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Nekkid. Actually naked, since nekkid is a whole 'nother state, implying a lot more fun.
Except in the winter. If the oil prices are really going up again than this winter I'll be sleeping in a parka, snow pants, boots and a woolen stocking cap.
Shorts and a t-shirt or tank top if it is really hot. Sweat pants (only those super soft Polo sweats, the only truly comfy sweats I have ever found) and a shirt in winter. Always socks. I am paranoid about getting up in the middle of the night and stepping on a brown recluse.
Nuttin'. Nada. Nudity. Nakedness. In fact, I really like sleeping raw in cold weather, when I can snuggle up under the sheets, a comforter and a home-made quilt with Karen and create a whole private warm zone. Thanks for asking.
The list of things I don't wear to bed is enormous. That's what huge piles of blankets are for.
When I lived in a wood-heated, cold water cabin in the back of beyond, I would occasionally wear long underwear if it was well below freezing and the wolves were howling.
As little as possible. Perversely, I'm a both a thermonuclear sleeper and a cocooner, so I have to have the windows open and use a big & preferably heavy (love to feel that weight) blanket, then use my foot to regulate body temp - under the covers to warm, out of the covers to cool. No, no, I know: it's weird.
I also not so secretly worry about waking to find a bed buddy a melted puddle of goo, so as much as I love snuggling, cuddling and spooning, restful sleep seems to only happen alone. On the other hand, it means I can sleep diagonally or sideways any time I see fit. Which is just about every night.
I, too, am a thermonuclear sleeper and a cocooner. I also have an old t-shirt that I call my woobie that I must have when I go to sleep. I put it over my eyes, or wad it up against my tummy. (Yeah, I'm three years old.)
Perversely, I'm a both a thermonuclear sleeper and a cocooner, so I have to have the windows open and use a big & preferably heavy (love to feel that weight) blanket, then use my foot to regulate body temp - under the covers to warm, out of the covers to cool
That is exactly what I do! That's why I never understood people who wear socks to bed.
I wear boxers and a t-shirt, usually. I am a furnace shortly after I fall asleep, but by morning I'm shivering, so I prefer to have at least a little clothing on.
Earlier this summer, when it was in the high 80s in my apartment in the dead of night, I slept on top of the covers, no t-shirt.
Well, I wear my pink pajamas in the summer when it's hot,
And I wear my flannel nightie in the winter when it's not.
But sometimes in the springtime and sometimes in the fall,
I slip between the sheets with nothing on at all!
Socks are evil. I can sleep anywhere and in any state if required or I'm tired enough, but buck naked is the only way to go.
I'm also a "thermonuclear sleeper". I'm too hot all the time anyway. And here in Phoenix it's way too damn hot all the time as it is. But I don't like to sleep without a cover, even if I'm sleeping fully clothed on the floor of an airport and the cover just happens to be a shirt or jacket.
So, there haven't been proper bedcovers or blankets on the bed here in months. The GF and I each have our own thin sheets that we can use as little or as much of as we want without hogging them or disturbing each others delicately engineered balance of maximum cooling vs. comforting and restful covers.
Woot, this thread just made me sleepy and winsome for my pillows and book. G'night.
I'm also a big fan of flannel pajamas in winter. In summer, I'd rather wear nothing, but I have a problem there, as we have our living room windows and doors open to the balcony to get the air through the house, to the other side, where we have my office windows and our bedroom windows open... so, taadaah! Crossbreeze! But if we leave the curtains closed, it hampers the crossbreeze... So if anyone is really interested, much of our place is perfectly viewable at night from apartments/offices across the square... which would still be okay, if mr. taz could sleep without the lights on in our bedroom, but he's an insistent bear about that, so usually I sleep with cotton boxers/shorts and a teeshirt in the summer, under these circumstances.
I used to sleep naked all the time. But that was before I got my dog, and since he has a tendency to climb on the bed and stand on me when he wants out if I'm not up...now I wear something. Either pajamas or a T-shirt and sweats.
I have two seasons at my house: With Mr. Secret Life of Gravy and Without Mr. Secret Life of Gravy.
Since he works nights, I have to sleep alone (well, if with a bulldog and two kittens and 5 pillows can be called alone) to start off with. Mainly it is a problem of cold shoulders. Solution: top of pajamas or shortie nightie.
In the wee hours of the morning and on the weekends when he joins me in the nuptial bed, he radiates heat like a...well...like a radiator, so nobody is wearing nothing.
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