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Sleeping Habits

I need to have the TV on ALL NIGHT

18% (6)

I like to have the TV to fall asleep, but I have it on a timer

24% (8)

I like to have the TV on, but will get up later to turn it off

9% (3)

I can't sleep with the TV on.... I need QUIET!

48% (16)

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Sleeping Habits - 12/6/2014 9:24:40 PM

smileforme50

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I'm spending the weekend with some friends, and I'm sitting here wide awake at midnight because they like to run the TV in their bedroom ALL NIGHT. And me.... I like it quiet. Heck, I don't even have a TV in my bedroom at home. So hearing the TV on all night keeps me awake, especially since this is the time when most infomercials come to life. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if I was hearing some episodes of "Big Bang Theory".... But I'm not.... What I'm hearing right now is someone spouting about the beauty of their latest invention that scrambles an egg while it's still in the shell....

But these aren't the first people I've known who do this.....this "TV on all night seems to be a fairly common practice. So I wanted to ask everyone ... Do you need to have your TV on all night to get a good nights sleep?

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/6/2014 11:19:15 PM

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Silence in my house please. My Dad, however, has the radio on 24/7.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 4:21:02 AM

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If I'm alone in bed, I sleep with the TV on. I don't particularly NEED it but I like to fall asleep by watching something. I'm currently dealing with cancer and chronic pain right now so I rarely sleep through the night anyway.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 4:29:36 AM

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Most nights I turn the tv off before I fall asleep but I have been known to nod off while watching something and having the tv on doesn't keep me up. But when I am watching at night I have the volume down and you can't hear it outside my room. If it were turned up to the point you could hear it in other rooms, it probably would keep me up also.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 4:52:36 AM

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I usually fall asleep while watching something. My TV will turn off after a time with no activity (changing channel or volume). But if I'm watching TV at night, the volume is down low. No one outside of my bedroom would hear it.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 4:52:40 AM

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I don't have a TV in my bedroom but I'm not a great sleeper and I will take my laptop to bed and watch something with the intention of falling asleep to it. My laptop turns off once whatever I'm watching has finished though so its not on all night. If it was on all night it would disturb my sleep. I sleep alone though, I wouldn't watch anything if I thought it was going to disturb someone else's sleep and don't usually feel the need to watch anything if I have someone to sleep with.

Ive never been a good sleeper, had a lot of nightmares as a kid and I think my parents used to put my TV on in my room so its probably something I learnt to do. It feels like I have company, or the noise stops me listening out for bumps in the night, or if I'm worried about something it helps shut my brain off. I also used to have to sleep with the light on, the door open and the light on in the hallway, haha. I did that until I had someone to sleep with as an adult.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 5:27:11 AM

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I need the TV on to fall asleep with the sleep timer set. I wake up a couple times during the night and it takes me an hour to get back to sleep. If the TV is off, I put it back on again with the timer set. I never sleep through the night, the most sleep I get is 3 to 5 hours a night (not consecutive hours). If I'm asleep and he's awake, he'll turn the TV off and put the radio on. I need the background noise if I hope to get any sleep. Without noise, there's no rest for the wicked.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 6:43:23 AM

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I don't have a TV in my bedroom, but I have had one in there in the past. I can go either way - fall asleep with it on and it stays on all night, or turn it off first.

What would bother me, though, is exactly what you had to deal with. I don't like hearing TV from another room. (Or music, or anything.)

Do you have a smartphone? Download an app (I like Sleep Ambience) to manufacture some white noise. It's quite effective.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 7:02:00 AM

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I have a lot of trouble falling asleep at night, so I use the TV with a quiet program as something I can lay there and listen to for about an hour until I drift off. Typically I wake up at some point and turn it off.

One of these days I will get a white noise machine and use that instead of a true crime program (which could explain my murderous dreams lol).

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 7:12:38 AM

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I go to sleep with the tv on every night. Set the timer for about an hour or so.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 7:39:32 AM

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I used to not like it on at all, then after my back problems, when I would wake up every 4-6 hours after meds wore off, I started using it. In an effort to not do that forever, I turn it off when I start falling asleep.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 8:28:10 AM

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We had a TV in the bedroom but I could never fall asleep at night with it on, even at low volume.
However, the ex used to leave it on all the time and could drift off with no problem.

Therefore, once she left to begin the process of actually became the ex, the TV was removed from the bedroom - permanently.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 10:44:26 AM

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Totally dark and quiet.
In future, travel with a sleep mask and foam or wax earplugs.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 11:17:19 AM

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No TV in my bedroom. God forbid. I used to love falling asleep to my thunderstorm CD, but then I got my dogs and one of them is deathly scared of thunderstorms and can't distinguish between the real and the audio. So I put that away for awhile :)

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 11:50:10 AM

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We have a TV in our bedroom and it is always on 24/7 whether we are there or not.
It is permanently tuned to the BBC 24 hour news channel.

We have some inconsiderate neighbours and also some urban foxes that make a noise.
We also have some of the neighbours' cats that like to wail at 3am right under our window!!

So we tend to have the news on to mask the outside noises.
And being the news, it is often repeated so it gets monotonous as the night wears on.
That makes for some informative but boring TV and sends me to sleep in no time.
I wake every 90 minutes or so for a pee and I hate it if I have to struggle to get back to sleep.

When we go camping, we don't have the TV. but we are usually waay out in the countryside so there's no urban street lights or traffic noises or anything to disturb the night critters. So that works as well.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 5:14:33 PM

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Depends on where I fall asleep. If I fall sleep in my living room chair, the TV is on. There is no tv in the bedroom and I leave the fan on when I sleep.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 6:10:06 PM

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I cannot sleep with any sounds, TV, snoring, etc.

I use earplugs.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/7/2014 8:14:43 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: sexyred1

I cannot sleep with any sounds, TV, snoring, etc.

I use earplugs.

Do you need an alarm clock to get up in the morning? How do you hear an alarm clock?

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/8/2014 7:47:53 AM

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If you use the wax ones, they get warm from the heat of your body and won't be as tightly in the ear in the morning. I never had a problem hearing the alarm.

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RE: Sleeping Habits - 12/8/2014 10:31:18 AM

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I pretty much prefer having "ambient noise". Having Food Network or Discovery Channel on as I'm sleeping works for me.

When I used to go visit my parents, who lived in the real "boonies", the silence was absolutely deafening to me. Even if I don't have a TV, if there is some outside noise, it works for me. I live about a mile away from a major freeway and can hear the hum of the cars. Music to my ears...

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