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Air Conditioning is Better at Night
And I kind of hate that
I am reluctant to admit that I prefer sleeping with the windows closed.
I used to love the scent of the outside coming in through the open window while I slept. Moving my bed to be directly under the window was the first thing I did when my ex-husband packed his stuff and left two decades ago. There was nothing like it; the sweet night air puffing in and floating over me. I slept hard.
Or so I thought.
When my now-hubby and I moved last year, I put the bed under the window. That’s where it belonged, after all.
Except that the air flow was different at our new place.
Instead of the air slipping through the screen, it seemed to stay outside. After a few weeks, I figured out how to create a breeze by opening windows in the rooms across from the bedroom, but the air was still different. It’s like the breeze refused to invite itself into the bedroom.
Within a few weeks, we decided to move the bed across from the window. We live in a higher-density area now, and the noise was becoming annoying. We both were sleeping fitfully, and moving the bed was the easiest solution.
Winter came, and we both slept better. We figured our sleeping was disrupted because of the new…
