Why can’t you sleep when you’re too warm?
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Your body has to lower its core temperature by a degree to initiate sleep. Hence why you can sleep in cold beds, but not in warm.
Sleep is a low power state. Processes in your body work faster when you’re warmer (but not too warm) due to how reactions in your body work. When you’re warmer than usual, your body has to spend energy to cool you down, which makes it harder to reach that low power state.
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