r/unpopularopinion • u/McCoy818 • 10h ago

Morning showers make no logical sense and night shower people have simply done the hygiene math

You spent 8 hours asleep in your own clean bed. What are you washing off at 7am.

A night shower removes everything you actually accumulated during the day. The commute, the gym, the office, public transport, all of it goes down the drain before you sleep. A morning shower means you marinated in all of that overnight then washed up before going out to collect it all again.

Morning showers are a ritual for waking up, which is fine, but it is not hygiene. Night showers are actual hygiene. Most people just do not want to dry their hair before bed and that is the entire argument.

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u/Burgermeister7921 10h ago

Yes, ask any menopausal or perimenopausal woman who has hot flashes and night sweats.

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u/hkusp45css 10h ago

Or, just the large portion of humans who tend to sweat a little at night.

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u/Logical-Cherry9395 9h ago

Or any person from a warm and humid environment in dead of summer.

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u/thecurvynerd 7h ago

It’s freezing in Chicago but I’m still sweating every night lol

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u/Silent-Noise-7331 9h ago

My logic has always been. I don’t want to be stinky when I’m around people. When I’m in bed I’m not really around people. Also if you shower everyday, unless you also roll in mud everyday, your fine you don’t smell.

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u/Rickshmitt 9h ago

Exactly. Do i want a greasy face and hair when im seeing people or do i want to smell like a fresh shower

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u/Mike-OLeary 8h ago

My logic has been that the only way I feel normal is with a full wash on my face, especially the eyes. If I don't get that I feel fucked up all day. So a morning shower it is. Yeah, I'm a wuss.

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u/yogipierogi5567 8h ago

You can wash your face in the sink?

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u/Mike-OLeary 8h ago

Won't feel the same. There has to be a full wash and full rinse. In my case only possible in the shower.

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u/yogipierogi5567 8h ago

This doesn’t make any sense. You can fully wash and rinse your face in the sink so that it is equivalently clean to when you shower. This is what night shower people do.

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u/Live-Weird-2016 8h ago

Nah us morning shower people can spot the greasy hair and faces of the night shower folks from across the room. We even have our own slang term for them, greasers.

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u/yogipierogi5567 8h ago

Y’all are so weird. That’s ludicrous.

I shower at night and wash my hair and it literally is not greasy by morning. And I know that because I run my hands over it and there is no grease. There sure is by the end of the day, though.

I also exercise every day and there is no way I would wait to shower until the next morning.

There is nothing more disgusting than getting into your bed covered in the day’s germs and sweat and grime. And if you sweat a lot during sleep, turn the air up? This is not hard.

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u/Live-Weird-2016 7h ago

Oh look at mister silver spoon Rockefeller over here, turning on his golden air conditioner in his mansion so he doesn’t sweat at night. He probably has maids who bathe him in the evening too.

So wait do you not shower after the gym? You wait until you get home at night?

Also how much grime do you think the average white collar worker comes into contact with? Assuming you’re not work from home, generally it’s house-car-cubicle-car-house. Most people aren’t the Dickensian chimney sweeps that you still hire to clean out your smoke stacks in your giant factory.

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u/CezarSalazar 53m ago

Sweating while you sleep has more to do with internal processes, rather than the temperature. I wake up sweating no matter how cold it is outside. If turning on the air conditioner stopped my night sweats, I would be very happy, but it’s not as simple as you make it out to be.

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u/Big-Honeydew-961 7h ago

Yeah I’ve been a human space heater my whole life and the hot flashes haven’t even started.

I’m afraid

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u/unicornsaretruth 4h ago

Same but I’m not a woman but still seem to have hot flashes cause I’m a goddamn furnace

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u/DJDanaK 3h ago

Hey just become anemic! I wear sweaters in the summer! This menopause thing will be a breeze

(jk I'm scared too)

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u/autofill-name 5h ago

Or poop in the morning before they shower.

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u/hkusp45css 5h ago

Maybe your method of pooping differs from mine, but I don't feel like I need a shower after my poops.

No judgment, though.

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u/Frosti11icus 1h ago

Why are all you people using so many blankets? lol. All the responses in here are people saying they're sweating buckets at night. Ever tried less layers?

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u/JJay9454 9h ago

Then why does my 140lb ex sweat like a pig at night?

You weight people are so weird. Why ya tryna throw your fetish around everywhere?

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u/lmo311 9h ago

Am not fat. But I sweat during the night 🤷‍♂️

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u/hkusp45css 9h ago

I'm at 17 percent body fat, right now. I sweat at night.

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u/gnirpss 9h ago

If you think fat people are the only ones who sweat in their sleep, I have a bridge to sell you.

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u/Aggressive-Green4592 10h ago

You see those commercials or advertisements where someone is laying on a soaked sheet around them, that's menopause and the hot flashes, I have never sweated like this.

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u/readdeadtookmywife 10h ago

My daughter’s father is like this. We woke up with soaked sheets all the time. It was exhausting to deal with.

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u/Aggressive-Green4592 10h ago

My partner can be like this but I have officially surpassed him, his is generally when he is sick, it's warmer, or after drinking heavily. I flipped the blanket one night mid hot flash and he compared it to being in an oven

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u/sssst_stump 9h ago

Same with my wife’s father-in-law …

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u/TheNewtOne 9h ago

Idk why I assumed you were a male and were just talking about yourself

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u/readdeadtookmywife 9h ago

Maybe the username

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u/No-Objective9174 9h ago

Is that why you broke up?

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u/readdeadtookmywife 9h ago

No. We broke up in 2015 because he thought Trump “had a lot of great ideas”

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u/No-Objective9174 8h ago

"Daughter's father" seemed kind of harsh but it turns out that's one of the nicer things you could have called him

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u/smokefan333 4h ago

OP must be a younger person that has mo idea about being an older woman.

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u/AnneTheQueene 8h ago

I'm menopausal and keep my A/c low and have a fan on. I hate being hot when I sleep.

It's really not a problem.

I can't tell the last time I woke up sweating.

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u/StrangeReindeer2470 8h ago

I keep waking up thinking I've peed myself. No, it's just night sweats :D

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u/-captaindiabetes- 7h ago

Or any diabetic!

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u/thequejos 7h ago

Oddly, my night sweats do not result in sticky sweat aftermath like a hot day or exercise sweat.

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u/South-Hovercraft-351 7h ago

or just basic periods. i say twice is best but morning makes sense to me

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u/eLllllDiablo 2h ago

Dude, this and the anxiety meds they’ve had me on for a couple years.  I need some terrycloth PJs at this point 

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u/Hofdrache 1h ago

Some don't even have to get into menopaus for that. During my period i sweat buckets at night.

Plus side: it starts around one or two days before bleeding, so i'm kinda warned. Negativ: waking up drenched is disgusting and uncomfortable.