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I've always found that I get exceedingly warm when I sleep. Whenever I fall asleep on a bus or plane, I eventually wake up drenched in sweat. It's not from bad
by _bxg1 8y ago
I've always found that I get exceedingly warm when I sleep. Whenever I fall asleep on a bus or plane, I eventually wake up drenched in sweat. It's not from bad dreams or night-terrors; my body temperature just increases. I now wonder if it's specific to REM.
- manmal 8y agoNight sweats can also hint at a chronic infection or hypoglycemia. Can you exclude those?
- Jeff_Brown 8y agoEvery night I have to throw a few blankets off of me in the early morning. I read somewhere (?) that the body cools during sleep. Somehow one of the implications was that taking a shower before sleep can help you sleep faster. The fact that a body is sweating indicates not necessarily that it is hotter than during the day; it could be that the body is trying to be cooler than it was during the day. (Of course, if you wake up feeling hot, it's probably because you're hot.) Thermodynamically, it makes sense that being in a bed, with insulation against almost all of one's body, would (once the insulation gets warm) leave someone warmer than when they're sitting or standing -- at least if the ambient temperature is the same in the day and night.