Review on Cooling And Premium Weighted Blanket For Adults - ZonLi (60''X80'',20Lbs, White) With High Breathability And Soft Materials by Mike Wachtel

Update after 6 months: the blanket is holding up well, and I still find it useful for when I feel anxious or might have trouble falling asleep, but I do put it aside for other times if the temp isn't ideal. When the house is warmest (78F) with the fan on it's okay when I'm chilly falling asleep, then I tend to be warmer later in the night/morning, and at that point I sometimes take the blanket off. When the house is cold (68-70F) I'm glad to have this blanket! It seems to hold heat only for a short time (it cools off when I pull it down to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night). I think I've learned to sleep under it in a way that less of the blanket bunches between me and my partner (he doesn't use it), and it doesn't fall off the bed anymore, but I do still wish it was narrower, because that does still happen sometimes. There was a while where I was concerned about pressure on my knees but those aches have gone away. Overall, still feeling it's a good purchase.---original post---I waited 3 months to write a review so I could write you a novel with some real experience behind it.First, the only reason this is 4 and not 5 stars is that I sleep with my partner in a queen bed, but only I use the weighted blanket, and the problem is that it's a bit too wide and bunches up in-between us. It feels passive-aggressive to have several pounds's worth of blanket form a barrier in the middle of the bed due to the excess width. And it's pretty difficult to re-adjust that much of the blanket's weight while lying under it and trying not to wake a sleeping partner one foot away. The mid-bed barrier is the alternative to having the extra width sliding off the outer edge of the bed and dragging large parts (or all) of the blanket off with it. If I was a bigger-around person this might not be such a problem and I might need the extra width (I'm less than 40" around at my widest part). Maybe a small-adult size would be nice; this was the smallest they offered that would cover me from shoulders to toe (I didn't want just a throw for sleeping in bed). The best solution I've found is folding under the outer-edge length of the blanket so it's just wide enough to cover me, and having the weighted blanket sandwiched between the sheets and another blanket to help hold that in place--and probably also sleeping more still and moving more carefully when I shift sleeping positions (that got easier pretty quickly with experience).The experience of sleeping with it--other than the issue above--has been good. It took a few days to learn how to sleep under it so it doesn't as easily get pulled off the bed. I find it helps to make the bed daily, so when I get in it's arranged right and flat (that's easy enough to pull it flat and re-fold the edge when I get up). If I don't straighten it before sleeping it's too wonky and doesn't cover me right or gets pulled off the bed or into the center too easily.I find it is comforting and it seems to be helping my sleep. Admittedly, I'm also practicing other sleep hygiene strategies, but I think on the whole where I practice those less consistently, the blanket has been consistent and I'd say my sleep in the past few months has been better than before. I tried it on the couch a couple times for what might be "restless legs" but it's just too heavy to carry back and forth, and I didn't want it to get dirty. It is a bother to lift off the bed to change the sheets since I have some minor shoulder issues, but it's not prohibitive.Something I didn't see much about in reviews before I bought was how it feels in warmer climates. I live in north-central FL where it gets hot and humid, and we don't use AC until we have to, so the house has been at about the hottest we allow lately, 78F, with no AC to remove the moisture (though it's nowhere near as bad as that can get around here, it's probably relatively high humidity for other regions). Sometimes we've had the fan on but most nights not so far this year. I don't have a duvet so I've kept this blanket on top of a light bedsheet, and have continued having a medium-light blanket on top of the weighted blanket (as we get warmer I plan to trade that out for duvet on the weighted blanket; either way I want this thing protected because I don't want to try to wash it if it gets dirty). So with all that, I've been sleeping pretty comfortably, temperature-wise. Bear in mind, I'm generally cold-blooded, so I'm afraid I still can't say much about what it'll be like for normal-temp people. My guess is if you don't use AC you'd get a bit warm under it; I do sometimes feel a little on the warm side lately (I think the beads retain heat a little, even though the fabric can feel pleasantly cool). It was nice when it was colder out (we also don't turn the heat up much in winter, so it stayed chilly inside, as low as 68F.