I often sleep with one or two of my bedroom windows open. I hate waking up to a stuffy room that has no fresh air.

But I've noticed that if I sleep with the windows open, and the temperature drops to an uncomfortable level during the night, I will either; have a nightmare which wakes me up, have an unpleasant dream that will wake me up. I will then close the window and sleep much better, with no recurrance of bad dreams.

Has anyone else had similar experiences?

No, though that may be because the concept of actual "cold" doesn't exist here.

It's been freezing lately, I get a similar thing, but it happens at about 4-5 in the morning, and I don't really dream.

Long johns are a godsend.

I never sleep with my windows opened namely bad things can happen, but I love to be cold when I sleep it's the only way I can sleep.

I've been having some dreams lately but I have to ask...

Are they still considered "nightmares" if you enjoy them?

OOh, it's like I'm in "Aliens" cool!

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I agree, that could be a pane.

I have really bad nightmares when it gets cold too. Really bad like getting chased by a murderer or something and in the dream it's like i'm feeling what happens but when i wake up i'm fine.

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.

Nope. My arachnophobia means that what windows I deem safe to open all have to be closed by sunset.
But would a heated underblanket help? I hear they are quite energy efficient (I don't use the radiator in my bedroom at all), and you could possibly put it on the lowest setting so that you could get the cool air from outside but still have a relatively warm bed. Even on the highest setting mine isn't warm enough to heat a whole room, so you'd still get that cool air when you resurface from your pit.

That's not true. Sometimes in California, during the coldest time of the year at the coldest time of night, the temperature will drop a degree below freezing for as long as five minutes!

No, I'm pretty much the oposite. Maybe it comes from having spent too much freezing or sleeping outside while sleeping.

If I'm too warm, then I have nightmares. Cold merely makes me shiver, curse, roll over, go fetal, curse some more, steal some covers from my wife, until my alarm finally goes off and I realize that I should have just thrown on a blankie!

I don't have any weird phobias or psychic connections to my windows, so I wouldn't mind sleeping with them open if it weren't for the fact that whenever I do, the temperature almost always seems to drop far lower that night than I ever expected it to.

Anyway, whenever I wake up cold I either go fetal and wait for my internal dynamo to get to work or grab another blanket. Either way, it's an unpleasant experience as it almost always takes some time for me to get comfortable and fall back to sleep again, and by that point I've already lost many hours of good deep sleep.

You're another one that could use a heated underblanket. If you feel a little cold just reach over and up the temp by a bit! I know they're advertised at pensioners but seriously, since my nan bought me one I've never looked back.

Lol I hate it when I type fast. Anyway I fixed it ment to say I don't sleep with my windows opened...and no I don't sleep with my windows I'm not that wierd .

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.

I sleep best in the cold. Can't help you there. Window is open all the time. Not when the snow has fallen though.

Happens to me all the time. It's fairly warm here, but I still sleep with multiple blankets every night.

Sleep like a baby when it is cold.

Doesn't really matter to me. I prefer to wake up and be cold, that way it is easiest for me to fall back asleep. When it is hot however I find myself waking up more often, but I still have no problem falling back to sleep.

I prefer to sleep in the cold especially if I have huge, warm covers. At any rate sleeping in the cold is still preferable to trying to sleep in a hot, stuffy environment such as a rainforest or tropical area. LONG LIVE COLD!

Well you should never sleep on it on the highest setting, but that's so warm even in the dead of winter I've never forgotten to turn it down - those buggers get hot! If you just want it to keep the bed warmish while you keep the breeze it will be ok though on the lowest setting.

In some of the northern parts and in the deserts, yes, but I live 15 minutes from the beach (good traffic). Moderates the temperature too much. I don't think it's ever been below 5 degrees Celsius here.

And yet everyone around here still complains about it being cold and runs the heater all winter...

I don't have nightmares, but the cold does wake me up sometimes. That's why I only leave my windows open a crack, and run a fan to keep the air circulated so it doesn't get too stuffy.

Being in a cool room actually helps me sleep better. An overly warm room is sure fire way for me to have a bad night's sleep. I'm using the central air conditioning right now.

Doesn't get super cold where I am, but I'm the same about wanting fresh air and disliking "stuffiness." If bedroom temp is over 62F (66F is "tolerable") I definitely don't sleep as well. Doesn't affect my dreaming that I've noticed, however. But again...not very cold here. Coldest I've been in was in brother in law's house further North, in snow, sleeping in a non-heated basemant under piles of blankets and long underwear. Must've been 35F in that basemant, with windows shut.

Heh. Yup, we're often cold-wimps. My Canadian friends laugh at me when I complain that 37F is "too cold". By SF Bay, we get near-freezing temps for 2-3 week (total) semi-frequently in winter, but that's about it. Winter's are mostly low-high 40's...sometimes low 50's. Almost tropical!

No its just cold here of a night, well in relative terms to places that are in areas closer to the arctic regions, but once i get cold i automatically wake up same as if im to hot.

But you sound a bit like me i have what i call dream warnings, that tell me when im asleep thats somethings happening that i should awake for, something i hope never to lose probably saved me more often than not.


Im nearly cough cough years old and for 30 of those years ive had an electric blanket, and so have the family and not one, nor has anyone i know that owns one had any heart attacks caused by sleeping on one, only real danger i know of is that if treated poorly they can burst into flames annoying you slighty by killing you a bit, so far since ive owned one they have done nothing other than keep me warm, they have neither took on a life of their own and wrapped around me and smothered me, im sure thats going to be a new horror movie, nor have they been electronically scanning me and sending my dna code to an orbiting alien spacecraft so they can copy me and invade peru, and to my disgust it also has taken flight and flown me to mystic arabian lands and dropped me into the laps of a thousand women in a harem.