Going to Sleep: The Battle Between Hot and Cold

Going to Sleep: The Battle Between Hot and Cold

So, it’s late.  You’re tired after a long day.  You can’t wait to get in bed, get comfortable and go to sleep.  You lay down and you can feel all of the pain from the day slowly seeping out of your body.  It starts in your back and then goes down to your feet. You think, “finally, this is it!”. You pull the covers up and you snuggle in.  It’s feeling great and you start to drift off to sleep. But then, something happens. Things start to change. Out of nowhere you start to get hot as hell.  What just happened?  It’s like you just got smacked in the face with a heat wave that only was after you. Because your partner is sound a sleep under the covers.  So, you do what you need to do…you gently push the covers off of you and are careful not to wake your partner. You feel good, your body cools off…you’re finally comfortable and you start to drift off again. But then it happens.  You’re freezing. What in the world?  I went from hot and sweating to now being cold and freezing. You quickly pull the covers back on you. No lie, 2 minutes later you start to get hot again. Right, you with me? I know I’m not the only one that goes through this…at least I hope not.  So, you end up going back and forth between feeling like your on the equator and then in Greenland (I would say Iceland…but I think Iceland is all green and Greenland is all ice…see how much sense we make!). What’s this all about?  You begin to get a little more dramatic with throwing the covers off and pulling them back on.  Maybe some sighing, some tossing and turning with some extra force. At this point you don’t care about waking your partner or not (side note…all the extra drama doesn’t work without the loud noise when laying on a memory foam bed). You’re going through extreme climate changes while your partner is sound asleep. (You know you’re evil…they must suffer too…that’s what you’re really thinking…I know you going to try to deny it but we all know when you’re miserable you want others to know!).  So, we all end up in the same place by the end of this battle. The covers are up and over you…and one leg fights it’s way out…peace at last!