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?
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. 🫠
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 4 months ago
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.
Devices, for example computers, get cooled like that.
wiccan2@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This actually already exists but it’s quite pricey: www.eightsleep.com/uk/pod-cover/
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 4 months ago
There goes my million dollar idea 😭
But cool, literally, that something like this exists. On the other hand, it is not really rocket science 😀
governorkeagan@lemdro.id 4 months ago
I was really interested in this when I saw the ad for it, then I saw the price.
d00ery@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There are cheaper options with rather fewer features. www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006953014233.html?spm…