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?

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    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. 🫠

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

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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…

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    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.