i was wondering if this is common:
i always sleep w/ the tv on and if it’s not i cant sleep well or have nightmares.
the other night the power went out so my tv went off and i woke up in the middle of the night because of a nightmare.
thanks,
Josh
Maybe its being used to having sound around!
I know a guy that has the same as you but then with sound…he must have something on the radio when he sleeps…talking program or music or he cant sleep at all etc.
So do a test, sleep with tv on but with the sound option of and tell us how that goes!
ive slept fine with the tv on mute. maybe it’s cause i go to sleep more relaxed with the tv on. with the tv off i am kind of stressed (lack of better words) so maybe my mind is on edge?
Josh
well then it could also be the light, tv screen emits a lot of light!
yes true
Hi Josh,
your the first one who I have encountered who lieks to sleep with the TV on, I mean, apart from me:)
I also, like you, feel much more comfortable sleeping with the TV on.
I have only recently started to try and sleep with no TV on, its sometimes a little scary but im getting used to it.
-stranger
If you can sleep with the sound off, turn it off. I read it is very bad to sleep with a TV on, because it can work like hypnosis, so don’t be surprised if one day you woke up with an irresistible urge to buy some new super dooper detergents! 
Yes, televisions emit a broad range of frequencies, from light, sound to the slight white noise you hear when on mute. huuuummmmmmmmmm…
Certain individuals are quite susceptable to these types of frequencies as they are usually relaxing, humble and peaceful, I for one cannot stand any type of interference such as light/noise occuring while I sleep, because for me, its time to “shut down”.
Televisions do have the potential to emit the frequencies which will slowly change your brain-wave pattern from awake, to susceptable to suggestion as ilana said. (there’s even an advert on in our country, which shows a dog whispering in the owners ear while he sleeps, telling/asking/suggesting to buy some dog food, and wobehold he wakes up and buys it wondering why)…it works the same with advertising, a very evil yet unfortunately nessesary industry.
It is a good idea to keep the television sound on mute, since your brain has been “conditioned” to rekognize the static noise of the television as “sleep time” probably since you were a child, it should not make a difference, also, as jeff mentioned, I remember needing to keep the door semi-open while I slept as a child because I couldnt bare sleeping in the pitch blackness of my overly huge room…but i quickly realized that I was turning into a creature of habit, faced my fear and found out, it was only my own mind creating a weird hurdle I had to jump. Light or no light, I was able to sleep peacefully after a few weeks of re-conditioning my mind to accept the idea of a peaceful sleep without any form of subconscious comfort.
It has been noted that one should not watch TV before sleep, for many reasons. IMO TV is an unessesary invention used to amuse and control the masses, it manipulates the human emotions and toys with our senses.
use your own mind to create a state of relaxation, do not rely on a artificial source for the rest of your life. bend the boundrys of your conscious limitations.
ever read Huxley’ s “Brave New World?” They program the citizens in their sleep, repeating phrases through loudspeakers over a million times throughout the individuals life to mold them into passive, robotic colonies of identically thinking people.
Subliminal messaging, i’d watch out for those dang T.V.'s, we’re advancing toward a Big Brother world! or not,
i sleep with the TV on a lot of times accidentally, and have found that i actually like the soothing talk of american Football or golf commentators or Bob Ross the painters show on PBS, etc. soothing discourse
Bob Ross :“happy little trees. There are no mistakes, only happy accidents”
you can put a tree wherever you want to in your dreams. i guess dreams are a lot like painting.
personally i keep a fan on, for a rush of wind sound, just white noise that blocks out creeks and cracks during the night. helps me r e l a x and thats the name of the game.
I sleep with the tv on aswell, but that is due to that my tv has been dying for the last 2 years… If i turn it off for more than a couple of mins, then it wont turn on again it just turns itself off with a boom 1min later…
well, my antenna recently got lost, dont ask how, so now i put a movie on. I watched lion king every night for a while and then the wizard of oz and now 40 days and 40 nights. I have confidence that lion king wont warp my mind. lol.
i only have 5 chanels in my room so i watch the WB. I hate waking up in the middle of the night without the tv on. it is frightening. i would leave the tv off but i like it… alot lol.
Want to know how you can probably fix it? Get a white noise machine. And maybe even a small dim light.
i like sleeping with the tv on… the show thats on always manipulates my dreams
a white noise machine??? never heard of it, but there is that new movie “white noise” about how ghost talk in silent rooms and you can hear them with a recorder.
i cannot go to sleep unless there is a TV on. I have no idea why lol. It doesn’t have to be on during the entire time I sleep, but it has to be on while im trying to goto sleep.
i sleep without it on with just a fan going.
One time i had a dream where somebody broke into the house and my dad went to tackle him and the intruder yelled something which came across very clear and loud in the dream. Then a few weeks later im watching tv and see a commercial for some anime cartoon and one of the characters repeated exactly what i heard in the dream! Weird that the flow of events in the dream timed perfectly with the external audio.
Then one time i had a FA where i woke up in my dark room. I looked at the tv and there were these bright sparks flashing on the off tv.
One of my first LD’s was triggered by seeing a reporters head on tv distorting like a balloon.
I used to sleep with the tv on most of the time, but now I do not because I am trying the WILD stuff.
Waking up in the middle of the night with the tv on is actually kind of annoying to me; in fact, after a while, I got used to not having it on, so now sometimes I turn it on, then turn over to sleep. Then, I turn back over and turn the tv off 20 seconds later. 
i turn it off usually too or mute it because im trying WILD. it is so freakin’ hard!
The TV decreases my recall ability as far as I know. I haven’t had any LD’s with it on, but I have had some pretty neat dreams.
I’d say people who suffer from night terrors are more likely to benefit from the light or noise while going to sleep.
I use to suffer from night terrors, hypnogogic imagry and sleep paralysis. I still do from time to time if I try sleeping in the dark. I would wake up and believe that an alien or some other creature was in my room. These thought were irrational, but they were terrifying non-the-less at 3 am in the dark. This started to occure while I was a teenager. After that I would turn on the TV and sleep with it on mute. That worked to keep me sleeping throughout the night.
It had nothing to do with habbit or not facing my fears. I could face my fears well enough while awake. Fear of the water, fear of driving, fear of public speaking. All of these things I could over come, but this was a disorder I couldn’t over-come logically or through practice. (After all who wants to have a high electric bill? Its much more practical to sleep in the dark.)
After awhile sleeping with the TV on became annoying though, so I bought a fish tank instead. The water makes a light noise and the heater makes a small light. For whatever reason people with night terrors or pre and post sleep hallucinations tend to snap out of it with light and sound around.
For me this is a mental problem that can be over-come through making changes in my environment. Just like sleep walking, sleep talking, sleep apenia. Its not something I can control. Shrugs Its just something I have to deal with untill I can find a perminate sollution.