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Actually, I like it to be cool when I sleep. It depends on the outside temp, but in winter I love it to be 65 degrees when I'm sleeping. Now during the summertime, my body would be in shock if I had it that cool and then got up and headed out for my walk.
I actually don't like it to be very hot indoors during the winter. It's something about the artificial air of a furnace that I don't care for.
A perfect temp for me would be about 65 at night and 85 during the daytime. I could always have the windows open and listen to the birds sing.
I can sleep with it warm (don't particularly like it but I can)! My upstairs is warm so not much of a choice. I always have a fan or 2 going. If its humid I use the air, prefer open windows though!
I sleep with my house too cold for most people in the winter, can't do that in summer because my central air will not cool the upstairs that well.
I wonder if in the days before A/C,
most of the people living in summer climates with very warm nighttimes
actually were sleep-deprived nearly-all summer long... Like walking zombies?
At the moment,
if there was a time machine that could take people back 200+ years,
it seems that I'd be the only one who could get a proper night's sleep in any low-alitude tropical or subtropical location.
Malarial-mosquitos aside, I couldn't see myself having too much trouble sleeping in ancient Egypt or Thailand, old Mexico, colonial Florida etc.
I don't live in what most people consider to be a hot weather climate, but I grew up without AC. We had one little fan and that was it.
So, to answer your question~yup, many people were very sleep deprived then and I can only imagine how bad it was down south where they have a lot of humidity. People also got extremely cold and suffered a lot back then, too. We didn't have a furnace when I was growing up either. Oil stoves and cookstoves heat a room in your house, but definitely don't heat an entire house.
And I live in an area that can have extremes. The record high of 122 was set many years ago and I doubt that many people (if any) had AC.
I don't live in what most people consider to be a hot weather climate, but I grew up without AC. We had one little fan and that was it.
So, to answer your question~yup, many people were very sleep deprived then and I can only imagine how bad it was down south where they have a lot of humidity. People also got extremely cold and suffered a lot back then, too. We didn't have a furnace when I was growing up either. Oil stoves and cookstoves heat a room in your house, but definitely don't heat an entire house.
And I live in an area that can have extremes. The record high of 122 was set many years ago and I doubt that many people (if any) had AC.
I don't think any of my relatives/ancestors in Canada ever lived without some sort of furnace, even if it was coal-burning.
(they weren't here until the early 20th century)
Obviously, if I had to live back then,
I could get used to a bedroom in the 90's F a lot easier than living up north without a furnace.
But immigration was a heck of a lot easier then too. (for English speakers?)
So I'd probably either RUN south, or go crazy.
Was your house very well insulated, and that's why you had no furnace?
Fireplaces or stoves in each room?
No, it wasn't well insulated. The big old farmhouses had very little insulation in them. We had a cookstove (burned corncobs) in the kitchen and an oil heater in the living room.
This was back in the 50s and 60s and most of the people who lived on farms around here didn't have furnaces or ac.
I remember as growing up, we didn`t have AC. We had fans. Thats it. Opened windows at night. It didn`t seem to be as hot then though, as it is now at night.
I wonder if in the days before A/C,
most of the people living in summer climates with very warm nighttimes
actually were sleep-deprived nearly-all summer long... Like walking zombies?
At the moment,
if there was a time machine that could take people back 200+ years,
it seems that I'd be the only one who could get a proper night's sleep in any low-alitude tropical or subtropical location.
Malarial-mosquitos aside, I couldn't see myself having too much trouble sleeping in ancient Egypt or Thailand, old Mexico, colonial Florida etc.
If they didn't have AC, they didn't know any different. They didn't know what they were missing out on since AC didn't exist. I think they sehad their own systems of cooling the house as well. I know in the ancient Middle East they had openings at the top of the wall used as vents. Since heat rises, the heat would rise to the top of the house and escape through the openings.
If they didn't have AC, they didn't know any different. They didn't know what they were missing out on since AC didn't exist. I think they sehad their own systems of cooling the house as well. I know in the ancient Middle East they had openings at the top of the wall used as vents. Since heat rises, the heat would rise to the top of the house and escape through the openings.
Funny thing though is, I know what A/C is like too
and EVERYONE seems to like or need cooler sleeping temps than me, even many people from the tropics who claim they hate "cold."
I usually do not appreciate any indoor temps below 75 F, regardless of what I'm doing... including sleeping.
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