To not understand how people sleep with the window shut?

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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?!

I live in the north of Scotland, so not usually a problem but even I have had my bedroom window open this week. She must be absolutely baking if she keeps it closed in this weather.

I remember Liz Hurley saying her grandmother always insisted that everyone slept with the windows open as otherwise they'd waking up "looking like a German"...
(I'm expecting to be offered a few s on QE III's behalf, but I still like her gran's imagery. )

My son has his open as hes at the back of the hosue but unfortunately I cant have mine open as our house is in between a pub and a dodgy estate so you tend to get some pissed up randoms walking home coming out with language that would make you hair curl

I live in a ground floor flat right by a very busy road, so keep the windows shut.

It's just too noisy to have them open. Even with them shut, I hear a fair bit of traffic and drunk people shouting at each other, with them open it is much worse.

When I visit england I struggle because I haven't been in central heating for years. Nothing, however, would compel me to open a window and risk daddy long legs or shed spiders. yuck

YABU
We sleep with the windows shut because we're next to a very busy road and there are idiots roaring up it all through the night (DS wakes me up several times a night so I often hear the traffic).

It was 28° in our bedrooms last night. DS slept in a vest and DH and I slept in short pyjamas. We all slept well apart from the usual being woken up by DS in the night

I can't open windows because I'm terrified of moths, and if I get bitten by a mozzie I react very badly. I do however have a fan on full right next to the side of my bed 24/7 which I need fir the noise aswell as the air.

I sleep with my window open all year round, whatever the weather.

I can't abide sleeping with the window closed. I like the windows open in the other bedrooms too, and the bedroom doors open so that there is a nice breeze through the upstairs of the house. I also like to sleep with the curtains open unless it's really really cold.

One of my greatest pleasures is waking up warm and cosy in my lovely goosedown duvet with the window wide open and the room all crisp and fresh. I love it... until I actually have to get out of bed and do a mad dash to put my dressing gown before I freeze to death!

Mind you, we do live in the back end of nowhere, hence burglars aren't really an issue, and countryside noises don't seem to disturb me.

Closed or open but on a catch so it's open just a crack but no-one can open it further if I'm feeling brave or really, really warm.

I'm just worried that someone will climb in through an open window and onto my bed as this has already happened to me once...luckily it was one of my housemates friends, nicknamed Spiderman because he never uses the sodding doors but scared the hell out of me all the same.

Can I totally derail the thread and ask - why don't you have insect screens in the UK??????

I grew up in the US and we had screens that got fitted into the window frames every spring. Then you could have the windows wide open and nothing could get in. Well, not insects, anyway, obviously burglars etc wouldn't be fazed.

But seriously, I have never seen these anywhere. Why not?

Insects are few and far between here in inner city Brum. A few snakes in the grass though.

I always sleep with the windows shut as DD has one of those suction black out blinds. Also live near the blackwall tunnel so would be woken up by traffic noise. In the hot weather I always have the fan on and in all weather have the windows open in the day to air the house.

a burgler climbed into our house through a very securely locked tiny window when I was growing up.

i feel uneasy with the window open but we have had it open for the past couple of nights otherwise we would expire.

This is one of the most fundamental issues at the heart of whether a relationship works or not. I think all people preparing for marriage should be asked that question very seriously by the vicar or whomever.
If I were a relationship counsellor and a couple came to me and one was a window-opener and the other a window-closeder, I would put on a very serious face and start talking gently about how to negotiate a break-up as calmly and respectfully as possible.

(don't worry I am not and never will be a relationship counsellor)

Ours is closed atm as we have the outside blind down.

If we had an insect net it yould be open.

If we sleep with the windows open we get woken early? Whay would we do that? Why are you surprised that some people prefer to do things differently to you?

Mind you I am v. lucky to gave a guest room in our basement, so if it gets too warm, I can go to my other room in the lovely cool downstairs. Dh otoh always stays up in the bedroom, windows shut, come what may.

We have two opening casements in our bedroom. Normally we only open the one furthest from the head of the bed, to an extent dependent on the weather, but always a generous crack, even in the depth of winter. If we don't, we can guarantee to wake up with headaches, stuffy noses etc. This week, however, both have been open as wide as they can go, and we have reduced our covering (normally 4.5 tog quilt except in the depth of winter) to a single flat sheet, which spends much of the night pushed down to our nether regions or beyond.

Light sheet and no clothes.

I'd prefer to have them at least on the latch if not open - but neighbors are having loud booming music on at minute till late or early starts with motor bikes revered or other neighbor car door slammed again and again .

Cold shower/bath before bed helps as does having all windows open in effort to get a through breeze before bedtime and curtains closed definitely in south facing back of house but also helps if all are closed so sun light not heating rooms as much.

Actually last house - neighbor was broken into by a bugler stacking wheelie bins and then climbing up to an open first floor window.

So I would prefer latched and locked windows at back where we have a roof they can climb up and small open windows at front of house - but the neighbors scupper that for us.

I slept with the window open last night but got woken up by cats, the fuckers across the road and their incessant need to yell in the street at 2am, boy racers, the other fuckers across the road and their habit of setting their car alarm off as they head out at 6am (maybe they just steal a different car every morning?) and then, just as I got back to sleep for the last precious minutes before DH's alarm went off, the bin men arrived.

I have been surprisingly pleasant today, apart from giving the neighbours the evils.

The window stays shut tonight, even if it's like a sauna in there.

Here (Canada) houses usually have bug screens over every window. Fantastic inventions. I can't sleep upstairs in summer or autumn without the windows open, homes are so well-insulated here that they're massive heat traps upstairs.

I usually sleep in the basement in the hottest months, that's as good as an open window, and quieter.

DH is like a vampire, he has to be shut in a perfectly dark and quiet room in order to sleep, so in summer we're usually in separate beds. i honestly don't know how he does it, heat's the one thing that keeps me from sleeping.

Self adhesive velcro is your friend! You stick the spiky strip onto the window frame, and then stick on some dress net, or muslin. Windows open, bugs out!
Its lovely, and I always feel like ive outwitted nature!

I have the window open even in winter I need air.

DD hates her window open at night.

DH likes the window open if it is warm, and I prefer the breeze. However I do tend to wake up sniffling and with sore eyes/throat and in need of extra hayfever meds as a result.