How Do You Sleep?

[W!nston]

I've been sleeping commando (nude) since I was like 16 or maybe a little earlier. I can't stand to wear clothes when I sleep. I get twisted up in them and then feel smothered and it's just too damned hot for me to rest. I sleep with at least one leg uncovered and a lot of times more than that. If I get cold I'll cover up. My partner sleeps with a t-shirt and sleep pants. We make an odd looking couple when we're sleeping I would imagine.

We have 3 dogs. They come and go on and off the bed with us. It doesn't even wake us up unless they want something and they nudge us to make room or what ever.

He goes to bed earlier than I do. I refuse to go to bed before I'm sleepy because I'll lay there with eyes wide open tossing and turning keeping him awake. I sleep maybe 6 hours a night/morning at the most. When I was a child I slept like 8 hours and wanted more. When I started college there weren't enough hours in the day and my sleep time became a lower priority.

At some point I decided sleeping one third of my life expectancy of 75 years meant I would sleep 25 of them and things had to change permanently. That is when 6 hours of sleep became the norm for me.

Now that I'm older and have fewer days left than ever sleep seems like a luxury. If I'm not sleepy I keep busy until the sandman comes knocking. I walk as much as I can. I read a lot. I work on my hobbies. I watch some TV. I even watch my partner sleep and the dogs sleeping next to him. They all snore in unison, lol. He works long hours and is very active at work. We used to bike together a lot but snot o much anymore. If I stay busy with all of those things I sleep better at night when I do finally get sleepy.

How about you? What's your sleep habit? Tell us a little about how your sleep pattern has changed over the years. It's just friendly conversation not a scientific, academic, scholarly double blind study.

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[gb2000ie]

I slept in my birthday suit from some time in my teens until I got a bad viral pneumonia in my early 30s, and now I have to sleep in a T-Shirt or I get all chesty

B.

 

[RefixnarcisM]

When I was a child, I always put a long hugging pillow on one side. Mostly the side when I usually get up, since the other side is wall. Something in me always said that there is someone or something looking at your face when you sleep. With its red glowing eyes, dark figures, hairy body and so. And I always wrap my self in blanket, no matter hot the air at night. It became some protection to me against that dark figures.
I sometimes still doing it, but not that much and not because the thing since I'm... embracing that dark figures now. It become an accidental habit maybe. And I sleep naked, still cuddle in blanket if the air get chill though.

 

[brmstn69]

Naked, on my side cuddled up with a body pillow, one cat at the foot of the bed, the other next to my head. I keep my room very cool to downright cold. From about 68°F in the summer, sleeping under just a sheet, all the way down to about 40°F in the winter with a comforter and electric blanket (still naked).

Currently it's 54°F, my windows are open and I'm naked in bed with just a comforter.

 

[Rebel7]

In my undies mostly, though sometimes i end up waking totally naked :? cuz i had to free something in the course of the night A good night sleep is when i wake up in the morning, i don't have to do the bedsheet.

 

[whtlkn4blknil]

For most of my life (from my late teens to about a year a go, I would sleep nude), regardless of my partner. Now, I occasionally sleep with my underware on or nude, it just depends upon how tired I am when I go to bed.

 

[Sinnerr]

I sleep well.

 

[jw4833]

My first boyfriend was much older than I was when we got together and he was the one who started me to sleep in the nude. Ever since then...the boyfriends that I had after him were sleeping that way as well. However, now...I live by the lake and in the summertime...I can sleep that way...unfortunately...in the winter...it gets pretty cold unless I have a "human heat generator" laying beside me...haha

 

[james1981]

I like to sleep in my pajamas. They are very comfortable. I find it difficult to fall asleep in anything else, but then I also find it difficult to fall asleep in general. I tend to use as little as the bed as possible and make sure that I am at least covered in sheets. I hate it when my feet are exposed. It's silly, but that thin piece of blanket offers so much security.

There was a study (I know, we're not supposed to get academic here... I can't help myself) that said that people who sleep in underwear generally belong to lower socio-economic groups, people who sleep in pajamas generally belong to middle class socio-economic groups and people who sleep in the nude generally belong to upper socio-economic groups. Please keep in mind that these are generalities and probably don't pertain to your situation.

It would be neat to do a follow-up study to see if there are differences at the sub-cultural level, such as the gay culture. Perhaps we have a completely different set of typical sleeping habits. Any takers?

 

[trencherman]

Like a hunchback, with my eyes closed.

 

[erikjagr]

nude, so I'm ready for anything

 

[Ioanna]

When you view the hour that I post topics in GayHeaven you can say that I almost never sleep but when I sleep, I sleep like I was born.

 

[carsonjl]

T-shirt and pajama pants

 

[Shelter]

nude, so I'm ready for anything

I totally agree with you. Me and my BF we don't possess pyjamas. So every night totally naked!

 

[iimmh]

I usually spoon with my boyfriend while wearing boxers.

 

[Whtrbbit]

tshirt and undies

 

[peter25506]

I slept in T-shirt and boxers.

 

[gorgik9]

In my childhood, I slept in a pyjama, but since early teens I've been sleeping rudy-in-the-nudy. And to get a good night's sleep, it's very important to me that the bedroom isn't too hot and humid.

 

[powermate]

Always nude, windows open, sheet in summer and goose down in winter

 

[Quickhamma]

I sleep in cotton boxers and a T shirt