Sleeping while your hair is wet, is it bad?

Hi, a few years back when I was still a kid I heard rumors from someone that when you sleep at night while your hair is wet you will be blind, because of that I really won't sleep when my hair is still wet. But now that I'm kinda an adult I tried to sleep while my hair is wet, because I was really sleepy that time. So I was afraid to sleep then the other day when I woke up was still seeing every little thing in my room even dusts. Last year I accidentally watched a medical show and the topic then was "when you sleep will you go blind or other negative effect" the doctor said that it was not true that you will go blind or insane, the only bad thing will happen is that you PILLOW WILL GET WET because your hair is wet. Have a nice evening.

Hi Metatronik, I already encounter this question with medical practitioner and hair expert. According to them, there's nothing wrong or no bad effects in our health if we go to sleep while our hair is wet. The only thing that might happen is that my pillow will get wet and might smell bad in the future if we often do it without washing our pillow.

I really don't see anything wrong with it. I would just wrap it up in a protective fabric and go to sleep. I believe that wet hair is more delicate. You can possibly condition your hair before you go to bed if that makes you feel more comfortable. I go to bed with damp hair sometimes. It really is not a problem for me.

I've gone to bed with my hair wet plenty of time with nothing happening becuase of it. The worst that could happen is a wet pillow and maybe you catch a cold, but that's not really anything to worry about.

With our hot weather is Malaysia, I tend to take bath before I sleep. I can sleep better after a bath and at times I even syampoo my hair. My sister will blow dry her hair with a hair dryer. I prefer to let it air dry it naturally while trying to wipe with my towel. Since I am very sleepy by then, I will take another dry towel and line my pillow and fast asleep. My mum always tell me since I am young that I should not take bath late at night, do not even think of washing my hair. It is bad for health. According to her, we will get rheumatism and headache when we grow old. The scientific reason to support it... I have not check on it yet. I too hope I can be enlightened about it here

Yes it is bad. better we should make hair dry before go to sleep. 1 or 2 times is not a big problem but if we often do like that we will get many troubles with head skin and hairs also.

When I've ended up doing that before, I've sometimes woken with a stiff neck... and, sometimes, the accompanying headache. However, that is not a problem for everyone--as you have seen from your own experience. I just dislike doing that, because it makes me feel icky, and I think that it makes my hair look messy the next day.

I think there's nothing wrong or would happen to anyone if they have slept while their hair are wet.Unless if you don't want your pillow get wet. I think it's better to sleep if our hair is dry after a bath because we feel fresh and clean.

at times it is quite annoying and frustrated to have like that and its really disturbing for us to keep for longer time

I have no problem with that. for many times I had asleep while my hair is wet. the only problem I had is getting my pillow wet and smelly. in fact,actually I'm not comfort to have my hair wet when I'm sleeping. I will be asleep with wet hair if only I'm really tired... I better tried to dry my hair first then go to bed

I think no problem while sleep hair is wet. Many time I wash my hair and then sleep after some time. My hair is opened while I sleeps.

I believe many people have the habit of washing hair at night to drive the tired and to be clean to have a rest. Most of them sleep with the hair wet. Doctor said it is a bad habit. Sleeping with hair wet can easily cause dizzy and feel like vomiting.

some people do say its bad but i hav heasd some where that sleeping with wet hair makes our hair grow faster. so u can try and see for urself what exactly happens. but there are no negative effects of it in any way to say actually. so that wont be any boon to u. so dnt thnk of that much

Yeah that is really true in my case Metatronik !!! I usually go to bed within an hour after my bath.But it got ended with sinus after some years. Nowadays,if i am not drying hair properly, as soon as i am suffering with headache. So its better to dry the hair properly before sleep to avoid future health problems. Have a great day!!!

i doubt it.

My mother always tell me if I sleep with my hair wet, I would get a headache and it is actually very bad for long term. I think I do get a headache if I sleep with my hair wet and especially my hair is so long, it hurts my back too if I let the wet hair sit on my back so I like to blow dry it once afte rI wash my hair.

I usually sleep with wet hair, cuz I shower before going to bed. I don't think it's bad, but you can catch a cold if it is cold in your room or if the window is open. If it happens to go to bed with wet hair, just reassure yourself that your side window, for example, is closed, that way you would probably be fine, and most of times try to dry your hair, it is more comftable, because your pillow won't get wet from the hair, as well. Cheeers, keep safe ;]]]

I would at least try to blow dry it or let it air dry 80% and then go to bed. It lso depends if there's any windows open and a chance that some nighttime cool air could come in and make it a bad atmosphere where you could get a cold with your hair wet. I once went into the grocery store with m,y hair slightly damp worrying if the very cold temps in there would give me a cold but luckily my immune system was high enough for me not to get one. It all depends on alot of things. Normally I would try to dry it mostly, otherwise it might dry a funny way and your hair will be styled all wrong for the next day, also.

NO ,It's not bad at all. It's just your habit. But if you are living in a cold area and you didn't check your A.c/fan, you may get little cold,sneezing etc. So take care about this, rest is fine.

You'll get blind. i don't know if it is true, but they're always telling it when i was still a kid. :)