To sleep with the windows open?

[SunSunGoAwayButNotCompletelyPlease]

All the bedrooms are on the first floor and it's gets really hot and stuffy if we don't open the windows wide. It always makes me a bit uncomfortable though.

What do other people do?

When you say first floor, do you mean downstairs @SunSunGoAwayButNotCompletelyPlease ?

Me too. I cant sleep with my window closed

I'm adding 'can't sleep with the windows open in case a bat flies in and then bites me while I try to shoo it out and then I get rabies' to my list of most insane, scaremongery ever.

Also features, don't leave your 12 year old at home incase the windows explode or a cactus falls on them.

If you have your windows closed then your fan is just blowing around warm air. You need the window open for the fan to push the warm air back outside.

Same. Can't bear it closed.

What's the AIBU? Of course sleep with windows open in this heat

I've no idea what the issue is with sleeping with your windows open? Maybe an increased risk of insects or someone accessing your house via the window but I choose not to worry about this stuff and wouldn't give it a second thought.

Take the risk OP, don't live in fear if every tiny risk.

We live in ground floor. We always sleep with window open...but we do live in a quiet area in a small town. Not sure l would have done when l lived in London on a main road

My window is open 365 days, obvs wider in the summer months

i also have a fan going at the moment

Ground floor apartment so no, windows closed, and I'm melting!

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We have these ones on a window in each bedroom. They are easy to cut to size and put on, but aren't perfect, when you take them off you are left with the brown magnetic strip showing, so we just leave them on all the time. When we get around to replacing our double glazing I am going to invest in some proper screens.

Living in the countryside isn't quiet. We have owls hooting, deer barking, foxes screaming. Homeward teenagers from a pub lock-in at 2am.

Next door's cockerel gets started at 4am.🥱

Windows open here, April to November, and just learn to sleep through most noises.

I'm in a ground floor flat( in a quiet area) and my windows are open whenever I'm in( obviously not as wide open in winter)
There are screens you can buy to put across windows if that would help

I'm American and we all have screens in our windows. I've never understood why Europeans don't. There was a thread here recently where a neighbor's cat was coming in someone's door. It blew my mind because the answer seems so obvious. Just screen it. We have screen doors, too.

No way! Didn't know that.

There are bats flitting about here, if one enters, I won't be picking it up.

@CC4712 Is it Rabies like what one gets in Indian subcontinent?
That is truly terrifying.

Aerophobia, throat spams, thick ropy saliva, delirium- It looks an horrendous disease with patients of all ages literally tied down to beds until they die.

For the record, if a bat flies into your room, open all the windows wide, turn out the lights, and leave the room, closing the door. The bat will find it's own way out pretty quickly. You don't need to pick it up or try to catch it.,

We had a bat enter through a wide open window, it peed everywhere upstairs until the local bat expert came an hour later to gently remove it!

@SunSunGoAwayButNotCompletelyPlease you can buy adjustable friction door fixings, which will hold the window open at your desired width so you could have it open but not big enough for anyone to fit through? I bought them for my patio doors so I could open them during the summer without worrying about the wind catching them and the DCs getting their fingers caught.

Our bedroom window is open a crack at night year round. Others are shut.

Live on the coast in the UK, window open 80% plus all year round. Close it when it is absolutely freezing cold or there are winter storms. We get noise (cars mainly) on the coastal road fairly quiet between 2-6am, occasional piss-heads going past, and sea birds (normally 4am-7am) but you get used to it. Always prefer to sleep in the fresh air. Always sleep better, find it a bit odd when there is no noise.

I’d never sleep with my windows open. But then having watched the night stalker documentary where he said he targeted homes in the summer who had their windows open, that’s enough to frighten me into not. And when it’s hot out you let the heat in. But then we have had ac machines the past 5 years.

DH has to have the window open when it’s hot. I’d happily sleep with it closed as I just don’t settle the same when it’s open.

I moved to the US and I will never live in a house without screens again. All the benefits of open doors/windows without the nuisance of the outdoors making its way inside.

Always slept with the window open living in London - on Seven Sisters Road, with 24/7 traffic fumes wafting up from below. Now I live in the middle of nowhere, with no crime or criminals, but have to keep the window shut because of the hornets nesting in the thatch!