How do people shower at night?

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Everytime I try to shower at night and wake up I just feel unhygienic in the morning. I don’t understand how people just get up, brush their teeth, get dressed and feel like they’re good to go. Not to mention hair. I get insane bedhead everytime I wake up, even when I tried to shower at night, so how do people deal with that? Maybe I’m just slow or missing something but it just feels so weird to me.

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  1. Felicia_Svilling Avatar

    Just get used to it?

  2. HowDoYouLoveSomeone Avatar

    Have you ever considered washing bedsheets ?

  3. Confusedauramused Avatar

    I shower twice…Once in night…and once in the morning.

  4. TheIncredibleBulge Avatar

    Im the opposite I cant sleep well unless ive had a shower before bed “washing off the stank of the day” calms me massively

  5. not_a_mundane Avatar

    I don’t know how people sleep without showering. You’ve sweat all day and just get into bed? Even when I’m lazy and dont want to shower, I feel like I have to at least take a wet wash cloth over my body and wash my face to not feel dirty.

    My bedhead isnt super bad. I have a silk pillowcase, and I also put product in my hair like a hair treatment or leave in conditioner. You could always spray your hair with water and blow dry in the morning.

  6. realitygirlzoo Avatar

    I shower at night and then in the am after I workout.

  7. jonbrown91 Avatar

    Not everyone lives the same life. Wouldn’t make alot of sense for me to shower at 530am before I go work construction, I shower when I get home

  8. Prestigious_Gap8040 Avatar

    Absolutely can’t go to bed without one it feels too gross, especially waking up unclean feels gross. Sometimes I’ll shower twice if I feel like it but showering at night is always a must

  9. BeastoftheBlackwater Avatar

    But going to bed all dirty doesn’t make you feel unhygienic?

  10. sleeprobot Avatar

    Different people feel differently about things. They likely don’t wake up feeling like you do if they showered at night. Same experience, different perception of experience. That’s uh… how life is … a lot of the time. Some people think olives taste good while others find them disgusting, etc.

  11. Active_Rain_4314 Avatar

    Clean satin sheets after a fresh shower….oh hell yes.

  12. Right_Organization87 Avatar

    Some people have a high tolerance of living life before the “I feel gross” feeling sets in. Hippies and depressed people can agree, missing a morning shower is the least of your worries- some people shower 2x a week…. the really mentally ill can shower just a few times a year. Taking a shower can seem like an absolute mountain, impossible to climb.

  13. Bluehope7777 Avatar

    I hate waking up from my warm bed to walk into the shower and having to walk on cold floors. Night showers are relaxing while morning ones feel disruptive

  14. nothing_in_my_mind Avatar

    It’s about getting used to it. Trust me, sleeping in a clean bed for 8 hours does not make you unhygienic and disgusting and unfit to go out.

  15. Nellrose0505 Avatar

    I work in healthcare, I am showing before bed, and it’s gross otherwise. How can you go to sleep with all the days gunk on you? As for the hair, I braid mine in the morning, so I have no issues, but drying your hair before laying down and/or wearing a sleep bonnet helps with the bedhead.

  16. Desperate-Source-918 Avatar

    I feel dirty going to bed unwashed. Plus morning showers would mean I’d have to get out of bed earlier.

  17. Nomadic_View Avatar

    Take two.

    I cannot stand going to bed with all the grime of the day still on my body. I also feel like it’s kinda disrespectful to my wife to go to bed with a dirty body. I would not feel comfortable doing stuff if I haven’t washed myself.

  18. The_Theodore_88 Avatar

    I prefer sleeping in or lounging in the morning instead of having to take more of that time to shower. I have unlimited time in the evening however.

    Also both my roommates shower in the morning and if I did as well, I’d either have to wake up at 5am or shower with cold water since our heater takes 4 hours to recharge

  19. Technical-Banana574 Avatar

    I dont understand how people dont shower at night. I love the feeling of going to been clean and laying down in clean sheets. I absolutely will struggle to go to sleep of I havent showered first because I feel like I am wearing the crap from everywhere I was during the daytime, including sweat. 

    I dont sweat often in my sleep so there is no reason why I would wakeup feeling gross. I also dont just brush and go. I do have to do a little work to get my hair into order beforehand. 

  20. AffectionateTaro3209 Avatar

    Yeah, it’s the opposite for me. I’m not getting into my clean bed dirty. I tend to bathe or shower in the later afternoon though, that way my very thick hair has time to dry. I pin it back in a bun while I sleep and it’s just right in the morning.

  21. Poverty_welder Avatar

    Cause some people work manual labor jobs and come home dirty.

  22. notthegoatseguy Avatar

    I shower at like 5-6pm and then don’t go out of home after that.

  23. JellicoAlpha_3_1 Avatar

    I take a long cleaning shower at night before bed…so I am always clean and fresh in my bed and the grime of the day is washed away

    In the morning, I jump in the shower for 2-3 minutes. Just long enough to wake up, clean the areas that need a quick refresh, and then I drop the water temp so I get a few seconds of cold.

    that wakes me up completely and I am ready for the day

    No long hot showers in the morning to dry out my skin

    It’s basically the shower equivalent of jumping in a cold swimming pool

  24. sparkly_ananas Avatar

    Hear this. Sometimes I do not shower neither in the morning nor in the evening!

  25. MolassesMolly Avatar

    It’s so dependent on your lifestyle and your body. Some people are sweaty sleepers so a morning shower is a must. Some people work jobs that are dirty so maybe they hold off on showering until they’re done work. Some people go to the gym first thing in the morning so they’re probably going to wait until after their workout to shower. Some people may share a bathroom with several other people and choose to shower when the bathroom isn’t in high demand. Other people opt for a daily basin bath and only shower a couple of times a week. Some people shower in the morning and the evening.

    No way is the “right” way. It’s just what’s right for you.

  26. Prestigious_Egg_1989 Avatar

    I feel like I have to since my hair takes forever to dry. So if I shower in the morning, I’ll end up going to work with wet hair that’ll airdry into a poofy mess. I generally keep my bedroom pretty cool so I don’t wake up sweaty or anything either.

  27. esp735 Avatar

    I worked in construction. No point is showing up super clean to just get filthy again. However, going to bed all clean feels great.

  28. DragonsLoooveTacos Avatar

    I have to shower at night. I’m not getting into my bed with the days pollen, dirt, germs, whatever I picked up from going about normal daily life functions still all over me and then sleeping in it. My bed is for a clean body and clean pajamas.

  29. V_is4vulva Avatar

    My job is disgusting. My body is not disgusting. I come home wearing other people’s bodily fluids and must wash them off. When I am sleeping, I do not get dirty, I am not a sweaty person. I do clean my face and brush my teeth in the morning. What kind of shenanigans do you get up to when you’re sleeping?

  30. fennek-vulpecula Avatar

    I work a physical demanding job, so not showering before bed would be disgusting.

    I dont have this feeling in the morning. Quite the opposite, the only feeling i have in the morning is the need to go back to bed and ditch work.

  31. Feeling_Name_6903 Avatar

    There are two types of jobs in the world. The kind you shower before you go to, and the kind you shower when you get home.

  32. Special-Tangelo-9927 Avatar

    My bed only feels clean BECAUSE I shower at night. I also change my sheets weekly. So I never wake up feeling dirty. Sometimes I get bed hair but sleeping with a silk bonnet helps and it doesn’t take long either way for me to get it looking good again (definitely takes less times than if I were drying it every morning).

  33. MFavinger22 Avatar

    Always showered before bed. Never gave it much thought just something I’ve always done

  34. inaghoulina Avatar

    I’m not getting in my bed with all the nasty outside germs and grime all over my body, gross to me.

  35. Loreathan Avatar

    Going to bed with dust and grime of the day is more ridiculous.

  36. Common-Project3311 Avatar

    I have the opposite question : how do people go to bed without showering? Most
    people don’t change their sheets every day, so the bed is getting dirtier each night with the previous day’s dirt, smells, secretions, etc.

  37. storm13emily Avatar

    I like to shower and hop straight into pjs, the thought of waking up to shower to put on a bra no thanks

  38. amydancepants Avatar

    I’m the other way around. I don’t get how someone can go on their bed without showering the day off of their body. Everyone has different schedules and preferences.

  39. Thr0wth1s827chaway Avatar

    I shower at night. I work a physically taxing job and am very often sweaty/stinky when I get home. I can’t fall asleep feeling dirty. Freshly clean body with freshly cleaned sheets? It’s heaven. I dare say there’s no better feeling. Haven’t done an AM shower in years.

  40. aarontsuru Avatar

    I get more dirty existing during the day out in the world than I do when I sleep in my clean bed.

    I shower at night to be clean when I go to bed, to get the world off me, and man do I hate that feeling of when you legs kind of slightly stick to each other from the days sweat residue. Gross.

    I have short hair, so hair’s not a problem. I feel clean in the morning unless I was sick & sweaty over night maybe?

    Like, I go to bed clean in a clean bed which I keep clean by washing sheets regularly.

    I personally can not fathom going to bed “dirty” from the day unless I worked from home and didn’t really go outside.

  41. dylan-34 Avatar

    I shower in the morning and at night after working out. Only way to do it. I won’t get in my bed unless I’ve showered

  42. Neat_Berry Avatar

    The idea of going to bed unshowered is so gross/unhygienic to me that if I do that, the first thing I do in the morning is wash my sheets. I also have three feet of hair that takes hours to dry, so letting it air dry for an hour or two before bed and then loosely braiding it means I wake up with wavy, almost dry hair. Showering in the morning would require either an hour of blow drying/hair damage or leaving the house with wet hair. The only reason I’d shower in the morning is if I was sweating at night, and then I wouldn’t wash my hair. 

  43. NEALSMO Avatar

    Was an auto tech for 25 years, showering before I crawl into bed was essential. I’m conditioned the opposite, warm showers trigger sleepiness.

  44. ddxs1 Avatar

    You just lay in your filth every night?

  45. lilgreengoddess Avatar

    How is going to bed with the days worth of filth and grime feel more hygienic ? Yuck

  46. pjimmy01 Avatar

    The fun bedtime stuff is much nicer when everyone is clean

  47. Clear_Tom0rrow Avatar

    Do you feel hygienic in the morning from not showering the night before?

    Personally, I’ve never understood morning showers unless you’re showering twice per day (morning and night)

    I don’t understand how people can just go to bed without washing off the day. I would feel like I need to wash my sheets every day.

    For me, you go to bed clean and wake up clean. Morning showers are cool to get your day started and feel refreshed, but it doesn’t carry over to the next morning like a night shower does.

  48. RedSagittarius Avatar

    You’re telling me you go to bed with the sweat you got from work into your clean bed sheets, yeah that pretty much why you wake up and want to take a bath in the morning.

  49. AssociationBetter439 Avatar

    Its usually because you are washing the labor and filth of the day off before you get into your clean bed. Buuuut we all live different lives…

  50. OutkastAtliens Avatar

    Because why the fuck would I go to bed dirty? That’s disgusting! My sheets are clean and changed very week. I also have a buzz cut and work at the port.
    So not everyone is like you or loves a life even remotely similar to you. You should probably change your sheet more often.

  51. Charadrius Avatar

    People are different. I couldn’t fathom getting into bed with the filth from my day.

  52. LA-Teams-hateaccount Avatar

    Why would you go to bed dirty?

  53. gibbonalert Avatar

    It feels like people are overdoing this. Shower twice a day is too much unless you have done some psysical activity. Not good for the skin. It can hurt the skin barrier and instead of beeing clean it can affect the skins ability to handle infections. It also affects the skins natural micro biome that is supposed to protect us.

  54. samssonova Avatar

    If you regularly take morning showers, a part of that unhygienic feeling was probably because your sheets are dirty due to sleeping in them without showering. People who shower at night regularly don’t have this issue(assuming they change their sheets regularly)

  55. caddyax Avatar

    You feel unhygienic bc you’re getting in bed covered with the grime and sweat of the day all over you 🤮 I could never do that. My body and face would break out in acne if I let my bedsheets get dirty by not showering before.

    I wake up feeling clean and fresh bc my bedsheets are clean and fresh. I wet my hair to style it and wash my face before putting on my daytime skincare and I go

  56. Beanpod79 Avatar

    I like to get into bed clean and not roll around in the day’s “dirt” while I sleep. I feel perfectly clean when I get up. As for bedhead, I keep a spray bottle of water in the bathroom and just give my hair a spritz and comb it out…takes care of any unruliness.

  57. Corrupted_Star Avatar

    my question is how do people take a shower in the morning? I ain’t got time to take a full shower and dry my hair in 20 minutes

  58. ocxtitan Avatar

    I love how so many of these questions on this sub are people who simply cannot think outside of their own personal experiences.

  59. LonelyWord7673 Avatar

    I don’t feel unhygienic in the morning and I don’t have bad bedhead. It’s just a different experience.

  60. amyskyyy Avatar

    Night showerer here — feels better to wash off the day before climbing into a clean bed. In the morning I just do a quick refresh with a warm washcloth (aka the bird bath lol) and I’m good to go. Also those commenting about washing off toilet paper particles, pee dribblings.. please consider getting a bidet lol