STRUGGLING to fall asleep in unbearable temperatures? Get a whole nine minutes of kip by following this practical advice.
Don’t use a duvet
Are you crazy? These big weighted bags filled with down or cotton are designed to trap your body heat, so angrily kick them onto the floor. That’ll help. If you have to cover your body, use something really light and thin like a sheet of one-atom-thick Graphene or, failing that, a big piece of paper.
Bring an ice cube tray to bed
During the colder months you think nothing of taking a hot water bottle to bed, so why not apply the same logic during a heatwave? Hugging an ice cube tray will bring your temperature right down and allow you to grab some much-needed slumber. You’ll just have to accept them melting and making you wake in a panic thinking you’ve pissed yourself.
Groan constantly
Not the sexy kind of groans your partner never seems to make during your clumsy fumbling, but the groans of suffering you hear from an intensive care ward. Letting out an endless chorus of moans will wear you out in a matter of hours, leaving you exhausted enough to drift off just as the sun starts streaming through your window.
Ask your partner how their day’s been
They’ll be wary at first because you never do this, but they’ll soon open up. All you have to do is nod and go ‘uh-huh’ every now and then to keep the momentum going, and before you know it you’ll be so bored you’re asleep. Enjoy it while you can because they’ll wake you up by kicking you in the shins before resuming their boring monologue.
Move to Iceland
The country, not the supermarket, although they do have big freezers which would probably be pleasant to sleep in if you didn’t suffocate. The UK, like most of the continent, is now uninhabitable in summer, so why not flee to the country with the coolest sounding name? As well escaping the heat you’ll be leaving a broken political system behind. It’s a win-win.
