Sleep Hack: Keep Your Feet Outside Your Covers

New York Magazine ^

[boatbums]

A past friend of mine did that...she called it her “breathing foot”. ;o)

[House Atreides]

So THAT explains why I usually have slept with one leg under the covers and one leg outside.

[SatinDoll]

What nonsense!

My temperature always goes up at night. That was always a problem when at hospital - I was kept once for an extra day because of that.

If I go to bed and my feet are cold, sleep will not come. With temps in the 80s outside during the day, if I feel like a nap I cannot get to sleep unless my cold feet are under a heavy down comforter.

[Mark]

Jack Daniels might help.

[Yaelle]

That’s why I don’t understand the American way of sleeping, with the bed clothing tucked in at the bottom of a bed like we are to be slid into the bed as a quarter into a pants pocket.

I sleep the European way, with a duvet that can allow one’s feet to breathe.

[NonValueAdded]

Keep one foot, or both feet, outside of your blanket. It could help you both sleep better and fall asleep faster

one foot on the ground also helps keep the room from spinning.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I don’t know how or why but a year ago I started sleeping with a pillow under my feet. Now, if I didn’t have that pillow, I would be fairly miserable.

My wife asked me about it. I said I don’t know if it helps or hurts my health but you better make sure I am buried with one or I’ll be back to haunt you.

[Fai Mao]

Because of ankle damage I sleep with my hanging off the end of the bed. I am not comfortable otherwise

[doorgunner69]

One foot on the ground also helps keep the room from spinning.

So do both arms wrapped around the toilet.

Or so I have heard.

[chris37]

Already knew.

Regulates body temp.

[Marie]

That makes no sense. How do you keep the monster under your bed from eating your foot?

[tiki]

At home I never tuck the covers in and the first thing I do in a motel room is untuck everything.

[gunsequalfreedom]

If you are 6’5” you pretty much sleep this way anyhow.

[Innovative]

“Keep one foot, or both feet, outside of your blanket”

I don’t believe it — my feet get cold if they are not covered.

[gunsequalfreedom]

I sleep the European way, with a duvet that can allow one’s feet to breathe.

Feet don't breathe.

[DemforBush]

Oddly, I’ve always done that. I can’t stand to have my feet under the covers except under very cold nights. Ditto for wearing socks to bed. I just get overheated.

I also like to always have a fan blowing on me, even if I have the A/C on.

[latina4dubya]

A past friend of mine did that...she called it her “breathing foot”. ;o)

my husband calls his outside foot his regulator...

[latina4dubya]

i wonder if this is the study Beanie was talking about...

[Pelham]

“one foot on the ground also helps keep the room from spinning. “

I feel dizzy just remembering....