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?

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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. 🫠

  • Magiilaro@feddit.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

    Instead of a blanket the same could be built into the mattresses, not really a water bed but a bed with water cooling.

    Devices, for example computers, get cooled like that.

    • Skunk@jlai.lu
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      1 year ago

      Same mate, I was waiting for our traditional European summer heat wave and the Indians and Americans took it all for them :(

    • Magiilaro@feddit.org
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      1 year ago

      Lokal temperatur is not the same as global temperatures, it can be cold in one place and blazing hot in another…

            • Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              1 year ago

              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.

              • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                1 year ago

                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.