Yawns ...

When you get ready to go out in the morning, you wear clothes that match the occasion, and most likely to match the weather conditions. I will wear something thicker on a cold and rainy day; probably something more revealing on a hot day. My body and mind interprets the conditions and the appropriate course of action is taken.

Similarly, when I order a cold cup of soya bean milk, I expect to be able to stick in the straw and enjoy the drink straight away. If the vendor gives me a hot cup my mistake, I would hurt myself when I stick the straw in and slurp. My body and mind is conditioned for a cold drink, not a hot drink; so its natural to get hurt if conditions do not match.

When you are riding in someone else's car (someone you are not very close to), you would almost always ask before you turn on the volume or turn up the air-conditioning. However, you take in for granted when you are riding in your father's car, you mother's limo or even your hubby's cheap car. Isn't it sad that you are more concerned towards someone less important to you?

At night, or rather anytime when you want to take a nap or go to bed, you consider the conditions and you prepare to rest in those conditions. If you are expecting someone to murder you while you are sleeping, you would probably be wearing some protectvie vest, hiding a weapon below your pillow and half awake all the time. Well, if you are just expecting to rest under perceived conditions of tranquility, of certain temperature etc, you condition and prepare yourself to sleep at ease under those conditions. If the perceived conditions changed while you are sleeping, you will get hurt (murdered, sick etc). How so? If you are sleeping in cold conditions, you will naturally remind yourself to wake up more to cover yourself if you are afraid of cold.

So the next time you try to change a person's sleeping conditions when he/she is already asleep, consider these points. Do you really want to change them when they are already conditioned to sleep in certain environment? Have you considered waking them up and telling them you are changing their sleeping conditions (you might get yelled at of course); or would you sneakily change these conditions and hope nothing happens to them?