Heat Addiction
Is it possible to be addicted to heat? I'm serious. I just broke out "our warmie" (the Presto Heat Dish from Costco) for the first time this winter, and I cannot get enough. I don't want to even get up to go to the bathroom, b/c I'll have to leave my heat & get cold. I'm like this year-round: I turn on my mom's heated seats in her car the second I get in & sit down - even in July. When my van is overheated, I sit in it for several minutes before turning on any air. I dream of saunas & hot tubs, and my favorite pastime is basking in the sun. I cannot stand for fans or air to blow on me where I can feel it. I always want a blanket or cover up. From around October through April, I usually don't take off my coat to sit down & eat in restaurants. I think I officially have heat addiction...
I'm pretty sure I'm addicted to having a space heater blowing on me lol. However, I really should stop... Like, it's right under my desk and blows directly onto my feet/shins and I actually have burn marks on my right foot and shin now :(. Also, I just realized that this post was like 6 years old, but after writing this much already...
ReplyDeleteIt's OK! We live in Texas now (frigid Chicago when I wrote this) where it's 80° today...but I still have that heat dish in front of my place on the couch, and if it's in the 50's at night, I'm turning on the space heater beside my bed, too. :-D Being back home in the South hasn't lessened my addiction one bit!
ReplyDeleteOMG I thought I was the only one addicted to a space heater, i love the sounds it makes and the heat sensation on my skin so relaxing, I even had the space heater on when I lived in Florida with the central AC on blast for my roommates lol
ReplyDeleteI also have this problem it's almost as if the cold hurts I sleep with my hair dryer. I saw that on tv and I totally understood. I LOVE space heaters and I go tanning for the warmth. Also I take A LOT of baths. I thought it was an iron deficiency. We should start a cult. I'll bring the heated blankets. (I actually used mine too much so it broke)
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DeleteI also once thought it could be an iron deficiency, but every time I’ve had blood work, I do not come back anemic at all. I really think I am just hyper sensitive to the cold. It seems to be a genetic trait among some people in my family, so I’m going with that. :-) Heat club meetings in the steam room at the gym! :-D
ReplyDeleteIm not sure if mine is an addiction. When i get a taste of it in the steam room, it feels like the temp is never hot enough/too hot, HOWEVER, when i leave and go outside, out of its influence, i don't constantly crave it. If i could jump into a flame without the body damage (unharmed) i probably would. If i could sleep in an oven (again without any damaging effects) i would.
DeleteI'm glad I am not the only one that is feeling this. I am from Louisiana moved to Missouri. There are actually seasons here and it's fucking painfully cold. I am trying to adjust to their spring but it's just too cold for me. I will almost boil my skin off in the tub, or cook it in front of a space heater. I don't know what to do!
ReplyDeleteI live in Southern Ga and i am addicted to heat, hot baths, heating pads, space heaters, i always have to use my seat heater in my car...i didn't realize i was so dependent on it until recently, but i HATE being the slightest bit cold
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ReplyDeleteHello, I am so glad I came across this because I was starting to think something was wrong with me. I love the feeling of heat touching my skin. I am anemic and after weight loss surgery I stay pretty cold but even before then I think I had developed a love of feeling heat blow on me and the sound. I actually think it calms my anxiousness and is a soother with my anxiety. I started developing anxiety on a stressful job or I should say that’s when I recognized I had it, and after my mother’s passing last year and my anxiety grew I would have heaters on all around me. I have one near my bed and I have a electric fire place tv stand in my bedroom where when I do yoga I have it on or I just lay in front of the t.v. with my legs propped on it and this is a year round thing for me. Well glad to know I’m not in this alone.
ReplyDeleteI am convinced that I am addicted to any type of heat. I take really hot showers, wash my hands in piping hot water. I have a heating pad attached to my chair at work and it is on high for the entire time I am there. I want heat 24/7. But I love to breathe in the cold air. Its the only thing I do not like hot or even warm, is the air I breathe. What is wrong with me? I am the only one that wears sweatshirts in the summer. Am I a nut job?
ReplyDeleteyep, from my experience it can be psychologically addicting. I call heat "my drug of choice." Even when i am not particularly cold it still feels relaxing and pleasant to sit in front of a heater. Setting in the warm sun on a cool day is heaven. I have poor circulation and often people will comment on how cold my hands will feel in comparison to theirs. However there is a limit to this desire for heat and very hot and humid weather has me rushing back into air conditioning... where i sit in front of my space heater. Yep, we're all crazy!
ReplyDeleteYay! It's not just me! I have my space heater running almost all the time in my office at work. I just don't like cool air of any kind on my skin when I'm indoors. My husband is Canadian so he thinks the house is always too hot so he blasts the AC at like 65 degrees. So when I come to work it's a treat to have my space heater running. I'm also a fan of the blow dryer heat. I'll sit there with it turned on and just blow dry myself for a good 20 minutes.
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