But I’m sure a daily 8hr sleep in water isn’t something our bodies are ready for. What are probable effects? Can we mitigate them?
Get an under sheet fan.
Fan isn’t fun and we aren’t on c/windmillthoughts though.
I think there may also be some medical consequences. I really don’t know of there’s long-term effects, but being in water constantly dehydrates you. It’s the reason your skin gets wrinkly when you’ve been in the bath a while: your body thinks you’re over-hydrated and tries to expel water through your skin.
Take that with a grain of salt; I read it somewhere years ago, and really have no idea of it’s accurate, true, or whether it’d make a difference health-wise in any case.
I suspect our temperature regulation goes out of the window too as our bodies are used to be mainly in the air (not conducting, nor conserving, nor dense) and built a range of mechanisms to cool itself or maintain the livable temp to the main organs first. Sauna is a great example in how we survive hot air at temps nearing a boiling point of water by oversweating, while water makes this ineffective and a spilled coffee can cause severe burns. If there’s a chance for the bathbeds, the reaction of the body to the temp should be considered too.
It’s actually a reflexive response by your body caused by the constriction of blood vessels in the skin, improving grip on wet surfaces. If you have nerve damage to the hands, feet, or related areas of the spine, the wrinkle reflex won’t function.
Related article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-our-fingers-and-toes-wrinkle-during-a-bath/
Only your kidneys handle the expulsion of excess water, so what you read isn’t accurate.
The problem is the direct contact to the water, a blanket with water running through it in a circle with a heat spreader or a different cooling device would solve that and would reduce the amount of water by a lot. The blanket would be a bit heavier but by that it would double as a weighted blanket too.
Devices, for example computers, get cooled like that.
This actually already exists but it’s quite pricey: https://www.eightsleep.com/uk/pod-cover/
There are cheaper options with rather fewer features. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006953014233.html?spm=a2g0n.productlist.0.0.173a4860jp5Vte&browser_id=f36a722d1afe4414817ff92887ef9033&aff_platform=msite&m_page_id=ygojhmnwjaocavrk1908a12ac6021b1ebe3512ed2d&pdp_npi=4%40dis!GBP!95.84!86.26!!!118.80!106.92!%402103834817203033979622277e92ea!12000038838354135!sea!UK!3756446256!&algo_pvid=0351cd34-faa0-4aba-8982-a4ef532c7b02
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006953014233.html
Link without all the unnecessary crap
Huh, just noticed my link shows the price at 100 euros, but the bloated one shows it for 121 euros
Nvm different size was pre-selected
That ridiculous link isn’t working, at least for me.
Yea link not working but have me curious if you can get a working one edited or respond.
There goes my million dollar idea 😭
But cool, literally, that something like this exists. On the other hand, it is not really rocket science 😀
My parents used to have a waterbed years ago. Temperature wise it was really great. Turn the temp up in winter for a cozy bed and down in summer for a cool sleep.
When I was a teenager at one point I had a waterbed and left the heat off. While not the same thing, it was effective at stealing body heat. I have no idea whether it was a good idea though
A few months ago, I bought some fake/vegan leather shoes and they didn’t quite fit. So, I figured, I’d try the old leather shoe trick, where you fill them with water, put them on and let them dry+shrink to fit your feet.
And it actually kind of worked. But I had decided to just leave them on for basically the rest of the day. And that wasn’t a great idea.
My foot soles had soaked with water and gotten wrinkles that carved about a centimeter deep. Even after taking the shoes off, I was in pain for a few hours. It felt like the soaked skin was constantly pulling on my flesh, because their shapes didn’t fit together anymore.
So, yeah, I imagine, the same would happen, if you bathed for 8 hours. You could somewhat mitigate it, by covering your whole body in vaseline or some other form of fat.
I guess, you could also try bathing in rapeseed oil or such directly…? I’m not actually recommending this, though. 🫠What heat? It is like 15 degrees in fucking July here -_-
It’s a heated sleeping tub for you then (:
Staying in water that long would be hell, imagine the prune fingers! D:
Lokal temperatur is not the same as global temperatures, it can be cold in one place and blazing hot in another…
No way, really!? I always thought it was simultaneously the same temperature everywhere!
That explains a lot, I am happy that I was able the help you.😎😄
My life has been a lie!
But seriously OP doesn’t state where they are. You cant just presume everyone lives in the same place :p
I mean they presume that people experience heat. We all know the weather changes, it’s a bit patronizing to be like “well u know its not always hot, on this post about heat”.
We know lmfao.
Let me introduce you to the concept of sarcasm. It may be hard to grasp for some people, but that’s OK love, I’m sure you have other strengths in your life. patronising head tap There there.
Y’all are why people hate the fediverse.
“but seriously” “It was sarcasm” Ok bud :)
Same mate, I was waiting for our traditional European summer heat wave and the Indians and Americans took it all for them :(
I’m holding out hope for another 2 days towards the end of August! We just gotta believe!
