Hibernating bare
There are generally two types of people – those that sleep naked and those that don’t. I belong to the former, or at least I used to… I appear to have discovered the mythical ‘third type’ of people.
Whilst I like to sleep au naturel, I always take something to wear when staying with friends and family. Apart from not wanting to be caught in my altogether by an elderly relative… in fact any relative, it makes sense as some of my friends have an interesting concept of hygiene and cleanliness. I once awoke to find I had been bitten to shreds by fleas and, after pointing this out at breakfast, I was told, ‘that’ll be because the dog usually sleeps in that bed’.
…you can understand why it was a shock, when staying with a friend the other week, to wake up starkers.
And so the third type of people – these are the ones that go to sleep clothed, but wake up divested.
I don’t know how I manage to do it, and I’m certainly not conscious of it, but it seems that if my body believes I have forgot to get undressed, it will do it for me.
This is a worrying development and after discovering this fact I have been unable to fall asleep on public transport.
P.S. Title included, I managed to get five synonyms for ‘naked’ into this post, that’s just two less than I used in my biochemistry finals.
Philip J Schadenfreude on 
And I thought walking across the room to turn off the alarm clock without waking up was unusual…
Some days I think that not only do I get up and turn the alarm off, but get dressed and go to work also without waking.
At least you don’t turn off the clock and
go to work sans vestments, sleepyhead.
when i wake my sister up i usually get some sort of nonsensical response that she has no memory of when i try to get her to clarify it, they’re quite interesting.
I sleep in the buff probably about 85% of the time. If it is particularly cold or if I am sick I am more likely to wear a Tshirt or some such to bed.
I also wear jammies when sleeping at someone else’s house or when I have to share a room with someone not my spouse.
Mama Kelly
I’ve read your blog… I can’t work out when you actually find the time to sleep.
I had to stop sleeping naked at some point because I’d have dreams where I was constantly looking for my clothes. It’s no fun.
In the Australian summer my naked sleeping turns into naked bathing (see my latest blog).
I go one better then going to sleep clothed and waking up naked, which I do do.
If some one jumps in my bed with me while I am asleep, I will strip them aswell.
I’m gunna guess you never slept in the same bed with siblings as a kid, eh?
HAHAHAHA, I do that as well, which is usually fine, as I’ve never slept with siblings, etc. And generally, anyone getting into bed with me should expect to be stripped. This only turned awkward once, when a female friend at a party figured it was safer to crawl in with me, rather than one of the creepy sleaze-types at said party, only to find herself separated from most of her garments in the morning.
i have never slept in the naked, being 16 with siblings and such. that would be so totally incredibly weird.
the other day i was getting (very rudely, i might add) woken up for school because i had slept through my alarm. the weird thing was, i was dressed and had eaten breakfast and was brushing my teeth and still getting yelled at to wake up. i was in the middle of a cry of “i AM up!” when i rolled over and realised that i had dreamt my whole morning routine in astonishing detail.
Man, I hate those dreams. I had a dream a while back that involved my morning routine, but also the whole day at work, doing grueling, tiring things, and then a boring afternoon, dinner, and just as I was, exhausted, getting into bed, I woke up! And then I had to go to work for real! It was horrid.
Oh, I was also going to say: When we were all teenagers, and my little brother was about your age, maybe a touch younger (I thing he was 15 and I was 17), my little brother took to sleeping naked for a while. And it was incredibly awkward. I mean, I was sharing a room with him at the time, we had bunk beds for thesakeofthegods!
I did this the other night.
Sorta.
I woke up and panic’d, thinking it was about 5am and I had overslept. I checked my mobile clock and it was 00:54, no oversleeping, but my alarm hadn’t been set.
I did this again late that morning, but when I looked at my mobile, the time was 00:35.
Alarm wasn’t set again.
I’m going to contradict you on this one Adam — I have no preference, either way. I probably split it fifty fifty, buff and not-buff, sleeping wise.
let me guess roo, you sleep
naked when you bring your
magazines to bed, and in pajamas
when you sleep with your brother?
*Adam walks into the room, obviously in the middle of a conversation, and walks out again*
haha! indeed, adam, a conversation which is providing a great distraction from the difficult essay i am supposed to be writing.
Well, you know, we try.The best part of essays are the distractions.
haha yeah thanks for that
the essay didnt turn out that well though
now youve got the weight of my whole failed future on your shoulders
sorry!
Awww, man, not again! If I had a dime for every time that happened…
So you are blaiming Roo now for you failures and not me?
SWEET!!!!!
(sorry Roo, but the weight was heavy on my shoulders)
Errr…. I’m entirely sure I have no idea what you’re talking about. Yup.
This is possibly the funniest theme for commenting we’ve had in a long while…
I remember one time, i went to sleep in pyjamas and woke up having somehow turned the trousers inside out and upside-down, so i wasn’t technically wearing them. it was weird.
I tend to wear pjs most of the time, but i have to say sleeping in the buff is rather more comfortable. But I don’t do it very often because I know I will wake up late for school and have to get clean socks from the airing cupboard naked, which onvolves walking through my parents room…which would be awkward to explain, first thing in the morning, you gotta admit.
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