hate waking up sweating because the morning is not as cold as the night and now I have too many blankets

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    2 hours ago

    Some basic math - we’re a species who’s body generates heat, so works best in conditions with a temperature lower than our body temp. Otherwise we need to sweat to efficiently transfer heat.

  • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Hate the laws of thermodynamics? Put that hatred to good use and become a mechanical engineer! Doesn’t matter if it’s aerospace or manufacturing! We all hate that doing fun stuff generates heat, so we design complicated systems to make things like 1% more thermodynamically efficient 👍

    (This sounded funnier in my head)

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    You may be suffering from synthetic fibers, check your clothing and bedding for polyester. It has very poor characteristics for comfort and feeling hot and sweaty is a key characteristic. This isn’t some hippie shit, you’ll genuinely be much more comfortable in real non-plastic fibres and you’ll significantly reduce your microplastic generation and exposure as a direct byproduct.

    After abandoning plastic fibers, I can’t even put on a polyester jumper in winter without overheating and getting sweaty. Real organic fibres are so much more comfortable and only marginally more expensive.

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      Preach!

      With some very specific exceptions, natural fibers are far better.

      Give me a wool blanket or sweater (jumper in your terms I believe).

      Wool is freakin magic.

      My only exception is workout gear - the specialty synthetics are fantastic.

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        I love my linnen bedsheets in the summer, expensive as hell, but damn, they have the perfect temp for me.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    Sweat is a perfectly normal process, though. Being able to sweat a lot and having it evaporate quickly (little bodyhair compared to most other mammals) is one of humanity’s big evolutionairy advantages.