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Great hack! I do a cold shower before bed. Often helps. You can start the shower warm and then slowly reduce the temperature.
by chairmansteve 2y ago
Great hack!
I do a cold shower before bed.
Often helps.
You can start the shower warm and then slowly reduce the temperature.
- tasuki 2y agoWow. I do cold showers too, but never before bed. It'd wake me up!
- at_a_remove 2y agoThe method works, and I am going to elaborate on it a little. As the poster said, start warm, work your way down to cool, then cold. Very cold. But what really seems to kick one off to dreamland is not drying your hair, instead putting a towel down on your pillow. As your hair dries, you'll get some more evaporative cooling strictly for your head, and that helps even more
- chairmansteve 2y agoYes, I don't dry my hair. I live in a hot climate.
- d0mine 2y agoHave you tried a hot shower instead just before the bed. The trick is that it cools down the core when you leave bathroom (by bringing blood to the surface). Extremities should be warm, the core(CBT)—cold, to fall asleep easier.
- at_a_remove 2y agoI have tried that, and no luck. I think, for me at least, it's the head cooling that matters most.
- Xfx7028 2y agoI also do this. I lived most of my life in the Mediterranean country and lived in a apartment on the top floor with just a concrete roof where the room temperature was 34°C even at night. The solution I found was to take frequent cold showers. Stay under the shower for some time, like 5-10 mins, until you get cold, and then without drying yourself, lie in bed naked. I also felt so cool that I even put a blanket over me. It takes a while until you get warm again, so it's enough time to fall asleep. For more extreme hot situations you can put a wet cloth/t-shirt on your body, but I think that might be unhealthy.