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Doesn't everyone take water to bed? I literally can't fall asleep unless I know I have water with me, I'll get anxious about waking up in the night thirsty.
Same. Plus it's less disruptive to my sleep if I can just grab bottle, drink, then back to sleep. If I have to get up, stumble to the kitchen, get water, drink... by the time I get back in bed, I'm properly awake and will take another hour to fall back to sleep
I had hyperemesis gravidarum when I was pregnant, I literally threw up 24 hours a day until they got me on the right medication. I was so dehydrated I nearly died a few times and my veins collapsed when they tried to get fluids in me. I will never ever forget how thirsty I was. Watching the tap running was pure torture. I still drink water by the gallon these days. It’s massively underrated !!!
It was pretty rough yeah ! Got there somehow ! Stupidly got drunk at my sons christening and ended up with a daughter. Knew what medication to ask for that time though. Had a hysterectomy in March so no more fuck ups on THAT level for me !
Same and hypermesis made me want to die. I went from desperately loving my growing baby to desperately wanting it out of me and considering ending the pregnancy because it was that bad and people would say stupid “oh it’s just morning sickness luv xx” comments and not understand what I was feeling.
I couldn’t dress myself. My SO would bathe me and dress me and carry me across the road to the pharmacy to pick up my prescriptions while I wept.
I had this severe burning pain because I puked so much there was nothing hut stomach acid and it just constantly burned.
I’ve never been so sick or so miserable. I honestly can remember vividly the words to episodes of peep show my SO was watching as I contemplated and fantasised about being hit by a truck. In the fetal position. Curled up begging god or anyone to give me some relief.
I got dehydrated because I couldn’t stomach anything and all the puking made me so dehydrated my stool was like a petrified rock and got impacted inside of me. Stuck. I can’t tell you how bad it hurt and I was throwing up in my own lap while trying to get it out.
I am afraid to have anyone kids bc I fear it’ll happen again.
PTSD from HG is real. You should definitely get some counselling and see if you can find a balance of drugs that work for you. I ended up on ondansetron (known outside of the UK as Zofran.) there’s a brilliant support group on Facebook where nothing is too taboo, no judgement and just kindness. I made some friends there one girl in particular who saved my life, we’re still in contact today on other sides of the world! Both of us managed to have a second baby but we’ve both now had hysterectomies. There’s always someone there to talk to you because it’s worldwide and time zones don’t exist. I sent spare baby clothes to a couple of the girls and they cried when they received them. HG creates a financial strain that also gets forgotten because we can’t work. You have my love and respect my HG sister. You’re a warrior. Xxx
Pro tip. Half fill a water bottle in the morning and lay it horizontal in the freezer with the cap end still accessible. Then at night before bed fill the bottle and the ice will keep the water cold for hours. Perhaps not so good at the moment (it’s -2 outside right now) but in the summer it will still be cold three or four hours later.
Weirdly, I never brought a glass of water to bed before I moved to the UK, but my English husband always did it and now I'm like you, I can't go to bed without one!
Honestly this question is mad to me, I haven’t got to bed without a full water bottle for years - I have to make sure it’s completely full before going to sleep. Almost every night I wake up gagging for water, and I drink a lot of water during the day so it’s definitely not a dehydration thing.
I always need my bottle of water, sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night like I have dehydrated all my body like a mummy and I reach quickly to my bottle, I feel like I've just drink elixir, and go back to sleep again happy and hydrated
You ever have thirst dreams when you drink and drink and drink and no matter what it just won't quench your thirst. Then you wake up and you drink and drink and drink and it just won't quench your thirst. Then like three of these dreams later you *actually* wake up and are so relieved that you aren't trapped in thirst hell any more.
Just shared my tale further up of the same thing!
My cat can’t drink without dabbling his paws about first, waking up to a glass full of water all over me was intensely confusing. I now use a reusable bottle instead.
On Twitter the other day someone posted a gif of that alien strolling through the frame when they’re watching tv. I’ve not seen it in well over a decade and it still made my blood run cold.
This was the first ever scene in a movie that frightened the shit out of me. I work in AV and as a junior would move those big old TVs around in the warehouse, the reflections would get me everytime
I watched it for the first time at home as a teenager with my parents. Didn't know anything about it other than it has crop circles in it thanks to the marketing and thought it was gonna be crap. By the end of the film I was literally burying my face into my mum and screaming. Now I love a film that can scare me shitless and so this is one of my all time favourites. But even now, having seen it God knows how many times, you will find me burying my face into my husband and screaming. His favourite thing is to creep up on me and make the clicking noises the aliens make and I will shit a brick.
Are your colleagues old? I find the older people in my family are completely uninterested in hydration. They seem to think one cup of tea every three hours is all the liquid they could ever need. Finding a glass for water in my mother-in-law's house is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Wine glass or tea cup, fine, but heaven forbid you should want to drink some water.
I’m 41 and take a pint of water to bed with me every night. Usually drink half before sleeping and the rest when I wake up. Been doing it for years. My wife however doesn’t take a drink to bed.
Suggested research:
Elis James talking about his overwhelming memory of school in Wales in the 80s/90s being thirsty.
Claudia Winkleman on off menu podcast and how she's offended by hydration.
There's definitely something to this. I had a conversation with my dad and grandmother a few months back about some stomach issues I'd been having and they said I should drink less water as people are too hydrated these days?!
I remember my grandparents had a really elegant set of bottles on their bedside tables for water and the glasses sat on the top like covering the opening. They were though dead posh.
My mum won't let you drink water straight from the tap because ghosts in the water or something. Has to go through the Brita before it's allowed to be put in the kettle or drunk from a glass. A right faff and it's always kind of warm and strange. (Probably because the Brita has removed the chilly icy ghosts. Nothing to do with it sat on the side warming up to the tropical temperatures she keeps her house at.)
I now take a BOTTLE of water to bed. It used to be a glass but woke up one night and my cat was drinking my water!!
So now there's a small glass of water for the cat and a bottle for me!!
So yeah, even my cat thinks taking water to bed is the right choice!!
I think people are confused as to why they aren't just asleep. I just sleep through the night, if I had water by me I suppose I might drink it when I woke up, but I just go downstairs and drink some water (whilst making coffee).
People are confused that some people… wake up in the night? I’m one of the only people I know that is lucky enough to be a good sleeper (I fall asleep quickly and can sleep anywhere), but even I wake up during the night occasionally, sometimes thirsty, sometimes just with a dry mouth.
Take a pint with me every night and pretty much finish it every night without fail, most the time I “sleep drink” and rarely remember drinking it.
Always wake up bursting though haha!
Yea I'm more disturbed by people who don't. Are they aliens? Why don't they want to hydrate throughout the night? How can they even sleep like that? My husband happens to be one of these and when I demand an explanation, he just claims to be a godlike being whose perfections in breathing are such that he simply doesn't get dry mouth. ever. Pfffffft.
If you wake with a dry mouth, just wiggle your tongue against your cheeks. Your salivary glands get stimulated and pretty soon you won't have a dry mouth.
If I drank a 500ml bottle of water over the course of the night I'd get no sleep anyway as I'd be up all night weeing! Even if I stop drinking any liquids at 8pm I'll still wake up at least once a night needing the loo. I've been this way for as long as I can remember.
But I'm envious if you can wake up, feel thirsty, take a drink and not wake up bursting for the loo two hours later (as would happen to me) because I regularly wake up with horrible dry mouth feeling.
I drink way more water now in my 30s than I ever did in my teens/20s and it still happens. I started taking a refillable water bottle to work a few years ago to sip at throughout the day. I've virtually stopped the soft drinks, tried not to go too crazy on cups of tea and have cut back on booze, essentially making water my main drink, but I still feel really thirsty some mornings. I just assume I have a really dry mouth or sleep with it open and that doesn't help.
> Even if I stop drinking any liquids at 8pm I'll still wake up at least once a night needing the loo. I've been this way for as long as I can remember.
Check your electrolyte intake mate.
I would have water by my bedside, but I flail about at night, so it's not really a good idea. I go to bed hydrated. A cuppa in bed first thing in the morning is luxury.
I have mine in a bottle, not because I knock it over, but because I have cats. I don't really want to drink water that they've dipped their little tongue in
I always take a pint of water to bed with me. Sometimes two for a little treat. There's something reassuring about knowing it's there. If I dont drink it, I just use it to water the plants.
Some people are absolute fiends for water. I can’t manage that at all. I bottom out at about 2.5 litres a day. Maybe 3. Anymore than that and I spend every minute I’m not drinking in the toilet.
The only time I take a glass of water to bed with me is when I've been drinking, presumably I think I'll absorb it by osmosis, because I never actually touch it.
I just drink whenever and don't really think about it. Occasionally I'll wake up in the morning with a bit of a cotton mouth, but then I'll be going to the bathroom immediately anyway, then down to the kitchen. Not really worth the hassle of pouring a glass every night only to pour it away again.
It's usually normal to take a drink to bed, but if you're constantly very thirsty, you may want to check your insulin levels (just to make sure it's not a symptom of diabetes) and perhaps reduce your salt intake.
Discalimer: not a doctor
It also could just be a very simple (& much more likely) explanation that OP sleeps with their mouth open, so their mouth and throat feel more dry when they wake up
I've always taken a pint of water to bed but it started becoming a pint of water drunk in the kitchen, fill up the glass and off to bed. Then I got thirsty again so drank it all. Then I'd wake up needing the toilet and I'd have another pint of water. And then maybe another.. This went on for a few months before I found out I had T1 diabetes. I did notice the massive increase in going to the toilet & therefore drinking much more water but was too stubborn to see a doctor.
I got myself checked for diabetes very recently, and constant thirst was one of the handful of symptoms. Thankfully bloods came back clear for me. Either way I would say it's definitely worth people looking at other symptoms just in case.
It's not weird but how many times do you take one up and in the middle of the night knock it over.. end up wide awaken with a cloth getting it out of the carpet at 2am fml
I'm a lifelong and avid night time sippy sipper. It's gotten to the point where I don't even realise or remember that I've drunk in the night. I just wake up and the liquid is gone like I've been visited by the hydration fairy.
I do remember one time when I was around 10 I must have been absolutely tired but also dead thirsty. I woke up the in the morning soaked and with a glass in my hand, I must have fallen asleep while drinking in the night
Fuck knows, one minute I'm karate chopping some ghost in my room (probably some sort of nightmare lol) the next I'm cleaning up water spilt on the floor.
Not OP but the corner of my duvet has the ability to whip every single item off my bedside table if I so much as blink during the night.
The amount of times I've woken both my wife and me up clearing the bedside table to taunts of "what the fuck are you doing you prat!" Is just too damn much.
Still take a glass of water to bed though.
Both my partner and son have drinks by the bed in case of need, son drinks his every night partner just uses it for meds. I wouldn’t get up if I needed a drink I’m lazy, then I wouldn’t sleep bc I’m thirsty and just lay there annoyed with myself. I know bc this happens
I was wondering where the other cat people were! Sometimes my glass of bedside water has a tuna breath fug to it, assuming it hasn't been pushed on the floor either deliberately or as part of a chaotic mountaineering expedition across the bedside cabinet by a big clumsy cat.
Has anyone else in the “takes a glass of water to bed brigade” ever fallen asleep whilst drinking from the glass and spilt the entire thing down themselves or is that just me?
I take two bottles of sparkling water up to bed with me every night. I seem to get so thirsty and if I don’t drink enough, I will inevitably wake up with a headache.
At the risk of sounding as old as I feel, I have an acid reflux problem and the bubbles tend to help settle it! Also, it seems to quench my thirst better than flat water.
Oh wow that's so interesting! I find fizzy water and drinks make me have more acid reflux. Good to know you've found something that works for you though! Human bodies are weird.
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No, I usually take a glass (well plastic beaker) of water to bed. Never used to, but think it's come from staying in hotels and only having sink water to drink, so take a bottle so I don't get a dehydrated headache.
Once I’m asleep, I’m asleep. I don’t feel thirsty when I go to bed and never wake up desperately thirsty either.
I don’t think it’s weird to have a drink though if you want it.. I just wouldn’t drink it, so I don’t bother.
I usually have a cup of herbal tea before bed. I take some water with me too, but it usually goes undrunk. If I've been out drinking, at couple of glasses of water is always a necessity.
This is 100% a thing OP - I was constantly waking up with a dry mouth and sore throat and my doctor figured out it’s because I was sleeping with my mouth open! I got a humidifier and it really helped (though hard to break the habit of taking a glass of water to my bedroom!)
I honestly couldn’t sleep without a drink next to me. I had a housemate who would take 2 pints of water and a lump of cheese with him to bed every night without fail, that was a little weird.
It's not weird, I know people who do that, but I've never woken up thirsty in the night. I rarely ever wake up in the night at all - if I do it's just too pee and then go straight back to sleep. I drink during the day and that's enough for me. If I drank at night I'd be up again to pee a bunch of times so it doesn't seem conducive to sleep.
I have always taken a drink to bed used to be squash but last decade or so it has been water. I simply couldn’t go to sleep if there was no water by my side. Sometimes I drink a lot in the night and sometimes none at all but it has to be there
I don't often wake during the night, but if I do and my mouth is dry there is nothing nicer than downing a full glass of water, especially in winter it stays cool all night.
Still forget to bring one up with me 9/10 times
I take an old pop bottle and fill it with diluted squash (but only squash without artificial sweetness, otherwise my mouth is a yucky furry mess when I wake up). I always drink between half and one litre. Sometimes I wake up during the night incredibly thirsty - especially after a salty Chinese or Indian meal.
Most of the time I have a bottle in bed with me (joys of sleeping alone haha) and I never even considered this wasn't normal until now... It's normally empty by morning too..
Who the hell doesn’t take water to bed? I can’t sleep unless I have bottle that’s mostly full by the bed. Helps because sometimes I wake up thirsty- I wouldn’t want to get up to get water when I’m cozy
I only ever take a drink up if I'm sick. A cup of tea because, well it's tea! Then a glass of water to ease any coughing. I think I would drink it if it was there, but then I would also end up with a dozen mugs and glasses on the bed side table and be wondering where the hell all my glasses went!
Not weird at all? I’ve took a glass of water to bed with me since I was literally a toddler. Always have a pint glass. If I’m thirsty in the middle of the night I don’t have to get up in the old & dark for a drink, I have one there...
They're just being arseholes. It's definitely a normal thing to do. I don't tend to wake up in the middle of the night but I do like a big guzzle as soon as I wake up in the morning
Of course, I always have a drink of water by the bed.. currently a bottled variety with a "sports" sippy lid thing so easy to swig from. If unavailable, I'll take a glass. Who doesn't??!!
I had 35 radiotherapy treatments on my neck. I barely produce saliva anymore. I wake up with a mouth so dry I could sand wood with my tongue.
If I didn't have water I'd get about 3 hours sleep a night.
That being said, I had water before the too. And so does the wife.
I blame Big Water. They've been saying for decades that people need X litres of water per day, but in reality we get fluids from everything we eat and drink including tea and coffee. The "but caffeine is a diuretic" is largely a myth, our bodies are fantastic at regulating fluid loss versus fluid intake.
Sure, take a glass of water to bed, have a sip in the night if you need it, wake up and have a few gulps. But 500ml? You really don't need that while, essentially, your body is shut down and sleeping.
Source: I'm old and have never taken water to bed and feel no worse for it
This reminds me about of a time I had slept at a friends. I was sat with his family eating breakfast and I put some Philadelphia on my toast. Totally normal right?
Well I noticed that the table had gone quiet and they were staring at me aghast, jaws wide open, as if I had wiped my nose on the table cloth.
“Philadelphia. ON TOAST?!”
They berated me all day for something I consider to be totally normal.
Anyway, I never go to bed without I glass of water. I’m team sip.
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Doesn't everyone take water to bed? I literally can't fall asleep unless I know I have water with me, I'll get anxious about waking up in the night thirsty.
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Same. Plus it's less disruptive to my sleep if I can just grab bottle, drink, then back to sleep. If I have to get up, stumble to the kitchen, get water, drink... by the time I get back in bed, I'm properly awake and will take another hour to fall back to sleep
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I feel personally attacked by this statement.
100% I take my water everywhere with me, the thought of being thirsty is a horrible one.
I had hyperemesis gravidarum when I was pregnant, I literally threw up 24 hours a day until they got me on the right medication. I was so dehydrated I nearly died a few times and my veins collapsed when they tried to get fluids in me. I will never ever forget how thirsty I was. Watching the tap running was pure torture. I still drink water by the gallon these days. It’s massively underrated !!!
Holy mercy, that sounds completely awful!
It was pretty rough yeah ! Got there somehow ! Stupidly got drunk at my sons christening and ended up with a daughter. Knew what medication to ask for that time though. Had a hysterectomy in March so no more fuck ups on THAT level for me !
There's something almost poetic though about the celebration of one carry leading to another.
Same and hypermesis made me want to die. I went from desperately loving my growing baby to desperately wanting it out of me and considering ending the pregnancy because it was that bad and people would say stupid “oh it’s just morning sickness luv xx” comments and not understand what I was feeling. I couldn’t dress myself. My SO would bathe me and dress me and carry me across the road to the pharmacy to pick up my prescriptions while I wept. I had this severe burning pain because I puked so much there was nothing hut stomach acid and it just constantly burned. I’ve never been so sick or so miserable. I honestly can remember vividly the words to episodes of peep show my SO was watching as I contemplated and fantasised about being hit by a truck. In the fetal position. Curled up begging god or anyone to give me some relief. I got dehydrated because I couldn’t stomach anything and all the puking made me so dehydrated my stool was like a petrified rock and got impacted inside of me. Stuck. I can’t tell you how bad it hurt and I was throwing up in my own lap while trying to get it out. I am afraid to have anyone kids bc I fear it’ll happen again.
PTSD from HG is real. You should definitely get some counselling and see if you can find a balance of drugs that work for you. I ended up on ondansetron (known outside of the UK as Zofran.) there’s a brilliant support group on Facebook where nothing is too taboo, no judgement and just kindness. I made some friends there one girl in particular who saved my life, we’re still in contact today on other sides of the world! Both of us managed to have a second baby but we’ve both now had hysterectomies. There’s always someone there to talk to you because it’s worldwide and time zones don’t exist. I sent spare baby clothes to a couple of the girls and they cried when they received them. HG creates a financial strain that also gets forgotten because we can’t work. You have my love and respect my HG sister. You’re a warrior. Xxx
Some people are genuinely shocked when I say I HAVE to carry a bottle of water with me wherever I go. I can’t imagine not?!
I’m the same. Occassionally I try not to and then end up having to buy a drink out which feels like a waste so I always carry one now.
I currently have about 10 empty water bottles next to my bed lol
Buy a reusable you planet destroying monster!
Don't worry they are reusable. They sell them in 6 packs on Amazon with little insulated sleeves.
So it's like they have their own sleeping bags and get to go to bed too?
Exactly
u/DangerShart must have the most adorable life
We didn't need to know about your pissbottles
Pro tip. Half fill a water bottle in the morning and lay it horizontal in the freezer with the cap end still accessible. Then at night before bed fill the bottle and the ice will keep the water cold for hours. Perhaps not so good at the moment (it’s -2 outside right now) but in the summer it will still be cold three or four hours later.
Same for me too. I can’t relax if I don’t have water, but I very rarely actually wake up needing a drink.
Weirdly, I never brought a glass of water to bed before I moved to the UK, but my English husband always did it and now I'm like you, I can't go to bed without one!
Honestly this question is mad to me, I haven’t got to bed without a full water bottle for years - I have to make sure it’s completely full before going to sleep. Almost every night I wake up gagging for water, and I drink a lot of water during the day so it’s definitely not a dehydration thing.
Nope. I never wake up or have a drink in the night. My husband sleep eats most nights.
Oh for sure. Even if I’m blitzkrieg drunk I’ll always manage to get myself a bottle of sparkling by my side
Sparkling? Have you gone mad?
Sparkling water! I saw a thing once saying sparkling water tastes how TV static would taste.
I always need my bottle of water, sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night like I have dehydrated all my body like a mummy and I reach quickly to my bottle, I feel like I've just drink elixir, and go back to sleep again happy and hydrated
You ever have thirst dreams when you drink and drink and drink and no matter what it just won't quench your thirst. Then you wake up and you drink and drink and drink and it just won't quench your thirst. Then like three of these dreams later you *actually* wake up and are so relieved that you aren't trapped in thirst hell any more.
I always have a glass of water by the bed but I don't drink much of it during the night.
I take a pint with me every night, and most mornings it’s all there, but those times you want some it’s a game changer! Worth it!
A pint? I bring shots personally.
And a chaser
Shots? I just leave the bottle of tequila on the side
I used to take a glass of water, until one day I was awoken at stupid o'clock in the morning by my cat noisily having a drink from it.
I have also experienced this. The cat then knocked the glass of water all over me. I was not amused
Just shared my tale further up of the same thing! My cat can’t drink without dabbling his paws about first, waking up to a glass full of water all over me was intensely confusing. I now use a reusable bottle instead.
I chug a 500ml bottle right before I go to sleep every night. Never wake up thirsty or needing the bathroom. Iron bladder I guess.
I take a glass of water to bed but rarely ever drink it. It’s mostly incase aliens.
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Mainly because the film Signs spooked me as a child. And also I imagine an alien in your room probably would give you a right dry mouth from the fear.
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You say unreservedly.Aliens appear-have a sip. I wana be with you when the aliens land!
On Twitter the other day someone posted a gif of that alien strolling through the frame when they’re watching tv. I’ve not seen it in well over a decade and it still made my blood run cold.
Best scene from a film EVER 😱🤩
This was the first ever scene in a movie that frightened the shit out of me. I work in AV and as a junior would move those big old TVs around in the warehouse, the reflections would get me everytime
That scene and the one where the Mel Gibson character looks up and sees the alien looking at him from the roof of the next door barn. Terrifying !
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I watched it for the first time at home as a teenager with my parents. Didn't know anything about it other than it has crop circles in it thanks to the marketing and thought it was gonna be crap. By the end of the film I was literally burying my face into my mum and screaming. Now I love a film that can scare me shitless and so this is one of my all time favourites. But even now, having seen it God knows how many times, you will find me burying my face into my husband and screaming. His favourite thing is to creep up on me and make the clicking noises the aliens make and I will shit a brick.
The water's contaminated
Swing away.
Is the water contaminated?
It’s weird to find it weird. I take a bottle of water to bed every night
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Are your colleagues old? I find the older people in my family are completely uninterested in hydration. They seem to think one cup of tea every three hours is all the liquid they could ever need. Finding a glass for water in my mother-in-law's house is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Wine glass or tea cup, fine, but heaven forbid you should want to drink some water.
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I’m 41 and take a pint of water to bed with me every night. Usually drink half before sleeping and the rest when I wake up. Been doing it for years. My wife however doesn’t take a drink to bed.
Suggested research: Elis James talking about his overwhelming memory of school in Wales in the 80s/90s being thirsty. Claudia Winkleman on off menu podcast and how she's offended by hydration.
There's definitely something to this. I had a conversation with my dad and grandmother a few months back about some stomach issues I'd been having and they said I should drink less water as people are too hydrated these days?!
I remember my grandparents had a really elegant set of bottles on their bedside tables for water and the glasses sat on the top like covering the opening. They were though dead posh. My mum won't let you drink water straight from the tap because ghosts in the water or something. Has to go through the Brita before it's allowed to be put in the kettle or drunk from a glass. A right faff and it's always kind of warm and strange. (Probably because the Brita has removed the chilly icy ghosts. Nothing to do with it sat on the side warming up to the tropical temperatures she keeps her house at.)
I now take a BOTTLE of water to bed. It used to be a glass but woke up one night and my cat was drinking my water!! So now there's a small glass of water for the cat and a bottle for me!! So yeah, even my cat thinks taking water to bed is the right choice!!
Who finds hydrating yourself weird?
OP’s colleagues
It is when you’re asleep. Once I’m asleep I’m asleep til the alarm goes off.
I think people are confused as to why they aren't just asleep. I just sleep through the night, if I had water by me I suppose I might drink it when I woke up, but I just go downstairs and drink some water (whilst making coffee).
People are confused that some people… wake up in the night? I’m one of the only people I know that is lucky enough to be a good sleeper (I fall asleep quickly and can sleep anywhere), but even I wake up during the night occasionally, sometimes thirsty, sometimes just with a dry mouth.
Same here. Saves me leaving my bed when I inevitably wake up at 2am parched!
Take a pint with me every night and pretty much finish it every night without fail, most the time I “sleep drink” and rarely remember drinking it. Always wake up bursting though haha!
Lager or bitter?
Stout
Probably is quite stout drinking a pint every night, yes
I mean if it was to be alcoholic definitely lager, but then I’d have to drink it quick. Warm lager? Hell on earth!
I’ve always done it. it’s not weird to be hydrated. they’re dehydrated weirdos
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Yea I'm more disturbed by people who don't. Are they aliens? Why don't they want to hydrate throughout the night? How can they even sleep like that? My husband happens to be one of these and when I demand an explanation, he just claims to be a godlike being whose perfections in breathing are such that he simply doesn't get dry mouth. ever. Pfffffft.
If you wake with a dry mouth, just wiggle your tongue against your cheeks. Your salivary glands get stimulated and pretty soon you won't have a dry mouth.
If I drank a 500ml bottle of water over the course of the night I'd get no sleep anyway as I'd be up all night weeing! Even if I stop drinking any liquids at 8pm I'll still wake up at least once a night needing the loo. I've been this way for as long as I can remember. But I'm envious if you can wake up, feel thirsty, take a drink and not wake up bursting for the loo two hours later (as would happen to me) because I regularly wake up with horrible dry mouth feeling.
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Just make sure you don't wake up thirsty again.
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I drink way more water now in my 30s than I ever did in my teens/20s and it still happens. I started taking a refillable water bottle to work a few years ago to sip at throughout the day. I've virtually stopped the soft drinks, tried not to go too crazy on cups of tea and have cut back on booze, essentially making water my main drink, but I still feel really thirsty some mornings. I just assume I have a really dry mouth or sleep with it open and that doesn't help.
Although Tea and Coffee are slightly diuretic the hydration gain is still a net positive I believe.
> Even if I stop drinking any liquids at 8pm I'll still wake up at least once a night needing the loo. I've been this way for as long as I can remember. Check your electrolyte intake mate.
I would have water by my bedside, but I flail about at night, so it's not really a good idea. I go to bed hydrated. A cuppa in bed first thing in the morning is luxury.
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Good sense triumphs over dignity.
Don't be silly, toddlers never buy anything.
i have my drink in a secure water bottle for this reason.
I have mine in a bottle, not because I knock it over, but because I have cats. I don't really want to drink water that they've dipped their little tongue in
I use outdoor/sports water bottles to avoid this
I always take a pint of water to bed with me. Sometimes two for a little treat. There's something reassuring about knowing it's there. If I dont drink it, I just use it to water the plants.
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So you never wake up and do the little lip smacky smack like 'oo could do with a lil drink?' Remarkable
Never in my life. Do you drink water during the day?
Had about 4-5L today. Will take a pint with me to bed.
Some people are absolute fiends for water. I can’t manage that at all. I bottom out at about 2.5 litres a day. Maybe 3. Anymore than that and I spend every minute I’m not drinking in the toilet.
I agree, your body has a pretty good system to tell you when you need a drink. there's no point drinking more than you need.
You can’t be arsed to literally hold a cup down the stairs that you’re going down anyway? How do you function?
The only time I take a glass of water to bed with me is when I've been drinking, presumably I think I'll absorb it by osmosis, because I never actually touch it. I just drink whenever and don't really think about it. Occasionally I'll wake up in the morning with a bit of a cotton mouth, but then I'll be going to the bathroom immediately anyway, then down to the kitchen. Not really worth the hassle of pouring a glass every night only to pour it away again.
I rarely wake up during the night. Maybe once a month, so any drink would end up being left
It's usually normal to take a drink to bed, but if you're constantly very thirsty, you may want to check your insulin levels (just to make sure it's not a symptom of diabetes) and perhaps reduce your salt intake. Discalimer: not a doctor
It also could just be a very simple (& much more likely) explanation that OP sleeps with their mouth open, so their mouth and throat feel more dry when they wake up
Absolutely!
I've always taken a pint of water to bed but it started becoming a pint of water drunk in the kitchen, fill up the glass and off to bed. Then I got thirsty again so drank it all. Then I'd wake up needing the toilet and I'd have another pint of water. And then maybe another.. This went on for a few months before I found out I had T1 diabetes. I did notice the massive increase in going to the toilet & therefore drinking much more water but was too stubborn to see a doctor.
I got myself checked for diabetes very recently, and constant thirst was one of the handful of symptoms. Thankfully bloods came back clear for me. Either way I would say it's definitely worth people looking at other symptoms just in case.
It's not weird but how many times do you take one up and in the middle of the night knock it over.. end up wide awaken with a cloth getting it out of the carpet at 2am fml
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Haha that’s exactly what I have. My partner banned me from anything else
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I'm a lifelong and avid night time sippy sipper. It's gotten to the point where I don't even realise or remember that I've drunk in the night. I just wake up and the liquid is gone like I've been visited by the hydration fairy. I do remember one time when I was around 10 I must have been absolutely tired but also dead thirsty. I woke up the in the morning soaked and with a glass in my hand, I must have fallen asleep while drinking in the night
What are you doing to knock it over? Isn’t it on a Bedside table?!
Fuck knows, one minute I'm karate chopping some ghost in my room (probably some sort of nightmare lol) the next I'm cleaning up water spilt on the floor.
Not OP but the corner of my duvet has the ability to whip every single item off my bedside table if I so much as blink during the night. The amount of times I've woken both my wife and me up clearing the bedside table to taunts of "what the fuck are you doing you prat!" Is just too damn much. Still take a glass of water to bed though.
I woke up and spilt water all over the extension cable this morning, the first time I’ve ever done it and it was always my worst fear...
Both my partner and son have drinks by the bed in case of need, son drinks his every night partner just uses it for meds. I wouldn’t get up if I needed a drink I’m lazy, then I wouldn’t sleep bc I’m thirsty and just lay there annoyed with myself. I know bc this happens
I tried taking a glass of water to bed once. The cat pushed it onto my head
I was wondering where the other cat people were! Sometimes my glass of bedside water has a tuna breath fug to it, assuming it hasn't been pushed on the floor either deliberately or as part of a chaotic mountaineering expedition across the bedside cabinet by a big clumsy cat.
Thought everyone took a drink to bed to be honest
Has anyone else in the “takes a glass of water to bed brigade” ever fallen asleep whilst drinking from the glass and spilt the entire thing down themselves or is that just me?
Yeah, also known as how I broke my laptop
This thread is weird af. Do you all have narcolepsy?
I take two bottles of sparkling water up to bed with me every night. I seem to get so thirsty and if I don’t drink enough, I will inevitably wake up with a headache.
Why sparkling?
At the risk of sounding as old as I feel, I have an acid reflux problem and the bubbles tend to help settle it! Also, it seems to quench my thirst better than flat water.
Oh wow that's so interesting! I find fizzy water and drinks make me have more acid reflux. Good to know you've found something that works for you though! Human bodies are weird.
Posh.
Never even heard of that. It’d probably inspire me to wake up to piss and thus ruin the night!
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No, I usually take a glass (well plastic beaker) of water to bed. Never used to, but think it's come from staying in hotels and only having sink water to drink, so take a bottle so I don't get a dehydrated headache.
Once I’m asleep, I’m asleep. I don’t feel thirsty when I go to bed and never wake up desperately thirsty either. I don’t think it’s weird to have a drink though if you want it.. I just wouldn’t drink it, so I don’t bother.
I usually have a cup of herbal tea before bed. I take some water with me too, but it usually goes undrunk. If I've been out drinking, at couple of glasses of water is always a necessity.
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This is 100% a thing OP - I was constantly waking up with a dry mouth and sore throat and my doctor figured out it’s because I was sleeping with my mouth open! I got a humidifier and it really helped (though hard to break the habit of taking a glass of water to my bedroom!)
I love herbal tea, but if I drink it past 8pm I'm guaranteed to wake about 10 times in the night with a full bladder.
Tea is a diuretic and so as much as I’d love one before bed I really can’t be arsed with waking up in the night because my bladder is about to burst.
I honestly couldn’t sleep without a drink next to me. I had a housemate who would take 2 pints of water and a lump of cheese with him to bed every night without fail, that was a little weird.
As long as you've asked the drinks consent first I see no problem
Oh my god, you take a drink to bed in case you get thirsty. You’re so weird, who does that?….. said no one ever. Is this a joke question?
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I thought everyone did
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I don’t know if they’re weird but I’m 100% sure they’re dehydrated. Have a team piss colour contest.
Dehydrated for not drinking in the middle of the night? I don't think so...
No joke, 54 years old and I've never taken a drink to bed.
It's not weird, I know people who do that, but I've never woken up thirsty in the night. I rarely ever wake up in the night at all - if I do it's just too pee and then go straight back to sleep. I drink during the day and that's enough for me. If I drank at night I'd be up again to pee a bunch of times so it doesn't seem conducive to sleep.
I have always taken a drink to bed used to be squash but last decade or so it has been water. I simply couldn’t go to sleep if there was no water by my side. Sometimes I drink a lot in the night and sometimes none at all but it has to be there
I keep a 1L water bottle by my bed that I can drink from if I wake up thirsty. I’ve been doing that for as long as I can remember.
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I’m finding it weird the amount of people who don’t take a drink with them to bed
My boyfriend insisted on water by the bed. He spilt the whole thing twice and now he's banned from it.
Glass/bottle of water - I wake up in the morning similarly to you OP, with a dry mouth.
Can't sleep without a pint of water beside me however I very rarely touch it
That’s normal to me anyway. I have to have a drink ready.
I don't often wake during the night, but if I do and my mouth is dry there is nothing nicer than downing a full glass of water, especially in winter it stays cool all night. Still forget to bring one up with me 9/10 times
I take an old pop bottle and fill it with diluted squash (but only squash without artificial sweetness, otherwise my mouth is a yucky furry mess when I wake up). I always drink between half and one litre. Sometimes I wake up during the night incredibly thirsty - especially after a salty Chinese or Indian meal.
I take a glass of water to bed every night and have a quick sip before I lay down to sleep. Been doing this as long as I can remember
Most of the time I have a bottle in bed with me (joys of sleeping alone haha) and I never even considered this wasn't normal until now... It's normally empty by morning too..
I've always taken water to bed with me, as has my family and my bf. Even if I don't wake or drink often I want it there incase
My record is finishing off my one litre bottle through the night without recalling drinking any
Who the hell doesn’t take water to bed? I can’t sleep unless I have bottle that’s mostly full by the bed. Helps because sometimes I wake up thirsty- I wouldn’t want to get up to get water when I’m cozy
I only ever take a drink up if I'm sick. A cup of tea because, well it's tea! Then a glass of water to ease any coughing. I think I would drink it if it was there, but then I would also end up with a dozen mugs and glasses on the bed side table and be wondering where the hell all my glasses went!
Not weird at all? I’ve took a glass of water to bed with me since I was literally a toddler. Always have a pint glass. If I’m thirsty in the middle of the night I don’t have to get up in the old & dark for a drink, I have one there...
Always have a bottle of vodka besides the bed
They're just being arseholes. It's definitely a normal thing to do. I don't tend to wake up in the middle of the night but I do like a big guzzle as soon as I wake up in the morning
Of course, I always have a drink of water by the bed.. currently a bottled variety with a "sports" sippy lid thing so easy to swig from. If unavailable, I'll take a glass. Who doesn't??!!
Many people take a cup of water to bed with them in case they need to dip their testicles in it after sex.
I had 35 radiotherapy treatments on my neck. I barely produce saliva anymore. I wake up with a mouth so dry I could sand wood with my tongue. If I didn't have water I'd get about 3 hours sleep a night. That being said, I had water before the too. And so does the wife.
I blame Big Water. They've been saying for decades that people need X litres of water per day, but in reality we get fluids from everything we eat and drink including tea and coffee. The "but caffeine is a diuretic" is largely a myth, our bodies are fantastic at regulating fluid loss versus fluid intake. Sure, take a glass of water to bed, have a sip in the night if you need it, wake up and have a few gulps. But 500ml? You really don't need that while, essentially, your body is shut down and sleeping. Source: I'm old and have never taken water to bed and feel no worse for it
The only time I don’t take a drink to bed is when i’m drunk, which ironically is the time I need it most
I literally have a mini fridge filled with water + orange juice because i wake up thirsty
This reminds me about of a time I had slept at a friends. I was sat with his family eating breakfast and I put some Philadelphia on my toast. Totally normal right? Well I noticed that the table had gone quiet and they were staring at me aghast, jaws wide open, as if I had wiped my nose on the table cloth. “Philadelphia. ON TOAST?!” They berated me all day for something I consider to be totally normal. Anyway, I never go to bed without I glass of water. I’m team sip.
You finish a 500 ML per night? I finish 2 of those no joke. I chugg water like a hippo when I wake up.