I'm not certain if this is something that is common or not. I find myself very, very sensitive to wrinkles and folds in fabric. When I try to sleep, even the smallest wrinkle in the bedsheet can drive me nuts. It feels like I'm sleeping on a knife edge. There are times that I spend an hour trying to straighten out the sheet before I can go to sleep.

Similarily, clothes are nearly intolerable. They fold, shift and sit in uncomfortable positions. Even having them touch me sometimes is enough to drive me crazy. Does anyone have a similar problem? How do you deal with it?

Join a nudist colony? :p

I definitely hear ya. Just last night I spent nearly 10 minutes with what I deemed a rock, but turned out to be just a minor wrinkle in the sheet. Whatever it was, it was gunnin for my ribs.

If it's a minor nuisance, I eventually forget about it annoying me. At least for awhile.

If it's a major issue, I change. Sometimes I may walk out of the house looking less than fashionable because the only two articles of clothing that don't send me into the psych ward unfortunately don't match.

At least I'm comfy.

Would this be classified as an OCD symptom?

Sensory Integration Dysfunction?

Sensory Integration Dysfunction?

Yes, quite likely. That's what I was going to suggest you do a web search for information on. There have been at least a couple of threads here on this forum about the topic as well. I also have SID and am hyper-sensitive to the feel of things, to bright lights and flashing lights or moving icons on a web page, to loud or annoying noises, and to a whole slew of smells and odors (especially perfumes and cig smoke).

I too am bothered by creases and folds in the bed linen, and absolutely cannot sleep on most modern blended fabric sheet sets. I tend to buy my sheets at thrift stores where I can still buy good quality cotton sheets at a price I can afford. And they have already been laundered many times so they are very soft and comfy.

Join a nudist colony? :p in summer.

I have 1 very small ultra soft tissue in my pocket (currently) which has taught me the true meaning of all consuming phlegmatic torture.

like water torture
- slower, more viscous

humor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_humours) in phlegm?

I just don't see it.

humorless thoughts however
- happy happy
(maybe in the next world)

Alternative take

(ps ADD)

Sensory Integration Dysfunction?

don't be rude :p Imperceptibly Differentiated Utopian !

don't be rude :p Imperceptibly Differentiated Utopian !

I don't understand. How was Dell's post "rude"?

LOL! I have the same feeling with bedsheets. It drives me crazy if they are all messed up and wrinkled. I have to get up and redo the bed. I like them tight and squared off at the corners. This has driven my wife crazy at times, but then I consider her to have sloppy sleep hygiene.

I've started reading up on this Sensory Integration Dysfunction, boy does it sound familiar! It makes a lot of sense, even why I prefer heavy blankets to light ones.

:-)
~ps~
he wasn't

posting an explanation on the public messaging system.

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I can only use a duvet -

hypersensitivity is a real common problem for us -
many similar threads on site relating to it -
- try a forum search with sensitivity also (as well as SID)

- the tissue thing I mentioned is a real problem which I actually was having today-
I now can't use my trouser pockets.

Last time (here) - I remember a couple of us kicking the 'princess and the pea' fairytale over some.

Im usually far too tired before I go to bed at night to actually care how many creases are in my covers.... my bed is always in a mess.... I never bother to make it :o

The more tired I am, the more that things like wrinkles and scratchy fabric and noises bother me.

I'm not certain if this is something that is common or not. I find myself very, very sensitive to wrinkles and folds in fabric. When I try to sleep, even the smallest wrinkle in the bedsheet can drive me nuts. It feels like I'm sleeping on a knife edge. There are times that I spend an hour trying to straighten out the sheet before I can go to sleep.

Similarily, clothes are nearly intolerable. They fold, shift and sit in uncomfortable positions. Even having them touch me sometimes is enough to drive me crazy. Does anyone have a similar problem? How do you deal with it?

I wouldn't say folds in fabrics or clothes bother me, but different types of material does, also i like big baggy clothes or as little as possible so i can move otherwise i feel restricted.

Tags on clothes really annoy me to the point i cut them off.

I can't stand certain types of fabrics and sometimes I get so sensitive that nearly any fabric touching me is painful.

Humm, I feel like that too; although when I wake up my bed looks as if a tornado had passed through it at night :P.
It is specially annoying with clothes. I can't stand folds near my skin; not painful, I just hate it.

LOL! I have the same feeling with bedsheets. It drives me crazy if they are all messed up and wrinkled. I have to get up and redo the bed. I like them tight and squared off at the corners. This has driven my wife crazy at times, but then I consider her to have sloppy sleep hygiene.

Hahaha! I also have to make the sheets and blankets 'fair' or evenly placed. Now, my husband usually asks if the bed covers are in an okay position before we go to bed. I really would be easier to make the bed in the morning, only takes two minutes, but who can remember to do that?:cool: