When meditating do you keep your eyes open?

I don’t know if it happens to you or not, when I ‘m in contemplation, I do so with my eyes open. Somehow closing my eyes does not allow me to be aware of it all and I may fall asleep. Music also leads me into dream patterns and that’s not what I’m looking for when meditating. Actually I am looking for nothing, just pure awareness. The metronome is great if you lock it at 60 cycles per second. In the audio program 33 Steps to reclaim your infinite Self, Stuart Wilde had a recording of such metronome on the last CD. I still use it to this date.