TIL People in the final stages of hypothermia engage in "paradoxical undressing" because, as they lose rationality and their nerves are damaged, they feel incredibly, irrationally hot. They strip off their clothes to cool themselves down as they are freezing to death.

http://io9.com/why-freezing-to-death-makes-you-want-to-get-naked-1688151366?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow



Submitted February 27, 2015 at 04:57AM by poonpatrolpal http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2xagcl/til_people_in_the_final_stages_of_hypothermia/