Thursday, July 20, 2006

A how to.....

Posted by Sickboy at 10:28 AM
How to Sleep Comfortably on a Hot Night

Your choice is a fanWhen it's extremely hot out, and you do not have air conditioning, it's difficult to fall asleep. You can toss and turn to no avail. All this movement will make you even hotter than you already are. There are ways to get cool and remain cool long enough for you to fall asleep.

Steps
Plug in your fan and turn it towards you. Purchase a commercial bag of ice cubes. Empty the entire bag into a wide, shallow container (to contain the water as the ice melts) such as a roasting pan. Place the container of ice right in front of the fan (between the fan and you), at the level of the top of the bed. The ice-cooled air will be noticeably cooler than the room air for the amount of time it takes for the ice to melt -- which is as long as it should take for you to fall asleep!

11 comments:

Scott said...

I have also found that if you keep a wet wash cloth in a bowl of water next to your bed you can use it dampen your skin and expidite the cooling process. Keeping your skin wet in conjuction with the fan is a great way to bring your core temp down.

11:36 AM CDT
dad-e~O said...

that sounds like an awful lot of work.
why not just turn on the air?

12:05 PM CDT
Scott said...

My wife and I can some times disagree on just how warm it really is at night. I also dont sleep as well with the drone of my window AC unit.

12:16 PM CDT
dad-e~O said...

sorry Scott,
I was kiddin' sarcasm doesn't type well.
The other night I came home from work to a house with no electricity. the sleeping rooms are on the top and very hot floor. so Tif was on the couch, Max was in the Den on that couch, and Jake was in the living room on our chair with the ottoman pulled up. Which game me the coolest room all to my self, the glorius basement.
Fortunatlty for me I never have trouble sleeping, my "medicine" helps, (whiskey and beer)

And here's a weird thing, if I drink icewater in the middle of the night, it actually makes me hotter, It's weird, but whatever.

12:31 PM CDT
Martin said...

I'd stumble into this Rube Goldbergian contraption on the way to the can in the middle of the night and make a helluva mess.

5:26 PM CDT
Sickboy said...

PJ, you are weird.

7:22 PM CDT
dad-e~O said...

OK,
am I the pot or the kettle?

8:32 PM CDT
Scott said...

kettle

9:05 PM CDT
Sickboy said...

kettle twice...

9:34 PM CDT
dad-e~O said...

is that some sort of reference to my drinking???

11:02 AM CDT
Sickboy said...

nah. your drinking is under control....

9:06 PM CDT

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