Hello, I'm by no means a nudist but I have recently started sleeping in the nude and have come to much prefer it. I now can usually squeeze in about an extra hour or so each day in the buff. One thing I've come to think is that I feel more authentic or in touch with myself when nude. I'm not really thinking this is body image or comfort but that maybe clothes act as some emotional armor. Anyways, curious to see what some of the more experienced naturalists think as I've not seen this in a recent thread.
I've enjoyed being nude for most of my life. Found out at age six I liked sleeping nude. Though my parents didn't approve. I enjoyed swimming nude in the swimming holes and hiking the woods without clothes. A dozen years ago I became a social nudist going to nude beaches and resorts with my wife. My experience with myself is I feel comfortable how I was born, free of the burden of clothes. Free of societies puritan ways and beliefs. Able to be me. The hardest part I've noticed and with many others is breaking through that barrier of what others think. I know people who secretly go to nude venues yet won't go nude or allow nudity in their home. I actually know people who live in a nudist resort that don't go nude or entertain nude in their home. You dig deep enough for the answer to your question you will find many different answers why people enjoy it. Its an individual thing. Embrace it, be comfortable with it and don't question it too much as to scare you from it. Its a beautiful thing to enjoy.
I started sleeping nude when I was a teenager living at home. I had my own room and found that I have a better nights sleep when nude. I'm nude most times at home and will put on clothes depending on the company. Some of my friends don't mind me being nude in my own home. I also enjoy a nude hike in the woods and enjoy being one with nature.
I think it started when I was young , any time I could be naked I was and for my whole life I have enjoyed being nude whenever possible, like rite now
I broke through by sleeping nude as a preteen. I would awaken due to pain in my groin from bedclothes catching my stuff and causing pain. Once I removed the source of the pain not only did I sleep better but I enjoyed the lack of restriction clothing provides. I am nude weather and environment permitting and when I can avoid any legalities interfering with my comfort. Living nude is not a sexual thing but having the warm sunshine or cool breeze caress my naked body does become erotic. Having to constantly adjust my clothing as I go about my day is a hassle I don't wish to deal with unless I'm forced to by textile world requirements. There's nothing more irritating to me than having to adjust a shirt or pant pulling on my torso so I can be comfortable. If there wasn't such a stigma associated with the naked human body I would authentically be nude pending weather and environment.
I genuinely dont feel myself unless I am naked. I only really dress for my job and everyday social and public life. When I am dressed, it feels like just a temporary state..... a requirement until I get back to normal and being naked. My dream is to retire somewhere where I can be nude 100% of the time.
It's multiple levels for me. And 0% sexual, which my wife doesn't understand. We will be watching TV in the evening while I am totally naked, and she doesn't understand that I am NOT trying to jump her bones at the same time. It started for me when my friend dared me in middle school. Then I visited his house and his parents and sister were often mostly-naked, but it freaked me out, so I stayed clothed. Then at home I realized that I just felt...better...being naked. Now, as an adult, it's actually a fibromyalgia thing. Clothes touching my body, even lightly, is painful. Being naked helps with that A LOT. My wife's family finally understands this and I stay nude around them, and we all act as though I am clothed like they are. My friends understand it, but I have to pick and choose who I am nude around. No one else in my life is a nudist, but the people I see most often get confused when I do actually wear clothes. It took me decades to understand this, even for myself, but better late than never. I just wish I could be nude socially, but where I live women get scolded for even wearing bikinis at the beach, so that's the perspective here. Being nude in public is actually legal where I live as long as you aren't being lewd, but the cops will find other things to tack on so they can arrest you anyway. People have tested this a few years ago. I am not going to be the one to test it further.
I just love the feel of the sheets on my naked skin. Night time erections are nicer too, not getting tangled in clothes.
