Window and Curtain Open in the Evening

I'm sitting here with my curtain open, and the window is as well and it's great. I don't feel detached from the world...I don't feel that my contact with the world is simply being channelled through my computer. Rather, I am in touch with the world. I can see the lights in the houses that back on to mine. The shadows and silhouettes of the trees and plants outside are beautiful. There is a gentle breeze across my arms as I type these words. Ad it's reasonably warm but not so hot that the insects are out and bothering me by flying into the room and buzzing around.

I'm always afraid that insects will see the light on in my room, and fly towards it, so once the sun sets I close my curtains, but the noises from the road is pretty comforting, except at just after 11 and 2, when people stumble up the road drunk from the pub/club.

The other fun thing is to watch things fly towards the light, not realising there's a window in the way, and smash into the glass. Loads of birds did that to our patio doors one summer, not sure why. My dad was always the person sent to pick up their bodies and bury them. Everyone else in the family were too squeamish.

I leave my windows open many nights, but sometimes in the spring/autumn a window open all night becomes my death the next day, what with the sniffling and the sneezing and the drippy itch eyes and the etc.

YEah you smoke a lot of indo though nick. When I sleep all weeded I tend to wake up feeling like I've WOLFED down the air and I dash to the fridge and drink water or juice so fast I let out a little scream afterwards.

I am really creeped out by having the windows and curtains (or just curtains) open when it gets dark. I guess because everyone can see you and you can't see anyone. Actually, it's not as though through as that, it's just an instinctive dislike of it...

I used to like the windows and curtains wide open when I was in good shape, having somewhat regular freaknasty with decent-looking women. Now I leave them closed because noone wants to see some ever-chubbening dude in the most disturbingly elaborate wanking contortions ever seen. Power to the people.

i love to keep them open and let the night in!

I pass by loads of trendy modern apartment blocks on my way home of an evening, and a lot of those people seem to love having all their lights on and blinds up, I guess with posh city/river views 6 floors up I would too. Im such a voyuer - I love looking into lit up windows at night, wondering what their home looks like, wishing I could have a fancy place too.

yeah, looking up into lit and open windows as you walk by them at night is really such a pleasure, i love it

I don't even own curtains to close, so that answers that question. If the weather is nice (50 degrees and above) I have many windows open.

I have two residences: a loft in Chicago with a grand city view and a tiny, tiny cottage in the woods of Michigan. Neither place looks into anyone else's windows, so I just love to be able to see outside and check out what's going on.

I do know people that are freaked out by uncurtained windows, but, the ones I personally know are borderline paranoids that always believe that someone is looking at them. Funny thing is, these are the same people that LOVE to look into other people's windows (not curiousity/but voyeristically), so I think it's Pot/Kettle syndrome.

I never saw any of those Slasher movies so I don't expect Freddy or some psycho hanging outside my place with a chain saw. Loads of my friends have tanked up on every psycho movie ever made and THEY seem to be the ones that are most scared, after dark.

Do you watch the local news?

I do not have curtains. I love the windows wide open. I don't know if anyone can see me from outside. Although my apartment building is right by the interstate.