Can't sleep, humiditiy will eat me :(

[lirion]

I know this because I tried the sleep thing and woke up twice in the space of less than 2 hours, too hot and sweaty both times. My fan has ceased to be effective, because the air is jsut too hot, even with me getting home and opening things up to let the coolness in. But it'slike the wall of heat in my flat is a grumpy bouncer who's decided the cool air is providing fake id for all of it that actually ends up inside here.

And somehow, no matter how much of a breeze there is during the day, either that's only in the city or it's well timed to suddenly die as I ge thome to air my house.

Today at work is going to really hurt - more so than the last and they've been pretty bad - if I don't manage some more sleep. And the cold water saked tshirt, while still useful, is less effective in the sticky heat.

I request bringing back last week please. At least then the heat was dry.

I wonder if the body corporate would object to me screening in ym entire balcony so that I could at least keep the mozzies and other assorted creepy crawlies out and sleep out there. Actually, this being my body corp, they'd object more to the 'unsightliness' of someone sleeping out there I think, *rolls eyes*

Relative humidity: 85% *shudder* I say again, if I wanted to live in Sydney or Brisbane then i would, sneding this weather is not an enticement, please stop.

Comments

[geekweevil.livejournal.com]

I found that if i put the fan on, my feet would get cold. so i put a sheet over my feet and thus i warmed up.
Hence i had a crappy sleep too!

[lirion.livejournal.com]

I had my fan on all night - like I ahve for awbout the last week :(, including turning it on pretty much as soon as I get home to get some cool air moving about at least.

But I was having the opposite problem - I vent heat through ym feet and they weren't cooling down, the fan wasn't helping. it occured to me as I woke up this morning that I should try going to sleep with a wet pair of socks on :)

I couldn't get the balance of sheet, or not to sheet either. Wihtout I felt I needed something over me, but with was too hot. Blah I tell you, BLAH!

Muchy crappy sleep, doom for all apparently.

[carlowe.livejournal.com]

You don't *tell* them you'll be sleeping out on the balcony!!

What about hanging a mosquito net out there? I have also seen people put shadecloth along the balcony railings (if it was the cream colour one it might blend with the brick colour? No idea what your flats look like.) With that combination you would have a degree of privacy without closing the whole thing in, and the BC may not object.

[lirion.livejournal.com]

No you don't tell them, but if anyone sees you the next morning... :)

We ahve a blind but it only treaches to the top of the railing - though i should pull it down anyway - I keep forgetting about it.

So I'd like to just but flywire from the ground to the top and have the entire balcony mosquito free.

They'd objec to shadecloth unfortuantely :(

[pr0zak.livejournal.com]

I can't sleep with anything covering my feet, I overheat. I also can't really sleep without something covering my middle (I always sleep nakid). So I tend to just have part of the sheet over my stomach and that's it.

Luckily though if I'm at F's, he has an air conditioner in his bedroom.

[lirion.livejournal.com]

I get the overheating feet. I normally sleep nekkid myself, it's just that I'm currently cooler in a wet tshirt so... I think I cna't do the tshirt and the sheet is the problem - normally I like ahving something voer me, but recently it's been a bit meh.

Oh that would rock so much!

[goratrixx.livejournal.com]

Give me humidity over dry heat any day. In the dry heat I feel parched and my skin feels all fucked up. I feel like I crave the moisture through my lungs just to feel human again. I found the sub-tropical heat in Georga and Louisiana in the US far more bearable than this disgusting dry Melbourne weather :'(''''''''''

[lirion.livejournal.com]

Really? That sucks.

Whereas in humidity the air feels really heavy and sticky and I feel like I need a shower within minutes of having had one. I jsut don't deal well in it. It's wet without being wet and I just find it yuck. Dry heat jsut feels more clean to me I guess, I cna still rbeathe in it.

So does this mean that someone I know is at least having a tolerable time of it this week?

[goratrixx.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know whether I'd go so far as to say "tolerable", I'm happiest in way sub-zero temperatures and covered in snow I've determined, so this is hardly preferable. It's absolutely atrocious, in fact! The worst thing I'm finding is the way my face and body bloat up, I feel horrific about it.

Yeah, I know that most people prefer dry heat to humidity though.