If I leave the window open, I invariably experience abdominal pain. Perhaps it's the dreams...the dreams of them poking around in my guts with cold sterile tools, searching, anolyzing, communicating amongst themselves as chittering rats do. Their glossy black eyes and pale complexions, their slender limbs, the lights flashing through my window painting anemic silhouettes on my bedroom walls.

So I quit leaving the window open.

I have the window open all night in summer. Used to get a lot of insects but there's not as many of them since they died off. It's less about the temperature and more the fresh air I like.

I used to have an electric blanket in Japn, my host family always warned me about sleeping in it at too high a setting. Gives you heartattacks they said, they were terrified of it.

Next time you're in Asia, try leaving a fan on all the time .

It's the complete opposite for me. I sleep very well in the cold but it's warm weather that gives me weird dreams.