Can you sleep with the lights ON or OFF?

As for me I used to sleep with the light ON when I was single. I can sleep peacefully with the light ON, it does not bring any sight effect to me at all. If I was to off the light, I tell you, I could not fall asleep. But now I have married and my partner does not want to sleep with light ON! He trained me to sleep without light. After attempt to sleep with light off for a couple of weeks, I have get use of it. Now I can sleep easily with light OFF too. So both with light and without light do not bother my sleeping any more.

i don't like turn on the light and sleep,this can affect my sleeping and make me uncomfortable,this is my habit,i found that the light is very bright and i could not sleep evey well.

Hi careguaden, I'm sorry to know that you have to sleep with your cousin who has different sleeping habit. You are still fortunate that you all are sleep in a same room for sometimes only. I could fall asleep fast and easily only with all the light off. Sometimes if my husband still indulges in his reading in the bedroom, and feel really sleepy and want to sleep then. I would sleep with a small pillow covering on my eyes When he seeing this he would either stop reading or continue to read his book in the sitting room Happy posting

No, I cannot sleep with the lights on. I like to sleep when it is all the way dark and quite. I think there was the only time I turned on the lights when I went to bed, it was at the hotel room, my female friend was scared so we decided to turn on the lights for our "safety".

I can't sleep either of the two. I Can't sleep when the lights are so bright because it awakens my mind and it sress me. I can't also sleep when my room is so dark. To shy to admit but sometimes I'm afraid to see ghost. I love to sleep in my room with dim lights or a light coming from out side.

I don't think that's really the case. I have not seen a medical article about this, and i'm the type of person that falls asleep when i can! I have heard that yes you need to get 8 hours a sleep a night, however I have also read the you need as many hours as you can get before middnight because there has been a study on this and the average person gets the best quality sleep before the hours of midnight. A few things I have picked up! But i sleep with the lights on and off, depends if i fall asleep while they are on or if i turn them off before i crash!

I sleep the light off, since I dont want to have light on, I want to sleep very well thats why I want the light is off. Since sleeping with a light can bother us. We think that is another day and we can easily wake up not on time of waking up.

I just sleep with night lights on, I don't really like alot of light at night.

I cannot sleep with the lights on. Its too distracting and too bright. I can only sleep in total darkness, not even a little light must be on. Similarly, I can never sleep during the day time with all that brightness and the noises surrounding me.

light off of course..

When I was still younger, I could not sleep without the lights OFF because if the lights will be on, it feels like that the heat from the light would go straight to my face. But rather, I would just like the night lamp on, just because to see things around me. But now, I am a little bit older, I still like it the same when I was younger with regards to the lightning is concern. But what is just different is that my sleeping patterns and body clock have now been altered since that I am already working in a call center and I have the graveyard shift. So when I reach home, I always make sure that the environment in my room is really dark and there is no noise and that the room is really cool. But during the weekends (my days off), whether there is light or not, I could really fall asleep right away and even if there are lots of nice, I could still have a goodnight sleep.

if im extremely exhausted, Im sure i could sleep with the lights on - Don't think they would distract me even more, than a full moon in the window or music playing via the speakers. Although in a normal condition, I might have problems with falling asleep with a light on - therefore I always turn the lights off - turn off my external LCD screen and any other minor light source - but leave my laptop on, for the sound it makes... well, I find it a bit soothing.

Never...my brother plays all night with the computer and put the lights on till two...i cant get a good night sleep..

The only time I've ever slept with the lights on was when I was in the Bahama's and there were large cockroaches. They seemed to not like the light, so that was the way to get by. I sleep with some light normally, from the TV, and feel a little caged in when the room is absolutely pitch black.

i really cannot sleep with the lights on but have in the past when my son was an infant and was sick. it allowed me to make sure i could see him and that he was breathing. i do sleep with a night light on as i do not like it completely dark either. if i need to get up on the middle of the night i do not want to trip and fall so i like having that little bit of light on so i can see where i am going.

I prefer to sleep with the lights ON. I really couldn't sleep with the lights OFF. I usually imagine things that would only leave me scared the whole night. Switching the lights ON would keep me relax and I would sleep peacefully.

Helle careguarden!!! The same is the case with me. I can't sleep with the lights on. So that if I have to sleep with the one who can't sleep with the lights off, I will have a great problem. But now, I think I can also sleep with the lights on in some cases. For that I must not be the last one in the friends group trying to sleep. While in my room, I always make sure that the lights are off before I sleep. And about the cancer thing, I have not heard of that thing. I don't think that will really happen if you can sleep nicely with the lights on too. It is just the habit of how we have adopted. And again, its possible to change the habit with little practice... Happy mylotting...

Hello Careguarden; I sleep with the light in my bedroom on when I am sleeping alone. But when I have company then I can sleep with the light off. I heard about what you said before but I am not sure I believe that because I have always sleep with the light on when alone and I can sleep quite well and without interruption. Maybe I am used to it already.

I prefer to sleep with the lights on because I'm afraid of the dark. If I could sleep with the lights off I would, but I cannot. When I leave a light on it is usually the hall light. This leaves the room in semi darkness which I can handle. I have heard that sleeping with a light on next to your bed can interrupt your sleeping pattern, but long term sleep loss that can lead to cancer, I have not heard about.

I can't sleep with the lights on, not even a nightlight. I need perfect darkness. I too have heard about the damage that exposure to too much light at night can do. It blocks melatonin which is important to regulating our sleep cycle. Melatonin is suppose to be an anti-oxidant which might explain the increase risk of cancer when you suppress it. Long term sleep restiction is also associated with an increased cancer risk. I suffer from insomnia, so I hope there are other factors involved. If a person needs light to sleep, I think a night light would be a lot better choice. This allows you to be able to see and isn't as disruptive to the body. If you have to sleep with your cousin in the future, a sleep mask would be very helpful to block the light.