If you get up for the loo in the night, do you turn the light on?

[BiscuitlyBoyle]

I saw a thing the other day about how mums will go to the loo in the night without turning the lights on either in the hallway or in the bathroom. I realised that I never turn any lights on, no babies to wake up or small children, I just don’t need it.

So is that a female thing? And adult thing? Or a parent thing?

What about you?

Many thanks @ScottBakula

We have these - one on the landing and one in the bathroom https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D45J3PQX/

So you didn’t train him. He had no choice because of how low the ceiling was.
Most of us don’t have 5ft 6 ceilings.

No. No one else in house,I live alone. If I put a light on,it would wake me up too much.

Our bathroom is downstairs so I close our bedroom door and turn the light on in the spare room at the top of the stairs which doesn't disturb DH and isn't too glowy and means I won't go arse over tit down the stairs (where our black cats have been known to set themselves as booby traps!).

I leave it off- not because of anyone else but because of the blinding effect of waking up in the night and putting on the light. So for the sake of my own eyes. I'm pretty sure I did this before having kids too.

Many years ago a very new bf was staying at my friends (not sleeping together at the time) her mother had dementia and slept next to the bathroom.. Bf was in the loo in the middle of the night. He couldn't find the pull cord so was in the dark. Friends mum walks in pulls the cord and sees bf on the loo.. Apparently she looked at him and said "Oh" pulled the cord again and walked out leaving bf in the dark!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Motion sensor in hall and bathroom, turns the lights on very dimly after 12:00 hrs, and off after a couple of minutes.

I don't at home. In hotels we leave the light on in the bathroom (with the door shut) so we can see where we're going. Not really sure what we do in other people's houses... we don't really stay with people much. I think we probably would, unless there was a bright moon or a streetlight right outside or something.

No, my eyes adjust

No. There is a little light in the mirror that gives a glow but I don't need it.

We have a little sensor light in the bathroom. It gives enough light to see where you’re going without waking you up too much. Enough light gets to the landing from outside to not need one there.

I have a little light on my watch that I can put on which is enough for me to see, but not so bright it wakes me up.

Use a torch to get to the bathroom (it's downstairs which is a PITA) switch the light on in the bathroom as it's so dark. Do the same at hotels, the amount of time I've walloped my shines on bed corners or bashed my toes now means I use a torch to navigate! Dh seems to manage without any lights, but his eye sight is far better than mine, so maybe that's why!

Usually need to pee around 4 ish so tiptoe in the dark, hoping not to disturb cats or they think its breakfast time and start yowling.