I was recently sick and my body temperature was 38.6°C. It felt like I was in a refrigerator.
So, why do we feel cold when we have a high body temperature? Shouldn’t we feel hot instead?
In: Biology
The feeling of being hot or cold isn’t about what temperature your body is, it’s about the transfer of energy via heat.
If you are losing a lot of heat rapidly, you will feel cold. If you are heating up rapidly, you will feel hot.
The thing that speeds up temperature transfer the most is temperature difference. If your body is 90° and the outside is 50°, you will feel colder than if it was 60° outside because more of your heat is transferring quickly.
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