When you were a little kid, did you ever drape a blanket over the dining table or a couple of chairs and crawl into that private space... your own little world? That's the way I think of my bed. If you don't sleep with cats or dogs, you could even consider one of those mosquito net canopy things that hangs from a hoop attached to the ceiling and drapes all around the bed. Your bed should be a shrine to YOUR pleasure, joy, well-being, comfort, peace, and serenity.
One more teeny thing... I wish you would not make subtle self-put-down remarks like this:
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which for some stupid reason
Just leave out the word "stupid," k? I like sleeping nude, too, but some nights I just can't get comfy unless I have on a nightgown or shirt or something. I need the fabric right next to my skin. I might take something off or put something on during one of the many times I wake up during the night.
I think it would be good to remove any judgments about your sleeping habits or practices that smack of any "pathology," i.e., something that should be other or something that is not right or healthy. Do what works for you... if that means sleeping in the bathtub, so be it.
I remember reading a biography of some woman writer from the 20's... maybe it was Agatha Christie... anyway, she was staying in Egypt... yes, it was Agatha Christi, because her husband was an archeologist. Anyway, the people there used to drag their mattresses out on the flat roofs in the summer because it was so hot inside. The whole town would be sleeping outside on these houses that were very close together. Another guy I read about lived in Alaska or northern Canada or somewhere and slept outside in a hammock, summer and WINTER. Yup. Even with the snow falling all around!
