Everyone who still sleeps with a fan on, know the effect!
I always thought I couldn’t sleep without the low hum of my old silver desk fan blowing cool air across my face. My friends teased me about it all the time. My coworker Maxton even joked that I’d marry a fan before a person. But last week, I read an article online that rattled me. It said sleeping with a fan could dry out your throat, cause allergies, and worsen asthma. It made me wonder if that was why I always woke up with a scratchy voice.
That night, I decided to sleep without the fan. I turned it off, slid under my covers, and lay there in complete silence. At first, I thought I’d get used to it. But the quiet was unsettling. Every creak of the house felt amplified. My mind drifted to things I’d pushed aside during the day: unpaid bills, my stalled freelance projects, the awkward dinner with my sister’s fiancé who kept checking his phone.
I kept tossing and turning. By 2 AM, I gave up and flicked the fan back on. The whirring instantly soothed me, but I couldn’t shake the unease from what I’d read. Was I hurting myself just for the sake of comfort?
The next morning, I told my neighbor, Callista, about the article over coffee. She laughed and said she’d never heard such nonsense. But her teenage son, Ewan, who overheard us, chimed in that his friend’s dad got bronchitis and blamed his nightly fan. It planted a seed of doubt that kept growing in my head.
