Sleeping in the raw

all my life.
I would wake up with my pajamas at the foot of the bed,
shoved as far as the covers would allow.

I'm not sure at what age I began to sleep naked. But I distinctly remember waking up, having taken all my clothes off at some point during the night when I was around 8 or 9.

I can't even remeber a time when I regularly wore PJ's. Not since I was a very young kid, anyway. On hot New York nights when I was growing up I always stripped of my pajamas. I think when I first started college and shared a dorm room with three other guys, I may have slept in my underwear for the first month or so.

I don't understand wearing clothing to sleep, or to swim. One might as well wear bathing trunks in the shower.

Sounds Great!

Where & when?

Hmm how about NYE?

I think I started sleeping naked as regularly as I could when I was 13ish. My mother frowned on my nudity and when she would discover that I was sleeping naked she'd get on my case about wearing those "nice pajamas Grandma got you for Christmas".

I'm just plain uncomfortable wearing any item of clothing when I'm sleeping. I might wear *something* to bed but, when it's time to finally crash, off comes whatever I've got on. Understandably, I LOVE flannel sheets for cold weather sleeping and, for those really chilly nights when the woodstove heat doesn't make it up into the sleeping loft, I LOVE my electric bedwarmer which I turn on an hour before bedtime and then off when I slide in between the sheets.

word!

clothes in bed are only when you slump in bed too drunk to take 'em off

I'm sure we've all seen ourselves do it at least once :>

Pajamas....
What are pajamas?....

Giggles.....
Sandra

Lately it's been cold, so I throw a T-shirt on. I have seen kids dressed this way, wearing a night-shirt but naught else. Is this a common way to wear a nightshirt? Do people often wear anything under a nightshirt?

When was the first time that you realized that OTHER people slept in the nude? Did any of your family members sleep nude?

Tara:

I don't think your experience is at all unusual. The self-image stuff resonates with me too. Also, I'm thinking back conversations with women I've talked about this with over the years. I don't know, and it's a wild generalization, but suspect that it is a different kind of thing for boys than girls to be taking their cloths off as teenagers and young adults <comments?>. Also, it's my perception that, even today, girls still get more more negative messages about their bodies than boys do (and I certainly got a few).

I started when I was around 13-14 years old. At first, I got a couple of hints from my mom - something like comments about my pj's not showing up in the wash. I'm the oldest. I guess she was dealing with transitioning from handling a kid to handling a pubescent male). It couldn't have been more than a couple of weeks later before I was always sleeping in my underwear. I remember feeling *QUITE* risque, and that it felt a *LOT* better! I was into briefs for what seems like a week or two when, uh, typical fourteen-year-old male that I was, they soon proved to be an impediment. Wow! How great it felt to be sleeping in the raw! By the way, I thought that most everybody else slept in pj's, and that I was being a little 'wild'.

Come college, I remember wearing underwear (or PE shorts) for a while in the dorm, at least with my 'straighter' (older use of the word) roomie (a rural county Republican judge's son, BTW, but that's another story ...), but later kept a pair handy for nighttime hall excursions. Extenuating circumstance here: the advisor for the entire dorm had to go through our hallway to get to his apartment: his wife had a problem with us being naked in the hall in our own lair <G>.

Today, when I'm visiting, or, say, camping with someone not a partner, I wear an old pair of shorts and an huge tee. Your post made me think. though, if this is really the 'gracious guest' here, or being inhibited. I'm assuming that most would rather sleep in the raw, but how do you bring that up - or do you? Any protocol for this, anyone?

Kind long, but I felt like self-disclosing <G> Commentary? Lots of opportunity for 'thread creep', too.

Bill

Just a tangent note - it often strikes me as so strange how somebody as pretty as you can have "self-image" issues. Just goes to show, beauty (even self-perceived) is in our heads, not in how we look.

I don't sleep inthe raw all the time but i did the other day and it was great :)

I agree. Sleeping nekid rules. I hate sleeping in shorts or undies because I toss and turn a lot in my sleep and they get all strangle hold on me. I also like that freedom feel.

I've probably been doing it since my mid-teens.