Please remember to turn off your TV before going to bed... - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

BigBen · 08-31-2005, 09:02 AM

I very rarely forget to turn off the TV in my bedroom before going to sleep. It has happened maybe 2 or 3 times in my life.

Last night was one of them.

I woke up at 2 am to the final scene of "Taxi Driver", and Robert DeNiro was happily shooting in my bedroom.

I screamed "HOLY FUCK!" rolled out of bed and reached for my rifle, which I always keep on my right side when sleeping in the army.

I realized that I was in my own bedroom, and not in some god-forsaken warzone. I slowly peeked up and over the bed, looking at the TV. There was DeNiro, shooting some guy in the head.

My dog was sitting at the edge of the bed, his head cocked to one side and looking at me as if to say "what the hell has gotten into you?" He said "woof" just once, in his quietest voice, to let me know that everything was okay as far as he could hear.

I laughed for quite a while, but still couldn't get to sleep the rest of the night.

Please, fellow TFP'ers, shut your TV's off before you retire into sleep.

Does anyone have similar stories to share? Did Conan O'Brian creep into your dreams and freak you out, and then you found him on the tube when you awoke? Did Jamie and Adam from Mythbusters turn you into Buster the dummy, and you woke up just in time to see the poor dummy get blown up in a dumpster?

Discuss...

Charlatan · 08-31-2005, 09:11 AM

You know, most TVs are equipped with auto-shut off. You can set the timer to turn it off after a certain period of time...

This happens to me when the radio alarm goes off for my wife (she gets up hours before I do). If she stays in bed listening to the radio for a bit, inevitably the CBC enter my dreams... It's a bit unnerving at times.

snowy · 08-31-2005, 09:11 AM

I've had several dreams where the song playing on the radio when my alarm goes off becomes part of the dream. Thus, I do not use the radio as an alarm any longer...it's not nearly as effective as an obnoxious cellphone ring.

Bill O'Rights · 08-31-2005, 09:53 AM

I fell asleep on my recliner once, while the TV was left on. (Mrs. O'Rights saw fit to just leave me there)
I woke up, at what must have been 3:00AM, from one of the scariest nightmares that I've ever had. Only to discover that...it...was no...nightmare. They had actually given Tony Danza...his own talk show!!!!
The horror...the horror...

Fremen · 08-31-2005, 10:47 AM

I sometimes forget to set my timer and wake up to hear some televangelist screaming at me to send him money.
Either that, or I'm on a fishing boat with Bill Dance.

maleficent · 08-31-2005, 10:48 AM

I can't sleep unless the television is on -- This morning - awoke a little later and gawd help me - Saved by the Bell was on...

ugh..

ratbastid · 08-31-2005, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Charlatan

inevitably the CBC enter my dreams... It's a bit unnerving at times.

Like when you have a hot dream about a threesome with Mary Lou Finlay and Barbara Budd? THAT would be unnerving. I don't think I can handle that much smugness in one bed.

SirLance · 08-31-2005, 11:10 AM

Dozed off once while the gf was watching "Hotel Rwanda." Woke up during one of the fight scenes. She has surround sound and a great video system.

For a moment there, I was back in... well, never mind where, but I was back there.

After my heart returned to a semi-normal rate, I was OK. I managed to keep my PTSD dream-freakout quiet, but only just.

Charlatan · 08-31-2005, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by ratbastid

Like when you have a hot dream about a threesome with Mary Lou Finlay and Barbara Budd? THAT would be unnerving. I don't think I can handle that much smugness in one bed.

Yes, that would be something.

Barbara Budd

Marylou Finlay

Only they are on the air while I am making dinner or eating...

No... early morning CBC radio is either CBC overnight (the best radio from around the world), the Business Report, the news or the morning show getting started...

The worst is when I get some Radio Netherlands documentary about Pygmy tribes... those dreams are just odd.

By the way... I am getting sick of the CBC strike... I need my CBC radio to be back to what it was...

analog · 08-31-2005, 12:12 PM

I almost never watch TV... so it's a very, very rare occassion that I accidentally leave it on.

The last time this happened, there was some cheesy movie on... and i woke up because the tv was making sounds like someone knocking on a door. Well, I barely heard it and had my head down, so i didn't see the tv was on... half a second later, the door gets kicked in. It's insanely loud. I have a great surround system and my subwoofer is right near my bed (because that's where I watch movies). In my near-awake state, i thought someone had busted in my bedroom door, grabbed a knife I keep attached to my nightstand, and lunged at the door.

The door now has a knife wound, and I have a great story of my craziness. lol

(never been in the armed forces, and I keep a knife by my nightstand because you never know... i'm paranoid like that.)

BigBen · 08-31-2005, 12:43 PM

Some of my buddies talk about the PTSD and coming home and adjusting to sleeping with the spouse after being away for 9 months. One guy had to move because he lived right by a rail yard in town and whenever the train cars would be switching in the yard it sounded like incoming mortar rounds. He thought he was being bracketed, over and over again.

Another guy broke his wife's nose becasue she snuck up on him and pounced on him (playfully) as he napped on the couch. He hit her before he was awake. Try telling that one to the social worker...

And me, well, if I haven't posted it already, my wife thought it would be cool to tickle my neck while we were cuddling on the couch. It felt like I had a spider on me. I had some VERY BAD EXPERIENCES WITH SPIDERS, and totally lost it. I was curled up on the ground, crying, and she said "Okay, I guess I won't tickle you anymore..."

That would be funny, listening to someone knock on the door and then hearing it get kicked in.

BTW: Who is that guy with the soothing voice on the CBC radio? I think the name is Yorgen Goth, but that can't be right. When I hear him on the radio when I drive, he totally relaxes me, and I become the super-courteous driver. LOL, I should listen to CBC more often.

Charlatan · 08-31-2005, 12:47 PM

Jurgen Gothe of Disk Drive... CBC 2 mellow dude

Ross Porter, host of CBC 2's After Hours does this as well... the only problem is he is on late at night... and getting sleepy behind the wheel is never a good thing that late at night.

Janey · 08-31-2005, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Charlatan

By the way... I am getting sick of the CBC strike... I need my CBC radio to be back to what it was...

really?? I haven't even noticed that there was a lockout. The only way that I've really taken notice is that my neighbour works there, and she has to go on the picket line 5 hrs/day. She loves it better than her job.

Charlatan · 08-31-2005, 12:58 PM

I listen to the CBC all the time. Can't say I watch it all that much but I listen to CBC Radio quite a bit.

Siege · 08-31-2005, 07:26 PM

I fall asleep listening to my mini disc player once in a while. Interestingly enough, when I wake up in the morning, the mini disc is right beside my bed, with the ear phones neatly folded the way I normally do it. I'm surprised I can do that in my sleep

Bill O'Rights · 09-01-2005, 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Seige

I fall asleep listening to my mini disc player once in a while. Interestingly enough, when I wake up in the morning, the mini disc is right beside my bed, with the ear phones neatly folded the way I normally do it. I'm surprised I can do that in my sleep

Um...who said you were doing it?

By the way, you're getting low on milk.

Misz · 09-01-2005, 05:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigBen931

I very rarely forget to turn off the TV in my bedroom before going to sleep. It has happened maybe 2 or 3 times in my life.

Last night was one of them.

I woke up at 2 am to the final scene of "Taxi Driver", and Robert DeNiro was happily shooting in my bedroom.

I screamed "HOLY FUCK!" rolled out of bed and reached for my rifle, which I always keep on my right side when sleeping in the army.

I realized that I was in my own bedroom, and not in some god-forsaken warzone. I slowly peeked up and over the bed, looking at the TV. There was DeNiro, shooting some guy in the head.

My dog was sitting at the edge of the bed, his head cocked to one side and looking at me as if to say "what the hell has gotten into you?" He said "woof" just once, in his quietest voice, to let me know that everything was okay as far as he could hear.

I laughed for quite a while, but still couldn't get to sleep the rest of the night.

Please, fellow TFP'ers, shut your TV's off before you retire into sleep.

Does anyone have similar stories to share? Did Conan O'Brian creep into your dreams and freak you out, and then you found him on the tube when you awoke? Did Jamie and Adam from Mythbusters turn you into Buster the dummy, and you woke up just in time to see the poor dummy get blown up in a dumpster?

Discuss...

Just a question, was it an all out commando roll tipped off with a bit of matrix?

Redlemon · 09-01-2005, 05:48 AM

My wfie was driving from Connecticut to New Jersey, and I had just dozed off in the passenger seat. The radio played some sort of flute or bird noise. I jerked awake and started desperately fumbling for the cell phone, since I figured we were in New York, and you can't use a cell phone without a headset while driving. Cracked my wife up to no end.

Trisk · 09-01-2005, 06:56 AM

This happened to my friend with the pulp fiction soundtrack. He had been leaving his radio alarm on "Play CD" for a few days, and kept it that way, forgetting he had switched the cd earlier that day.
So next morning, his alarm goes off and instead of whatever cd he was used to hearing, he hears:
"Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!!"
"Any of you fuckin' pricks move and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you!!"
...and then I believe there might be shooting?

....anyway, he woke up screaming and he had a roomate at the time who woke up screaming either as a response to the cd or as a response to him screaming. They both jumped out of bed, still screaming for about 30 seconds even after they realized there wasn't actually anybody in the room trying to shoot them.
I laughed pretty hard when he told me.

pan6467 · 09-01-2005, 07:24 AM

I can't sleep unless the tv is on or I am exhausted. I go to sleep with Nick@nite and end up waking to Spongebob Squarepants.....

I rarely dream but when I do it's just as I am about to wake up and yes, the tv has alot to do with the dream that wakens me.... if it's a depressing show I'll awaken depressed and if it's a comedy I'll awaken in a funny mood.....

I awoke once to HSN and felt the need to buy cheap jewelry with real diamonique stones in them for only 3 easy payments of $299....... when I told Amelia she moved out and divorced me..... but I have the real diamonique jewelry.

Siege · 09-01-2005, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights

Um...who said you were doing it?

By the way, you're getting low on milk.

Well, seeing as how my father and sister are always asleep by the time I go to bed. I would find it quite interesting if someone else was doing this to me

MageB420666 · 09-01-2005, 10:24 AM

Well, my ex-girlfriend sleeps with the television on every night, she actually turns it on so that she can go to sleep. Puts it on animal planet and hits the mute button. Made no real since to me, but it worked for her.

Charlatan · 09-01-2005, 10:25 AM

Mage... my wife says she does the same thing when I am out of town. She said she likes the company. I don't know what that says about me though I can be substituted with a muted TV.

snowy · 09-01-2005, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Charlatan

Mage... my wife says she does the same thing when I am out of town. She said she likes the company. I don't know what that says about me though I can be substituted with a muted TV.

Jeez, Charlatan, you poor guy. You can comfort yourself with a documentary on pygmys, though, can't you?

These are some really funny stories.

HLP · 09-01-2005, 11:24 AM

Funny you mention that, I dont have a problem when I normally sleep but only when I nap mid day because a TV somewhere in the house is on and my naps are light.

The worst day was i was trying to sleep and every station was covering the Columbia destroyed and I kept thinking that I was on it or I needed to find out what happened. SO I make it a habit to turn off anything making noise while I sleep. I cant even sleep in cars because I hear the road and think while I sleep I am about to tip over.

Is there some way I could train myself out of this i wonder?

Cicero · 09-01-2005, 02:19 PM

I sort of did the same thing early yesterday morning.

As I was laying in bed, sorta half awake half asleep, I was dreaming that something was comming towards me/at me, and suddenly something in my brain said that someone tossed a live M80 into my bed. So I reflexively hopped out of bed onto the floor.

I ducked for cover on the floor beside the bed! In the process of having tossed myself down onto the ground, I got a major carlie horse in my leg. Ugh! I still don't know what came over me. Must have been too much cafeine and all the stress lately from work.

SiNai · 09-01-2005, 03:06 PM

I usually fall asleep with some quiet music going. One night, my old girlfriend and I fell asleep to star wars a new hope, and I woke up to the attack run.

Look at the size of that thing! Red 2, cut the chatter! Lock x-foils in attack position! I'm hit I'm hit!

I was disoriented for a good 20 minutes..

Bagezio2 · 09-01-2005, 09:29 PM

i often fall asleep to infomercials or law and order... its a bit disorienting to fall asleep watching Law and Order:SVU and waking up an hour later to Monk....

Another time i went to sleep with a sound soother on making forest noises (birds and whatnot). I barley even dozed off before thinking that the birds were attacking me, so i started to flail my arms and legs around and hit the solid stone walls a few times before waking up and shuting off the "soother".

BigBen · 09-03-2005, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by pan6467

...end up waking to Spongebob Squarepants.....

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH,

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea??

If I woke up to that and had that running through my head all day, I would have to kill something.

theguyondacouch · 09-03-2005, 11:35 PM

When I was in highschool I had a bunk bed left over from when I roomed with my little brother. One night I gopt really drunk and fell asleep on my bed. Now, my phone at the time had the most jarring ring ever. About half an hour after I layed down it went off and I sat straight up in my bed, bashing my forehead into the bottom of the top bunk. I had a red mark going across the top of my forehead for the better part of the week.

Kubz18 · 09-05-2005, 11:16 PM

My worst story comes from a night of heavy drinking,

i proceeded to turn on the tv and pop in a DVD.....Old school.....
so i get about 1/10 the way of the movie and pass out i wake up 5 hours later to that annoying title screen music(if any of you have watched the movie you know) but the worst part of it was i couldnt find the TV or dvd remote and this was the old crappy tv were only the menu and vol + button worked so combine that with my current state of drunk/hangover it took me i swear 45min to turn off that damn music.....by eventually unplugging the tv(and later realized i unplugged the clock too and was late for work.....)

well since then i have gotten a new tv with a SLEEP timer....the best idea ever

zVp · 09-06-2005, 05:25 AM

Sometimes People like having something running when they sleep. I have a few friends who leave their radios on, and two that leave their tvs running when they sleep. I don't know why they want some "sound" when they sleep when sleep is usually paired up with "quietness".

fatmanforprez · 09-06-2005, 11:10 AM

I have you all beat my parents used to own a nightclub back in the day and so my father was listening to a demo CD half asleep while driving home at 3:30am, well it was a mellow disk so it was up loud and then as he is about to take the turn into my neiborhood he hears screetching tires coming from all around him and cant see another car on the road, nearly hits a wall panicing so badly, and then a song starts about accidents, boy was his face red when he had to tell the tale later.

Redlemon · 09-06-2005, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by fatmanforprez

I have you all beat my parents used to own a nightclub back in the day and so my father was listening to a demo CD half asleep while driving home at 3:30am, well it was a mellow disk so it was up loud and then as he is about to take the turn into my neiborhood he hears screetching tires coming from all around him and cant see another car on the road, nearly hits a wall panicing so badly, and then a song starts about accidents, boy was his face red when he had to tell the tale later.

I'm guessing that he didn't hire that band for his nightclub?

Peapod · 09-08-2005, 10:52 PM

I have accidently set my alarm to talk radio which scared the living daylights out of me!!!! I have never really left the t.v on in my room - I like it dark and quiet.

Gary_the_Rat · 09-09-2005, 07:32 AM

Waking up to weird videos on MTV in the middle of the night is unsettling.

zakool21 · 09-09-2005, 08:52 AM

Over a small portion of the summer, I have to share a room with my two step brothers. One of them likes to fall asleep with the TV on, and is too lazy to set the sleep timer (or find the remote so that he can do it). The other night, I was startled out of my sleep by the beginning of the Green Day music video "Wake me up when september ends," the part where the boyfriend starts yelling at his girlfriend before he leaves for war. Ended up NOT turning the TV off and went back to sleep. I was woken up by that same music video at 6:30AM, to find that my other step-brother hadn't set his alarm and wasnt up for work yet :O. If his brother hadn't left that TV on, Ryan wouldn't have made it to work that morning....

Johnny Pyro · 09-09-2005, 09:05 PM

I don't have cable, just lots of movies. About a year ago it was shut off because I didn't pay my bill and I decided that I don't need it. I sleep with my stereo on and the music enters my dreams. Its kinda like a soundtrack to my dream.

denim · 09-11-2005, 05:43 AM

The concept of having a TV anywhere but in the living room kinda throws me. I guess it could be useful for watching porn, but that's about all that occurs to me.

boom29 · 09-11-2005, 11:55 AM

When I was 10 or 11, I was watching a movie once on either Showtime or HBO and fell asleep in the process. Next thing I know, I wake up to some erotica movie or one of those "after midnight" specials. Thank god the volume was not too loud, I can't imagine what my mom's reaction would have been.

08-31-2005, 09:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
BigBen Comedian Location: Use the search button	Please remember to turn off your TV before going to bed... I very rarely forget to turn off the TV in my bedroom before going to sleep. It has happened maybe 2 or 3 times in my life. Last night was one of them. I woke up at 2 am to the final scene of "Taxi Driver", and Robert DeNiro was happily shooting in my bedroom. I screamed "HOLY FUCK!" rolled out of bed and reached for my rifle, which I always keep on my right side when sleeping in the army. I realized that I was in my own bedroom, and not in some god-forsaken warzone. I slowly peeked up and over the bed, looking at the TV. There was DeNiro, shooting some guy in the head. My dog was sitting at the edge of the bed, his head cocked to one side and looking at me as if to say "what the hell has gotten into you?" He said "woof" just once, in his quietest voice, to let me know that everything was okay as far as he could hear. I laughed for quite a while, but still couldn't get to sleep the rest of the night. Please, fellow TFP'ers, shut your TV's off before you retire into sleep. Does anyone have similar stories to share? Did Conan O'Brian creep into your dreams and freak you out, and then you found him on the tube when you awoke? Did Jamie and Adam from Mythbusters turn you into Buster the dummy, and you woke up just in time to see the poor dummy get blown up in a dumpster? Discuss... __________________ 3.141592654 Hey, if you are impressed with my memorizing pi to 10 digits, you should see the size of my penis.

08-31-2005, 09:11 AM	#2 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	You know, most TVs are equipped with auto-shut off. You can set the timer to turn it off after a certain period of time... This happens to me when the radio alarm goes off for my wife (she gets up hours before I do). If she stays in bed listening to the radio for a bit, inevitably the CBC enter my dreams... It's a bit unnerving at times. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

08-31-2005, 09:11 AM	#3 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	I've had several dreams where the song playing on the radio when my alarm goes off becomes part of the dream. Thus, I do not use the radio as an alarm any longer...it's not nearly as effective as an obnoxious cellphone ring. __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

08-31-2005, 09:53 AM	#4 (permalink)
Bill O'Rights will always be an Alyson Hanniganite Location: In the dust of the archives	I fell asleep on my recliner once, while the TV was left on. (Mrs. O'Rights saw fit to just leave me there) I woke up, at what must have been 3:00AM, from one of the scariest nightmares that I've ever had. Only to discover that...it...was no...nightmare. They had actually given Tony Danza...his own talk show!!!! The horror...the horror... __________________ "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony "Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

08-31-2005, 10:47 AM	#5 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	I sometimes forget to set my timer and wake up to hear some televangelist screaming at me to send him money. Either that, or I'm on a fishing boat with Bill Dance. __________________ Google

08-31-2005, 10:48 AM	#6 (permalink)
maleficent Junkie Moderator Emeritus Location: Chicago	I can't sleep unless the television is on -- This morning - awoke a little later and gawd help me - Saved by the Bell was on... ugh.. __________________ Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

08-31-2005, 11:10 AM	#8 (permalink)
SirLance Junkie Location: In the middle of the desert.	Dozed off once while the gf was watching "Hotel Rwanda." Woke up during one of the fight scenes. She has surround sound and a great video system. For a moment there, I was back in... well, never mind where, but I was back there. After my heart returned to a semi-normal rate, I was OK. I managed to keep my PTSD dream-freakout quiet, but only just. __________________ DEMOCRACY is where your vote counts, FEUDALISM is where your count votes.

08-31-2005, 12:12 PM	#10 (permalink)
analog Banned	I almost never watch TV... so it's a very, very rare occassion that I accidentally leave it on. The last time this happened, there was some cheesy movie on... and i woke up because the tv was making sounds like someone knocking on a door. Well, I barely heard it and had my head down, so i didn't see the tv was on... half a second later, the door gets kicked in. It's insanely loud. I have a great surround system and my subwoofer is right near my bed (because that's where I watch movies). In my near-awake state, i thought someone had busted in my bedroom door, grabbed a knife I keep attached to my nightstand, and lunged at the door. The door now has a knife wound, and I have a great story of my craziness. lol (never been in the armed forces, and I keep a knife by my nightstand because you never know... i'm paranoid like that.)

08-31-2005, 12:43 PM	#11 (permalink)
BigBen Comedian Location: Use the search button	Some of my buddies talk about the PTSD and coming home and adjusting to sleeping with the spouse after being away for 9 months. One guy had to move because he lived right by a rail yard in town and whenever the train cars would be switching in the yard it sounded like incoming mortar rounds. He thought he was being bracketed, over and over again. Another guy broke his wife's nose becasue she snuck up on him and pounced on him (playfully) as he napped on the couch. He hit her before he was awake. Try telling that one to the social worker... And me, well, if I haven't posted it already, my wife thought it would be cool to tickle my neck while we were cuddling on the couch. It felt like I had a spider on me. I had some VERY BAD EXPERIENCES WITH SPIDERS, and totally lost it. I was curled up on the ground, crying, and she said "Okay, I guess I won't tickle you anymore..." That would be funny, listening to someone knock on the door and then hearing it get kicked in. BTW: Who is that guy with the soothing voice on the CBC radio? I think the name is Yorgen Goth, but that can't be right. When I hear him on the radio when I drive, he totally relaxes me, and I become the super-courteous driver. LOL, I should listen to CBC more often. __________________ 3.141592654 Hey, if you are impressed with my memorizing pi to 10 digits, you should see the size of my penis.

08-31-2005, 12:47 PM	#12 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Jurgen Gothe of Disk Drive... CBC 2 mellow dude Ross Porter, host of CBC 2's After Hours does this as well... the only problem is he is on late at night... and getting sleepy behind the wheel is never a good thing that late at night. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

08-31-2005, 12:58 PM	#14 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	I listen to the CBC all the time. Can't say I watch it all that much but I listen to CBC Radio quite a bit. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

08-31-2005, 07:26 PM	#15 (permalink)
Siege is a tiger Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada	I fall asleep listening to my mini disc player once in a while. Interestingly enough, when I wake up in the morning, the mini disc is right beside my bed, with the ear phones neatly folded the way I normally do it. I'm surprised I can do that in my sleep __________________ "Your name's Geek? Do you know the origin of the term? A geek is someone who bites the heads off chickens at a circus. I would never let you suck my dick with a name like Geek" --Kevin Smith This part just makes my posts easier to find

09-01-2005, 05:48 AM	#18 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	My wfie was driving from Connecticut to New Jersey, and I had just dozed off in the passenger seat. The radio played some sort of flute or bird noise. I jerked awake and started desperately fumbling for the cell phone, since I figured we were in New York, and you can't use a cell phone without a headset while driving. Cracked my wife up to no end. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

09-01-2005, 06:56 AM	#19 (permalink)
Trisk Insane	This happened to my friend with the pulp fiction soundtrack. He had been leaving his radio alarm on "Play CD" for a few days, and kept it that way, forgetting he had switched the cd earlier that day. So next morning, his alarm goes off and instead of whatever cd he was used to hearing, he hears: "Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!!" "Any of you fuckin' pricks move and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you!!" ...and then I believe there might be shooting? ....anyway, he woke up screaming and he had a roomate at the time who woke up screaming either as a response to the cd or as a response to him screaming. They both jumped out of bed, still screaming for about 30 seconds even after they realized there wasn't actually anybody in the room trying to shoot them. I laughed pretty hard when he told me.

09-01-2005, 07:24 AM	#20 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	I can't sleep unless the tv is on or I am exhausted. I go to sleep with Nick@nite and end up waking to Spongebob Squarepants..... I rarely dream but when I do it's just as I am about to wake up and yes, the tv has alot to do with the dream that wakens me.... if it's a depressing show I'll awaken depressed and if it's a comedy I'll awaken in a funny mood..... I awoke once to HSN and felt the need to buy cheap jewelry with real diamonique stones in them for only 3 easy payments of $299....... when I told Amelia she moved out and divorced me..... but I have the real diamonique jewelry. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

09-01-2005, 10:24 AM	#22 (permalink)
MageB420666 <Insert wise statement here> Location: Hell if I know	Well, my ex-girlfriend sleeps with the television on every night, she actually turns it on so that she can go to sleep. Puts it on animal planet and hits the mute button. Made no real since to me, but it worked for her. __________________ Apathy: The best outlook this side of I don't give a damn.

09-01-2005, 10:25 AM	#23 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Mage... my wife says she does the same thing when I am out of town. She said she likes the company. I don't know what that says about me though I can be substituted with a muted TV. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

09-01-2005, 11:24 AM	#25 (permalink)
HLP Crazy	Funny you mention that, I dont have a problem when I normally sleep but only when I nap mid day because a TV somewhere in the house is on and my naps are light. The worst day was i was trying to sleep and every station was covering the Columbia destroyed and I kept thinking that I was on it or I needed to find out what happened. SO I make it a habit to turn off anything making noise while I sleep. I cant even sleep in cars because I hear the road and think while I sleep I am about to tip over. Is there some way I could train myself out of this i wonder?

09-01-2005, 02:19 PM	#26 (permalink)
Cicero Tilted	I sort of did the same thing early yesterday morning. As I was laying in bed, sorta half awake half asleep, I was dreaming that something was comming towards me/at me, and suddenly something in my brain said that someone tossed a live M80 into my bed. So I reflexively hopped out of bed onto the floor. I ducked for cover on the floor beside the bed! In the process of having tossed myself down onto the ground, I got a major carlie horse in my leg. Ugh! I still don't know what came over me. Must have been too much cafeine and all the stress lately from work.

09-01-2005, 03:06 PM	#27 (permalink)
SiNai Dreams In Digital Location: Iowa	I usually fall asleep with some quiet music going. One night, my old girlfriend and I fell asleep to star wars a new hope, and I woke up to the attack run. Look at the size of that thing! Red 2, cut the chatter! Lock x-foils in attack position! I'm hit I'm hit! I was disoriented for a good 20 minutes.. __________________ I can't seem to remember now What it was like- to live life, before you.. symbiont

09-01-2005, 09:29 PM	#28 (permalink)
Bagezio2 Tilted Location: Astoria, Queens, NY	i often fall asleep to infomercials or law and order... its a bit disorienting to fall asleep watching Law and Order:SVU and waking up an hour later to Monk.... Another time i went to sleep with a sound soother on making forest noises (birds and whatnot). I barley even dozed off before thinking that the birds were attacking me, so i started to flail my arms and legs around and hit the solid stone walls a few times before waking up and shuting off the "soother".

09-03-2005, 11:35 PM	#30 (permalink)
theguyondacouch salmon? Location: Outside Providence	When I was in highschool I had a bunk bed left over from when I roomed with my little brother. One night I gopt really drunk and fell asleep on my bed. Now, my phone at the time had the most jarring ring ever. About half an hour after I layed down it went off and I sat straight up in my bed, bashing my forehead into the bottom of the top bunk. I had a red mark going across the top of my forehead for the better part of the week. __________________ "Lick my frozen metal ass!"

09-05-2005, 11:16 PM	#31 (permalink)
Kubz18 Crazy Location: Austin....Austin, Massachusetts	My worst story comes from a night of heavy drinking, i proceeded to turn on the tv and pop in a DVD.....Old school..... so i get about 1/10 the way of the movie and pass out i wake up 5 hours later to that annoying title screen music(if any of you have watched the movie you know) but the worst part of it was i couldnt find the TV or dvd remote and this was the old crappy tv were only the menu and vol + button worked so combine that with my current state of drunk/hangover it took me i swear 45min to turn off that damn music.....by eventually unplugging the tv(and later realized i unplugged the clock too and was late for work.....) well since then i have gotten a new tv with a SLEEP timer....the best idea ever __________________ "I have no idea whats going on"

09-06-2005, 05:25 AM	#32 (permalink)
zVp Tilted Location: Woodbridge, Ontario	Sometimes People like having something running when they sleep. I have a few friends who leave their radios on, and two that leave their tvs running when they sleep. I don't know why they want some "sound" when they sleep when sleep is usually paired up with "quietness".

09-06-2005, 11:10 AM	#33 (permalink)
fatmanforprez Tilted	I have you all beat my parents used to own a nightclub back in the day and so my father was listening to a demo CD half asleep while driving home at 3:30am, well it was a mellow disk so it was up loud and then as he is about to take the turn into my neiborhood he hears screetching tires coming from all around him and cant see another car on the road, nearly hits a wall panicing so badly, and then a song starts about accidents, boy was his face red when he had to tell the tale later.

09-08-2005, 10:52 PM	#35 (permalink)
Peapod Upright Location: Southern California	I have accidently set my alarm to talk radio which scared the living daylights out of me!!!! I have never really left the t.v on in my room - I like it dark and quiet.

09-09-2005, 07:32 AM	#36 (permalink)
Gary_the_Rat Tilted Location: KY	Waking up to weird videos on MTV in the middle of the night is unsettling.

09-09-2005, 08:52 AM	#37 (permalink)
zakool21 Upright	Over a small portion of the summer, I have to share a room with my two step brothers. One of them likes to fall asleep with the TV on, and is too lazy to set the sleep timer (or find the remote so that he can do it). The other night, I was startled out of my sleep by the beginning of the Green Day music video "Wake me up when september ends," the part where the boyfriend starts yelling at his girlfriend before he leaves for war. Ended up NOT turning the TV off and went back to sleep. I was woken up by that same music video at 6:30AM, to find that my other step-brother hadn't set his alarm and wasnt up for work yet :O. If his brother hadn't left that TV on, Ryan wouldn't have made it to work that morning....

09-09-2005, 09:05 PM	#38 (permalink)
Johnny Pyro Hey Now! Location: Massachusetts (Redneck, white boy town. I hate it here.)	I don't have cable, just lots of movies. About a year ago it was shut off because I didn't pay my bill and I decided that I don't need it. I sleep with my stereo on and the music enters my dreams. Its kinda like a soundtrack to my dream. __________________ "From delusion lead me to truth, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to eternal life. - Sheriff John Wydell

09-11-2005, 05:43 AM	#39 (permalink)
denim Banned Location: Massachusetts, USA	The concept of having a TV anywhere but in the living room kinda throws me. I guess it could be useful for watching porn, but that's about all that occurs to me.

09-11-2005, 11:55 AM	#40 (permalink)
boom29 Insane	When I was 10 or 11, I was watching a movie once on either Showtime or HBO and fell asleep in the process. Next thing I know, I wake up to some erotica movie or one of those "after midnight" specials. Thank god the volume was not too loud, I can't imagine what my mom's reaction would have been.