To not understand how people sleep with the window shut?

[DottyFlowers]

Friend has just text to say her and dp have ha a massive row as he wants the window open and she doesn't as she's scared bugs or spiders will get into her mouth
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I always sleep with mine open, even in winter and I took her DPs side and now I'm in the dog house too

If you sleep with your windows closed, how do you manage to sleep with no air con and no fan either?!

YABU because some housing is really bloody cold. You would actually freeze in my bedroom in winter with the window open. Conversely you would boil with it closed in summer. Old houses, big houses, attics with no insulation in the roof, houses where people are tight with heating - you don't want a writer window open in any of those

I wouldn't be able to sleep with the window open as it would be too noisy. Foxes barking, owls hooting, cats fighting etc during the night, then birds cheeping from just before dawn. Would be just like camping!
I sleep under a 13 tog duvet all year - and most nights have a hot water bottle as well! I'm just wondering whether I should do without the hottie tonight!

I'd love to open my windows but I live on the ground floor, alone, there have been lots of burglaries in the area and a schoolfriend was once sexually assaulted by someone who got in through a small window in her room, also ground floor.

I have a fan that I keep on at night, in hot weather. Funnily enough I need it less the more weight I lose!

Open windows when your sleeping just seems like an open invitation to anybody who wants to break in... I'm way too security conscious.

I think we must be a bit weird or hot stuff!!

We have the windows open all year. Our bedroom is dual aspect so we get great airflow. I cant sleep in a stuffy room.

We have been using a 4.5 tog duvet all year as we get too hot. In fact I usually push it off and stay with just the sheet over me!

Hayfever means my windows stay shut!

YABU
Although judging by the crossed-out bit, so is your friend

I too live in northern Ireland. We've no need to open windows.

*if the curtains are closed the windows being open is pointless as the icy air can't circulate
*if the curtains are open to aid air circulation the sunlight shines into your retinas making you jump awake every 10mins from dawn
*there are moths the size of kittens hurling themselves against the windows, plus Mosquitos, earwigs, Arachnids etc all looking for a nice home.

Windows open occasionally for a see while and I fidget nervously looking out for spiders coming in.
I'd rather sweat in bed than wake up to find an arachnid in my ear or moths eating my stuff.

Really? You can't extend your understanding to see how some people might like things a bit different from you? Then yes, YABU.

I feel so sorry for the people afraid of burglars. No one would burgle up our street, the burglars would get mugged.

I wish I could! I always slept with the window open but now I'm in a ground floor apartment so they have to stay locked on air vent. Would have them fully open but they are huge windows, and easy to get in/out of

Why doesn't your friend install bug screens? Best of both worlds then!

I keep our bedroom windows open all day and into the evening to air the rooms, then when we take the dds to bed I shut them all.

During the night I keep the bedroom doors open enough to allow air from the rest of the house to circulate around the rooms.

It has to be bloody hot for me to have our windows open of a night and that is also for fear of 'things' getting in, ie,bugs.

Fresh air freak here as well.

Even in the middle of winter the back door is wide open

We live next to a fairly busy road so I've adapted to the windows being closed since we moved. The first few nights I left them open as I used to and got woken by the traffic far too early!

I keep my bedroom window open when its hot but have disturbed sleep because I seem to be surrounded by people who think nothing of leaving each others houses at 11 at night yelling their heads off. I keep the children's windows closed for this reason.

I have a really busy main road out the front and the entire avian population of west London (including the massively noisy parakeets on occasion) out the back. Our bedroom is in the loft so has windows at front and back of house. DP was woken once by an insistent tapping on the velux window, It was a bloody pigeon knocking on the window with his beak!

We slept with the windows open last night after having had a heated discussion over whether the windows should be very open or a bit open. DH was worried about bats flying in. I told him not to be stupid.

Woke at 1am to find a bat flying around the room. Win for DH.

I live in the highlands of Scotland. Summer falls on July the 23rd. It's winter for the other 364 days.

We still sleep with the windows open despite being woken early one morning by something moving at the foot of the bed.

I successfully ignored it for a few minutes until I felt it on my leg. Sat up to find a friggin' squirrel watching me!!

We locked eyes for a moment, I sideways nudged DP and hissed "THERE'S A SQUIRREL ON THE BED" before it did a comedy side-dive back out of the open window.

Funny thing is it returned a few days later and sat watching DP on his laptop!

...the conclusion of that tale is I need to sleep with the windows open, in spite of garden critters.

Too much noise to sleep with them open.

I do have a fan on 24/7/365 though.

I live in Sweden and we have our bederoom window open all year round. We went to stay at DP parents house last year, they live just below the arctic circle, it was -27 so we kept the window open, I woke up in the night shaking my little sister (7) because I was convinced we couldn't breath.

The rest of the holiday the window was open.

I think we will have to close the window this year as our first baby is due in December, I think the baby might freeze if we have the window open :(

I end up with huge bumble bees in my bedroom if i leave the window open, so I put up with melting instead.

we kept the window closed in -27