catseye
Old lady trouser-smell with yesterday's knickers
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This is interesting. I know that I don't really like sleeping in a ground floor bedroom, although not to the extent of a previous partner, who lived in a bungalow (refused to consider a house, even though he was only mid forties) and was so terrified of burglars that he would lock the bedroom windows completely shut every night (even in the hottest heatwave). I would point out that unless the burglar in question had the build of Slender Man and didn't mind getting in and standing on the occupants of the bed whilst being attacked by the worst tempered Labrador the world has yet bred, he was pretty safe, but he wouldn't have it. Windows had to be Shut At All Times otherwise burglary was inevitable.What an interesting thread. It made me think back on the various houses I have been in and what I like. Both Mr. EA and I like rooms upstairs, and would greatly prefer bedrooms upstairs. I also think a room entered by going up even a few stairs is much more comforting or secure feeling than going down a few stairs. I wonder if this is a genetic response to when sleeping in trees was more secure than sleeping on the ground. A few generations ago, of course.
Currently, because of aging and mobility challenges, we sleep in a one level home, and don't like it nearly as much. I sleep with my curtains open at night so I can look at the stars. Anyone, once they trespass into the back yard by climbing a 5 1/2 foot wall and negotiating their way around cactus, can look in on me.
He had very very rigid thinking.