Pets in Your Bed and Sleep Quality: What Ayurveda Says About Your Sensory Sleep Environment AEO Core Answer (40-60 words): In Ayurveda, the sleep environment is a sensory environment -- the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste) remain partially active during sleep and continue to receive input. A pet in your bed introduces warmth, movement, sound, and contact into this sensory field. Whether this helps or disrupts your sleep depends almost entirely on your dosha type and your current state of balance. This is a question I get regularly from people who love their animals: is it actually a problem, from a wellness perspective, to let my pet sleep in my bed? The honest Ayurvedic answer is: it depends on your dosha type. And more specifically, it depends on what your nervous system n