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

  • FishFace@piefed.social
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    14 days ago

    All animals are producing heat by metabolism, and so are naturally hotter than their environments. Being in an environment that is as hot as your ideal body temperature means your metabolism raises your temperature above the ideal.

    The only way around this is active cooling - like sweating - which is generally uncomfortable as a signal that you are expending energy on keeping cool and try and get somewhere cooler where you won’t have to expend as much energy on that.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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      13 days ago

      Yup. There are exceptions, cold-blooded animals’ ideal body temperature is very close to the environment’s. But they have relatively tiny brains so the fact you typed this is literally linked to your inability to live at 36 °C ambient comfortably.