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[jack]

When you're leaving, or going to bed, and turned the last light off, do you shut your eyes when going the last few steps? Or do not do that in the first place?

Edit: And somehow it feels satisfying. I'm not sure why.

Edit2: It appears I'm strange. Cool, an LJ poll got something right :)

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[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I have a lamp on my bedside table, so I turn that on before turning the main light off, and then turn off the lamp when I'm in bed. With a bedroom as messy as mine, to do otherwise would be downright hazardous.

Living in a shared flat, there's usually someone in and it can be hard to tell who is in or out, so I don't turn the hall light off before leaving.

So I guess it's not an issue for me!

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I also have a lamp, and do the same thing. :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ick, common sense. Don't get any of it on me :)

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

No, because I wouldn't be able to see where I was going and I would probably fall and hurt myself.

I do shut my eyes when stargazing if a car comes past so I don't have my night vision destroyed though.

[dragonwoodshed.livejournal.com]

Not on the boat, but at the big house I would often get so freaked after watching Most Haunted that I'd make it to the bathroom and back in the middle of the night, eyes screwed tightly shut, lights off. Ghosties can't get you if you can't see them...

Ghosties can't get you if you can't see them...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I tend not to watch ghost movies :) But if I ever *am* creeped out, my reaction is to have the lights on and my back to a wall. When I turn them off then, eyes open or closed, it's because I'm saying "This is irrational so I'm going to ignore it and it's going to go away sooner" :) I think I'm not getting into the spirit of it :)

Have you never peed on the toilet lid or anything...? :o :)

Re: Ghosties can't get you if you can't see them...

[dragonwoodshed.livejournal.com]

No, it's that whole being a girl thing. We can aim.

Derek Acorah is scary.

Re: Ghosties can't get you if you can't see them...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure bringing the target closer counts as aiming. More sensible, relying on native intellegence with which evolution has endowed us rather than arbitrary physical prowess when overcoming entropy and natural objects, certainly. But I wouldn't have said "aiming" :)

I was, uh, imagining it being down. When aiming doesn't really help.

Re: Ghosties can't get you if you can't see them...

[mair_in_grenderich]

don't you notice it's down if you sit on it?

Re: Ghosties can't get you if you can't see them...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, so you'd think, but I'm sure I've heard of people making this mistake. I presume they were slightly premature.

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[mair_in_grenderich]

I've read of April Fool jokes involving cling film... don'tknow if anyone's ever done that.

Re: Ghosties can't get you if you can't see them...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I bet they have. It's the sort of thing *someone*'s going to try, once the idea is well-known, like urban legends which are automatically true because whether or not they happened first, they're the sort of thing someone will try because they heard about it.

It seems one of the ideas that are a lot better than jokes relying on randomly breaking people's possessions/bones, but still a bit on the mean side rather than the funny side. I guess if you're sure nothing's going to be damaged and someone actually deserves it, the exclamations will be funny.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

If I need to get up in the night, I keep one eye closed while the light is on. When I switch it off again, I swap eyes - et voila! Night vision.

[mair_in_grenderich]

I turn the fairy lights on, then I turn the main light off. Then I turn the fairy lights off.

I dislike places where I have to get out of bed to turn the light off, because I like to snuggle up in bed with laptop/book/thoughts/whatever for a while, and then turn the light out after a while, and I don't like having to get out of the snuggly bed again!

This may be why I seem to have eight spare desk lamps :/

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ooh, shiny. I definitely like bedside lamps, when I want to read in bed (fairly often) or I'm in a strange house. But I often don't bother if I'm going straight to bed and know the room, just click, stride, tuck in, cuddle.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Usually the bedside light is on when going to bed in what would otherwise be pitch dark.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

No, I don't, and to be honest it'd never occurred to me to do so. If it's too dark to see by, there's surely no point; and if it isn't, why not be able to see where one's going?

why not be able to see where one's going

[mair_in_grenderich]

I close my eyes occasionally when walking/cycling if I'm very tired ...

Re: why not be able to see where one's going

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Eek! I'm sure I've done sometimes, but it's a bad enough sign at a party, let alone when cycling.

[numberland.livejournal.com]

I tend to use my desk lamp as a bed side lamp as I can reach it easily from Bed (as opposed to my actual bedside lamp which I can't. However when I walk around in the dark it's definitely with eyes open. I quite like trying to see how much vague shapes they can pick out when it's very dark.

On a similar subject though I have a reflex to close my eyes whenever there's a large noise. It's uncontrollable but only for a split second but it's sometimes very annoying, most notably when watching fireworks.

[frithonthehills.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I do that lots. Can't see a thing usually, but still close the eyes anyway. Somehow it's easier to walk in the pitch black if your eyes are closed...

Comes in very useful when there's a powercut :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[chess]

I keep my eyes very much open to catch the bits of light coming from the high window which doesn't have a curtain, in order not to trip over the Stuff on the floor.