<p>Hi. I go to a boarding school and I share a room with a roommate.
I am afraid of dark so I usually sleep with the light on and my roommate is ok with it so I've never had any problmes with it yet but will this be an issue when I go to college? I can not sleep if its dark.
Should I get a single room? I want a roommate.</p>
<p>I think it would be best to try to overcome this now. Try sleeping with dimmer lights, fall asleep with the tv on, something like that, until you can do it in total darkness.</p>
<p>Yea, I’d try to overcome it. Though if you really can’t, a single room would be best.</p>
<p>what type of light? a full on bright all-encompassing room light? or a small table lamp or night light?
a roommate would prob be okay with a night light but it depends on your roommate
my bro always gets his roommate info over the summer. if you do too, contact them and ask if they’re okay with that so u can find out if you need to get a new roommate</p>
<p>once you get the contact info of your roomate, tell him right away about this. or try to find someone beforehand (at orientation or whatever) that wants to room with you and is OK with it</p>
<p>you know, i almost wanna beat the ■■■ out of my roommate for having his tv on at night, despite there’s no sound(he uses a headphone). Im sure u’ll have a hard time rooming with someone with your lights on at night.</p>
<p>You get a lot of neurotic people at CC so don’t use what they say as the standard. More likely than not, the roommate won’t care and if he does, just go to bed after he does. Needless to say, however, you will be poked fun at for being afraid of the dark.</p>
<p>Or you could stop being a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Really? Its dark when you shut your eyes… I would say most people would be cool with a nightlight but not a normal light.</p>
<p>Really, I would just turn off the lights and try to go to sleep. You say that you can’t sleep if it’s dark, but trust me - by the second or third night, the complete exhaustion will overtake any fear you have of the dark and you’ll be over it. I promise.</p>
<p>If that doesn’t fix you, then you might have deeper psychological problems … in which case I don’t think me or anybody on CC is really qualified to help you.</p>
<p>Yes, it will be a problem (and I highly doubt your belief that it hasn’t yet been a problem). And it is generally very hard for freshmen to get a single dorm without a very convincing reason why they must have one; unless you are actually diagnosed with nyctophobia, “I can’t sleep in the dark” won’t work.</p>
<p>I think it’ll be a problem as well… especially because I am insomniac at times and can’t sleep at ALL even with lights all off… having a light on on top of that would annoy the crap out of me…</p>
<p>***! How old are you? Get over it. Seriously.
Btw, who ever you’re “hanging out with”(at night;)) probably won’t be too excited about a nightlight.
Not trying to be mean. Just saying- it’s college. It’s time to be a (wo)man.
Good luck and sweet dreams.</p>
<p>You mean like a phobia?
Then buy a small light :D</p>
<p>Just keep a lamp on next to your bed. Don’t get a petulant looking nightlight. The more of a big deal you make it, the bigger of a deal it will be to other people.</p>
<p>Buy a nightlight. </p>
<p>I’m acrophobic (afraid of heights) but I handle cross-country flights just fine.</p>
<p>Now looking straight down from the skydeck at Willis Tower, that’s scary (they have a glass box thing that sticks out like 3 feet out of the building so you’re basically looking at cars going underneath you-the whole thing is glass-needless to say, I didn’t even go near it, let alone step food in it).</p>