MetaChat - What do you sleep in? Do folks actually wear things to bed?!

A t-shirt sometimes in winter, that's about it.

posted by danostuporstar 07 February | 13:11

I sleep nekkid as does the mister. Slept in pjs when I was single.

posted by deborah 07 February | 13:11

I have a wardrobe of various PJ type clothing I wear. Right near I wear pink pants, and a black cotton slip with pink trim over it.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 February | 13:12

I like sleeping naked occasionally but pips isn't big on it. Also, the radiators in our apartment are iffy (I possess technology that can deliver me any song ever recorded in a matter of minutes, yet my heat comes from a contraption unchanged since the Great Depression), so usually it's whatever I wore that day minus pants, socks and shoes.

posted by jonmc 07 February | 13:12

T-shirt if the cold breath of the bed partner is an issue, like in the winter. Otherwise, nude.

posted by sarah connor 07 February | 13:13

I sleep in my birthday suit unless I have a cold, in which case I wear just a t-shirt.

posted by Hugh Janus 07 February | 13:13

boxers

posted by sciurus 07 February | 13:13

Also, I don't think the crabcakes I bought for lunch at the steamtable place around the corner contain any crab. They seem to be mostly 'Formed Seafood Product,' which probably means barnacles.

posted by jonmc 07 February | 13:14

Short cotton nightgowns that I make myself. I have three - peach, ivory, and spring green.

I'd love to be able to wear those spaghetti strap chemises, but I fall out of them. It's a little disconcerting to wake up and find that I'm staring myself in the eye.

posted by Orange Swan 07 February | 13:16

cotton athletic shorts with an elastic waistband, sometimes.

posted by killdevil 07 February | 13:17

Sweatpants, socks, sweatshirt, scarf, wool hat, gloves.

Ok I'm kidding.

About the gloves.

posted by iconomy 07 February | 13:18

Reporter: What do you have on when you go to bed?
Marilyn Monroe: The radio.

We turn the heat off after 10 PM, so in the winter it's sweatpants & a long-sleeve t-shirt, usually. During the summer it can be anything from boxers and a t-shirt to just a faint smile, depending.

posted by bmarkey 07 February | 13:18

Yeah, definitely barnacles. Somebody scraped a ship hull, patted it into a patty, breaded and fried it and pawns it off on schmucks like me. My life is one long punchline.

As a wise man once asked, Can You Get To That?

posted by jonmc 07 February | 13:19

nothing to bed. The times I have tried, I found it at the bottom of the bed in the morning. Or twisted around my neck or something.

I do love jammies though... I usually get into them as soon as I get home from work, if I'm not going out that evening. And slippers. I have many pairs of slippers.

posted by gaspode 07 February | 13:20

Usually nothing, unless it's really cold, and then it'll be a T-shirt or something. At the moment it's a vintage OSU football shirt.

But in the summer (and this'll probably sound weird) when it's really hot, I will wear light cotton PJs and sleep outside the bedcovers.

The reason for that is that if I get too hot under the covers and throw them off, I always wake up in the early hours of the morning absolutely freezing cold. If I wear cotton PJs and sleep outside the bed, I get neither too hot nor too cold and sleep much better.

posted by essexjan 07 February | 13:23

Panties. Sometimes not even those.

I don't understand people who say they wear lots of clothes to bed because of the heat: you do own blankets? Then again, I think being undressed beneath the covers with the window open and someone to cuddle may be the second best thing in the world.

posted by dame 07 February | 13:24

I'd love to be able to wear those spaghetti strap chemises, but I fall out of them. It's a little disconcerting to wake up and find that I'm staring myself in the eye.

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posted by danostuporstar 07 February | 13:25

I don't understand people who say they wear lots of clothes to bed because of the heat: you do own blankets?

I tend to toss and turn a lot. and sweat a lot. so maybe not unleashing assmc on the bed is a good idea, when all is said and done.

posted by jonmc 07 February | 13:26

Pajamas or sweats and a T-shirt. I slept naked for many years, but then I got my dog and he sleeps in my bed too. He has a tendency to climb on me and wake me up if he needs to go out and I'm still sleeping...having him do that while I'm naked is not my thing!!!

posted by sisterhavana 07 February | 13:27

I get too cold under even a lot of blankets and then my body sweats to compensate, both of which keep me awake. So I usually wear either flannel (winter) or cotton (summer) jammies or a tshirt and pajama pants. In the dead of winter sometimes sweatpants and sweatshirt.

Between this and my no-public-nudity comment, I'm totally pouring cold water on the sexy image that people on this site have of me. Oh well. I'm complex.

posted by matildaben 07 February | 13:28

I'm totally pouring cold water on the sexy image that people on this site have of me.

I think that fetishwear pic doomed your chances of ever having an unsexy image, my dear.

I, on the other hand have merely confirmed my image as a befuddled goofball.

posted by jonmc 07 February | 13:30

I get too cold under even a lot of blankets and then my body sweats to compensate

Huh? You sweat because you're cold? I'm telling you, putting three quilts + a blanket on my bed was the best thing I ever did.

I toss & turn too, jon, but my blankets are large. (Unless the boy steals them. Then I kick him.)

posted by dame 07 February | 13:32

I don't understand people who say they wear lots of clothes to bed because of the heat: you do own blankets? Then again, I think being undressed beneath the covers with the window open and someone to cuddle may be the second best thing in the world.

And I've never understood sleeping with the window open in winter. :)

Our house is eighty years old and somewhat drafty. I can always tell when fall is coming on; every year, like clockwork, Science Girl starts piling blankets on the bed.

posted by bmarkey 07 February | 13:32

How the crap am I supposed to concentrate on work for the rest of the afternoon now?

Oh my *fans self* oh dear.

posted by Capn 07 February | 13:34

Oh, and an old t-shirt and boxer-briefs, for those dying to know.

posted by Capn 07 February | 13:34

Yeah, hearing about how I wear wool hats to bed must be a major turn on for ya.

posted by iconomy 07 February | 13:36

And I've never understood sleeping with the window open in winter. :)

It makes the coziness extra super triple cozy!

I was very offended once when the boy I was sleeping with wanted to wear clothes to bed. I was like, but I want to touch you with *all* my skin. That's the point of having boys: skin, warm skin.

posted by dame 07 February | 13:37

Since I sleep alone, and it's cold: three layers of flannel pyjamas, socks, a longsleeved t-shirt, and another t-shirt over it.

My roommates hate having the heat on in the house, and I sleep so very alone.

posted by cmonkey 07 February | 13:40

I wear some kind of clothing to bed, almost always underpants and a t-shirt. This is strictly in case of nuclear war!

posted by Divine_Wino 07 February | 13:40

I LOVE pajama pants, and have nearly 10 pair that I rotate. Because I'm a thin blooded desert rat I sleep in them and a sweatshirt or soft fleece top. In summer I sleep in them with a camisole.

posted by krix 07 February | 13:44

Now, the jackhammer dude has apparently switched to a chainsaw of some sort, which from the sound of things he is usuing to bisect a cockatoo. Even the Dictators at peak volume on headphones isn't droewning him out.

Take me to a rubber room, please.

posted by jonmc 07 February | 13:45

I don't understand people who say they wear lots of clothes to bed because of the heat: you do own blankets?

I'm a firm believer that if you wear nothing to bed, you sleep warmer. Skin-on-skin is warmer than skin-on-flannel. Put more blankets on, says I. I'll wear a hat sometimes, if it's really cold, to keep my brains warm.

And I've never understood sleeping with the window open in winter.

Well, aside from the coziness factor, it's good for you. That's right, good for you. Breathing cool air while you sleep helps your body acclimatize to the cold weather. I'd rather get glass in my eye than sleep in a warm, stuffy room.

posted by Specklet 07 February | 13:47

Last month I had my first sleepover date in a loooong time. It was a man, and as you know, men are portable heaters that snore. He's sweet, but having him there giving off body heat, and the fact that I didn't want to offend him by putting on pajamas, totally messed up my temperature regulation and I didn't sleep hardly at all.

posted by matildaben 07 February | 13:50

And I've never understood sleeping with the window open in winter. :)

At IU, many of the sorority houses had "cold dorms" where most of the girls slept...the windows were always open all year round. A lot of the people I knew who lived there swore they loved the sleeping arrangement - they would just turn on the electric blankets in winter. I could never handle that!

(This page has a picture of what a cold dorm looks like. This is not an IU house, but you'll get the idea.)

posted by sisterhavana 07 February | 13:52

I didn't want to offend him by putting on pajamas,

If it was 'that type of sleepover' I think he'll live. we're not that hard to please.

posted by jonmc 07 February | 13:53

I sleep nekkid. Um...that's it.

posted by omiewise 07 February | 13:53

Two cats. And a t-shirt if it's really cold or I've run out of heating oil. Optimal room temperature is 50 F with lots of blankets. The cats hold down the blankets in case the law of gravity is repealed. They seem to be constantly concerned about this and consequently spend most of their lives holding blankets down on the bed so they don't fly up into the air if the gravity fails.

posted by warbaby 07 February | 13:55

So I'm the only one who doesn't understand how one stares oneself in the eye when falling out of their clothes? Did I miss the part about the mirrors on the ceiling?

Unless you turn off the heat completely, you winter window-open sleepers should be ashamed.

posted by danostuporstar 07 February | 13:56

Nekkid, with my feet sticking out, no matter how cold the weather.

posted by eamondaly 07 February | 13:57

Boxers. Naked when I was younger, but since the kids showed up, boxers, not that I am prude or anything. If it's really cold, socks for the start of the evening, but god knows they aren't still on in the morning.

oh, and hi dame! Hope the moving is going well!

posted by richat 07 February | 14:10

If I have more than two blankets on me, I feel as if I'm being smothered and crushed simultaneously - not a feeling conducive to a good night's sleep. Also, I occasionally need to get up in the middle of the night and don't want to have to go hunting for a robe when I do. Hence the wintertime sleepy wardrobe.

I'd rather get glass in my eye than sleep in a warm, stuffy room.

The only time our bedroom is warm and stuffy is in the summer, and then the windows are as wide open as possible.

posted by bmarkey 07 February | 14:10

So I'm the only one who doesn't understand how one stares oneself in the eye when falling out of their clothes?

She meant her nipple(s), dude. Sometimes they... y'know, eye you a little.

posted by Specklet 07 February | 14:20

maybe yours do. they day mine eye me is the day I finally check into the laughing academy.

posted by jonmc 07 February | 14:22

Thanks, Specklet.

posted by danostuporstar 07 February | 14:24

See, it's not a nipple that I have heard referred to as "looking at you with it's one good eye". I suspect the combination of the camisole and the one eye comment is the source of the confusion? That and the knowledge that the swan is a lady of course!

posted by richat 07 February | 14:25

Naked, unless it's cold. Then maybe even socks (our bedroom is the coldest in the house).

Barnacle Cakes would be a good name for a surf band.

posted by tr33hggr 07 February | 14:27

Remember that house in Dr. Zhivago - the one that looked like an ice castle, where everything in all of the rooms was covered in snow? My bedroom feels like that.

posted by iconomy 07 February | 14:27

T-shirt and boxers. Always have, almost always do.

I experimented with sleeping in the nude back in high school. A couple days in, my mom decided to wake my late-rising self by stripping the sheets off me. Quickly put an end to the experiment.

posted by me3dia 07 February | 14:39

Hmm. Nobody else has mentioned the reason I cannot sleep nude. And it's not only me, my friend told me he has the same problem. I can't sleep in the nude because, er, a sensitive part flops around and, er, gets stimulated.

I'm much more comfortable with at least my underwear on.

Which is pretty much how I've slept all my until recently. A few years ago, for reasons I won't go into here, I started wearing light sweatpants and a t-shirt to bed, and I found I really was comfortable, especially when I could keep the room colder. So I sleep with stuff like that now. Actually, my family learned that I love pajama bottoms so over the last few years I've received a number of them for gifts.

Being clothed helps for me when I sleep with someone else, too. I have a big problem with skin-on-skin. I hate it. During lovemaking, fine, but otherwise it bothers me a lot. I can't even stand the feel of my own skin-on-skin, so (before I wore pajamas) have always used a sheet or a pillow between my arm(s) and my chest. This has irritated most of my partners, they've taken it personally until they realized that I can't even stand my own skin-on-skin.

A partner a few years ago, an educator specializing in autism, told me that this was a frequent characteristic of autism and she thought I'd be relaxed by that brush thing that they use for autistic people. And we discussed how Temple Grandin uses that box thing she designed that she encloses herself in once a day, making her feel secure and relaxed. I intuitively feel that that sounds comfy. I do like to wrap up in blankets, though, oddly, I don't very often.

posted by kmellis 07 February | 15:08

DOUBLE POST!!!

Heh.

(And I still don't wear anything.)

posted by mudpuppie 07 February | 15:14

They seem to be mostly 'Formed Seafood Product,' which probably means barnacles.

Barnacles are a delicacy in Spain and Portugal.

posted by mudpuppie 07 February | 15:15

well, they're seafaring peoples.

posted by jonmc 07 February | 15:17

if you invest good money in a Feather Comforter, you'll _have_ to sleep naked, people -- it's _so_ warm under there

posted by matteo 07 February | 15:22

Unless you turn off the heat completely, you winter window-open sleepers should be ashamed.

I live in New York. I use less energy than you on so many levels it's not even funny. And this is the first place I've controlled the heat.

posted by dame 07 February | 15:26

Nuffink. I made myself a duvet cover with flannel on one side, so even on the coldest, dampest, most miserable nights I am surrounded by warm downy flannelly goodness.

I'm with gaspode on the out-of-bed jammies, though. If you're in for the evening/day, why not?

posted by elizard 07 February | 15:26

Nuffink.

That's like a merkin, right?

posted by jonmc 07 February | 15:28

Also, kmellis, I can't stand the feeling of someone in a T-shirt next to me. So taunting.

Richat, no house yet. Will be homeless Tuesday. Very upset.

posted by dame 07 February | 15:30

That's like a merkin, right?

More like the Emperor's New Merkin.

posted by elizard 07 February | 15:31

If the Emperor has a merkin, wouldn't that make him the empress?

Anyways, I'm thinking of switching to a longass nightshirt and nightcap just to buck trends at this point.

posted by jonmc 07 February | 15:33

I use less energy than you on so many levels it's not even funny.

Possibly, though I'm not sure what knowledge you're basing that on.

posted by danostuporstar 07 February | 15:36

If the Emperor has a merkin, wouldn't that make him the empress?

Hey, what he wears in the privacy of his own bed is nobody else's business.

posted by elizard 07 February | 15:44

Also, I was just informed that next week we're having a company wide meeting.

In the firehouse across the street. Not sure what to make of that.

posted by jonmc 07 February | 15:46

I usually go to bed in a t-shirt and panties and socks if it's cold, but those are usually divested pretty quickly. *wink wink nudge nudge*

...is it bad to brag about how much sex I'm getting? cause I do it all the time now...

posted by muddgirl 07 February | 15:49

Only when you leave out the nsfw details.

posted by danostuporstar 07 February | 15:53

You personally I don't know, dano, I mean less than the average suburban dewller for the reasons most city people do: smaller apartments, which do not face outside with all walls; more people per wquare foot in the apartment; public transportation and walking and biking are all I use the majority of the time; &c.

posted by dame 07 February | 16:02

From nothing at all to multiple layers if it's cold. Being naked under warm blankets in a chilly room can be nice with company, but when you're on your own it just makes it that much harder to get out of bed in the morning.

posted by tangerine 07 February | 16:07

DOUBLE POST!!!

Hee!

posted by Specklet 07 February | 16:14

I sleep in full body armor, with a cast-iron chastity belt locked securely around my nether portions.

In Wintertime, I wear scratchy woolen clothing and in Summertime, a wetsuit. Underneath the body armor and chastity belt of course, for when the Lord comes I want Him to know I'm pure in mind and body.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 07 February | 16:21

Fall & Winter: Sweats or fleece pants, t-shirt, no socks, under massive layers of blankies
Spring: T-shirt, gym shorts, under light blanky and sheet
Summer: T-shirt or nuttin' under sheet

posted by moonbird 07 February | 16:51

warm weather - shorts, sleeveless shirt, short socks
cool weather - flannel pajamas, t-shirt, toasties
cold weather - good quality sweatpants, long-sleeve flannel pajama shirt, toasties

Add blankets as needed. Right now I have flannel sheets, one heavy blanket, one light blanket and the bedspread. I can't sleep without socks on, much less sleep naked. gah.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 07 February | 17:51

A sly smile.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 07 February | 18:17

Since I prompted this thread and all, maybe I should answer the question.

Right now since my radiator's defective in that it pumps out way too much heat, sometimes I sleep in just underwear under a fleece blanket. I'm very lucky that my roommies sleep the way they do and that I get up much earlier than they do because sometimes I find myself scurrying to the bathroom for those middle-of-the-night sessions in just my underwear with my arm covering my breasts.

Mostly, though, it's a t-shirt and underwear because I can only get away with that so often. And when I'm sleeping over with a date, I'll also leave the underwear off--just in case one of us wakes up frisky, you know?

I'm very upset that I rarely get to wear my silk chemises and nightgowns that I've collected over the years from Victoria's Secret. I wore those to bed during business trips when I was flying to conventions because I was the only girl from the mag going and had my own room.

On regular, non-sex sleepovers, it's still just a T-shirt and underwear because my friends are the kind who are cool with me showing them my cotton-pantied butt from underneath either my "Steve Bennett Made me Gay" shirt or my "Fuck Censorship!" one.

posted by TrishaLynn 08 February | 12:21

I sleep in a den, a burrow, or a hollow log for protection and shelter. Usually I lower my body temperature and my rate of breathing slows down.

I must awaken every few days, raise my temperatures to over 94 degrees Fahrenheit, move around in my burrow, and urinate. Occasionally I must also eat and defecate during periodic arousals.

posted by joelf 08 February | 18:06

I can't sleep naked. I just can't. I feel like I forgot something. so I think I'm jonmc's twin, wardrobe wise for sleeping.

posted by chewatadistance 08 February | 21:17

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