Friday's Unscientific Poll + Seven Days of Selfies 1/7

[nanila]

I think we could all stand to finish the week with something fluffy and not so harrowing. So here is a calming photo of me at my desk at work at 07:15 yesterday morning, as the first installment of the Seven Days of Selfies bit of the LJ-versary celebrations.



And here is Friday's Unscientific Poll, which is soothing and about socks and has been shamelessly poached from my Twitter friend katieshould.

Poll #17524 Business time

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 53

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Can you sleep in socks?

View Answers

Yes, whether it's business time or not, I like having warm feets
26 (49.1%)

No, I'm sorry, my ankles are hot
27 (50.9%)

Comments

[redbird]

These days, I find it easier to sleep in socks than without them (even on warm days, or when snugged under a duvet on cool ones), because my foot has developed a tendency to itch when bare.

[nanila]

Itchy feet when bare is a curious development. Also a little irritating, I imagine!

[ceb]

I am envious of your desk!

[nanila]

Heh, it is quite a nice (and big) desk! The only down side is that my back is to the door, which has windows in it.

[yvi]

I am envious of the whole office. I share with 8 people and sit with my back to the door :-/

[recessional]

Socks are SATAN.

Which is to say I literally spend as much time as humanly possible without danger of either literal frostbite, massive social offence or injury to my feet barefoot. I hate socks. It's a massive screaming sensory problem with me, and one of the ones that I laugh at bitterly: I did spend a good, you know, twenty years of my life if not more unaware that this was a problem! I also spent a good twenty years of my life prone to overload on a near-daily basis and a lot of unfortunate behaviours to cope with that.

Nowadays I know that socks (anything that covers both my toes and the bridge of my foot at the same time, in fact: I can have my bridge covered or my toes covered but NOT BOTH and neither is preferrable) are one of the things that takes up massive sensory processing RAM, I avoid wearing them, but that means I rEALLY NOTICE when I have to have them on and they set that off. *makes face*

I legit live in sandals AS SOON as it's not raining freezing cold rain on a daily basis, and stay in them until I am actually risking chillblains/frostbite/etc. And within a home, I am always, always barefoot. I took slipper-shoes (the really really BARE ballet flats we had about seven years ago) to live in my locker at the university, because GAH.

[niqaeli]

I like fancy shoes as an occasional dress-up thing -- and those typically don't require SOCKS -- but mostly I would seriously love to be able to go genuinely barefoot everywhere. Given I can't, I thank the gods I finally realised tabi socks are at least vastly less sensory RAM eating for me and that they are a thing I can buy off the internet because oh god it makes so much difference to not having a huge chunk of my brain flipping its shit over my toes being encased together. (Toe socks are, however, the devil. They hurt. >:|)

[omnipotent]

I wish I could do the sandals thing year round. I live in a tropical climate, but last year I pretty much lived in sandals. Even with sunblock, which I slather on pretty religiously, I ended up with some pretty gnarly sun damage. Been keeping my feet covered when outdoors and just waiting for the damage to become less conspicuous, which will take time.

[pulchritude]

Nice office!

I'm deathly afraid of the cold, so I kind of have to wear socks to bed in winter :p

[nanila]

Thanks!

I confess, I do occasionally wear socks to bed in the winter when it's properly cold. But I always get too hot in them and end up waking up to remove them.

[omnipotent]

Even when I lived in a colder climate, I never wore socks to bed. Just didn't like the feeling of fabric on my feet while trying to sleep.

[nanila]

*nodnod* I think this is one of those seemingly small things that most people actually have quite strong preferences about. Like you, I don't like the feel of socks on my feet as I'm falling asleep. I can just about tolerate it if it's properly cold, but even then, once I've warmed up under the duvet, I have to take them off.

[redsixwing]

Your office looks really nice.

I only sleep in socks if I can't get warm. (I have the metabolism of a lizard, so I'm in socks for a big chunk of winter.)

[nanila]

It is quite a nice office!

I'm the same with socks & sleeping - only when I'm cold, and even then I invariably wake up in the night to remove them because I've overheated.

[rmc28]

It depends - usually I do not wear socks to sleep, but if I am very cold, putting socks on can really help.

[nanila]

*nod* Socks in the cold when you first get under the duvet and the bed is cold too, for sure.

[askygoneonfire]

Trainer socks! Stop below ankle, keep toes warm, easily pulled off in sleep. Trust me, it'll change your life

[nanila]

Yes! I have fluffy trainer socks that I wear when it's really cold. But I do have to wake up to pull them off after I'm all warmed up in bed.

[yvi]

I occasionally wear them, but usually take them off sometime during the night.

[nanila]

I'm the same!

[niqaeli]

As I've gotten older, I've gotten to where I CAN? I just don't sleep WELL. Usually, to sleep, I have socks off AND my duvet is pulled up so my feet are out from under them.

[nanila]

Ooh, super-hot feet! I can wear them to bed for maybe an hour when it's cold. But as soon as I'm warmed up, they have to come off.

[silveradept]

I sleep well, either way - my problem is more about having enough padding so that the cats don't spike me in the middle of my sleep.

Your office looks very serene.

[azurelunatic]

Your cats sound very sharp.

[azurelunatic]

Socks have the unfortunate tendency to make my toes feel damp, and at that point I'm scraping them off my feet in disgust.

[nanila]

Aggggh, damp toes, DNW! /o\

[lovepeaceohana]

Although to the point about ankles getting too hot: I've definitely been known to sleep with socks on just the half of my foot with toes, to avoid the problem of overheated ankles. Start with them on all the way, eventually kick them down so they're halfway off (but still on my toes), and usually by morning they're all the way off but by then I don't care.

[nanila]

I like the idea of half-foot socks, just to keep toes warm. :D

[ayebydan]

it gets to me so much but I just cannot do socks. It could be -10 and I'll be mourning how cold my feet are but socks on sheets just...urgh no. I don't like the sensation of them touching, more than a heat thing.

I sleep weird though. I sleep best in old footie shirts and oversized wwe shirts. So my choice in bed gear should probs not be taken too seriously :P

[nanila]

I think everyone has different preferences? I get really warm when I sleep, but strangely I don't particularly like sleeping totally naked. I prefer to be wearing something. Likewise, I don't like sleeping without a cover, even if it's just a thin sheet. I feel too unprotected/vulnerable without something over me.

[ironed_orchid]

I answered "Yes" but lately I have been taking off my socks after about an hour in bed.

[nanila]

Huh! I find my habits vary depending on time of year. And possibly time of life.

[marahmarie]

I narrowly chose "no" only because I live in a warm weather area where seven months or more out of the year I don't need socks on to keep the feet warm. But! Those other five months of the year on cold nights, I do. Then I'll wear them and can't sleep without them, because my feet, like Goldilocks, can't be too hot or too cold, they have to be...*sigh*...yes...

Just right.

I just have this sudden urge to stare at my feet, because I can't control what they make me do.

[qian]

I love the light in that photo and you look so cool. Living your best life!

[nanila]

Aw, thank you! Am trying to recover that sense of serenity since Thu 23 June. Have yet to succeed. :/

[chickenfeet]

Sleeping in/not in socks depends entirely on the external temperature and what my metabolism is doing. I learnt long ago, in the days when I did a lot of camping, that it's all about whatever works for you that night. If it takes socks, long underwear, a fleece and a balaclava so be it (try camping above treeline in New Hampshire in December!). Equally stark naked may be too hot especially if a cat is involved.

[nanila]

I love a cat bedwarmer even when it's roasting out. Then again, no matter how hot it is, I have to sleep with a cover, even if it's just a thin sheet.

[liseuse]

I sleep in socks a large amount of the year - my feet get really cold when I'm asleep (thanks, family genetics for the terrible circulation!) and then I don't sleep because my feet are cold. Ironically, I spend most of my time walking around my house barefoot.

[nanila]

I have cold feet, and I walk around barefoot too. I think it's because socks can be slippery, and I don't always trust myself to be paying full attention when moving around.

[pbristow]

Socks serve double duty for me in bed: They keep the tootsies warm, and they also act as protection for my eczema (left foot) against wandering fingernails...

Of course, sometimes the urge to scratch is just too strong, and off comes the sock. Then I wake up a few hours later with a cold (and possibly slightly stingy, if I scratched too much) left foot - probably sticking out from under the duvet! - and the right one still wrapped up and cosy. =:o?

[nanila]

Eczema is particularly problematic at night. It's very hard to activate the rational part of the sleep-addled brain long enough to send the message that scratching should be stopped!