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Old 05-20-17, 07:13 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Elcam84 View Post
Remember ideal sleeping temp is around 65* according to studies.
There is no ideal room temperature. The reason is there is a huge variation on how people dress and what amount of sheets/blankets they sleep under, as well as body size and metabolism. The 65ºF thing comes from sleep studies in the 60's. Newer sleep studies focus instead on skin temperature, finding that for most people a skin temp of around 90ºF is ideal. To maintain that we would need to be completely naked in an air temp of around 82ºF. It would actually need to be quite a bit lower than that as when we are sleeping a bit less than half our bodies are covered with rather thick insulation that we call our bed, and some beds are better insulators than others (ie foam). If we add Clothes the required temp drops further, a sheet drops it further still, comforter even further, a partner under the covers further still. The ideal temp is the one that makes our bodies do a bit of work to keep core temperature up, in other words keep us just warm enough to not shiver.

All that said and I wouldn't worry about it, find the temp that you sleep well at and set it and forget about it. The reason is a recent study has shown that people who track their sleep habits sleep worse than they did before they tracked them. The working theory is that it adds one more thing to worry about at night interfering with sleep. Of course it was just one study, likely with a low population size. Even if it showed an almost perfect correlation probabilities work out to that it winds up likely only affecting less than 10% of the population. Even so, we worry about too much crap as is, worrying about optimum sleep is just really not all that important.
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