Until this month I’d forgotten how uncomfortable the nights can get in SD when you live in a place without a/c. Despite being cooler because I’m near the beach, the nights always feel overly warm and sticky. It makes for fitful sleep. With the covers on you get too hot and muggy. But shortly after you’ve kicked the covers off, the moisture cools you off enough that you wake, searching for your covers again. The process repeats itself all night. It also makes my bed look like a disaster area by morning. Pillows strewn about the room, blankets half on the bed half on the floor, the top sheet completely separated from the blanket in a twisted heap around me as I lay sideways on the bed with my head and feet hanging off the edges.
This brings back to memory some of the ways I’ve combated the hot summer nights here before:
1) Stuffing my small blanket into the freezer for a half hour or so before bedtime.
2) Taking an ice cold shower just before bed.
3) Buying a portable fan and putting it on my nightstand and setting it to blow air right at my head.
4) Taking ice packs to bed with me.
5) Buying talcum powder with menthol and powdering myself down before crawling into bed.
(Often I combined several of these things together)
As you can see, a continuous lack of good solid sleep leads to some very desperate behavior.
1 comment:
I've done the sheets in the freezer thing before. Works like a champ... for a little while.
I hear ya on the "continuous lack of good sleep leading to desperate behavior" -- and so does Gilbert.
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