225). Whenever I am in a room which is not my own, I have difficulty sleeping. I feel uncomfortable, and even if I do manage to fall asleep, it will be a listless nap marred by unnerving dreams. The bed definitely did not inflict this predicament. Fact is, I feel displaced having to sleep in an unfamiliar surrounding. When it is dark, I fumble to find the light switch, an inconvenience I never encounter in my own bedroom. I have a mental map of my room which I believe has developed through the sense of belonging I have towards it. People tend to control and "shape" their bedroom in a way which maximize their ease in moving through it and in using it. Hence, the setting of the bedroom will trigger some habits in them. Undeniably, the physical environment has an inescapable influence on human behaviour. Just as people have formed their private environment, the physical milieu has also influenced humans. .
In fact, Germain suggests that, "people respond to both concrete and symbolic aspects of their physical settings" (1992, p.391). If a doorway is too narrow to accommodate a wheelchair, it will have a concrete effect on the behaviour of a person in the wheelchair; it will also have a symbolic effect , contributing to the person's feelings of exclusion and stigma. There are three major components of daily activity patterns, they are: time of activity, space over which the activity take place, and type of activity. All three factors are highly interconnected (King, Golledge, 1978, p.301). The state of the bedroom where one spends at least five hours or in most cases, more in a day, sleeping, can strongly influence people's daily routines. If the bedroom is unusually messy and one wakes up seeing or smelling the untidy heap of dirty laundry, it is unlikely the person will have a good start to the day. The bedroom is a crucial physical setting simply because it is where you start off (waking up in the morning), and also where you are bound for (sleeping at night).