Eli5: if humans run at 37.5 degrees Celsius why do temperatures lower than that feel hotter?

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Thinking about this while I sit in 20 degrees heat sweating my ass off. Like shouldn’t anything under 37 degrees feel cold to us?

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Along the same lines, does being in water at 37.5C, with no motion and no air, feel like nothing? Is that the temp of a sensory deprivation chamber?

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