# Do you sleep with the bedroom door open or closed? (Canadians especially) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 12, 2004, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147 "2004-01-12T08:31:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Akaadji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@Akaadji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaadji)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/21 "2004-01-12T23:19:58Z")
I sleep with it open, and I’m Canadian. I usually have the door to whatever room I’m in closed to get some privacy, but if I’m going to sleep, I haave to have it open, or it’ll bother me. I’m not sure why, though… ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/22 "2004-01-12T23:31:39Z")
Canadian here. Live alone, always have bedroom door open, unless there are visitors to the apartment; then it is closed to hide the tottering piles of books and Victorian bric a brac which will one day collapse and trap me like those two brothers in Brooklyn. If I’m staying with friends, then yeah, I close the bedroom door, more to preserve their privacy. I think as a kid (only child), I had my door closed at night. Hell, I often wake up in the morning to find that I’ve left my apartment door not only unlocked, but ajar. But that’s the kind of place this is; we don’t fear the sudden onslaught of the Ookpik. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/23 "2004-01-13T02:10:29Z")
I keep every single door closed at all times. Open doors bug me for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/24 "2004-01-13T02:22:36Z")
I always slept with the door closed until I moved into a new condo two days ago. Now I can’t sleep with the door closed, because the door is in the living room awaiting new hinges. It’s taking me a while to get used to it, but I’m doing okay. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/25 "2004-01-13T02:23:13Z")
Canadian: closed. ---
**Author:** ![CheekyMonkey613](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@CheekyMonkey613](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheekyMonkey613)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/26 "2004-01-13T02:26:16Z")
French-Canadian here. I always sleep with the bedroom door open. The only time I can remember shutting my bedroom door at all was when I was a teenager with my friends in my room, or on the phone, and I didn’t want my parents to “bother me”. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/27 "2004-01-13T02:29:38Z")
Canadian. Mrs. RickJay and I are forced to keep it closed because my sister lives with us. But when she’s gone, we’ll keep it open, as that’s easier for handling the cats. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/28 "2004-01-13T02:31:29Z")
> [@Duderdude2](#): > > All I know is that what the fireman taught us in the 2nd grade was to keep the door shut in case of a fire. Which oddly enough is why I sleep with it open. I am petrified of NOT being able to get out of places. You will always find me in crowded places near the door. Thats not to say my bedroom is crowded… unless you’re cats and books. ---
**Author:** ![Snuggles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Snuggles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snuggles)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/29 "2004-01-13T02:42:29Z")
I am Canadian… half french as well… and I always sleep with my bedroom door closed (and locked). hehe… I’m paranoid ! I figure if someone’s gonna break into my house I’ll hear them trying to open my door and they’ll make a racket and I’ll jump out the window. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OneYogini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@OneYogini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneYogini)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/30 "2004-01-13T02:47:18Z")
\*[1920s Style Death Ray "Sorry, I’m not Canadian. I do sleep with the door open, but only enough to let the dog in and out (he is a bit pampered). I used to sleep with the door closed and the window open (enough to let the cat in and out). If I had no dog/cat I would sleep with the door and window closed for perceived-privacy reasons."\* ``` What they said - only insert *cat * for *dog*, and delete the window stuff...I'm tired...copy/paste...lol! :rolleyes: ``` ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/31 "2004-01-13T02:56:42Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Irish/English couple. Closed until we got a cat, but now slightly open so the cat can come in early in the morning and stomp on my balls when she wants to be fed. Ditto, except we’re American, and they stomp on my boobs. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/32 "2004-01-13T04:39:25Z")
I’m French-Canadian and I sleep with my door open most of the time. There’s something screwy with the air circulation in my apartment, and if I close my door, I wake up in the middle of the night because my room is freezing (in winter) or broiling hot (in summer). Even if the temperature thing wasn’t a problem, though, I don’t think I’d ever close my door. What’s the point? If someone else in the house will be up for a while making noise, sure, but if everyone’s in bed, I don’t see a need to lock myself in. As a kid, I used to have the door open all the time, so I could escape if the monsters/vampires/aliens came after me. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/33 "2004-01-13T04:55:19Z")
I’m a closed-door Canuck. At my last place, my bed was in a little addition off a proper bedroom. (I used the main room as a combination office/den.) So ordinarily, I slept behind _two_ closed doors, except when I had the house to myself and could sleep naked on the kitchen table. ---
**Author:** ![peritrochoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peritrochoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peritrochoid)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/34 "2004-01-13T04:55:52Z")
I’m not Canadian and I don’t even have a bedroom door to leave open. I live in a small loft apartment which is a very open floorplan. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/35 "2004-01-13T06:05:33Z")
Canadian here. Door open to accomodate two spoiled dogs. Well that and the vague feeling of being trapped if the door is shut. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/36 "2004-01-13T06:21:38Z")
I don’t think I _could_ sleep with it open. I wouldn’t feel secure. Heck, I sometimes get a little freaked out over having the closet door open. I’m American, btw, although my high school friends had it in their head that I was Canadian because they saw me eat an Aero bar once. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/37 "2004-01-13T14:54:34Z")
I’ve always slept with the door closed but no matter what room I’m in, the door has to be closed because it’s a pet peeve of mine. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/38 "2004-01-13T22:38:16Z")
Always closed. I don’t even like it being open a crack - it has to be latched. Partly because I don’t like people barging in, and also because my brother always turns on the hallway light when he comes upstairs and that would wake me up. It also helps drown out other noises like the TV in his room, someone talking on the phone, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Casey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Casey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/39 "2004-01-14T04:26:26Z")
Canadian. Door open when just me and my SO - door open just a bit (bedroom has a pocket door) for the cat when family/company stays. Shoes off when we enter the house! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147/40 "2004-01-14T04:35:02Z")
I’m not Canadian, but I sleep with the bedroom door closed. I always have the bedroom door closed if I’m in there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-the-bedroom-door-open-or-closed-canadians-especially/224147.md?page=3)