Bleed Areas and PDF Export

I set my book up in indesign and have all the bleed areas marked out. When i export to a pdf it comes out fine, but when i export to a pdf using the documents bleed settings i get an issue.
On the two pages facing each other the inside edge of each page is switched with the page next to it. so on each page i have a strip of the image from the left page on the right page and vice versa.
What am i doing wrong? Indesign is pretty new to me and I havent been able to figure out what is causing this

There's no harm in that at all. As the image falls outside the crop area. IT should be trimmed off when printed anyway.
Usually the prepress will impose the file and it sort of sits in a container where the bleed wouldn't be visible on that edge anyway. And even if it is it's going into the spine. The chances of it appearing in the final printed piece is extremely slim.
However, you can combat this by File>Export>PDF and go to the Marks and Bleeds - untick the Link button for the bleed and change the inside bleed to 0.
Now you won't have any bleed on the inside pages.

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http://cpso2.gallaudet.edu/cpso/brian/mw-bleed.jpg
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