Internal Thermostat Cartoon

Bearman Cartoons Hot and Cold in Bed Internal ThermostatMy wife said no one but me would get today’s cartoon because I must be the only one that can go to bed and be chilled and in the middle of the night tear the covers off me because I am burning up.  I said she was the odd one who went to sleep and woke up cold even though she insists we keep our house on 73 degrees in the winter.

How can I even be chilled when going to bed?   Well, my mother said my wife has wussified me because when I was living with my parents the thermostat barely went over 67.

Anyone else get the night sweats?

 

Comments

60 responses to “Internal Thermostat Cartoon”

  1. Binky Avatar

    Weird, because this happens to me quite often, too. I must have caught it from you!

  2. Gruhn Avatar

    Totally get it. You are not alone. Opposites attract and that includes warm blooded to cold blooded. This is the process at our house as well. In the summers I have been able to get the use of the ceiling fan which is helpful.

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      I get the ceiling fan too but my wife gets to control the speed

  3. jynksie Avatar

    Well lookie there Bearman, your internal thermostat is broken, it must mean you’re going through menopause! Good Luck with that! -Dont call! [smirk]

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      Look who has a new avatar. Almost didn’t recognize you

      1. jynksie Avatar

        I turned the ole website back on! Horrible things are happening again! [grin]

  4. KKerkGrom Avatar
    KKerkGrom

    Don’t worry, Bearman ~ It sounds as if you’re hitting menopause… Very typical symptoms. The symptoms only last about 10 years – give or take a few,

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      Haha not that I am rushing my life but I say that to my wife that once menopause hits she will know my pain

      1. Nef Avatar

        This happens to me too… I must be your same age…

        1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

          No you are way older haha

  5. George Ford Avatar

    It only happens to me because my wife secretly turns on the bedroom heater while I’m asleep, thus leaving me to wake up feeling like I’m trapped in some fiery pit.

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      You need to secretly unplug it every night. She won’t bother

  6. benzeknees Avatar
    benzeknees

    Every night unfortunately! I sleep with the bedroom window open because hubby now sleeps in the living room (due to back & digestion problems he can’t lay flat anymore so he sleeps in his recliner). I have only a sheet & comforter on the bed. Most of the time I fall asleep with the sheet over my body & my feet hanging out because I’m too warm. Once in a while I will wake up cold in the middle of the night & pull the comforter over me too but it’s pretty rare. We live in an apartment building with boiler heat but individual thermostats. We have always found this apartment too hot in the winter & prior to the last week had never turned our heat on during the entire winter. This last week we had a cold spell & hubby is starting to show his age & got chilled so he put the furnace on! All I can say is thank goodness we don’t sleep in the same room anymore – his body heat would put me over the edge!

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      I usually don’t need any covers except on my feet.

      I take a pill everyday to reduce the reflux

      1. Binky Avatar

        “I take a pull everyday to relive the refkux”
        I don’t think we needed to know that. Whatever it s!

        1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

          damn ipad autocorrect. Should at least correct to a real word

          1. lisleman Avatar

            that was a funny autocorrect – worth of a cartoon I say

      2. benzeknees Avatar
        benzeknees

        Hubby & I both take a “pill” every day for reflux too, but hubby hates to take pills so he often forgets!

        1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

          and that is why he has to sleep in the chair. Sounds like if you can afford it you need an adjustable bed.

  7. G.B. Miller Avatar

    Yeah, I do. I’ll often wake up about an hour or so before I’m supposed to wake up because nature calls and instead of climbing back under the covers, I’ll just throw a pair of slippers on and flop on the bed until it’s time to get up.

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      haha Nature can wait. I can hold it.

  8. frigginloon Avatar

    Um ewh, no. Hey Bearman ,

    1. frigginloon Avatar

      HEY, I didn’t finish my sentence…. hey Bearman, you need one of those chill pillows…

      1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

        It isn’t my face that is hot

  9. Bill Murphy Avatar

    Happen to me last night. I blame it on eating a huge dinner a half hour before going to bed. Usually I blame it on alcohol but I didn’t drink last night.
    Perhaps it was the lack of alcohol?…

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      Pour some alcohol on your head and see what happens

  10. Comedy Plus Avatar

    We leave the thermostat at 68 degrees all winter long. Hubby is more likely to have temperature issues than I do. Funny how this happens in most households.

    Have a fabulous day. 🙂

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      68…I would freeze now that I am used to the heat

  11. lisleman Avatar

    I could not stand 73. Way too hot. Of course, the temperature in the room will vary from the setting on the thermostat. I have a thermometer on the night stand and have seen a difference of more than 5 degrees from the thermostat setting which is a floor below.
    I heard that it is healthier to sleep in cooler temps.

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      I will tell my wife. I know I sleep better if I am cold than if I am hot.

  12. Dave Avatar

    It’s usually too warm when I go to bed. If it is I might as well not even try sleeping. It has to be cold the whole night. But as the night goes on I get warmer also.

    We don’t have thermostats in Germany. I just have to go off of the way it feels in the room.

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      So you can turn up or down the radiator?? haha

      In my apartment we had radiator heat that was typically just on or off. We tended to sleep with the window open in the winter.

  13. Michael corley Avatar

    It’s my every visit to a hotel room in reverse.

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      I think all of them are broken in hotels.

  14. Mark Stokes Avatar

    Ain’t it the truth?

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      Preaching to the choir

  15. Tim Green Avatar

    This is me to a T!!! 🙂

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      I think it is time for the wife to eat some crow

  16. Tony McGurk Avatar

    I’ve only had this happen when I’ve gone to bed really tired in winter & fell asleep while the electric blanket was on high while waiting for it to warm up. Looks like you are a man of extremes or maybe you have your own personal global warming happening.

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      I am my own global disturbance

  17. Jande Avatar

    Mal and I turn the thermostat down to 63 every night and still wake up over heated and have to toss off some blankets at times. I often think the thermostat’s broken ’cause the furnace stays on for a looooong time it then gets too hot for awhile.

    Too bad you didn’t have a bet on it with your wife, Bearman. You clould have cleaned up. ;`D

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      I am always right thought except for those rare occasions haha

  18. Nate Fakes Avatar

    One foot out of my sheets, a fan on with the heat on 80.. That’s been my trend all winter here in Ohio.

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      80???? Florida really wussified you

      1. Ol' Gui Avatar
        Ol’ Gui

        57 degrees at night and 67 during the day during the winter.

  19. C. Glen Williams Avatar

    I’m actually the opposite. I can start out the night warm and toasty and thinking, “I don’t need a blanket.” Then, around about 4 AM, my chattering teeth wake me up and I have to hop out of bed on my frozen feet and get back under the covers.

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      Should be some contraption you can rig that would do that on a timer

  20. Chris Simonite Avatar

    I’m usually the opposite, but the point is, the temperature is never right!!

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      Quit exercising before bed

  21. duncanr Avatar

    happens to me a lot – reckon it’s my age 😳

    1. Bearman Cartoons Avatar

      Nah. You are way older

  22. James Avatar

    This was me this morning!

  23. Chris K Avatar

    It is better to be cold and get under the covers than hot at night. I like it when it is a bit cold.

  24. Andro Avatar

    Here in the UK it’s more often than not freezing no matter what time of the year but then sleeping in a crypt isn’t recommended for everyone is it Bearman? 🙂 I wonder if there will be a full moon anytime soon, then I can bite virgin’s necks and not worry where those stakes are coming from, oh yes they always bring me something good to eat, but I don’t like the accompanying mullet, I mean mallet 🙁 lol