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kradeelavdespite me being the one that's usually freezing in my family, the last year i've started being like a furnace temperature-wise; most likely culprit is perimenopause (which my mom is lol'ing sympathetically at :p )
anyway, recently been experimenting with setups to sleep more comfortably at night and man, one of those standing floor fans/moving air in general does not work for me.
it was pretty wild last night to point the fan in my general area on max blast and realize 30 seconds later i was shockingly tensed up, even under the covers. tried pointing it in a different corner, on the lowest volume; still tensed up especially when i felt the moving air even just on my face. the temperature itself was great but the moving air set all of the stress radars off.
(and then i remembered what it was reminding me of; operating rooms always go extra-hard on moving air around, and the forced air "up" at my face while lying flat was enough of bad memory-ju-ju with oxygen masks that there was absolutely no way i was going to sleep.)
i'm glad to know that now, but it was kind of a 'huh neat/weird how the body really does remember shit even decades later.'
i think i'll try a cooling weighted blanket next... part of my issue is i looooove ten thousand blankets on top of me so i wonder if this will kill two birds with one stone... wish me luck.
anyway, recently been experimenting with setups to sleep more comfortably at night and man, one of those standing floor fans/moving air in general does not work for me.
it was pretty wild last night to point the fan in my general area on max blast and realize 30 seconds later i was shockingly tensed up, even under the covers. tried pointing it in a different corner, on the lowest volume; still tensed up especially when i felt the moving air even just on my face. the temperature itself was great but the moving air set all of the stress radars off.
(and then i remembered what it was reminding me of; operating rooms always go extra-hard on moving air around, and the forced air "up" at my face while lying flat was enough of bad memory-ju-ju with oxygen masks that there was absolutely no way i was going to sleep.)
i'm glad to know that now, but it was kind of a 'huh neat/weird how the body really does remember shit even decades later.'
i think i'll try a cooling weighted blanket next... part of my issue is i looooove ten thousand blankets on top of me so i wonder if this will kill two birds with one stone... wish me luck.
