For years, I’d wake up in a puddle of sweat from overheating in my sleep.
I’d always called myself a warm sleeper because of this.
I’d tried setting the thermostat to various low temperatures, but none of them ever made a difference. I even added a portable fan, which barely helped. I could set the furnace to 65 degrees and I’d still wake up sweating. I’d always assumed that our furnace was broken and it was causing our bedroom to get hotter than all the other rooms in the house. This was how I lived my life, or so I thought. Last week, I got really sick and had to quarantine in my room alone. My husband moved all his belongings for the next 10 days to our guest bedroom and let me be in isolation. During my first night alone though, I slept the entire evening and didn’t wake up from overheating once. I assumed it had something to do with my illness. However, when the same thing happened the second and third night too, I realized what was really causing me to overheat all these years. It wasn’t the furnace that was broken or a faulty thermostat, it was my husband! My husband was naturally a warm bodied person, and he was causing me to overheat every night while he slept next to me. His body was like a personal heater. I couldn’t believe it! I finally realized this when he removed himself from our bed during my quarantine.