Do you sleep with the light on?

[Angrboda]

I slept with the light on for a week after watching Ju-on in the theater. Then when I got the DVD and watched it again, I had to sleep with the lights on for several days.


Generally I prefer darkness, but I'm not overly picky. I have to navigate quite a distance from the light switch to my bed, so I have a medium strength night light to guide my way. I have chronic insomnia, but light isn't a big trigger for me. A lot of people can sleep in a seated position, I usually can't. It's been a long time since I fell asleep watching the TV, but that's largely because I watch hardly any TV, and my couch isn't currently in front of a working TV. One thing, in addition to sleeping sitting up that I have difficulty with, is people touching me, in contact with me, like when seated on a long bus ride. I have great difficulty relaxing enough to sleep in such situations. (I once took the Amtrak train to Texas to visit my dad and fell asleep in my seat one evening. I awoke to find a 6'3" black man draped over me, snoring.) My father on the other hand, falls asleep whenever and wherever. I had a good scare one time. He had been putting in long hours at work, and so he was prone to falling asleep while driving home. I was doing something in the garden, and I look over, and there's the yellow truck sitting parked in the driveway, and he's in the driver's seat, slumped over. I was just sure he'd had a heart attack or something and died right there in our driveway. So I cautiously approached the driver's side door. At first, I wasn't sure what to do. What do you do when you suspect somebody is dead? Wake them? I hesitated, and then knocked on the window. He woke right up. He was fine. I, on the other hand, probably looked like I'd seen a ghost.