I STILL can't sleep if the wardrobe doors are open - can you?

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DH thinks I am bonkers but all wardrobe doors much be shut

Why? he says

Monsters! I say

Not sure really, but I can't BEAR wardrobe doors being open.

Am I mad?

and can't look downstairs as I walk past the top of them to go to the loo in the dark in the night - ever since watching the crappy film "The Boogeyman" where someone glances down the stairs and sees the boogeyman standing there, in the time she takes to turn away and then look back quickly as she registers the thing - it is there, at the top of the stairs - in her face - aaarrrgghhhh!!!!

Wowzers, I'm a very strange. All wardrobe doors must be shut at night. But all other room doors must be OPEN!! I can't bear shut doors in case monsters are hiding BEHIND them. This is a bit difficult when people come to visit and I have to remember not to shower with the bathroom door open!! Trying to get into the habit of closing DD bedroom door at night, but when I go in to check on her I'm scared when opening the door in case monsters are stood behind it!! Aaaargh I'm weird!!!

I have to shut wardrobe doors too. I just thought this was normal and what everyone did!
Not sure I'd worry about monsters, but it jsut looks and feels wrong. Curtains must be all straight too. This is more about light getting in though.
FleeBee, you are odd...But funny! was there ever a time someone WAS behind a door? I remember my sister jumping out at me once. I was very cautious for weeks... .

Kerrymum, I don't have a light in my wardrobe..Should I get one?!!

No way....its impossible to sleep with teh wardrobe doors open.

Wardrobe doors must be shut for monsters, ensuite door must be shut for monsters, and the duvet must be tucked into the bottom of the bed in case a spider comes and crawls up under the duvet and up my leg.

Oh my god, this is so reassuring.

I must have doors and drawers shut, the curtains closed to not allow a chink of light in. Duvet must be properly tucked over my feet without draughts and pulled up around my neck - am struggling with this at the moment as I'm pregnant and really hot at night!

DH also throws his clothes at the foot of the bed - I can't bear it! I have to get up and take them off and put them on the chair otherwise I can just "feel" them near my feet!

I sound a bit insane

Absolutely not! DH is terrible for leaving wardrobe doors open and looking through the curtains last thing at night and not closing them property again! Main reason for closing the doors is to stop the cat getting in!

I also have to double check the doors are locked and computer switched off.

Absolutely agree. Wardrobe doors have to be firmly shut. A THING might come out. I also can't sleep without some sort of covering. If I'm wearing a nightie, I can kick the covers off but if I'm naked, I have to have a sheet over me. Can't possibly sleep naked and uncovered.

Your not mad, all doors have to be shut in order to sleep, including wardrobes. Suprised your dh does not know this. tut.

If you leave teh wardrobe door open the devil will steal your soul. That's what my big sister told me once anyway. It's no wonder we are all barking mad!

She also told me that if you write your name in a bible you will go to hell . Hmmmmm - maybe she was a bit jealous of her little sis

Oh yes! Wardrobe doors must be shut and I can't sleep on the window side of the bed. I have to sleep on the door side without question. That's completely normal too.

I'm with Mummydott...also drawers can't have things hanging out and must be closed properly.

Also will not buy VERY nice barn conversion as means sleeping downstairs....dh not happy.

Don't have a wardrobe, but I must have my feet covered up - I can't bear the feeling that a big monster hand is about to grab them.

It's so stupid though - because what self-respecting big monster hand would be foiled by a duvet?

You're all nutters.

BUT

you do need to make sure the duvet's over your feet ... or the AXEman will get you

Snow leopard that's so true! I have to pull the duvet up around my neck so that the monsters can't pull it down- but it'd have to be a pretty weedy monster to be foiled by that!

No - I'm the same!

To the OP. If you're mad, I'm mad too. I have to get out of bed to close any open doors/drawers and also turn off the ensuite light, if it's on. I used to sleepwalk when I was young and my sister frequently had to prevent me from climbing into cupboards in the middle of the night. I also quite often dream that I open a cupboard door and find a whole new room behind it. Yup, I'm mad.....

I can sleep with the curtains open, but if they're closed they must be tight shut with no cracks for peeking Toms. I also have to have a book and a stand-by book beside the bed plus a glass of water.

I can't sleep either open wardrode doors just make the room look messy.

Yes I can.

But DH has to be nearest to the door when he goes to bed to keep an eye out for cybermen.