Anybody else has a darkened room?

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My room has wooden shutters, which I keep closed, so it is dark most of the time. My (probably on the spectrum) flat mate also keeps his shutters closed 24/7.

I open the shutters in the living room, so I don't need to be in darkness all the time.

I live in an apartment with lots of big windows so it's virtually impossible to keep the all the light out. I had to pester my parents into getting me some curtains and blinds so I'd have some privacy at least. But I almost always keep the blinds and curtains down. My mother seems to find it weird that I keep the light so dim even though I'm sure though she knows it's part of my Asperger's. I sometimes have to wear one of those masks over my eyes in my bedroom because the sunlight is too dazzling even with the blinds down in the summer. I must be the only person who LIKES the less daylight in the fall and winter, and I find I'm more relaxed and calm during cloudy days, especially in the fall when my awareness and fear of influenza and other killer diseases goes up.

I like to darken my room sometimes (dim the lights would probably be a more accurate statement) when I just want to relax or have a nap, but even then I have a desk lamp and a Cars 2 fiber optic light that I leave on. The desk lamp is made of hard pink plastic, so it creates a nice, soothing pink glow when it's turned on in a darkened room.

My bedroom has its window covered in foil and plastic, so that it can be properly dark when I sleep there. But my office/dining-room/living room has big windows and I keep the blinds halfway up when the sun is shining.

From the way my house was built, I was given the darkest room. My room stays pretty dark most of the day but its not intentional. My parents gave me this room because its the coolest in the house. I do like it dark, often at nights I will just turn on my lamp light and thats good enough for me.

I'm the opposite. I sleep with the light on. Sleeping in pitch black darkness would freak me out. I need to be able to see when I wake up.

In my room the blinds are down.
I sleep in complete dark.
I had a sort of psychosis as a child in almost but not entirely dark rooms, because the room changed and was not like in the daytime and the shapes got different and it did not feel familiar anymore and all became alienated and I could not cope with the change being a child.
I got so scared that I needed medication for it.

Yeah. I just close my blinds. I've always done it unless it's overcast (O how I love overcast weather).

I had to put paper over all the led's on my tv and stereo and whatnot. I really like obscured lights though, I'll put a lamp in a corner then put a book to cover the direct light and this makes a very relaxing room. I don't like complete dark but I find the pinpoint lights are worse than standard lightbulbs. Just as long as it isn't in my direct field of vision. No room devoted to it, though I do shower with the light off sometimes because it makes the fan come on too and sometimes the two of them together are too much.

I prefer it dark. Thinking is easier when it's at least dim.

Yep and cheap, so I really keep the lights turned off. I've heard, "why are the lights off?" more times than a few. I'm glad my bedroom doesn't have an overhead light. My room has a big several feet long window but I keep it covered with a sheet. When I want to bathe in the sun I just go out for a while.

My office has 7 light fixtures in the ceiling (it's a really large room), but only one of light fixture works. That makes it the darkest room in the building.

^^ I would like a room like that but wherever i worked, maintenance would quickly replace any burned out or malfunctioning lights under management orders.