Does Anyone Sleep With The Door Shut/locked?

[contaminated]

I physically cannot sleep with the door open. It scares me too much. If I hear it open (even quietly) I wake right up.
Does anyone have the same problem or even the opposite?

 

[SwordsPandaGirl]

I have the same problem. I cant sleep if the door is open, it scares me. I also can't sleep if my room is pitch dark, I need enough light to be able to see my surroundings.

 

[mrsps]

I prefer to have the door open. Don't like it when we have people staying and have to close the door

 

[digger]

I have to have the door slightly open, so light can come through from the hall and so that I can hear anything, but I cannot have it wide open, any more than I can have it tightly shut! It has to be just the right amount. I can't have the window open in my room overnight at all. I also need the room light enough to be able to instantly see where I am whenever I wake up.

 

[StellaBlue]

I would love to shut and lock the door, but kids, cats and dogs make that an impossibility.

Oddly, I can't have any of my limbs hanging over the side of the bed...

 

[desiderata310]

The door to my room stays shut. Peroid. If it isn't I don't sleep. I can deal with the window being open. I can deal with the door to the balcony being open but not the door to the hall or the door to the closet.

 

[JEKBreatheandBelieve]

I am like @digger - the door must be open the right amount. I can't even see my door at my new house because there's a hallway into the bedroom, but I still must make sure it is open the right amount. We leave the night light in the other bathroom on for my son, but secretly, I like having my door open so I can see the light from the nightlight, too.

 

[RussH]

A book I read, fiction, where the main character had been traumatized and has PTSD, not only had to have the door closed, but had two dead bolt locks as well.

 

[Orglethorp]

I haven't been able to sleep with the door open since I was a child, but I only feel compelled to lock the bedroom door when I don't trust someone else in the house. Last year one of my roommates was a sleepwalker and ended up in my room in the middle of the night when we were the only ones home over a long weekend, and I couldn't sleep without locking the door for an entire semester after that. Right now, on the other hand, there's just two of us in the house for the summer and I trust the other completely, so I don't both with the lock.

 

[shell]

I was sleeping with the door closed and locked, my T worked to help me break the habit. He said that I was reinforcing my fear of being attacked in my own house, and had the expectation that the attack would occur while I was asleep and by someone who lived me. It took me a while to get past my fear, and I can now see the logic behind not giving into that fear, I sleep so much better now.

 

[Jezanna]

Door always closed. Not locked only because I have kids. 7 dogs in my room for sentry duty. Never do I let my arms and legs hang over the edge of bed. Even in daylight. I Will have gauranteed nightmares in the dark. So a low watt lamp is a must. Which I hate. All downstairs windows locked and sliding doors have a metal bar wedging them shut for added security. If I had my way all windows would have alarms to which husband replies "you are too paranoid" no ones comeing in here with 7 watch dogs. Still I'm terrified to fall asleep at night.

 

[Friday]

Opposite, here. Wide open.

I'll close it for sex, privacy, etc.. However, to sleep I really need it open.

I also sleep with weapons in reach. Not firearms, my house is broken into too often, so it would be very easy to make a catastrophic failure of judgement whilst half awake (firearms are locked away /useless for home defense). But whether it's a maglite (a heavy composite steel flashlight about 18" long and 2" across, like a weighted pipe), lamp, bat, etc.? There is always something within reach. I used to keep bear mace in convenient places, as a less lethal alternative, but since my son has asthma it's too dangerous to keep -much less use- in the house.

I'm not overly fond of doors. All the interior doors have been removed saved the bedroom doors and bathroom door.