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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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hate waking up sweating because the morning is not as cold as the night and now I have too many blankets

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[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your natural body temperature is not uncomfortable for you, it's natural because it's perfect for you. What you don't like is ambient temperature to be equal or higher than the body temperature, because that means that your body now has to do more work to get to the optimal, natural body temperature.

Equating ambient and body temperature is just a mental fallacy you've fallen victim of, you could just as well say "oh 25°C being perfect for us is bullshit". Why is it bullshit? You don't like the number? It just doesn't mean anything.

As to the topic at hand... I don't understand why you can't just remove/add layers of blankets dynamically based on the temperature around you?

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Adding/removing blankets...easy to do before you go to sleep. Annoying to wake up with the balance wrong when you'd rather have slept in comfort for another half hour.

[–] HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Everyone laughs at the precisely arranged layers of folded blankets at the foot of the bed until they wake up shivering.

Same for my mountain of pillows of different thickness.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

"Everyone gangsta 'til..." 😂