Since this is basically a poll, I’ll move it to In My Humble Opinion for you.
Cajun Man
for the SDMB
I fall asleep with the TV on most every night. Sleep time ensures that it doesn’t run all night. Of course, I could probably fall asleep with a roving band of cat jugglers performing in my bedroom, so I may be a bad example.
Jammer
I have passed out on the couch before while watching late night TV. And I’ll take a nap with a ball game or a race on. So, yes, I can go to sleep with the TV on.
I don’t have one in the bedroom.
Reading this thread makes me wonder how the human race survived up to the invention of television, and how long it will be until we evolve Bluetooth-spec cable connections directly into our subconsciousness.
I don’t have a television in the bedroom, or indeed, in the house currently. However, when I was sharing an apartment with a roommate a few years ago, he’d regularly come home after a nightly drunk, throw a frozen pizza in the over, sit down in front of the televisor and pass out. I or the 'Other would wake up to the smell of burning cheese food product and I’d have to go out, turn off the stove, wake Dave up and direct him in the general vicinity of his bedroom. (As long as he made it through the door I didn’t care where he ended up.
Stranger
Yes and no…
I have no problem sleeping with it on as long as the room lights are off. However, I have to be certain that there will be someone around to turn it off once I sleep. The thought of the television using up electricity while I’m sleeping really bothers me.
What do you mean “will be”? I’ve got a report coming in from CNN now about the Afghan drug lord’s trial, the Rockets-Mavs playoff game on the other frequency, and a History channel special on the Mysteries of the Pyramids on backup. :dubious:
Believe me, it’s really annoying when I’m having sex and CSI starts playing in my frontal lobe.
What?
I can have a nap in the living room with the t.v. on, no problem.
But at bedtime? It’s tough. McDeath really likes to have it on, and he’s usually up later than I am, so I’ve sort of learned how, but I still prefer not to have it on.
I’m super-sensitive to noise and light when I sleep … so any fluctuation in the volume of the movie or show he’s watching drives me nuts.
There’s not a lot that will stop me going to sleep, or wake me once I’m there. The TV presents no problem. I don’t have a TV in my bedroom which makes it even easier.
[hitler channel hijack]
I had a friend that once joked that the only time the History Channel would ever cut away for live news coverage would be in the event of Hitler’s cloning or reserruction and ensuing car chase.
Hitler Channel Narrator: We interrupt this showing of “Hitler and the Occult” to bring you breaking news coverage.
cuts to scene of a '40s Beetle speeding down the Autobahn (I don’t know why but it is funnier if it’s a Beetle and not a Mercedes or BMW)
I’m sure there’s some funny dialog in there, but I can’t remember for the life of me. We’re constantly ad-libbing new Hitler comedy scenarios.
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And no, I can’t sleep with the TV on. Preferably perfect silence and perfect darkness. Bothers the crap out of my death-fearing husband, who thinks that sleep is just Death’s brother and would rather not sleep in a tomb-like environment.
But he works swing shift, so we usually have to deal with sunlight and oftimes, the screaming of our 4 y.o. nephew (lord, that child’s screams makes my uterus tie itself in knots). So I wear earplugs to bed. But never wake up with them, the cats always remove them. I can deal with sunlight as long as it is dark when I begin sleeping.
From the time I was 5 until I was 20, I lived in the city. I fell asleep to gunshots, really loud music, sirens, fights, airport traffic, trains, busses, and more gunshots. When I moved to this small town, it was so damn quiet I couldn’t sleep for the first few months. Then we got a TV in the bedroom. Finally, I could fall alseep. It doesn’t matter what is on but it’s usually the Cartoon Network.
However, I am a really really light sleeper. Regular sounds of the city don’t wake me. The TV doesn’t wake me. Everything else wakes me. It’s a damn good thing I don’t own a gun because there wouls be a shortage of morning doves in Western Massachusetts.
I can fall asleep with the TV on, but I don’t. I don’t think I’ve turned my TV on in 6 months.
I can’t fall asleep with it on. I’m one of those “has to be completely quiet for me to fall asleep” people. And it has to be dark. I wake up at the slightest little noise, also. I have managed to fall asleep with the TV on but when it goes to a loud commercial or something then I always wake up and have to turn it off.