do you sleep with lights on or off?

Pakistan
December 8, 2009 11:10pm CST
since i was 7 years old i am sleeping alone in my room. i feel afraid when i got up at night because of dark so i started to sleep with lights turn on. i sleep with lights turn on and you?
8 responses
@sandymay16 (1617)
• Philippines
10 Dec 09
I always sleep with lights off. I have also slept with some fancy dim colored lights but just for a few nights and I did not get used to having lights on. I can also sleep with lights on if I am really tired. Then i slept with lights on for a few nights when my mom passed away. The this week I slept with lights on but i put some covering so it's not so glaring. Why? Because i am hurt, well my knee really hurts and it has a wound from a bad fall from a motorcycle. And I need the lights on because I need to get up to take medicines and I don't know if I get to bump my knee somewhere even if I have pillows around LOL
• Thailand
9 Dec 09
No, I advise not to sleep with the light on as from my friends experience, it is the cause of short eye sight. My friends eyesight was cut short to 800 and he said it was due to leaving the lights on, I don't have any scientific proof but I trsut that there must be something about it.
@lelin1123 (15594)
• Puerto Rico
9 Dec 09
For me the lights have to be turned off or I can't sleep. The darker the room the better. There have been on occasion when my granddaughter would sleep with me and I would have to have a night light on for her, thoses nights I would not sleep good at all. Total darkness is the best for me.
• India
9 Dec 09
I am sleeping with mom from my childhood,still i am ,i dont puton all lights just want dim light at my room.
• United States
9 Dec 09
I use to like sleeping with the lights on too when I was younger, usually because I was simply too lazy to get up from my warm bed to get the lights. Haha, it's really not just though. I use to be very scared of the dark too. I got very paranoid whenever it was nearly pitch black, and when I would sleep in the dark, I would hide myself under my blanket and maybe have a flashlight with me sometimes and try to get myself to go to sleep. Since I've grown up (and still am growing), I do okay in the dark, though every once in a while, I get scared again, but for the most part, I'm alright. I don't really sleep with the lights on anymore unless I fall alseep with it on and I don't notice. If I could though, without having to worry about electricity costs and such for leaving the lights on, I totally would just sleep with it on. I found that when I was younger and afraid of the dark, I always had a nightlight to keep me company. Sometimes I would just stare at it and I'd fall alseep. Maybe that will help you out? Maybe you can put a nightlight in every socket that you have in your room which will help to light up your room a little bit =D
• Malaysia
9 Dec 09
light off for me...
@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
9 Dec 09
Hi duaa! I just cannot sleep in a room with lights on. I also cannot sleep in complete darkness. I always keep a night bulb on, while sleeping. I think keeping the night bulb on with dim light helps you feel better and if you suddenly get awake, you can see things around you and can switch on the lights.
• Philippines
9 Dec 09
I sleep with the lights turned off since I was a child. Sometimes I fall asleep with the lights on, especially when I'm reading. But I really prefer sleeping without the lights, I seem to fall asleep easily when its really dark.