What to do if my partner & I sleep at different temperatures

If you and your bed partner don't agree on room temperature, the warm partner can sleep outside the covers and the cool partner can sleep inside the covers with socks. Sleep expert Michael Breus, PhD, gives a recommended room temp and more tips.

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This happens all the time when bed partners can't agree on temperature. So the first thing I tell people to do is to meet in the middle.

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Make the room temperature somewhere between 68 and 72 degrees. There's data that now shows that if you're below 65 degrees in room temperature

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or above 75 degrees in room temperature, it can have a pretty dramatic effect on your ability to get into deep sleep.

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This might help a little bit, but you might still be hot or you might still be cold. For some couples, I have the warmer person sleeping

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on the outside of the covers. And for some people, I have them using socks while under the covers. This can help somebody feel snuggled in

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and warm if they're cold, and the warmer person can help them quite a bit lying outside of the sheets. The other thing to remember is that it's also

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good to get moisture-wicking sheets. For the person who has a tendency to be hot and a tendency to perspire, it can pull that perspiration

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off their skin. Because that's what really makes them feel cool, or too cool at night. They get hot, they perspire, and then that cold air hits it

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and it feels like you just walked out of a shower. There's a lot of different things that people can do to make the temperature just right for them.