To leave a light on all night?

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I think I probably am.......

Since I separated from my husband, I've got into the habit of leaving the bathroom light on. I have a 2.5 yrs old and baby, the baby is in my room. I have nightlights in both bedrooms but both bedrooms are really big and the nightlights not very bright. Leaving the bathroom light on means I don't have to switch any lights on to see what I'm doung/where I'm walking ifwhen I have to get up to the baby or go to the loo etc. I live rurally so there are no outside lights/streetlights at all. It's pitch black .

I thought it was fine but having mentioned it in conversation recently, a couple of people think itso really weird.

Also, the bathroom light pull makes a ridiculously noisy click in the night that has woken the baby up before.

I hate any kind of light on

I still do this and my DD is 8! When she was a toddler she didn’t like approaching the bathroom when it was dark and I thought it might hamper her becoming dry at night so it stayed on. And we still leave it on because we’ve all got used to it. As long as it’s not costing you an arm and a leg in electricity, what’s the harm?

No darkness bad for your health (look up the hormonal changes associated with not being exposed daily to complete darkness). My cousins' house was half-lit in every corner like this, I found it creepy & excessive (cousin is safety paranoid).

My house is full of light from gadets with tiny LED lights on them; even the laptop has a little glowing light I notice. My clock radio is too bright for my liking, for that matter (can turn down completely, thank goodness).

That said, you need to do what works for you to make life manageable.

We don't have a socket on our landing and have a battery operated led Xmas decoration, a little model reindeer left on all night. it's been there since Xmas 2016 with the same batteries guiding our way to the toilet! Totally. reasonable to leave a lift on.

I’ve got smarts lights and leave the landing light on at 5% brightness all night! Couldn’t have the house in total darkness.

My kids can't sleep with any lights on now either which is a problem when they go for sleep overs

I've always left a light on when living on my own, and we still do it now, even though no kids. The toilet is on the ground floor and we have 4 floors so there are a lot of stairs.
My mum and I think dp's mum used to do it too when we were little. I think mil still leaves the bathroom light on.

"We have a wall lamp at the top of our landing"

I really meant the wall at the top of the stairs, so it illuminates both our landing and stairs, which are carpetted dark green, so they need to be well lit. Don't want a midnight munchies craving teenager anyone stumbling down them at night.

My dc sleeps with a wall light on in her room. I can't stand any light coming into my room.

I've seen main light fittings where you flick the switch once and it's a low beam of red so you can see but dim enough not to disturb anyone, flick it a second time and it comes on normally.

It's a lindem one so obviously designed for the reason you keep a light on in your home.

Many yrs ago I used to sleep with hall light on without having any kids.

I don’t think it’s odd at all. I have a nightlight (children’s one) that I plug in sometimes. I live rurally in an old house with lots of beams and in nights I’m in the spare room (husband getting up at stupid o clock) I put the nightlight on as it seems so dark. I wouldn’t put a landing light on as I don’t want to keep DH awake. It just takes the ‘edge’ off total blackness..

"We don't have a socket on our landing and have a battery operated led Xmas decoration, a little model reindeer left on all night. it's been there since Xmas 2016"

YABVVU to still have a Christmas ornanent on display after Twelfth Night.

"Totally. reasonable to leave a lift on."

Maybe when DH get a bit old and decrepit.

We leave the bathroom light on so DD can find her way to the loo without getting scared. I remember my mum leaving the bathroom light on for me when I was little. I wouldn't do it just for me, but if there's a need for it I don't see a problem.

Lone parent here, cosy little terraced cottage, lovely neighbours just the right side of nosy never needed the light on, just DD(4) and me. UNTIL i read the bastarding latest creepy things woo thread here. Kitchen light on low but straightafter reading it was bathroom light for a good fortnight and i had to ration myself to the messages on thst thread, 5 a day, read by no later than noon

We don't have any kids, and we sleep with the landing light on. I am a sleep walker / talker, and after a particularly heavy week of nocturnal activities we found that leaving the light on seems to make me stop.

The only thing I can figure out is that when I get up and see the faint light I realise that I am in my room (and not wherever I am dreaming of) and go back to sleep.

Personally I wouldn't until it's necessary for DC to use the toilet during the night. Nor would I let my DC get in the habit of sleeping with a light on, don't see the need at all.

@applesandpears56 I hadn't thought of that. You might be right!

My mum left the hallway light on for me until I was about 18 when I moved out, I moved back in at age 23 briefly and she started leaving it on again for me.

It’s not weird at all I know plenty of adults who sleep with the tv/fairy lights on. It’s not for me, I like complete darkness but you’re not BU