Winter is a sensory nightmare

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First major cold front of winter coming through this week and so far I am not coping well with it. I cannot stand being cold, but I can't stand being hot either, and it doesn't take long before I get too hot with the amount of clothing I have to put on to avoid being cold. Seems like if the temperature changes just a few degrees I have to add or remove clothing. Either shivering or in perpetual hot flash or BOTH AT THE SAME TIME. Even with socks and boots on my feet are still cold, yet at the same time they are burning from the pressure of having socks and boots on. I have to take at least 2 different coats with me every day, one heavy one light. Taking on and off multiple layers all day long never finding the right combination of warmth and coolness. My clothes are driving me insane. Did I mention those damn Salvation Army bells everywhere I go, DING DING DING DING DING right into my brain, I won't even say what horrible and murderous things I want to do with those bells.

Sorry to hear that the winter doesn't agree with you, dianthus.

Looks like you and I are polar opposites.
As it happens, one of my nicknames is "the Queen of Narnia"
because as an artist, my best selling images are
landscapes featuring winter snow scenes
and nature scenes featuring abstract ice.

I once was an active blogger, and I banned mentions of things like flowers
and springtime, and lions ... all in good fun, of course.
And we'll not speak of what happened to the poor groundhog,
as it was all circumstantial evidence
easily enough attributed to the Dwarves (aka Sons of Earth).

So if at all possible, I hope as the weather grows colder outside
that you will enjoy a mug of hot chocolate
and a nice piece of Turkish Delight.

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I too am a winter person. Less sunlight, can always bundle up, but if you're hot, you can only take off so many clothes. Autumn is actually my favorite time of year. Then winter. Not fond of spring. Despise summers.

I would love a bit of winter right now, 38 degrees (100) today with a hot wind that blows dust everywhere which sticks to my greasy sunscreen. Can't tell you how much I hate sunscreen - suppose its marginally better than skin cancer.

I like winter. I can deal with the cold much more easily than the heat, and it has Christmas, my birthday, and time off school. What more could I ask for? It's the best season.

Imagine summer in the desert with 115 temperatures, I miss the cold!

Yes...but, it's a DRY heat, eh?

I too hate winter, but then summer is pretty bad too.

I always thought it weird that everybody could stand going outside but to me its almost painful. During the winter months I tend to freeze in anything lower than 60 degrees, and 30 is downright horrid. During the peak summer months, I can't even stand being in direct sunlight because it feels like I'm burning.

And I live in the south... When I was at Ft Leonardwood... well lets just say that I much preferred being home in SC during the winter.

As a child I had never cold in the winter.
In fact I would take my jacket off and pull my sleeves up and play in the cold and or snow depending if there was snow until my arms were frozen blue, that's what my mother told me.
I hated wearing long sleeves my mother told me, also when it was cold and freezing and snowing.
But it has changed, now I am sensitive to cold and especially cold wind and I like layers of long sleeves and a wollen scarf around my neck, also at home.
But I am very skinny as an adult and I think it contributes to it as well.

I prefer winter I hate summer which has started early here, already there's been bushfires, also we haven't had much rain so the ground is so dry, I avoid going outside during the day if at possible in summer as I don't like sunscreen it smells and feels awful.

We had a nice cold winter this year but it was spoilt by the Winter whingers as I call them on the radio a bit of cloud and they just about hyperventilate, what's so great about the sun we see it everyday anyway.

The only time I dislike being hot is when I'm in bed. Otherwise, I could live with heat.

But I find it difficult to function when it's cold. All I want to do when it's cold is just be in bed. I don't want to do anything else.

Lucky for me I work at an old people's home, so it is always hot there, ironically even more hot when it's cold outside. Sometimes I feel a little uncomfortable in the heated building, and I do get thirsty a lot, but that still doesn't stop me from working. But if I walk into a cold room (if the windows are open and the heat is turned off in the room), I immediately feel uncomfortably cold, and I just cannot work.

I've always wanted to work on the farm, but the only thing is I might not function properly when it's cold.

That's how I am too. Probably because staying in bed is about the only way I can stabilize my sense of temperature.

If I bundle up in the right amount of clothes and keep moving, I can do things, but moving around makes me get hotter and hotter, until pretty soon I feel like ripping all my clothes off and screaming.

Sorry that winter is so tough on you...

I tend to have difficulty with any extreme weather - hot or cold -, although I definitely prefer winter because there is much less sensory input in general and not so many quick variations in humidity or atmospheric pressure.

One question: do you wear synthetic fabrics? I'm asking because it's much harder to keep comfortable with synthetic fabrics. I can't tolerate any synthetic fabric because of this - and the fact that they also generate static in the winter, which makes everything worse.

Anyway, I hope you find a way to keep reasonably comfortable.

Not only everything Dianthus said but also my skin gets so dry and chapped--especially lips, fingertips and toes--they bleed. Then I pick and they bleed worse but I can hardly stop myself. It's pretty embarrassing to have co-workers tell you your lips are bleeding when you didn't realize you were nervous/concentrating so hard you were chewing all the dry chapped skin off them. When nobody says anything I'm oblivious until I taste blood...

I like the spring when everything starts to warm up and the flowers start to bloom. Also like a real sweet pea of the green type, I enjoy the April showers as well.

Did you change your avatar just to show the green sweet peas?