Do you sleep with the TV off, or on? Why?

[Berry Cool]

Poll question: Do you sleep with the TV off, or on? Why?

I have decided there are two types of people in the world: people who cannot sleep with a TV on, and people who cannot sleep with a TV off. People who cannot have a TV playing in the same room with them and sleep, because they find themselves compelled to listen to every damn thing on it, and feel as if they're suffering sleep-deprivation torture at Gitmo. And people who, if the person who can't stand having the TV on turns it off--even if they appear to be in a deep, sound, bottomless sleep--will instantly splutter awake, tossing and turning and screaming "TURN IT BACK ON!"

I have decided this is probably a bigger relationship dealbreaker to me than anything else. Forget sharing my progressive values, or being a nonsmoker. I'm never gonna make it with a guy who needs the TV on.

So, which are you?

[hippywife]

1. Other: I did when I was single

because I could and it didn't bother me in the least, except for some odd dreams at times. I have those all on my own now. LOL But my husband is a lighter sleeper than I am and we really don't watch much but PBS now, anyway, so I just read myself to sleep, and read again if I wake up in the middle of the night.

My sister sleeps with the TV on every night except when her boyfriend is there for the night. She likes to watch Biography when she wakes up in the middle of the night. But like me, the TV isn't what wakes her.

:hi:

[Cid_B]

20. Same...

When deployed or sleeping alone I prefer TV, music, computer. It's a holdover from when I was a teen and had some nasty tinitus. All I could hear was a high pitched squeal if it was totally quiet.

The little woman is the exact opposite. Can't stand anything (light or noise). We can't even have an alarm clock because she can hear the electrons bouncing around in there. Guess who had to learn to adapt. :)

[we can do it]

2. TV???? What Is That?

[rcrush]

3. I have something playing on the computer while I'm trying to sleep.

[frogmarch]

4. I meant to click

Can't sleep with the TV OFF. I clicked Can't sleep with the TV ON by mistake.

I have slept with the TV on for more than 15 years. I leave it on all day too. It's never shut off unless we're going somewhere. I suppose it goes without saying that we've gone through several TVs over the years.

[femmocrat]

11. I did the same thing!

I have to fall asleep with the TV on. The low drone drowns out my own over-active thoughts. If someone turns the TV off, it wakes me up.

Apparently it has affected my reading skills, though! LOL

[LeftyMom]

5. Off. On another floor.

If I ever become one of Those People who have a TV in their bedroom, I want somebody to put me out of my misery.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

6. I can nap like a mutha with the TV on...

just 20-30 minute pass-outs. But when in bed at night, the TV is off and the room as dark as possible.

[targetpractice]

7. Rachel Maddow puts me to sleep guaranteed...

I love her show and watch it once at night to fall asleep and then again the next morning to actually absorb the content.

Her show will surely make me fall asleep if I'm laying down... I think it's the calm authority in her voice. I think I trust her and feel reassured when she's talking. ;-)

Now, I cannot fall asleep to Keith Olberman, but can to Lawrence O'Donnell. Go Figure.

[rkennedy_68]

8. tv off

don't like wasting electricity

[annabanana]

9. other., . . . 2 hour sleep timer. . . . .n/t

[GoCubsGo]

25. Here, too.

I usually just set it for 30 minutes. Some nights, like last night, I have had to re-set it about 4 times.

[Duer 157099]

10. I don't think I've ever tried it. Not even tempted.

I go to sleep listening to audio books though, but the thought of the number of commercials I'd have to listen to in my sleep is enough to scare me from leaving a TV on. Plus, the volume during commercials is often higher and I imagine that's to wake people up who are sleeping.

I can't imagine wasting the electricity leaving the TV on though. I like turning everything off at night.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Dude. I don't sleep with the TV. Period. I'm married.

[snailly]

13. I refuse to have a tv anywhere but the family room

Long ago I could not fall asleep without the tv on so I know what you're saying. I had to break that habit because I just wasn't sleeping well. Then I realized tv was just loads of crap. Rarely watch it these days.

Still, there is nothing more delightful than laying on the couch on a rainy Sunday afternoon with stupid nothings on the tv. Just lovely snoozing here and there with the tv humming.

[rurallib]

14. radio on all night, just in case something big happens.

[bigwillq]

15. On

It puts me to sleep.

[GirlAfire]

16. It's Got to Be...

...off. I must have the sound of the fan going, but the TV is too much like ... people yapping all night in my room.

[texanwitch]

17. I need a fan to sleep.

Can't sleep without it.

[flvegan]

18. Off. Too much light might upset the dogs.

Taking up the other half of my bed.

Besides, last thing I want is to fall asleep to box scores and baseball highlights and wake up to mens sumo wrestling.

[Iggo]

19. Either way.

Yes. We exist.

[Lindsey]

22. The T.V. must be on (Turner Classic Movies-so I don't wake up

to modern times) but the sound goes down. I'm single and it provides me comfort.

[mcctatas]

21. at my house, on...

at his house, off until he falls asleep and then on

[PhoenixAbove]

23. Can't sleep with the TV on...

Hell, I can barely even watch TV now without going into a frothing rage over some news item and the commercials now a days are so distracting I usually turn to Hulu to watch a show.

[Pharlo]

24. If I'm tired enough to sleep,

it doesn't matter if the television is on or off, I'm sleeping.

For me, the 'can or can't sleep' question is The Damn Mutts. As much as I bitch about them taking up too much room and having to fight for every square inch of area I want, I can't sleep if they're not on the bed. Go figure.

[Deep13]

26. Off. Not watching it. nt