Most people wake up when they get cold. If you have a sleep disorder or have taken medications that make you sleepy, them it could be a problem.
Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath?
BananaChips@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
There’s more than just drowning.
Hypothermia is a risk of the water isn’t kept warm. And most likely someone’s going to fill the tub and let it sit, so it would quickly lose its warmth. Don’t assume because you’re cold you’d wake up.
Etterra@discuss.online 6 days ago
ageedizzle@piefed.ca 6 days ago
Yeah I live in a cold climate and wake up from getting cold all the time
toddestan@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Even assuming you start with room temperature water, it’d be several hours before you start feeling the effects of hypothermia. Given the water starts off warm, it’s only a bathtub of water so body heat will keep it above room temperature, and you’re (probably) in a small room that’ll help hold in the heat, I’d say you’d more than likely be okay assuming you don’t sleep more than 8-10 hours. If you pass out in the tub for something like 16-24 hours then I’d be more worried.
In some ways, I’d be more concerned about what would happen in the drain plug wasn’t completely watertight and the water drained away, particularly if you weren’t naked and were wearing clothing that holds in water like cotton.