Terminalcoffee discussion
Random Queries
>
What Conditions Are Good For Sleeping/What's Your Bedroom Like?
I like darkety dark darkness. We have really really thick curtains to block out the light and some of the street noise, though that isn't bad most of the time, especially when the trees have leaves.It's a nice room, but under the eaves and no heat reaches our floor so hot in summer and three blankets and a space heater in the winter.
I wake up to the same CD player/stereo that I've had since I was fourteen. It's a Sony, and has shown remarkable longevity for a modern electronic.
I like the room cold, and I sleep with lots of blankets. My husband likes to have the fan running all the time; I used to hate that because it blows little wisps of hair into my face and tickles. Now I just snuggle in under the covers and the white noise from the fan is great!
I have a very nice old white-painted metal bed, just a double, but it is pretty high off the ground. I have to climb a bit to get on it, and I worry when my old cat is leaping onto it that he won't make it.I have some lovely soft sheets, all cotton, that I guess have a good thread count, from J.C. Penny, and a couple of thick quilts and a blanket on the bed, because I prefer to keep the room cool at night, and just stay warm under the covers.
I like it dark and very quiet when I sleep, but once I'm out, I sleep pretty hard until I start rousing in the morning.
You can just see the bed in the bedroom to the left:
Sleeping for a week. Yup, I could do that.
I can tell you what is not good for sleeping. February. The temperature here hasn't dropped below 26C (quick conversion 79F)over night this week, now I'm grumpy due to lack of sleep. I could sleep for a week if it would just cool down.
There is but it's too noisy. Grumpy grumpy grumpy.
had a comment but deleted in the name of decency and appropriateness
Hey Kevin. I'm not letting you in my bedroom. Still grumpy.
grumpiness in the bedroom will not be tolerated
LOL. 18C last night, much more satisfactory. Sorry quick calc /5 x9 +32, about 64F, bliss. Happy bedrooms again.
I need a cool room and a warm blanket. That's hard to achieve when it's 115 degrees in the summer.
46C? We had a couple of those days in Sydney in January. Fortunately I was away at the time.
Mod
Completely dark, completely quiet. I have a head pillow and a belly pillow, the latter compliments of my pregnancies.
Mod
Sweet of your pregnancies to give you gifts.
no TV, mahogany sleigh bed, deep dark red wine on the walls, a ceiling fan, Gustav Klimt prints, plants... my haven.
i like how simple ms. petra is."63.5 degree temp, ceiling fan at 123rpm, exotic handmade chrysanthemum candle from papau new guinea burning, tumbler of chilled water from vatnajökull glacier on antique wicker bedside table..."
Gee Kev, like your ceiling fans deadly much? (read with heavy sarcasm)
kevin likes to make us think he lives on the edge.
Mod
I stayed in a B&B back in May that had one of those sleep number beds. I was hyped to try it out, but had a hard time sleeping, no matter how many times I readjusted the setting.Woke up completely sore the next morning.
RA, don't chastise me, but I'm going to leave that one hanging out there too.
It's the thought that counts.Also, you said "leave that one hanging out".
We have the Tempurpedic. I love it, my wife not so much. She likes a squishier mattress.
We don't need to know that you don't love your wife so much. Especially if it's based on her mattress preference.
ms.petra wrote: ":) Larry you are on fire today!"not again! where did i leave that fire extinguisher?
Larry, what's in the blue IV bag? Sock monkey liquid viagra?
Never slept on a memory foam mattress, but I got a contoured pillow of the stuff and hatted it. I use to have to sleep in complete darkness with absolutly no noise, but after my son was born we got a lavalamp as a night light for him. Now I can't sleep without it.
I ask because I was thinking my bedroom in light of the fact I sometimes can't sleep. First off, I don't have a huge, high bed. I never needed one...we just have a mattress and box spring on the ground. One of my friends described this as "very collegiate", and I suppose he has a point. I don't care. Other than that the bedroom is plain and utilitarian...I wish I had a table next to the bed, but there isn't quite room, really...the only light is the overhead light. I'd like to be able to use a softer light. Hm. Must think this through.
There's a skylight, which is cool, and I'm just about always cranking a fan/humidifier combination in the winter, and just the fan with the windows open in the summer.
And...you?