Space heater running all night
There’s really something about sleeping in your very own bed at night.
I don’t know why it makes such a big difference, but I honestly can’t get a good night of sleep if I am not on my own mattress.
Of course, I think it really has very little to do with the mattress or bed itself, so much as the environmental conditions that I’ve grown accustomed to. It’s a pretty difficult set of circumstances to recreate, and my sleep suffers because of it. For instance, at home I really love to have some sort of background noise. Usually I turn on a large standing fan, not only for the added ventilation in the space, but primarily for the gentle background humming. I’ve tried white noise machines and apps, but nothing beats the sound of a big box fan in my book. That’s why I tried to operate a small fan at my friend’s house two nights ago. I was staying the night and knew I would need something to mask the sounds of the unfamiliar environment. When I saw a small fan sitting in the spare bedroom, I jumped at the chance to plug the little bugger in. Unfortunately for me, I also really love to sleep in cold air conditions. I had been sleeping well with the humming fan, but a few hours into the night, I woke up abruptly. I was drenched in sweat and felt so overheated I could throw up. I opened a window, but spent the rest of the night restlessly sweating up the bed. In the morning I finally realized my mistake; the small fan had been an electric space heater.