Do you sleep with your bedroom door open or closed?

Open, so my cat can come and go.

Open. All of my doors are usually open because I don’t like having to always open doors when I’m walking around. Plus, having them closed when I sleep would just feel unnecessarily restrictive.

Closed. A crack in the door somehow makes it easier for the boogeyman to get me.

what bedroom door?

Open. Both the hallway and bathroom doors. I fear no boogeyman.

Company in?

The hallway door is open, the rest closed.

Open. I do close it occasionally if I have company.

Open when I am alone closed when other have their door open.

LIke the elephant in the room, I also leave all doors open for my cat.

Open. We don’t have central heating.

Open…I live alone, and there is no reason to keep it closed. It helps with air circulation, and it allows my cats to roam freely (although I’ve always slept with it open, even before my cats.)

Open, the felines do not like closed doors. I also like to allow the air to circulate.

My dog doesn’t roam, but I leave my door open too. Closet doors have to be closed though.

Open…

… like my legs.

When my daughter is home, I will keep the door closed with the cats out. When she is not home, I may sleep with door closed and cats out or door open but take the chance that the cats are going to start wrestling and jumping around early in the morning and wake me up, like they did today.

Wide-open in the summer, firmly closed in the winter, it’s all determined by temperature/the need for fresh air. I also leave windows open in my bedroom during the summer, can’t stand the stuffiness if I don’t.

All doors are open in my house, except a few closets. The only time my bedroom door is closed is if one of us (my husband or me) is awake watching TV in the next room and the other is trying to sleep in the bedroom. As soon as the awake one comes to turn in the door is left ajar again. Sometimes when we have people visiting we close it, but usually it is still slightly open.

Open.
and I do have a kid

Open so the dogs can get to the water tower, in the bathroom.

Open, because that side of my bedroom door has paintings on it, and it’s right in my line of sight as I go to sleep. I made them over several years of vacations to the outer banks of North Carolina. We always stayed in the quiet southern part of the islands, around the Cape Hatteras area, late September-ish after the tourist season had ended. It was practically deserted.

Very late summer or early fall there reminds me of a juicy peach just before it turns- like it’s ripe to bursting, but you can sense the pre-onset of rottenness. The air and the sun still have that ripe, roasted, summery feel, with the saturated golden sunlight and the long shadows, but there’s a touch of coolness in the air, this autumnal melancholy feel that you know is going to grow throughout the season, and that’s the very first breath of it.

For me, being there at that time of year meant a strange interaction between happiness and sadness, that created a strange emotion that was more than either of those. It’s just so rare. You can’t really talk about stuff like the “feel” of seasons or the synergy of emotions with most people, but I was there with a good friend who knew about those sorts of things. A few times, we stayed up all night just talking.

Artistically, they’re not, like, the best paintings ever, but making them, and being there, was a good memory. That’s why I like to look at them before falling asleep.

Closed because I still live at home and well all have crazy different wake/sleep schedules. I wish I could leave it open because of my damn cat some nights though scratch scratch scratch so I get up and open the door to let him in <cat stares stupidly up at me waiting for the next 5 min if he actually wants in or not. finally decides to come in> as soon as I get back into bed and under the covers scratch scratch scratch so I let him out. And so on.

I’ve tried to hold out and just not open the door but he’s a persistent little fucker. He’ll just sit there pawing at the door for hours on end lol

Open unless I’m going to bed after 3 am or so and need to sleep in. Otherwise the light comes streaming in.

Closed, since I live in a dorm and don’t really have a choice. I guess I could sleep with my door propped open, but that would be a pretty bad idea…

Open, for my two cats. They love sleeping with me, they practically keep watch on me haha. But they do need to run around, eat and use the kitty box, and I’m sure not keeping that last one in my room.

Closed in the winter, open in the summer. We used to have it open all the time so our dog could get in and out.

I don’t like it wide open but it doesn’t have to be completely shut either.

When we were still in a bedroom with a door, it was open. On the one occasion that we had an overnight guest, it was closed. Now that we have moved our bedroom to the basement, there is no door. If there was, it would be open.

Open.

Closed, it skeezes me out to have it open at night.

Closed with the doorknob tied shut and locked. I sleepwalk like no one’s business, and I occasionally sleepcrash. The last time I got a nasty concussion and 9 stitches.

Open. I live alone. Even when I lived at home with my parents, my door was left ajar so the cat and dog could come and snuggle as they wished.

Open. I only have two doors within my entire apartment (I don’t mean main entryways, obviously), and I never close them if I’m alone. I don’t see the point of closing a door unless it’s to keep someone from entering or seeing in. So, unless I have guests, all the doors stay open.

Definitely closed. Helps keep the light and noise out. Since I don’t wear pajamas, I got in the habit years ago and can’t stand for the door to be open.

Closed, I like closed places. I am not scared of open spaces, but do love the closed ones.

People around here must think I am insane, because all my windows are covered in black cardboard so you cant see in or out, and if I am in a room, chances are the door is closed.

@poisonedantidote I once covered my windows with silver Mylar plastic. It was cool because no one could see in, it kept the light out, but if you got right up to it, you could see out.

I feel safer with the door slightly open.

Closed because I feel more secure.

Are you supposed to keep it closed for fire safety?

@Juels I don’t know. Just think it’s another stumbling block for an intruder.

Closed to block out light and sound. Plus it made it easier to hear what the kids were up to upstairs, right over my room.

Closed so my dog doesn’t wander around and make a mess.