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How do you stay cold or at least not melting when summer comes? I know it's not summer yet, but it's already getting warmer here and it will be disgustingly dry and hot in a few months.

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I'd say it's pretty accurate. In fact, here's a fun fact for you - it got so ducked up one summer that practically the entire state was burning. There were over 1000 of those duckers all over the place. The only way to escape the smoke was to drive up to Oregon.

I have no room to place an air conditioner thingy. We've got some of those, too as this place has no normal ass air conditioning. Not a single vent.

So what are your methods? Do you have a box of ice you lay in? Perhaps you're lucky enough to live on the east coast where the temperature is perfect. Maybe you're not in this evil empire of a country and somewhere up north where it's probably a nice cold temperature all the time?

Well, time to go destroy another glass of cold shit or something. I guess the upside to all this is more cold drinks. Or poking fun at how hot it gets even though it is absolutely not comfortable.

Well, if you mean, in your own house,then stay undressed with only the underwear on. And I'm not joking. As long as there arent any friends of yours around or other people which you don't want to see you undressed, then I don't see what's the problem

OR

Keep a bottle with cold water with you at all times

I agree with Bluedy about the clothes. But cold water will only make you feel hotter rather than cool you off. Drink room temperature water frequently. That would be much better.
It's already blazing hot where I am. I don't do much. I cut my hair short, drink refreshments(like crushed cardamom & sugar water) and keep my activity low. The more active you are the more engery you burn(as heat) and the hotter you get.
A good stressful activity could keep you sweating for a few hours...

The former doesn't work too well and the latter would end up with a warm bottle of water or an empty one, and either way would probably make the former even less of a solution since taking a piss would require clothes which takes like 43 years to do.

EDIT: The more active you are the more engery you burn(as heat) and the hotter you get. But there's still so much more shit to clean and move around.

That warm bottle of water will keep you hydrated and atleast somewhat cooler.
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Anyway, cold water isn't good for you in very hot weather.

How about you buy a fan? When I was little, I slept with my mom in a room, and it was steaming hot! But then i went to the other room with my brother and my father(which had a fan) and I can say it was a difference!

^ Best idea yet.

There is a fan. Really just blows warm air around.

It's better than nothing. I live close to the equator and I still find fans to be helpful.

Yeah, I guess. As long as I don't reach melt state which is such a wonderful state when you're trying to become Freddy Kreuger's next victim.

Plus, heat seems to trigger sleep paralysis and other weird shit. At least for me.

Everyone, let's do a Dink meet somewhere around here so we can all be miserable in the sun and not want to move.

Well, I dunno. My fan had different speed levels. It had like 4 buttons, and each one would make the fan rotate slower or faster. By buying a fan, i mean, buy a fan that CAN REALLY make cold air, not just spin around. Maybe your fan doesn't spin fast enough

There are lots of triggers for sleep paralysis. Donno about heat.
Eating a healthy diet, being hydrated and chilling out seems to fix it.

I can make it spin faster. I think I've got 4 settings too...eh, one being off.

I sympathize, it goes up to nearly 50 degrees Celsius in the summer. I can't stay in my room then because I'm literally pouring sweat. No figurative expression there. I had to spend ten minutes in it out of necessity with the window closed once (the electricity wasn't working so no fan) and I started shaking because I became so dehydrated.

Cold drinks, keep your windows open, keep your curtains closed, take a shower every day. Still sucks.

There are lots of triggers for sleep paralysis.

Speaking about sleep paralysis, have you guys ever experienced this? if yes, how was your experience? I never experienced it and don't know how it is, but seems scary and cool! I mean, the part with the figures passing by and hearing things.

It's like living a horror movie. It's both thrilling and terrifying. I used to have it frequently when I was much younger. Thankfully I don't anymore.
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I never see any figure passing by. I only hear terrifying laughs from my windows.

I want DETAILED details about your most horrific experiences!

Well.. I feel like I'm awake. Just a bit tired. Then I try to look at the time but I can't move. Then I hear laughing from my windows. I start to sweat but I can't move or scream. Then I realise I can't breath. After feeling like I was about to die I would wake up.
Sometimes an invisible monster would throw me around the room in it. But I don't know if that counts as sleep paralysis. It's very life-like and I get the same sensation of not breathing and paralysis...

Hmm, It reminds me of a DREAM I had. Something dragged me into darkness and I could not scream or even speak, but it was just a dream

If you want some good ole sleep paralysis. Just skip the veggies and sleep irregularly for a few weeks.
Just for the thrill of it.

After seeing this: http://9gag.com/gag/aXpAxLD I don't want to anymore

Woah.. But don't worry. You'll probably have something more horrific(to you) in your dream.

Duck

That shiz is weird, fo shizzle.

But really, it's ducked up how you can become conscious but still limp from rem and it seems like you're moving but then you finally gain full consciousness and can move around and you realize you didn't actually move at all. Some weird bologna shit happens with sleep. It's awesome.

Like once, I was like -2 or something, and I had this dream post-Night of the Living Dead viewing with darkness, some wooden watch tower type things, ladders, red carpets, and zombies or some shit. I would awaken I guess and then be pushed or pulled back down into the dream.

Or one time, I swear to duck I was floating around and hitting the ceiling or something.

Speaking of all this, anyone ever experience weird intense chills that aren't cold? Anyone else had recurring bathroom maze dreams? They're not really mazes, but there's lots of stalls all over the place.

Speaking of all this, anyone ever experience weird intense chills that aren't cold? Anyone else had recurring bathroom maze dreams? They're not really mazes, but there's lots of stalls all over the place.

About weird intense chills that aren't cold,um...don't think so.
About bathrooms maze dreams? I think these occur to people who are afraid of or have something with public bathrooms. The only thing I think about this is that they are disgusting. I once saw a toilet half missing and without a tank, and it was in my school! I guess you could say, the principle doesn't give....a shit *badum tsssss*

I don't know about that. They're obviously gross, but I'm not afraid of them.

Don't really go into physical public often, though.

Never experienced any of the stuff Skurn talked about...
Unless by those chills you mean a tingling like you feel when your leg falls asleep.

It's scary. I've experienced it a couple of times.

Once I woke up (during the witching hour at that) and couldn't move even though it felt like I could, and my chest and arms were kind of tingling, and I saw a hand reaching up for me from my right side.

Those weird intense chills that aren't cold - yes.

The bathroom maze scares - I don't think so.

I haven't had recurring bathroom dreams, but I have had recurring volcano nightmares when I was young, which often included my dad sacrificing some kind of meat into the volcano to quell it's hunger. Which is odd because I've never lived anywhere near a volcano.

I'm not sure if it's the same kind of "chills" you get Skurn, but once in a great while (usually during Winter) I wake up in the middle of the night shaking madly feeling like I'm frozen stiff (even though heat is on) and like I need to throw up. It mostly goes away after about 15-30 minutes but it's still terrifying when it happens. I've also had panic attacks on at least 2-3 occasions where I start shaking madly and feeling like I'm going to have a heart attack for basically no reason at all.

I've been checked and supposedly there's nothing wrong with me, and neither of those things have happened for over a year now. So I'll probably live.

As for staying cold, I've never had that problem; I almost always feel cold, so the Summer ends up being a lot easier on me than Winter.

Yeah, definitely not that. I wonder if what Spinnerweb said really is the exact same thing. I'm not even sure what to look up. Google would probably return a bunch of random bullshit.

I'm not sure if it's the same kind of "chills" you get Skurn, but once in a great while (usually during Winter) I wake up in the middle of the night shaking madly feeling like I'm frozen stiff (even though heat is on) and like I need to throw up. It mostly goes away after about 15-30 minutes but it's still terrifying when it happens. I've also had panic attacks on at least 2-3 occasions where I start shaking madly and feeling like I'm going to have a heart attack for basically no reason at all.

I've been checked and supposedly there's nothing wrong with me, and neither of those things have happened for over a year now. So I'll probably live.

Damn, what kind of doctors do you have? ...oh, US ones, yeah.

Still, there are obviously things that seem like they should be dangerous when they're not - the entirety of sleep paralysis for example.

i live in the pacific, which is ALWAYS freakin hot.

I just use a stand-fan and it works well.

I should probably use one of those. All I've got on right now is a square fan you can place in windows and shit, but that would require me to leave the window open and I dunno if I'll be doing that. It's on a box right now pointing diagonally from the wall.

I couldn't put anything in the window, actually, since douchebags around here feel the need to smoke or use their fireplaces instead of a simple blanket or something and end up giving me smoke that comes right in.

They use their fireplaces when it's warm outside? That's perverse.

I also echo others statements. A fan is super useful. Big powerful box ones are great in high-temperature/low-humidity areas if you're stationary (like working at a computer). If you're moving around a lot or need to keep a whole room cool, the swivel kind may work better. You'll get the most use out of fans by positioning them close to cool areas and pointing them at warm areas (or yourself).

If you dont mind a bit of work you could always try this

I don't think they use their fireplaces during summer, but fireplaces in general just suck ass. You can warm up much easier than burning some wood and getting fire starters or whatever whilst also blowing smoke into the air to prevent good air from being able to enter through windows.

And I've seen someone around here put a box fan in their window. I wonder how they feel about the fireplace duckers and cigarette addicts.

As for the homemade air conditioner. I should try that maybe. There's solar panels on the roof, but of course, they are broken.

The chills are like... I dunno how to describe them. Kinda like feeling like you're sweating but you're not sweating, I guess.

Box fans are great.

Ah. See, for me they're like...oh duck, now how can I explain this?

Know how you can make a deep rumble in your head by...doing...something? No motion involved, but I guess it involves creating vibrations in your ears...somehow.

I think it's like that but intensifies into a sort of shake? SOMEONE PLEASE SAY THEY KNOW THIS. I CAN'T EXPLAIN WELL. DOOPA DOOPA DOOPA.

by clenching your jaw? by vibrating your head? what?

It's like a deep sound.

@TheNewGuy
I guess you're very thin to feel cold all the time.
@Skurn
I think I got what you mean. It happens to me while I'm awake. I get goose bumps and shit when it happens... I think it's a symptom of Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Simple. Put your feet in cold water for 5 minutes. It works the opposite way also.

I think I got what you mean. It happens to me while I'm awake. I get goose bumps and shit when it happens... I think it's a symptom of Generalized Anxiety Disorder.


If it's a symptom, then perhaps that's what's doing in. When you mean awake, do you mean just like generally awake and doing shit and it happens at random, because that's not me then. But then maybe it is and it's just a bit different.

Yeah. When I'm ducking awake.

There is a fan. Really just blows warm air around.
not if you are smart enough to have a bucket of ice it can blow across, ice here is free in huge bags from garages (garage = car fixit shops = auto um repair places? <-- american woot i just learnt a new language heh ) ... one word.. ICE ...just sayin

either that or come live with me - then u will be begging for heat msdinkys ice stare is a terible thing,... wait, thats back to front

Duck heat. I'd prefer it to be cold.

When it's hot/warm, whatever, nothing can stop it. You try to sleep or something and the air is stagnant and dry (even with a fan unless it's blowing on you); leaving a window open doesn't do much, air conditioning and ice cost money which they sure as hell should not. I bet the assholes in charge of electric companies and the like take advantage of the higher level of heat to squeeze more money out of people in this greedy ass country.

When it's cold, all you need to do is cover up in some way. That's it. You have total control over how you feel temperature-wise. But then, people feel the need to use heating appliances of some sort or start a fire which is absolutely pointless. For duck's sake, throw a blanket on. Put a robe on or something. Don't start a fire or turn on the heat because there are obviously people who don't need that shit, and I'm the kind of duck that likes to keep the window open if it's cold or something because the cold is awesome. Hell, I have it open regardless since the cold only comes around for about 3 minutes, but still. The fires are such shit - it's finally cold. People can leave their windows open and get cold air, or do nothing about it and have a good temperature. So when there's fire, people can't do that anymore. Smoke enters through every little crack it can and it's disgusting. Speaking of smoke, it's irrelevant to this topic, but jesus ducking christ, do you need to do that? I get if you're addicted and you're an absolute retard for getting into in the first place, but duck you. DUCK. YOU. One time this whole room was just blanketted in some asshole's cigarette smoke. I could not stay in here. There's a thing called second hand smoke, you ducks. And it's not just cigarettes, too. Let's get more relevant - it's fireplaces too. As long as it's ducking smoke. I don't want that shit. I want clean air (or as clean as you pieces of tar filled filth or woodburning filth will allow), not smoke. Someone should hunt down all the douchecountry music sensations smoking those abominations and shove them straight up their ass while they're still lit and dump gasoline in there too. The monsters that make those things should suffer the same, but add in chambers of nicotine smoke to show them what the hell they're doing to this goddamn world.

Anyways, the ice thing won't work. I've got enough shit in here as it is and there's no where to put ice. Annnnd it'd melt in 4 seconds.

No idea why I would be begging for heat. I definitely wouldn't. I once felt so shitty that I walked into the 'school' kitchen and sat on the freezer floor. Although, I'd probably sit in freezers no matter what. It's nice.

MsDink, I'm curious as to where you live that has free ice at the garages? I feel like I'm missing out

Skurn, as I read your post I respected you more and more.

Window open, blankets, not staying around smokers - we could be twins who got separated.

Your smoker problem sounds annoyingly familiar. It's not even just smoke coming from the window for me, I think my upstairs neighbor smokes inside their apartment and the smoke seeps through the floor to where I live. It's actually the reason I got a fan, rather than to help against the heat in the summer (and my place does get absurdly hot) - to get the ducking smell of smoke out. I put the fan on the highest setting, open my window, and burn a goddamn incense stick in front of the fan. Thankfully, this doesn't happen too often, or I'd become the person who goes from door to door yelling at their neighbors, and poking a rake against the ceiling everytime you dosomething in your own apartment.

Ironically, I actually sometimes smoke myself, so I can see the appeal. It's incredibly enjoyable and relaxing, I just don't want to smell like smoke. It's like the smell of gasoline, it's great if you catch a whiff at the gas station, but you wouldn't want to breathe that stench for extended periods of time.

I don't hate people who smoke, but by golly I hate smoke. You'd think having a full family of smokers would make me get used to it and join the party, but I'm so sensitive to it that it just drove me insane sometimes. Luckily I don't have to deal with it anymore where I live now, but most of my life was spent living with smokers, often including trying to sleep while there's a lit cigarette in the other room. The air conditioning in the house blew everything into my room, of course...

I'm not a fan of alcohol either, but compared to smoking it's nothing. And some cultures have proven that drinking alcohol can be a healthy thing (like a small cup of wine during breakfast, and no more). But here where I live most people who drink like to get drunk, so I've come to kind of hate that too. Cigarettes on the other hand can never be healthy, despite what paid off doctors said 40 years ago.

So, scratcher, newguy. How black and tiny are your lungs now?

And yeah, alcohol is no issue unless you're just chugging that shit down all the time or something. Obviously.

I fly back to Middle Earth today, its friggan cold back there!

Im lookin forward to snuggling up in my big fluffy blankie ^_^

MsDink, I'm curious as to where you live that has free ice at the garages? I feel like I'm missing out

hehe way lower than you live flood im virtually at the south pole hobbits go dig it up and bag it for fun apparently thats why there is so much its free

Heehee

It's probably free because your country understands that ice should be free.

Or at least, that part of it. We could freeze up bags and bags of ice and give it out for free when people need it. But oh, wait. We do bag it up. We got a bag for 25 cents. What's even the point of that? It should be free.

Emdee, I'm in manganui right now and its friggan freezing

Zeddykins, give me your ice.