Clothing is often a valid life choice.

[azurelunatic]

Why do I keep doing these things? I know what happens when I do these things, and yet, I keep doing them.

Every now and then I get distracted or something when shifting between clothing states, and I wind up wearing not very much at all in my apartment. Depending on the time of year and how much clothing I started out in, the apartment may or may not be heated much above the ambient non-windy temperature outside.

I have noticed, after experience and taking notes, that due to my personal insulation and habit of fidgeting while sitting ostensibly still, my core temperature will remain quite reasonable, but my skin temperature, particularly over the better-insulated bits, will drop.

When my skin temperature drops, my mood likes to crash. When my mood is protected in some way from fully crashing, I become cranky anyway.

I cheer up and relax when I put on clothing and allow my external temperature to start coming back up. Sometimes (like that one time with the concrete back in 1998) it takes a shower before I actually am the right temperature all over again, and for a bit the water drips off me cold while the heat transfers.

I keep doing this. I keep wandering around with my skin uncovered, and it keeps getting cold, and I keep getting cranky. I know this happens, and yet sometimes it ... just happens.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Umm.. move to Costa Rica? I don't think it gets much below body temperature there...

[rynia]

... Huh. I should make a note of this observation. I know that I have a disturbing tendency to pass out (literally, from standing to floor) when combining the reverse and low blood sugar. If this observation holds true, it may be a factor in recent brain downswings.

[0jack]

I keep doing this. I keep wandering around with my skin uncovered, and it keeps getting cold, and I keep getting cranky. I know this happens, and yet sometimes it ... just happens.

It's not just you. I actually slow down to where I can't get dressed and my brain slows and ugh. If I get cold enough, like you, I can't get warm.

[azurelunatic]

Also remember to start breathing again after you finish getting to your feet. (I would forget a lot when that was happening to me. I'd get up, I'd forget to unclench the diaphragm, I'd wander off to get a snack after X hours of typing without breakfast, and apple in hand I'd come back and BOOM.)

[drewkitty]

A bathrobe is a wonderful tool for helping with this. So is a cap for interior wear, such as a woolen hat.

[azurelunatic]

I have both of these things. Using them is another thing entirely.

[azurelunatic]

This is the sort of thing that is solved by awareness and vigilance, not relocating. I moved here from Arizona, which was far too hot.

[azurelunatic]

Showers are amazing.

[0jack]

They are! I can't count how often I've gotten out and had to get back in an hour later because I failed to get dressed fast enough. I don't know if you have chronic pain issues, but weirdly, sometimes showering makes those worse... that sets me up of course to not get dressed... and then back in the shower.

I'm supposed to shower (hot hot) twice a day during my migraine season. So many chances to strand myself! I'm so silly.

[0jack]

This made me LOL. I have two turbans, robes, and PJs. Ask how often I make it into them if something catches my eye. *g*

[somewhatbent]

Our house is 'officially' clothing optional. 'You don't have to take yours off, but don't expect us to put any on' has been the rule pretty forever in my life. However, it's generally bloody cold and damp here -- and *really* expensive to heat the house to a decent clothing optional temperature. I have innumerable robes and down filled fluffy slippers, which it galls me to wear. I feel your pain.

[azurelunatic]

I don't mind clothing! I just ... occasionally completely forget that it's a thing that I should be doing.