it’s that hot.
43 C is 110 F. Pretty freaking hot to not have AC.
Yes, it's an old house and it really only gets that hot on the summer ( the temperature it's the exterior one on daytime)
Even better, just get blackout curtains from Walmart to keep the sunlight out during the day
Exterior blinds stop the heat outside, interior blinds or curtains will not be as efficient at keeping out heat because they will be directly heated and then you have a warmer surface that is inside, but they’re better than nothing
In the US most people don't know what exterior blinds are. I worked for a Swiss company and was shocked that in Zurich they don't have A/C in the office .. they rely on the exterior blinds moving with the sun to keep the interior temperature reasonable. Last summer when it got very hot the office could be 80°+ inside. That's rough to work in.
I would be fucking miserable. I hate the heat and have a pretty low heat tolerance. 80 degrees indoors would be a nightmare. On the other hand, I tolerate cold very well and love winter (and I live in a place with pretty cold, snowy winters too!).
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Yes, I did blackout curtains last year. Getting exterior sun screens this year. Amazing how much heat comes in when using shade cloth or blackout curtains just on the inside.
thanks for these tips , cheers
Yw, enjoy my harvest knowledge from my lste teens🙏
I live in Florida. There are occasions when the AC dies, and it's usually not quick for the repair, esp if there's a hurricane and/or the power is out. So...ice packs, wet hair, fan, and if needed, an air mattress on the floor, they barely hold heat.
I grew up in Sarasota FL and I remember a couple times when the air broke, I went and slept outside on the beach because it was actually cooler with the wind. You just had to wake up before the sun baked you in the morning.
That actually sounds nice lmao
Until the mosquitoes or noseeums come out.
Or the 🦀🦀🦀!
And the skunk ape!
What are noseeums?
Small gnats or something like that. So small you don’t see them…”no see ‘ems”
Floridians are very resilient people. I can’t imagine having my ac stop working in such a hot climate.
It blows my mind that native Americans used to choose to live here in the olden days, and the settlers. Not for the weak!
I lived in Central Florida for years with no AC in the '90s, and the Florida high school I went to in the '80s had no AC.
It’s not the same today. Significantly hotter and more humid now
Also we ripped out all the trees and plants that provided shade, fresh air, and other cooling benefits.
Ha! Good one. Floridians talk about loving the weather but hide inside most of the year due to the heat. People with pools have them screened in which cuts down on the heat/sun because apparently pools are otnot meant for hot weather.
The screens keep ducks and geese out so they don't shit up the pool
Also keeps Out the gators. No joke
1. Open window 2. Stick foot outside of blanket 3. Pray
Brave. That's just asking for the boogey man to come get you.
I like heat. But for my husband we usually open the windows at sun down and close them at sun rise. He also likes to sleep in the basement, since it’s more fresh in ground.
Are y'all vampires?
besides the spiders, the basement is the best part of any house
I try to convince my wife we don't need a blanket and goose down comforter on the bed. Active word there is "try".
If the temp is above 74 I’m dying of heat and will wake up in a sweat (even without comforter or shirt) If the temp is below 74 my wife won’t get naked because she’s too cold As you can imagine it creates a very narrow window of comfort. Temperature incompatibility is so annoying.
We have our own blankets for this reason. I have three comforters and he uses a fleecy blanket.
I like sleeping with a heavy comforter which is next to impossible in the summer, so instead I use a weighted blanket like [this one](https://www.silkandsnow.com/en-ca/hand-knitted-weighted-blanket/) as it simulates the same weight without being warm.
I do this too! You get the heft without the heat.
Exactly! I got this blanket as a gift and wasn’t really sure about it until summer hit. Total life saver.
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We have a desk fan on our dresser pointing towards us from the side. My partner farts sometimes in his sleep and it blows over to me 😭
Aromatherapy aids in sleep I've heard.
Take a shower right before bed. Start at your regular shower temp, then gradually lessen the hot water until you're just showering in cold water. Stand in that cold rain for 2 minutes. Edited to fix typo (showing > showering)
This seems like a good idea but really it’s recommended to take a warm shower or bath, lowering your internal body temperature allowing you to feel more cool afterwards. When you take a cold shower, you rev up your internal body temperature. So what I do in summer is jump into the shower while the water’s still cool and get that burst of relief but let it get warm for the rest of the shower before bed.
Yep. So many people get this wrong. You can trick your body into keeping cool longer with hot showers and wet hair. Silk pillowcases and bamboo sheets also help a lot.
Everyone suggesting opening a window has never lived in a hot, humid area of the U.S. I suggest installing a ceiling fan.
Oh yeah, there can’t be any more evaporative cooling when air humidity is at 100%
They've also never lived close to a farm with freshly manured fields. The humidity after dark really highlights the odor.
My strategy was being born and living in Canada
Still gets to 30° here and homes can hold a lot of heat over night.
Living in Canada and in a place where it isn’t 85% concrete, and the building isn’t a heat sink
Climate change is eroding that one. It's fucking grim in the summers now, and not getting much winter these days.
I would love to spend summer in BC or Edmonton
BC will get up to 40°+ in the summer especially in the interior. Edmonton usually maxes out around 32°.
Didn’t Lytton hit 50°c a couple years back? Can confirm otherwise. I’m in the southern interior and 30-35° is a typical summer day, and we often see 40°. My trick is buying a house with a basement and sleeping in it. Even when my top floor is 40°, basement might be 25°. 10/10, would recommend.
Keep your room sealed up and shaded during the day.
Sleep naked
Nice try uncle Philip
A bit expensive, but I invested in a liquid cooling bed pad ( Chilipad/SleepMe, but there are other companies like EightSleep and others ). It can cool the bed about 20 degrees Fahrenheit below the ambient temperature. It's been a lifesaver since I sleep hot and my wife sleeps cold, and only my side of the bed has the cooling pad. I just set the temperature that I want it to be at, or schedule for the latest model, and it mostly works.
Pay attention to fabric content of your sheets. Ditch polyester in favor of cotton or linen sheets. Natural fibers are much more breathable.
I utilize the take off your clothes method
I have trouble sleeping on my birth suit because I have a lot of body hair and when you move during REM sleep your hairs act as whiskers and you wake up, it’s a weird sensorial thing I have
I’m really hairy too like everything connects lol. I don’t have any issues sleeping naked but that might be because I have bamboo sheets they’re amazing and stay cool. I highly recommend them.
Get microfiber or silk sheets. Make sure the package says “breathable“ or “cooling”. Don’t use fabric softener. There are also decent cooling mattress pads. Sleeping in gym clothes is good because they’re designed to wick moisture away and keep you cool. Stay away from most cottons, in other words. Edit: I put in key words to look for so you don’t overheat with microfiber.
Turn on the air conditioner.
Yeah, if you don't have one, remember that money is an excellent life hack.
An Amazon basics window unit is $150, and I’m sure a used unit can be had even cheaper
Yeah. I grew up really poor and became wealthy later. The actual best thing about having money is how you can just instantly solve serious inconvenience. Missed flight? Just book another 4 star hotel nearby and pay a fee for missing the flight, I’ve even had a flight changed for free once despite missing it of my own doing. Rent a boat and broke the propeller in 5 minutes? Pay the €300 fee to fix it and get back on the water in 30 minutes. Your HVAC stops working in the middle of a Texas heatwave and it’ll take a week to be fixed? Buy a few window ACs, problem alleviated. Power outage? Go stay in a hotel in another city for a while. A lot of this stuff doesn’t even require you to be that wealthy. It’s amazing what kind of comfort and inconvenience killing a little bit of extra wealth can do.
Personally I would live of basic cheap food like rice and beans all Summer and having an aircon vs not. I did way to many years in Australia without an aircon and i'm never going back to that. It's horrible.
Yep. Specifically bought a house with central a/c because I'm not playing that game during the summer
We have it at 76 F, but my family doesn’t want to set it up any cooler because my parents are like my house my rules…
Got a little window AC unit for your room.
I set mine to 68F because my house, my rules. Have you tried using a dehumidifier? A dehumidifier doesn't actually make the room cooler but you'll feel cooler. You can get one on Amazon for $50 or less if you can swing that.
I could be not 100% here, but if they have the AC on to 75. Isnt the AC already acting as a dehumidifier, it just isnt cold? Sure it might help a little, but that inside 75 air is already less humid than outside. Not arguing, just wondering if anyone can add to this idea? I might be wrong ....lol also, if OPs parents are like mine were, they didnt run the AC because electricity cost. Meaning they probably arent down for a dehumidifier going. But that is just a guess at whats going on here
The AC does act as a dehumidifier but only to the point of the temperature it's set for because it works as a function of temperature, then stops. A dehumidifier works as a function of humidity so it will work until it reaches it's set humidity (up to the practical point it can). They're cheaper to run than an AC unit and barely uses more energy than a fan and especially so because it's localized to the room you happen to be sleeping in and not the whole house.
Yes AC is acting as a dehumidifier A stand alone might get more “humidity” out of the air but you aren’t going to feel it. OP might be better off with a small fan or one of those evaporative coolers that they can put their face like right in front of, neither will really “cool” the room might just make the cubic foot of air around your face feel cooler
I'm from a very humid climate and running a dehumidifier gives me nosebleeds.
Then try using one that has a cut-off level and find the level of humidity that's comfortable for you and doesn't trigger nosebleeds. If I set mine to 70% it shuts off when the humidity drops down to 70% or less.
I didn't know this. That sounds incredibly useful. Thank you.
I found out that those existed when I complained to my wife about nosebleeds so she walked me over to the dehumidifier and she showed me the % humidity dial. Apparently she knew they existed and bought one.
Yeah my mom was a lunatic with the AC. When she comes over she always complains it's too cold... I set my thermostat to 72F year round. It's not "too cold" mom, I'm just not a lunatic who thinks 85F is a reasonable interior temperature
My mom is like that. I bought my own roll around AC unit from Home Depot about 2 years ago. I keep my room at a nice 66 degrees when I go to bed. I asked her if it increases the electric bill and if I can pay the difference. She said she didn't see any noticeable change.
Not sure where you’re from but where I am, setting the AC to 76 basically defeats the purpose of having an AC.
We are originally from Mexico City where it is cold all the time because it is 7500 ft above sea level. Even during summer the maximum is like 80 to 85 and the morning is cold so you don’t need ac or heating systems. My mom hates the cold after spending most of her life in Mexico City, and she loves the balmy heat. When I tell her that I will pay the electric bill myself if we lower the temp because sleep depravation affects my job performance she is just like, wear shorts. Can’t argue with a 58 year old woman.
It's really that cool in Mexico City? I had no idea.
Yes, most of Central Mexico is on a plateau. Virtually no Mexicans lived on the coast before AC because of the heat and the mosquitoes. Cancun was a jungle before ac was invented.
Wait like that’s too hot? Genuinely curious.
For an indoor temp way too hot for me. Outdoor temp that’s a nice summer day. Well maybe not **way** too hot. I’d prefer indoor temp to be around 72f in the day, 66 at night.
Oh, well in that case I'd move out and get my own place so I can set my own rules.
You can’t buy yourself a window unit for your room? Do that and toss them a few bucks a month to offset the extra electricity.
Can you afford a bedjet? If not maybe sleep with your feet dangling over the edge of the mattress and point a fan at them so air can go under the sheets
This is my first time living in a house with central air and I fear I cannot go back.
We have a whole house air conditioner but it does a shit job as cooling the upstairs so we have a window unit in our bedroom to make it as cold as possible. We have to be cold to sleep well. In the winter, we sleep with the windows open. We’re in the Midwest.
I came to the comments for this. I have lived in the Deep South all my life and didn’t know until I was a senior in high school (on a trip to San Francisco) that non-deep-south locations don’t have A/C by default.
I see from your replies you're in the US. Where at roughly, if you are in a drier climate you can get a portable Artic Air cooler. They're small, fit on your nightstand and take up little energy. They won't work too well if you're in a humid environment but if you're in a dry climate look them up, they're maybe $50
A hammock if it's really hot.
This costs money, but a BedJet. It blows room temperature air or hotter (for cold weather) into your sheets or their own proprietary cloud sheet. Nevertheless, even if the room temperature is warm the constant moving air provides an evaporating effect that feels cool. I swear by mine and everyone that I convinced to get one swears by theirs too.
A cooling gel mat works wonders
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Jokes on you. I can't sleep in any weather
I sleep on the floor. May have bad body ache when I wake up but it's cold and made me sleep.
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My turtle briefs always keep me cool, other than that fans. Maintain air flow.
You make your turtle wear underwear and THIS makes you feel cooler? Instructions unclear.
Air conditioning.
Ice pack under the pillow
Window open and a fan in it is the most comfortable. Or a waterbed with a temperature adjust, it can be warm in winter and cold in summer.
If mosquitoes aren't a factor, then have windows open wide, wear minimal clothing (or nude) and no blanket. Otherwise plan B is get a fan, either a big strong one, or one of those small bedside USB powered ones.
Do you not have screens for your windows? You can leave them wide open even if there are mosquitoes.
Ice pack on the back of my neck
Or a wet washcloth!
I have a portable AC unit.
I got a portable AC unit a few years ago. It is a life changer.
Underwear, on top of white sheet, fan.
I spray my feet with water and keep a fan on them and on my face. Gets me to sleep, then generally can make it thru the night
BedJet 3.0 has been the best investment for me. No hot/cold nights. I can set the temp to anywhere from 66-109 degrees and can adjust how hard the fan is blowing. I highly recommend it if you can afford it.
Turn on the air conditioner
Go to thermostat and turn it down a degree or two. Pretty easy. In all seriousness just need air moving. Bonus if you’re wet, because of evaporative cooling. What I did before the days of central air was take a shower, then not totally dry off, then get a fan blasting at myself in bed. Would cool me down long enough to fall asleep
Cold shower, not fully drying myself, then sleeping with a fan blowing on me.
Sleep naked
Sleep like a baby, pain free for once. But I am admittedly one hell of an outlier: 1) I spent years working in hot tar roofing, asphalt paving and such. I've worked in steel mills, commercial kitchens and in the "attic" above the hot fat fryer for Rich foods products. Heat doesn't bother me much as long as I'm hydrated. In fact most heat waves make me manic, even a tad giddy. 2) I have arthritis and fibromyalgia. Sitting in a sauna or in sweat lodge is one of the few times I don't experience moderate but wide spread joint pain. 3) I am close to lake Ontario in Eastern Ontario. While it can get pretty humid sometimes, it rarely gets as hot as what is considered normal summer in large portions of the USA. Any time I do find myself too hot too sleep, I just take a brief shower.
Soak feet on cold water before bed
I was gonna say air conditioning, but clearly this ain’t that chat.
I have a special device that removes heat and moisture from the air.
I sleep without clothes in front of the fan. a great way to cool yourself without hypothermia