When sleeping, door open or closed?
When sleeping, door open or closed?
Do, you sleep with your bedroom door open or closed and why?
Closed, to keep the monsters out.
Closed, to keep the monsters in…
Ditto
What if they are already in and now they can't escape!
Closed. This can be lifesaving in case of a fire.
This right here. As a firefighter I’ve seen it. Also nowadays if the door is open I can’t sleep…I just keep opening my eyes and seeing that open door…
Alright, so here's the deal.
I don't like the setup of my house, but it is what it is. My kids room door is at a 90 degree angle to ours. I've always wanted to install and practice an escape since we're on the second floor, but my ex wife had a problem with that (go figure). When I manage to get her out of my house, how do I go about retraining my kid with this? He absolutely refuses to sleep with the door shut, even with one of us in the room, and if he wakes up with it shut, it's bloody murder.
Her logic (that'd I have been overridden on) is that I am literally 4 steps away from his bed in an emergency, and I could leap in, close the door and escape through that window. Mind you I'm
207227(edit, she cheated on me again and I caught her on 06/05, probably caused the weight gain) lbs and deathly afraid of fire.What I want to do is install one of the fire escape ladders that rolled through the window and practice going down that with my kid before working on getting him to close the door at night.
Is there an order I should do these things? Like door first, then escape? Or escape first, then door?
Door open. My kitty sleeps in bed with me and she likes to come and go in the night, she'd wake me up if the door was closed!
Yep, I had a cat that would paw on the door if it wasn't open. I decided to see how long he'd stick with it. My sanity broke at 2 hours. He won and it was open from that night forward.
I put dog doors on most of my doors because of my cat, otherwise she'd just sit at it meowing until it was opened.
Same. Otherwise I’d have the door closed.
Closed because many years ago a firefighter gave a fire safety talk at our elementary school. He told us to keep the door closed at night since it can give you an extra 30 minutes to escape in a fire. For some reason this advice stuck with me...
Closed, got to keep separation from the pets so I can sleep peacefully. Don't need a cat purrkoring off my face at 3 am.
Lol @ purrkoring
Open, because cat
I feel exposed if it's swung all the way open though. I just leave it ajar for the kitty.
Closed, because cat
Shrödinger was really on to something
Likewise, if my door was closed the kitties would scratch from the outside and make a nuisance of themselves.
Gotta train them that doing that doesn't get them the outcome they want. I make it a policy with my cats that if they wake me up, they get yeeted to the basement.
When they were new, that meant picking them up and carrying them to the laundry room and closing the door. It evolved to me simply carrying them to the top of the stairs and setting them on the top step, and now all I have to do is open the door when they scratch or yowl and they scatter. It took a while, but now they only bother me at night when there's another cat in the yard and they want to get to my window to look out.
This is one advanced cat managing to post on social media.
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Open, to let my stupid cat out otherwise he cries.
(I love him)
This. Please give your cat kisses for me.
Closed. Even a simple hollow core door can offer 30 minutes or more of protection from smoke and indirect fire. More time for alarms to go off and get to safety.
Fire protection 101. Closed bedroom doors, interconnected smoke alarms so when one goes off they all go off, and at least two exits per room.
We have fire ladders in the upstairs rooms and, most importantly, we've done drills so we know how to use them.
we've done drills so we know how to use them.
Had a house fire in '88. You're a fucking hero on that with actually practicing. We were dumb but super lucky as we just lost everything and noone.
Hmm, I never considered that. If you have working alarms does this still make a difference?
Sometimes, a perfectly terrible fire (in a perfectly unlucky layout of a house) could emit toxic gases / smoke in sufficient quantities to impair you, potentially to the point of not being able to react to the alarm. At that point you may not escape.
Closed. Open is a fire hazard.
Is that true?
It sure is; here's a video demonstrating the effectiveness. Shutting your door can mean the difference between life and death. I encourage anyone to watch or re-watch this, just to hammer it home.
Unfortunately, my cats can't deal with shut doors, so if there's ever a fire in my apartment, at least we'll all go together 🙃
Using thermal imaging cameras, researchers found that closed-door rooms on both floors during the fire’s spread had average temperatures of less than 100 degrees Fahrenheit versus 1000+ degrees in the open-door rooms. “You could see a markable difference that a person could be alive in a room with a closed door much longer,” says Kerber.
Gas concentrations were markedly different as well. The open-door bedroom measured an extremely toxic 10,000 PPM CO (parts per million of Carbon Monoxide), while the closed had approximately 100 PPM CO.
Given that my bedroom windows only open a crack and the balcony to escape down is in the living room, that wouldn't help me regardless.
In that case, keeping the doors and windows shut will give you the best chance of survival, because there will be less oxygen flow and thus a slower burn.
You’ll need to call in a fire emergency, lie low on the ground, and try to use a rag/shirt/towel to filter some of the smoke while you wait to be rescued. You still might die, but at least this way you have a chance.
Closed. If there's a fire in the other parts of your house, you'll have more time to be alerted and escape.
Closed. Damn cat. She's not looking to snuggle into bed. She wants to wake you up. Why? Who knows.
Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow.
Mine screams outside the door if I close it.
Same but I still don't let him in. Dude has no chill, he would knock all my shit to the floor if he had unsupervised access to my room.
We close our door but cut a hole in it for the cats to get through.
open so cats can walk freely
Indeed. It is not us that sleep with the door open. It's the cats' choice.
Why does no one cut a cat-flap in their bedroom door?
nods I used to sleep with the door shut and locked, and the home alarm on whenever I was out. That's no longer true ever since the queen demanded that I do neither.
I'm the opposite. I like it when the cat curls up on my feet, but I'm not a fan of just letting them stalk through the house and jump around freely when I'm trying to flipping sleep.
They can't not do that, so they get shut out. And I taught them early on that if they yowl and scratch at the door on the middle of the night, they're just gonna get launched down the stairs.
Cats only get to be the boss if you let them. They absolutely can be trained to not be total tyrants.
My people
Open, so that the air that gets pumped into my room can tell the Mr. Thermostat in the hall that it's actually fine in there and they don't need to call Mr. Furnace or Mrs. A/C.
CLOSE YOUR DOORS. Closed doors give you a much better chance of survival if your house catches on fire.
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Open. I have dogs and cats. I wouldn't get a second of sleep if i locked either dogs or cats out of the bedroom
Closed for AC, but open a crack to let the clingy cat in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out.
Closed unless it's too hot in my room. Feels uncomfortable leaving my door open. It'll let me hear killers coming
closed. Don't want to see no ghosts up for a midnight stroll through my halls.
Open, because my cat sleeps on my bed/floor
Open so my cats don’t kill me.
Always closed. Gives me a fighting chance against the nocturnal intruders ya know?
Like fires.
Closed. I have an 18 year old who has been working the closing shift a lot this summer. I don't want to be woken.
If my door is closed my kitty cat will constantly remind me of that
Not fully closed, so the cat it's less annoying through all the night.
Closed because I am a mammal and I indulge in the nesting instinct.
closed door because roomates, but open balcony door for maximum fresh air and feels of nature.
Closed, safer when fire
Open a crack so the cat doesn't wake me up at 4am.
Closed. The missus and I can be... active at times, and we have nocturnal teenagers.
Open to get some air exchange
Closed as I don't really want my roommates to check in on me sleeping
Door closed, but windows open and fan on
Open, because kids.
Closed because kids
I would have thought that would be a reason to keep it closed!
I lock my kids away in the cupboard under the stairs.
If I can't hear them being quiet when they should be and noisy when they should be, my primitive unconscious mind pokes the conscious part to check. And now we have a young dog added to that roster. Ah, motherhood.
Closed almost all the way, but not shut. Need that air circulation otherwise the room gets too hot
Closed, I already have scars from our cat's mad night escapades.
I prefer open, but I got a cat a few months ago that won’t leave me alone if I leave it open. So, closed.
they dont constantly scratch the door and meow?
Nope.
But I got lucky with a really chill cat. Like, ‘doesn’t mind having his claws trimmed’ chill.
Always fully open! More airflow, less stuffiness. Having said that, we don’t share a home with anyone else.
Bed room door closed, but usually not locked. 8 sentry turrets have the outer perimeter of the house secured. /s
I removed the door from the bedroom, so 'open', I guess.
closed except cat so always open now :(
Closed. Otherwise dog sneaks in, climbs up on the bed and falls asleep. The he slowly but surely takes over the whole bed.
Greatly prefer it closed, but leave it cracked for the kitty.
Open, because I have a split AC in the living room of my bungalow and the bedrooms get warm even with the doors open. Also the dog and cat would never allow a closed door, and they rule this roost.
Prefer closed, but like many others here, the cat doesn’t allow for that without making her opinion VERY well known.
We have a saying in our house... "ghosts" that means close the door we are going to sleep and don't want to let the ghosts in. Closed. Always closed.
Sleeping in the house's veranda, so no doors 😶🌫️
But how do you get into the house?
Closed. I prefer my door closed for privacy reasons, so why would I keep it open when I sleep?
Closed and locked. (Trauma likely)
Open. I live alone and I have a cat that comes and goes throughout the night. Having the door opened allows me to hear anything that should not be going on in the house.
Unless the burglar knows to close your door...
Door closed, window open.
But then the night air will get in.
That sweet, cool night air.
And the miasmas!
Closed, i don't like mosquitoes.
Sleeping with the door open should be a crime
Closed, air-conditioning is expensive. When me and my wife travel to colder areas we do tend to sleep with doors open though but it highly depends on the house itself. There has to be a certain vibe or fenshui so to speak where open door feels pleasant and not this uncertainty.
All depends on whether you live with other people or not. If others can be in the house making noise then door closed. If you live alone then it doesn’t matter.
Open for air circulation. My fiancee and I live in a too-small, old apartment which, naturally, has trash airflow. Getting the AC to decently reach the bedroom requires multiple fans.
I live on my own so all the doors in the flat are open all the time, even the bathroom ones.
Usually closed because I like to be naked, but I would prefer it open for the pets to come and go as they please.
Open because pets
Came here to say the same. Used to be closed then I got a cat and now I can't imagine waking up without her napping on me
Closed, keeps the dogs in so they don't leave us a surprise.
Both, because I'm lazy. Whatever the door is at is how it will stay.
I am staying in a men's hostel. Cheaper that way as I am single. It is so hot here during summer. So we keep the door open at night. Three of us are there in the room. Everyone is ok with that.
Depends on the outside temperature.
If it's warm outside, all my flat's windows are open and for better airflow I leave all doors open, too.
If it's cold outside, everything is closed to retain the heat in my bedroom.
When sleeping, me close door
Closed. My housemate's cats sometimes pounce onto my bed and wake me up.
The closed door also dampens outside noise.
20lb ragdoll cat who makes all-feet dough on your chest while you're ostensibly sleeping but now awake gasping for air despite the positional asphyxia. I feel ya.
10/10 still all good though, because #ragdoll
Closed and locked. Open doors in the dark are creepy. Besides I want some privacy for certain "tasks".
I keep mine closed but not latched so the dogs can open it in the morning otherwise they sit outside and scratch and wake us up.
You could train them to stop that.
Closed because I’m afraid of the dark most times. My cats don’t care they run around the living room. Dog sleeps with me on the floor at the bed to protect me.
Open - just me and my husband here and it keeps the room cooler.
Thanks for sharing dicksinabag
Closed. Like to keep my room temperature like 10°C lower the rest of the house during the night
Window open, door closed; window closed, door open. I do what I can to prevent unnecessary door slamming in the night caused by a draft from the window
Cracked open so we can hear across the house to our kids room (also cracked open)… baby gates in front of both rooms to prevent the cats from disturbing our sleep lol
Also our gate to prevent the kids from barging in during the middle of the night
Open both for airflow and because we have animals that do not like to be restricted.
I want it closed, but the dog wants it open and his litter box is in the hallway. So, open it is.
Open but I live alone in a small 1 bedroom apartment. Mostly so I can shuffle to the bathroom in the night if needed without needing to open the door
Open. The decline of the political climate in this country since 2001 has made me fear for my safety since I was in middle school, so keeping the door open helps satisfy that part of my brain that's always in threat detection mode by allowing me to hear everything in the house from my bed.
Plus, I live alone. So pretty much every door is open all the time.
that part of my brain that's always in threat detection mode
Life hack: third floor in a concrete building.
- no one's coming in
- 4 fob doors to get to me
- it ain't burning
- better air above the trees
- centralized heating often includes cooling (old-ass jersey-style radiators are the bomb)
Open, so I can see and hear out.
closed
Open when I was at my house. Closed as I'm renting an apartment now with several flatmates.
Open in summer, for ventilation. In winter it stays closed to let the bedroom be chilly, without affecting the rest of the place.
Don't have a door but a stair. Don't need a door cause I'm the king of the castle
Open, lets the air circulate better
I don't have a door
Closed, because I don't wanna be snuck on.
Open to keep the Monsters out, closed to keep the Monsters in.
Depends, if it's hot enough to need the AC, door closed. If not, door open so I can open the window and get some airflow.
open, I need the connection to the rest of the world.
Open. I want to hear if anything happens in my house.
Door open if it's hot, usually with the fan pointing out the door. If it's REALLY hot, fan directly on me.
Closed in the winter, Open most of the summer so that the whole house fan can pull air in and through the bedroom cooling things down.
Fire vs CO2 buildup. I guess door closed, window open could be the way?
Door closed, all the time. In case a cat gets in. But I’ve always slept with the door shut, in case monsters get in.
I keep mine slightly open and make sure there is a window open in my room and in another room to create a breeze
Open but these fire comments have me reevaluating
That's why you have fire detectors in every room.
Open because of the damn cat. We love her though.
Closed...because of the damn cats. I guess I like them though.
Your cats allow this?!?
Door half open so the cats can walk back and forth, but not so much that it’s too light in the morning.
Open. If my kids need help and call out in the middle of the night, I would like to hear them!
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Ajar
I prefer closed, but since our cat moved in, the door has been left ajar.
Winter: Closed. It can get to -25C where I live, and I need to sleep with the window open. I don't want the rest of my house ruined with the door open.
Summer: depends on the heat. If OK, closed. If too hot, door ajar
do you have your window open when the outside temperature is in the negatives?
closed unless it's hot. closed gives me privacy and quiet and makes it darker, but if it's too hot having it open gives me better airflow.
Closed cause I don't want to deal with people walking around late at night with lights on or the cats waking me up.
Closed, because of cats.
Oh and also for fire safety, I guess.
Door open, windows covered. Allows the pets in and out and keeps my anxiety of people looking into my room on the low. Bonus for black-out curtains
Closed. The only door I have is the door to the house floor, sooo..
Well, I have the bathroom door which I always leave open for ventilation reasons, but well.
Closed. Privacy ftw
Open for ventilation and to hear a potentially screaming kid.
Closed, it keeps the A/C in and other house noises out. It's also safer in the event of a fire or if someone breaks in.
Open slightly so I can let air flow my room from the window
my door doesn't close fully, so I close it all but the crack that is forced. I do this because people in the house are up and down constantly, and my sleep schedule would bd interrupted if I left it open.
Gotta have it open, it gets way too hot in the room otherwise (classic trailer heat/cold problems). Luckily my 2 dogs would wake me for any issues and we live a little ways from civilization so there are very few nights that the wife and I worry
Open, doggo likes to do perimeter checks throughout the night
Open straight into the hallway so my neighbors could walk in if they wanted to
Closed because I sleep in a trailer and if I had the door open a cougar would come in and tear out my throat and devour me.
Closed, I'm 2nd shift so my wakeup time is late enough I have to block all sunlight.