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[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 points 12 hours ago

Our bedroom is in the basement and it's 1/2 below ground level. It's never gotten above 21°C even on the hottest days.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well you gotta stay protected from the monsters right? Without the blanket, they'll get you.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Not if you're Rosa on Brooklyn 99. She would just sleep under the bed with a sword.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Most people need the feeling of being covered, even if it's just a sheet.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

It's not about the warmth or comfort, it's about the weight on your body.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

It came as a huge surprise for me, but wool blankets are surprisingly comfortable in hot weather.

I'm hot natured and I cannot get good sleep when it's hot. Sometimes even a cotton sheet is just too much for me. But, somehow, a wool blanket is noticeably cooler feeling to me when I'm hot. I don't understand it, yet I'm not the only one who has experienced it.

I also like the weight of a wool blanket. Something about that is quite calming. Obviously, they're also great in the cold seasons, too.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The heat won out against my fear of monsters a few weeks ago. I sleep like a corpse on a mortuary slab now; on my back, one pillow, no blanket. Monsters be damned, my bedroom is too hot 😂

I don't think corpses on slabs have pillows but, yknow. It's close 😂

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I... I confused duvet and bidet for a solid minute...

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

They're... very different things

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

I was wondering how you'd get your foot out of a bidet

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 16 hours ago

Am I not supposed to be washing my arse with the duvet???

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I camp in South Texas in the summer, and the two things that help the most on hot nights are air circulation and cooling blankets. Look for anything made with Lycocell. You can sleep on top of them and they basically act like heatsinks, or if it's only in the 80's / around 25c and you still want to be covered, there are thin waffle-type ones that are supremely comfortable in that kind of temperature.

Also, if the heat is really killing you, consider a cot: the thin fabric of the cot allows air to circulate under you, cooling off your back as well.

[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Nope, this is the exact reason I have the vents for every room but my bedroom blocked. AC is expensive and I don't care if the rest of the house cooks, but I need my bedroom to be cold at night. Kinda just want to build a refrigerated box bed.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 18 hours ago

Who look at Mr fancy over here with AC. Round here we just blow fans ineffectually at ourselves like God intended.

just feels cursed to not have a duvet on me to some extent 😭 I kept waking up in the night automatically kicking the duvet off me and putting it back on because my room was sooo hot

The last two nights I threw my duvet off the bed entirely. Kill your idols, set yourself free ✊

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You can take the fat, fluffy bit out of the duvet and just use the outer duvet cloth on its own, and it still counts. Much cooler.

[Edit] Even with that, it's all limbs out in this weather. Just a tiny corner of duvet cloth draped across carefully as some kind of "makeshift modesty sporran".

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago

Eww, no, the flappy entangling menace does not work for me!

Same reason I find the notion of traditional sheet + blanket to be anathema.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They sell "cooling comforters" that I've personally found to be quite, well, comforting on particular kinds of nights. My wife describes them as "oily" though. (They don't leave a residue, they just have somewhat of a slippery coating.)

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nope it doesn't work now I've just got two fat cats sitting on me.

Seriously they do not take a hint, if this house catches fire I'm going to die.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

My cats used to have a habit of peeing on my bed, so they're no longer permitted in my bedroom. Of course just shooing them doesn't work, so I leave the door to my bedroom closed at all times.

Well it reaches 35c in my bedroom so it'd be even harder to sleep if I had a duvet on.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 1 points 19 hours ago

I always run a fan, and i have no guarantee that i won't throw the duvet off myself in middle of the night, regardless of my wife's wishes.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The venting via a leg thing, I've learned, is kind of common.

Personally, I've never felt comfortable sleeping if any of my toes are exposed. I might lay in bed reading with a leg out or something, but never sleeping. I'd rather pull down the blanket and expose my torso than my legs.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

It does kind of feel like over-committing, doesn't it?

I’ve lay on top of mine for weeks.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As I read, both of us are about one leg under the duvet.

...Should probably get the bearaby out, even this is too warm.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Both of us?

Blush

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Earlier this year I said fuck it and just started sleeping without one. I'm getting somewhat used to it now.

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

I folded up the duvet cover, its no more than 40x40 cm but I still sleep under it.

[–] Raptor_007@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Literally doing this right now