Do you ever sleep with a window open?

[ellyfant]

Yes when it's warm enough

 

[Tex]

I only sleep with the window open. Winter or summer, all the same. I need fresh air

 

[Neelix]

Nope, I don't trust it. My bedroom is on the second floor, and I don't like the idea of someone climbing on top of the ceiling that is right outside my window.

 

[Black Angel]

Do you ever sleep with a window open?

Do you feel comfortable having a window open if you're the ground level of a building overnight?

Yes.. it is requisite.

You hear me?

REQUISITE!!

I am an endothermic sleeper.. I take in heat when I sleep and if I get too hot, I kick off the covers, and I don't even wear pajamas for that reason.. and if that doesn't help, I will turn on the fan (the fan has 2 purposes.. to cool things down and the white noise from it helps with sleep) or open the window.. and if it gets too hot, I will put on the a/c.. no matter the season.. even in the dead of winter.. I cannot sleep if it is too hot, and if, on the off-chance I end up staying asleep, then I will wake up with a massive, unshakable headache and I am absolutely miserable for the first few hours after waking up and nothing works with the headache.. it is terrible..

That said, I am married to an exothermic sleeper.. this man gives off heat when he sleeps. In fact, he gives off heat regardless of him being asleep or not.. even and especially during "NSFW activities" and when he is asleep, he actually has to cover himself with the blanket or else he gets cold.. and once that man is a sleep, he is a menace.. and he is just as bad when he is awake..

For example..

He is a very big dude.. lthis man, not only gives off ALL (or most of) his heat.. but he takes up most of the bed too..

He is more than a foot taller than me.. so what do you think will happen when he pulls the covers over him? It goes over us both. Both the sheet and comforter too. We sleep in a king size bed, so it is a lot of cover too.

Once asleep, things get much hotter under the covers and with it trapped, it goes into the only place it can go.. into ME.. causing me to kick like crazy to at least stick my feet out or kick the covers off of me.. once things are cool again, I am finally able to go back to sleep.. and the best part is I didn't "technically" wake up because I kept my eyes closed..

Then, this man has the AUDACITY to wake up, to use the bathroom, (he drinks a lot of water during the day, and even before he goes to bed) and then re-covers me back up as I am sleeping.. things get hot again, when he then not only covers me back up in both covers, he then decides to drape that giant albatross wing of an arm he has got, over me as I am sleeping and then the nerve to big spoon me too and then go back to sleep himself and then starts burrowing his heat in to me.

So things by this point are absolutely hot.. I mean so much so that now that previous kick manuever I did before doesnt work and for some reason, neither does throwing off the covers.. and so, I am unable to get cool.. and I wake up, turn on the fan and then go back to sleep.

By the next morning, when we wakes up, he tells me that he is stiff because it was too cold.

This happened every night, and I had tried just about everything I could think of..

One night I decided to go to sleep in the other bedroom, after I woke up from being too hot and I took my phone and texted him while he was asleep, just so that he knew that I was home so that he didnt think something happened.. I am not sure how much time has passed by now, but the next thing I know when I wake up, he is sitting at the foot of the bed looking like he lost his life savings.. and his entire world collapsed before him..

Basically, he ended up thinking that there was something wrong between us and took it as a sign that we were going to break up and after I told him that we were good and why I slept in the other room and didn't want to disturb him.. he said he understood and said that he can't sleep without me. (I never knew this, and before got married I had even spent nights away from him when I went to my parents house for the holiday or weekend.. I honestly thought he'd be ok, but he apparently couldn't sleep then either..)

And so now, that solution was out too..

So as a workaround, I have a pillow barrier between the upper parts of our bodies and turn the fan on.. and on the times that I am so tired that I forget, if my husband gets up during the night he will touch me and if I am burning up, then he'll put the fan on or turn it off if I am cold..

And no, I would not feel comfortable sleeping in the ground level anywhere, aside from my parents house.. luckily our apartment was on the top floor so that was never an issue.. this still isn't an issue either, because all of our bedrooms are on the upper level.