Is it hard to get just the right temp. for sleeping, or when you're awake?

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I like sleeping in a cold room, but not too cold. And I like being awake in cozy room, but not too cozy. I'm either fiddling with the AC or furnace to get just the right temps. When I do, I can hear my dad getting upset I touched the thermostat.
Last night started off too muggy, then too warm, then way too cold, then back to being too warm. 😡
Is it hard to get just the right temp. for sleeping, or when you're awake?
 

I don't touch that thermostat, I have a war with electric company to hit below the prediction what
I will spend (my little delight mission I call it). I adapt my clothing for comfort, my bedding (more or less)
and I use a adjusted fan in my bedroom as I hate sleeping in still air.
So yes, I am constantly changing something, anything except that thermostat.
 
Sometimes I will wrestle with the temp to get to sleep. I have an window air conditioner and for the winter a small space heater. So yes, I have occasional restlessness because of the temp in my room.
 

This year is the first time I remember having an ongoing fight over too hot or too cold. Oddly what the thermometer reads in the house has nothing to do with it. Sometimes 70 degrees is too hot, and sometimes it's too cold. So I adjust the thermostat accordingly, not to a specific setting, just UP or DOWN.
 
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I like 60F or cooler for sleeping. I will then have an electric blanket over the top, on low, if needed.

For daytime, I like about 68F, but 72F is OK if I am just sitting for long periods of time. But usually I am out gardening, fixing things, mowing lawn, or shoveling snow and I don’t like it too warm when I come in.
 
Ron has nightly fights with the ambient temp vs his own body’s thermostat. It’s gotten to the point where I spend more nights in the guestroom than I do sleeping in the same bed as him!

I love the man, but I’m a light sleeper and just can’t stay asleep through his many attempts to adjust things to where he’s comfortable! Covers on/covers off. Fan on/off. One leg out of the covers, both legs out, one arm and one leg out, up for more water, pj’s off/on, bathroom visits because of the water, both pillows, no pillows, any combination of any of the above tried and discarded and then a different combo tried. 🤦‍♀️

In all of this though, neither of us touches the thermostat, because that would just add one too many variables to what he’s already dealing with!

As for me, I get in bed after adding or discarding the blanket over the covers depending on how the room feels, read a bit, remove one of my two pillows, turn on my side and fall asleep. Occasionally I’ll wake up and add or remove that extra blanket.

Sleep is the one area where our roles are reversed. Typically I’m the complicated one and he’s simpler about things. But sleep temps? Total reversal!
 
I have real trouble with my personal thermostat. It's about 75 in the small room I'm in and I'm sitting here wearing sweet pants, a t shirt and a hooded sweat shirt, and a knit cap. I can get cold, get too warm, back to freezing all within 10 minutes. Doing some activities in the house will make me too warm, but should I stop for a moment I can get cold again. Mostly due to my age, and possibly a medical condition. I have a few layers of clothes available that I can change into at any give time, like a in house work shirt vs the hoodie.

I'm always asking Heloise if temp-wise is she comfortable, most of the time it's yes, so I know it's me.

We only adjust the thermostat when both of us are uncomfortable for several hours, which is usually the case if it's been particularly warm, cold or humid.

This is a small consequence of growing older as opposed to other things I experience.
 
I prefer cooler temps when I'm sleeping, which in this state is not difficult to achieve, ha ha. I like to snuggle up under blankets in chilly temperatures. I hate to sleep in very hot temperatures. I lived in mid-Missouri for at least two summers with no air conditioning and still have awful memories of how miserable that was.

I don't get any cross-breeze in my apartment because it's a studio with just one window—a nice large one, but still a single window—so I've been using the AC more than I'd like this summer. When the temps outside cool from high 80s down to the 70s, for example, it's still warm inside my unit. I feel a little silly for using the AC when it's 75 outside, but I do, for a bit, to cool it down.
 
I've been keeping the thermostat on 83° this summer. Since I'm cold natured, that's not uncomfortable for me, but if someone was coming over to visit, I would lower it for their benefit. When it's 100° outside, the compressor would run almost constantly if the thermstat was left on 73°. That puts a lot of strain on the compressor.

In winter, I leave the thermostat around 70-73° to keep the gas bill reasonable, but sometimes I might wear a light jacket in winter.
 
I never sleep with heating on..I would die of overheat. I have trouble sleeping with a duvet on me much less the heating on..

I like the room to be quite cold when I'm sleeping. In winter I have the heating on before I go to bed.. but not during...

I don't have the heating on now.. haven't had since last winter .. it's 69 deg outside... 74 inside the house, that's plenty warm enough for me. I'm wearing just a sleevelss Y-shirt.. and joggers..

I'm happy if the daytime and evening temps in the house are 70 deg...
 
Ronni said:
Covers on/covers off. Fan on/off. One leg out of the covers, both legs out, one arm and one leg out, up for more water, pj’s off/on, bathroom visits because of the water, both pillows, no pillows, any combination of any of the above tried and discarded and then a different combo tried. 🤦‍♀️
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I don't know why you have problems with this. :unsure: Seems like a rather typical night for me.
 
I like my bedroom cold. I still have the window ac on in the bedroom.
I have hot water heat so fiddling with the thermostat doesnt bring instant gratification.
I have three zones. I can keep the bedroom and the upstairs cool. The living room side warmer.
I havent turned the heat on yet this year.

@Ronni The husband was like that before he became disabled. He would toss and turn like
he was being roasted on a spit. And rub his legs together like a cricket. Lucky for him once I fall asleep Im out.
I usually wake up in the same position. Otherwise I probably would have beaned him and relocated to another bed.
 
Oldeagle66 said:
Doesn't matter with me. Hot, cold, indoors, outdoors. Bed or no bed. When I'm ready to sleep, I will anywhere at anytime.
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I guess were lucky that were able to sleep no matter the temp or comfort. I remember how surprised the shop chief on the Kitty Hawk was when I was able to sleep on a pile of tie down chains.
 

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