Does Anyone Sleep With The Door Shut/locked?

[Hashi]

People sleep with windows or balcony doors unlocked? Even open? Is this safe?

For me it has to be locked, locked, locked. Nothing I love more than locks. I can't understand the idea of leaving a window open while I'm sleeping - this applies to any window (people climb across roofs etc, after all, and now that security is so much better on ground floor/street level windows they target upper floors).

I do try to take things back to logic, not just my anxieties. Since I'm now in rented accommodation, I have new locks but don't know how many contractors had to borrow the keys before I moved in, and am not allowed to add extra locks of my own, my new best friend is a door jammer that I bought which stops someone getting in even if they keys. I can release it in csse of fire or whatever.

 

[anthony]

People sleep with windows or balcony doors unlocked? Even open? Is this safe?

Depends where you live...

Live in an apartment up x floors... who is really going to repel a building just on the hope your balcony door is unlocked? Country is country... small towns where everyone knows everyone, why bother locking doors.

 

[Justmehere]

mine door is closed but I used to have my bed up against a window. My dog sleeps on the bed. If I woke up at night and saw a plain wall, I would freak out. I needed to see an window - blinds up. It was because trauma happened in a room with no windows. For me, seeing a window means an escape is possible. It's not logical. Now my bed is away from the wall, in an apartment where the bedroom has a high window. I'm learning to be ok with sleeping away from the window.

 

[Gloww33]

I go into lock down mode, lots of triggers at night...locks on doors in room and closet. Have to fall a sleep to a night light which I turn off later.....night is a huge production for me. It is just my son and I and he is sleeping peacefully in the other room unaware of my terror I have at night. I notice I sleep with my hands covering my body, the same position I slept as a girl......so I wouldn't wake up to someone touching me, I would know and try to fight them back. My night starts when the quiet sets in, my life was never peaceful as a kid, so peaceful scares me. When quiet happened, bad things happened so I am triggered by it. I start by experiencing anxiety, it takes me an hour to prepare for bed. Then I wait up late until my body is so exhausted I need to fall a sleep because I am affraid of my nightmares. Sometimes I experience sleep paralysis which is the worst and of course night terrors. My parents drugged me a lot as a kid so I would sleep, in the day or night. I have this strange memory I am not sure if it is true or not or maybe a dream, that I was drugged and people were touching me, I woke up and my dress was lifted. As a kid, I often slept under my bed in terror.....I would also find very small spaces in the pantry to sleep and put boxes in front of me to hide myself. I know it is irrational and I am 100 percent safe....but it doesn't matter, I panic like it just happened.

 

[Barberian]

I actually sleep outside in the back of an old U-Haul 14' truck. The truck is in the front driveway. The back doors (entrance) are never locked The doors are always a little bit open for fresh air except if I'm expecting rain (most of winter). They don't seal so I don't have to worry about lack of oxygen. I sleep pretty light most of the time, and my service dog sleeps with me. If anybody or anything makes any noise near the back of the truck, my dog makes just enough noise and commotion to wake me up. I have various weapons and tools I can use as weapons if I need to.

 

[Here_Still]

Interesting dialogue happening here, and many points said well. I can empathize with pretty much all of you on one level or another. All be well.

I used to be able to sleep anywhere, on a sofa, behind a log, in a ditch, where ever and those were the good old days. Now, I have a difficult time sleeping confined in a small room, I need my open space. In my house, my home, in my community that I love to live in, I cannot sleep if any of the doors to the outside are unlocked, and I check them before I can relax enough to begin to fall asleep.

There are a few seasons here where I live that a few succinct things happen, that is the fall and spring. In each times the light changes, and right now in the fall it finally gets dark, so the hooligans come out at night to do crime and arson and so do the bears also come into town. In the spring the bears also wake up and will wonder in to town to find easy food. I find that I close the gate to the deck for any of these. If anything bumps in the night I stand to and sort it out, often going on a patrol. Hooligans will usually take off once they see several cameral flashes go off in their direction, and if it is a VW sized grizzly then people will know what got me!

I cannot go to sleep before my wife does nor my dogs. I usually end up sleeping out of the bedroom from my PTSD and any light snores that come from the other three. I also sleep either in the living room or a side room. Sometimes there is access to arms that are locked and stored properly, and usually it is just my headlamp. In ALL cases, I can never fall asleep with either of my feet under the covers, nor my wife draped on me.

It would be so nice to be able to switch off sometime.

 

[floating]

I'm the exact same. Usually wake up paralysed with fear.

 

[Karen12]

I need a cool, dark room to get any sleep. I keep the door closed and locked.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

I need to close my room door to sleep, but the lock is broken and doesn't work.

 

[bobbi]

I have to have door to bd rm closed even during the day when I'm just watching TV in there. My boyfriend doesn't understand why I have to close the bd rm door when its us but how can I make him understand if I don't?

 

[RussH]

Due to your past trauma, you need a place to feel safe, and closing the door and locking it gives you that sense of security.

 

[Ocean5]

Apartment living, but nothing more than a deadbolt. So I place chair with heavy box against apartment door. It's my warning system (even though I live in secure building with cameras at all entrances.)