why do american's sleep with the curtains open wide in tv land

[OhNoNotSusan]

do you do that in real life?

We always laugh at that too and leaving the lights on when putting their kids to bed.

Most of the year yes

We never close the bedroom blinds or curtains. I like waking up to the view we have.

Yes, we always sleep with the curtains open. I hate feeling closed in. We very rarely close the curtains as we're not overlooked.

dont you wake really early though?
doesnt the bright moon keep you awake?

Ive often thought about this too! Especially when it’s a thriller.

Same.

No and no.

It’s so the “moon” can light the room for filming.

in real life most people have curtains. I have black out blinds on a remote like in The Holiday. Glorious luxury.

Never ever close the bedroom blind - I like as much light as I can get.

No, I like to look at the stars before I fall asleep. It doesn’t get light in winter where I am sometimes until 8am and is dark from 3.45/4pm. I’ll take as much light as I can get. I love the light mornings when the sun rises at 4/4.30 too in summer the sun streaming in my window makes me happy.

but how do your sleep? do you wear an eye mask?

Oh and I love it when there is moonlight shining on me - makes me feel so peaceful.

No eye mask - sleep perfectly well - I don't need a dark room.

I should have said I’m not American 🤣

I never close the curtains either (also not American) no eye mask, not much light pollution here but the light in the morning doesn't wake me up, an alarm does.

Rarely close the curtains (or windows) here as I think it feels claustrophobic and too dark.

I like to be able to feel the outside.

Live on top of a hill so no-one can see in the upstairs windows.

I sleep with them open because it feels more natural, waking with the sun etc. The only time I close the curtains is if I'm ill and sleeping in the day. Feel very claustrophobic with them closed and as I also sleep with them open (even in winter, am peculiarly fond of being toasty under the quilt with a cold nose) I don't like the air flow being cut off / random billows in the night.

Our room is on the third floor so not particularly worried about murderers peering in etc.

Reading all of these posts, I wonder if it's just conditioning and habit to sleep with the curtains open or to sleep with them closed.
I have tried sleeping with them open but I can see a street lamp and the neighbour's super bright security light.
All curtains after dark were closed in the house I grew up in, so I got used to having a dark room to sleep in, and now any light keeps me awake, I guess, because I look at it and everything is illuminates in the room.

I close the curtains when I’m getting changed, but otherwise they’re open upstairs as I struggle to sleep in a completely dark room

Agree - it is conditioning - I never had curtains closed in my room as a child - loved waking up to birds singing, sunshine,etc. so I suppose it has stuck with me.

I sleep with them closed. My bedroom window faces east and the sun in the morning on my face is like a blast furnace. I hate being hot and sweaty. I like cool and mostly dark when the alarm goes off.

If you are in a thriller you have to keep the curtains open so that the prowling baddie can get a clear shot. Some sort of local bye law probably.
Ideally, you should have a floor-to-ceiling picture window too. And always relax into a deep bubble bath when you think the haunting is over but really it isn't.

We have a lamp post fairly near the front of our house, and in the good old days when they all went out at midnight it was fine. They stay on all night now though, and I really don't want that shining in my bedroom window. Light pollution, innit?

Why do even the wealthiest characters sleep together in a small bed?
Why do they walk into their house without turning a light on?