# Do you prefer the drapes open or closed at night? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-the-drapes-open-or-closed-at-night/624199 "2012-06-05T21:29:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-the-drapes-open-or-closed-at-night/624199/61 "2012-06-08T12:20:11Z")
My blinds are closed all the time. I live on the first floor and privacy outweighs any other concern. If I had reverse blinds that raised instead of lowered and could block the bottom half of the window while letting light in through the top half, I might leave them that way. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-the-drapes-open-or-closed-at-night/624199/62 "2012-06-09T02:29:56Z")
> [@BetsQ](#): > > For those of you who like to keep everything sealed up, do you run the furnace/AC year round? There are a couple of weeks in the spring and also a few in the fall when we don’t have to run the HVAC. I have had to run the AC as early as April and as late as December. Regarding sunlight: Our blinds are sort of translucent, so there is still light coming into the house. But I don’t think I require as much sunlight as some folks, I’d be fine living in a cave. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-the-drapes-open-or-closed-at-night/624199/63 "2012-06-09T02:32:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > _But_, it is easier to wake up to a slowly brightening room. 🙂 You probably think I’m crazy, but it makes me grumpy if I’m awakened by too much sunlight. I do much better waking up in darkness or semi-light. You know how some people throw back the curtain and say “Wake Up!!” ? I hate that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-the-drapes-open-or-closed-at-night/624199/64 "2012-06-09T03:33:39Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > You probably think I’m crazy, but it makes me grumpy if I’m awakened by too much sunlight. I do much better waking up in darkness or semi-light. > > You know how some people throw back the curtain and say “Wake Up!!” ? I hate that. 😛 GAH!!! Hssssss - the evil daystar, it burnsssssss 😛 I go out for sunlight for about 10 minutes a day - drinking my morning cuppa and watching the chooks works for me.😃 I do better in the dark - I would have no issue with one of those sleep studies where they shut you in a cave with whatever and wait to see what your circadian cycle does. I pretty much guarantee I would drive them nuts. Give me all the reading material I want, 3 hots and a cot and I would do a funky 2 or 3 hours sleep, up for about 6 or 7 hours, sleep, up, sleep ad nauseum. mrAru spent 20 years in the Navy alternating sub service and shore duty, he is good with small dark places:D He gets sort of twitchy if there is too much outside around. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-the-drapes-open-or-closed-at-night/624199/65 "2012-06-09T04:46:06Z")
I try to be nice about it. When people chirp “Good morning!” I say it back as nicely as I can, while that voice in my head says “What’s so damn good about it!?!?” 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-the-drapes-open-or-closed-at-night/624199.md?page=3)