No air conditioning: sleep researcher reveals how she falls asleep despite the heat
Home World As of: 11.08.2026, 05:36 Comments Follow us on Google During heat waves in Germany, many struggle in warm bedrooms with...
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Home World As of: 11.08.2026, 05:36 Comments Follow us on Google During heat waves in Germany, many struggle with falling asleep in warm bedrooms. This is the result of a new representative Forsa survey and the highest value since the start of the annual survey in 2022. At temperatures above 30 degrees, Blume herself has to resort to tricks to sleep restfully. "For me this summer, it was more the falling asleep that was difficult," she says in an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau from IPPEN.Media.
Furthermore, It is different with a lukewarm shower: "A lukewarm shower in the evening can support heat dissipation.". Shortly before falling asleep, the temperature drop is highest: "The point in the evening when body temperature falls fastest is the point when we become properly tired and can fall asleep well," explains Blume. When in tropical nights even the German shock ventilation in the evening doesn't help, falling asleep becomes hours of tossing and turning.
In addition, That causes more tension and doesn't help you fall asleep better." It is better to go to bed only when tiredness is really there.
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Home World As of: 11.08.2026, 05:36 Comments Follow us on Google During heat waves in Germany, many struggle with falling asleep in warm bedrooms.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThis is the result of a new representative Forsa survey and the highest value since the start of the annual survey in 2022.
reliability low1/2 sourcesAt temperatures above 30 degrees, Blume herself has to resort to tricks to sleep restfully. "For me this summer, it was more the falling asleep that was difficult," she says in an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau from IPPEN.Media.
reliability low1/2 sourcesIt is different with a lukewarm shower: "A lukewarm shower in the evening can support heat dissipation."
reliability low1/2 sourcesShortly before falling asleep, the temperature drop is highest: "The point in the evening when body temperature falls fastest is the point when we become properly tired and can fall asleep well," explains Blume.
reliability low1/2 sourcesWhen in tropical nights even the German shock ventilation in the evening doesn't help, falling asleep becomes hours of tossing and turning.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThat causes more tension and doesn't help you fall asleep better." It is better to go to bed only when tiredness is really there.
reliability low1/2 sources
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