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I don't understand why you are being downvoted, you raise a good point. Based on some HN comment from a while ago I invested in a CO2 meter (they are still qui
by LeonM 3y ago
I don't understand why you are being downvoted, you raise a good point.
Based on some HN comment from a while ago I invested in a CO2 meter (they are still quite expensive for some reason). And I share the same experience, CO2 levels can raise rapidly indoors, but simply turning on ventilation or opening a window very quickly lowers CO2 contents.
Using the meter I found CO2 levels in my bedroom can become quite high at night. So I improved the ventilation in my bedroom, and in my case it helped me to achieve better sleep.
- ct0 3y agoI'm starting to think that having a better night's rest while sleeping in a tent is not from the ground you sleep on, but the fresh air you've had all night.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoIt'll depend on the tent, I don't immediately associate tents with good ventilation.
- gumby 3y agoA tent with poor ventilation rapidly becomes soggy.
- prmoustache 3y agoyou want to sleep below a tarp then, not in a tent.
- kccqzy 3y agoMy best sleep was on a camping trip when we decided that a tent wasn't necessary and we could just sleep outside watching the night sky. (This is of course highly location dependent. Now that I think about it, I was probably taking a bit more risk at that time than what I tolerate now.)
- anonyfox 3y ago… and people make joke about us Germans need to do „stosslüften“ (opening all windows in parallel to get fresh air in fast). also, are there really people that can (or even prefer!) to sleep with closed windows?! Only with AC blasting, right?
- switchbak 3y agoSome new buildings use an HRV system which circulates fresh air in while recovering some of the heat of the exhaust air.
- GloriousKoji 3y agoIt's way too loud if I sleep with the windows open.
- cultureswitch 3y agoI can't sleep with either AC, simple ventilation or windows open. Too much noise. In rural environments too, just a single cricket is capable of keeping me awake. Sometimes in very hot weather I do leave the windows open at night but it's due to heat, not air quality.
- heipei 3y agoTry sleeping with earplugs. I started doing it out of necessity, and it was awkward at first, but once I got used to it was really life-changing. Sleeping with plugs in feels like being embraced by silence and darkness, so much so that you can sleep the whole night through and feel more refreshed in the morning.
- balfirevic 3y agoYes, that's the only way to have nice cozy temperature throughout the year. Heating will be on during large part of the year, but during the summer AC will be on. Just working gently, though, no blasting. I'd love to have ventilation with heat exchanger, but that's basically unheard of where I live.
- aidenn0 3y ago