Re: Sleeping [Archive] - ClothesFree Forum

Rik

01-31-2002, 12:45 AM

As someone who has not owned night clothes of any description since the age of 14 which was long before I'd thought consciously about nudism, I have always found it odd that ANYONE should want to wear anything in bed - except of course when it's necessary to keep warm - because if you're sleeping under a duvet, blanket or in a sleeping bag you're not really nude anyway as the blanket or duvet become your clothes. Its a bit like saying I'm naked except for the clothes I wear.

Now sleeping completely nude without bed coverings especially in a hot climate is something else!

JonR

01-31-2002, 03:38 AM

I've not owned any night attire in the last 15 or so years, let alone worn any! I can't see the point.

On warm nights too, I tend to dispense with any form of covering, but I wonder whether anyone does this regularly?

Rik

01-31-2002, 03:41 AM

JonR
Not regularly in the UK /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif Brrr!!

But usually in warm climates.

Jon

01-31-2002, 09:44 AM

Rik,
I was in England with the USAF for 2 years from 67-69, and I know what the weather is like there. I do miss the fish and chips though. Cheerio! Do they still say that there?

JonR

01-31-2002, 11:40 AM

Of all the nights to write about sleeping with no covering , I choose one where the wind is howling round my house all night! As you say, Brrr... /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Cheerio /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Frank W.

02-01-2002, 07:58 PM

Sleeping nude, always!
When at home, I always sleep naked. If I'm somewhere else, that depends where and whose around and thier attitudes about it.
I have shocked a couple of people I know when they would wake me up in the morning. I always try a warn people first now.

Rik

02-01-2002, 08:38 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Frank W.:
If I'm somewhere else, that depends where and whose around and thier attitudes about it. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I presume you're talking about sleeping nude under bed covers. If so are there truly people who have some sort of objection to others sleeping in the nude? On what possible basis could they justify such an objection?

Frank W.

02-02-2002, 01:44 AM

Bedcovers or no bedcovers, even if I start out under them, many times I get warm and they come off during the night.
Nudity should not be objectionable, but then one never knows how others will react when actually faced with it. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Bob S.

02-02-2002, 10:07 AM

If I have to share a room with someone else then I'll wear something to bed. But if I am in a room by myself, then it's a restful nude slumber.

Bob S.

Rik

02-02-2002, 03:34 PM

Interesting responses. Perhaps again I am underestimating American attitudes.

For my part it simply wouldn't occur to me to wear bedclothes if I was in someone else's home or even sharing a room with someone else. I would assume that if I was sleeping alone AND the covers should come off me in the night AND the home owner came into the room that, as they were effectively "invading my privacy" for want of a better expression, that they would either leave the room or politely knock on the door.

If I were to share a room with someone else I still think I would discreetly remove my clothes and get then into bed. The only exception I think would be if I was in hospital: then I'd have to go and buy some nightwear!

ranul

02-09-2002, 02:30 AM

i did a similar poll on another websitehttp://forums.delphiforums.com/naturistfriends/messages/?msg=985.1

ranul

02-12-2002, 08:39 AM

according to a poll that i did
17 said they still sleep nude
2 would ask
1 would sleep in his underwear
8 depends on whether or not it was a bed or couch

triaduw

02-14-2002, 06:24 PM

In the US they ask that you wear a "gown". I guess it is more, decent. People are just strange.

luvnaturism

02-14-2002, 11:08 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by <quipop>:
Does everyone sleep naked even when there staying at a friends or relatives house. Sticking to a routine and not worrying about anything else around them. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There are all sorts of sleeping arrangements for guests, so my answer would have to be, 'It depends."

If the host has provided me with a private guest room, then I have always slept nude. It used to be that I'd keep my shorts on if I was sleeping on a folding bed in the living room, but in recent years I've quit bothering with that. If someone needs to pass through the room while I'm sleeping (rarely happens) they'll probably look the other way anyway.

I finally figured out that it really all comes down to my own self-confidence. No one else is interested in what I wear - or don't wear - while I sleep. I just imagined that they would care. When someone finds out that I sleep nude, they're not bothered by it. They may not understand it, but it doesn't bother them.

The one situation in which I would exercise caution is if there are likely to be children around when I need to get up. Sensitivities can be very high in the US about nudity around children. I wish people cared as much about exposing their kids to violence as they care about exposing them to the human body. But that's another thread....

02-15-2002, 02:27 AM

Have slept nude for 40 years. When circumstances (someone else's home,e.g.) make nightclothes prudent, I never sleep well; have nearly the same discomfort factor as sunbathing in a swimsuit, which I have also given up. Whether sleeping, sunning, tanning, or a host of other activities, NUDE is the way to go!!!

wannmark

02-15-2002, 06:55 PM

in reply to roland i've spent time in hospital and like you i can't see the point of wearing one of there gowns as ok it covers the front of you but you try walking down the corridor and yes you've got it your bum is all expossed and hanging out so why do they make you cover the front of your body and then let your bum hang out??????? /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

BrianD

02-16-2002, 08:29 AM

Yes, my wife and I always sleep in the nude no matter where we are - at home, staying with family and friends, on vacation in a hotel. We have to because neither of us has owned pajamas for years. We are quite open about the fact that we sleep with nothing on because we don't want to surprise anyone who might come into our bedroom for any reason.

nude2b

02-17-2002, 12:29 PM

Sleeping at friends and family, i wake to find my underware hanging off one leg. very enbarrassing. Im still trying to get the nerve to join in this lifstyle.

Rik

02-17-2002, 02:08 PM

nude2b,
If it's embarrassing to wake up and find your underwear hanging off one leg then don't wear underwear in bed. Problem solved /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Rik

02-17-2002, 02:27 PM

According to a worldwide (web based) survey undertaken by the Sleep Council last year 51% of people in the UK admit to sleeping nude in the summer and 30% elsewhere in the world are nude sleepers.

Given the relatively few people who admit to being naturists/nudists, these figures more or less suport my own view that people who sleep nude are not particuarly likely to be naturists/nudists although I guess that naturists/nudists are more likely to sleep nude than not nudists.

I have slept naked since my early teens but it is only in recent years (some 30 or so later) that I have considered myself a naturist.

jerrykc

02-18-2002, 04:05 AM

Hi
I would not sleep naked at someones house if I thought I would be seen unless they are also nudists. My family knows I am a nudist although I do not believe in forcing my way of life on others. I feel if I am seen nude in a home that doesn't practice that way of life I am forcing my way of life on them.

Trailscout

02-18-2002, 07:03 AM

I have been a guest at a house of an anti-nude with small children. He would have taken great offense if I had slept nude.
I was on the living room couch and I often throw the bedcovers off in my sleep. For me the answer is obvious: wear clothes that night.

I have worn clothes to bed in cold houses when there weren't enough blankets to go around, but that is a physical necessity.

Rik

02-18-2002, 02:08 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by jerrykc:
I feel if I am seen nude in a home that doesn't practice that way of life I am forcing my way of life on them. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>But consider this: if your non-nudist friends visit your house and insist on wearing clothes then are they not forcing their way of life on you? Just a thought /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

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triaduw

02-18-2002, 02:32 PM

Rik you make an interesting point but, you are getting into the logistics of the idea of lifestyle forcing. You could in a sense say yes they are forcing a lifestyle upon them but if you go around in your house unclothed or naked you are also forcing the subject with them. Kind of an irony.

Just a thought no offense intended. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Rik

02-18-2002, 08:49 PM

triaduw,
No offence taken. I like to explore illogicalities in my own and other's thinking to try and make sense of irrational behaviour. As humans we are often irrational because we tend to be ruled by forces other than straightforward logic. So it is with nudity. To me it is completely irrational to cover up nakedness for reasons other than protection, and yet, like others I still do it!

Actually I don't think I really consider nudism a lifestyle at all - at least it's not my lifestyle. Sure I spend time naked but I spend much more time clothed and I certainly wouldn't say that being clothed was a lifestyle. And of course I would no more practise nudism in my home when there are non-nudist guests than I would practice it in someone elses home (although I do believe the issue of sleeping nude is quite different). However, I have no problem if people (in whoever's home) happen to catch me naked whether it's stepping from the shower or getting undressed for bed or simply changing clothes. It's happened to me a few times and I have felt absolutely no embarrassment although I accept that the viewer (or should that be voyeur?) may have done. But I suspect their embarrassment is more to do with the fact that they think they may be embarrassing me - get's complicated doesn't it?

I don't particularly want to embarrass people but let's face it, embarrassment is not a life threatening condition and frankly glimpsing my unclothed body is simply not a big deal.

Bob S.

02-19-2002, 06:29 AM

If your friends are at your house wearing clothes, that is their perrogative unless your house is nude only. But when you visit his clothed only house, if you go naked outside of the appropriate areas, then you are in violation of his rules. Only if you insist on staying naked would you be imposing your lifestyle on him.

That said, as per the original topic, It depends on where I am in the house. If I am in a room by myself, I will sleep naked. Out on the couch or in a room shared with someone else, clothed.

Bob

kangokid

02-20-2002, 04:46 AM

As for myself, my wife and I sleep nude when we're at home, camping, and many other places, but once in a long while we both sleep with underwear on, if at one of her friend's places or something like that. Sleeping with nothing on gives me complete freedom. I started sleeping nude at 16 when one steamy hot summer night, I couldn't get to sleep with pj's on and felt the need to strip that night. Haven't returned to that since that time.

TXK NUDE

02-22-2002, 11:49 PM

I have slept nude or nearly nude since i was about 8 or 9. Pajamas were uncomfortable becaused they bunched up, and sweats were too confining. I tried sleeping in underwear, but I toss and turn too much and they would slide off anyway. By the time I was 8 or 9, I just gave up wearing anything. Since my older brother slept nearby, I would go to bed in my wonder-roos (remember those?) and when I heard his breathing get heavy, I would slip them off and tuck them into my pillow slip. Before I got up in the morning, I would check if the coast was clear and pull my underwear back up.
After my brother went off to college, I stopped bothering with the tucking my underwear into the pillow slip and just dove into bed naked, and got up naked. When we got a foster child who slept in my old bed, I continued to be naked before bed, and when we first got up. It never bothered either of us.

Now that I'm married, and been nude in the bed for years, I never wear anything to bed, even in hotels, friend's houses, or even the mother-in-laws place. My wife doesn't mind, except when I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. But at 3AM, anyone I encounter will probably be more asleep than awake, and wouldn't remember anything anyway!

mhookem

02-26-2002, 06:35 AM

Hi TXNude,

I am about the same way. I don't ever sleep with clothes on, mo matter where I am. If I have to get up in the night< i don't usually bother with putting anything on--most people are asleep still. I will usually be careful and time getting off the couch if at in-laws so that I can get dressed while nobody is around.

yfenni

12-20-2002, 04:24 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by <an old man>:
I'm in my 70's and can't remember ever wearing anything in bed. When I was a boy in the great depression I was naked a lot in the summer. I didn't have many clothes and on wash days everything would be in the wash.This didn't bother me as I enjoyed naked living as a boy & continued it on into adulthood. My family has always gone along with my lifestyle and most but not all are nudists. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Stevedaoust

12-20-2002, 07:46 PM

First time I stayed at my inlaws, I wore scrub pants to bed just in case. But after 2 hours of feeling like they were knotting up around me and tossing and turning, I riped them off and slept nude (as I always did) and went right to sleep. From then on, it's nude as soon as I'm ready for bed, no matter where.
Steve

yfenni

01-14-2003, 07:26 AM