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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 8/17/2008 3:32:45 PM
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frog43
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I always fall asleep with the TV on. I need the distraction to quiet my mind.
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 8/17/2008 8:17:28 PM
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I always fall asleep with the TV on. I need the distraction to quiet my mind.
HMMMMMMMMMMM...isn't that kind of backwards?!!LOL
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 8/17/2008 8:40:55 PM
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ORIGINAL: frog43
I always fall asleep with the TV on. I need the distraction to quiet my mind.
HMMMMMMMMMMM...isn't that kind of backwards?!!LOL
My thoughts too!
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 8/22/2008 11:00:44 PM
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frog43
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Maybe for some people. If I try to sleep in darkness and silence, my mind will start going 90 miles an hour. But with the drone of the TV, I am able to drift off. Believe me, I've tried to sleep without it; and I have lain awake all night long trying to break the habit. It's just easier to leave the TV on.
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 8/23/2008 12:22:46 AM
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That's why I do it. My mind will race, then I will start worrying about what time it is, and that just starts a vicious circle.
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 8/23/2008 1:03:13 AM
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rgod
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If I sleep with the TV on, I don't get enough rest and so I wake up tired. I don't like to sleep with the TV on because I don't know what kinds of movies will be broadcast and they are often incorporated into my dreams. I used to fall asleep to the Jay Leno Show and Conan, but the channel I'd watch was very fond of putting on horror movies late at night. So I had plenty of nightmares and I woke up, there would be some movie about the devil or the occult on. Occasionally I'll fall asleep with CNN on, but it isn't intentional.
I usually read before I go to sleep (there is always a book in my bed) which means the light is usually on. But sometimes I'll fall asleep to a podcast or a news or christian program that has been archived and streams on the internet.
What is strange though is that I'll fall asleep in a movie theatre in a heartbeat if I'm not interested in the movie. I'm a big sci-fi fan, but could never get into star wars. I tried to go to one of the recent star wars movies. I saw the beginning up to the introduction of Jar Jar Binks (I think that was its name). Well, the next thing I knew, the credits were scrolling up the screen.
< Message edited by rgod -- 8/23/2008 9:55:27 AM >
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 9/2/2008 7:36:13 PM
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FairviewBaptist
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yes I do.
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 9/8/2008 2:53:16 AM
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I sleep with it on, choosing Animal Planet in order to prevent something really bad from being on while I sleep.
Have any of you asked yourselves why you do this? I have, and i don't like the possible answers.
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 9/8/2008 11:12:21 AM
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Sheer exhaustion in my case! Although, I must admit....when I can't sleep, I do turn the t.v. on and it lulls me to sleep.
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 9/8/2008 2:00:40 PM
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I do not. I don't like TV's in my room. If it is on, I have to watch it. My husband had it in the room when we got married.
I like quite. So along with it is too hot, too cold argument, now we have the turn the fan on, turn it off arguement. LOL! He likes it on, but I can't sleep with all that noise. So then I said OK, let's open the window for fresh air and we can cool off the room, know what he said? He can't sleep with the chirping of the crickets. That they sound like an alarm clock. Well the fan sounds like a turbo plane!
anyway, I digress. I like total quiet and no tv in the rooms.
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 9/10/2008 12:59:38 PM
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I pop in a movie every night and turn the sound down just low enough that it cancels the random house noises that always freak me out for no good reason.
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 9/11/2008 12:04:50 AM
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I need complete silence to sleep. If I leave the TV on, the sounds work themselves into my dreams. (Makes for some strange dreams...lol)
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 9/17/2008 1:22:58 AM
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I need silence to sleep. But I will fall asleep while watching TV, usually because I'm very tired, but then like Crystal-J, the sounds work themselves into my dreams. Then I have some pretty strange dreams!!!
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RE: Do you sleep with the TV on? - 9/17/2008 12:40:02 PM
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No, I hate the TV on. I hate even having a TV in the bedroom and strictly forbid my children to have one. Dh was allowed to fall asleep with the TV on growing up and he has a terrible time falling asleep, seems to never sleep very well, and the TV drives me crazy! I just wont let my kids fall into this trap.
Iam the same way. We have ONE TV in the house....for all to "share"....and NO TV in ANY bedrooms...AT ALL...
why am i that way?
hmmm...perhaps it's because that's how I grew up (only ONE tv in the house....but, that was more out of what we could afford, and not "choice").....and, we rarely use the one we have now.....so, why would we need more? (we don't even have cable/satellite or anything.....that's how infrequent we even use it).....
the kids watch a bit of PBS (usually Fetch with Ruff Ruffman) in the afternoon after homework is done, before I get home from work....later on, i usually watch the 10:00 news in the evening....and that's about it (except for HISTORY DETECTIVES on PBS....)....and a few other shows here and there....
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