What's Your Addiction?

[eDave]

We all have them. I have several. What's yours?

[stumppy]

Originally Posted by patteeu

Here's a weird one. I have a hard time going to sleep in silence. I started listening to music or talk with earbuds or a pillow speaker many years ago so I wouldn't have to hear whatever sitcom my wife would watch when she went to bed. Now the wife's gone but I can't go back to silence. Lately I've listened to podcasts at bedtime but I usually fall asleep so fast I never remember what was said the next morning.

MASH for me. For many years it was on at 10:30 every night around here. Although, when I was a kid it was Johnny Carson. Didn't have much supervision when I was growing up so pretty much every night since I was 5 or 6 I would stay up late and fall asleep watching the Tonight Show. I have a real hard time going to sleep without some background noise. Not just any noise, it has to be voices, not too loud , not too quite. Most TV shows will do but I think the familiarity of MASH is why it works best.

Oh yea, being left alone with nothing but my own thoughts makes it real hard to fall asleep. My mind just goes and goes and goes.

[Frosty]

Man, I can't sleep with any music or talking at all. If it's low enough to just be a murmur, my brain goes nuts trying to make it out. If it's louder, I just end up listening to it instead of sleeping. White noise is the trick for me, in the form of a loud box fan.

[gblowfish]

Royals baseball either TV or radio. I can always nod off with a game on in the background.

[stumppy]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Royals baseball either TV or radio. I can always nod off with a game on in the background.

No way I can with any kind of game on. I find myself following the game.

[RobBlake]

Ecstasy

[C3HIEF3S]

Originally Posted by stumppy

No way I can with any kind of game on. I find myself following the game.

As much as I love baseball, there is no easier sport to fall asleep to IMO.

[burt]

Watches, Chiefs, Royals....oh and sex. Still. Thank God.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by RobBlake

Ecstasy

The drug or the emotion?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by patteeu

Here's a weird one. I have a hard time going to sleep in silence. I started listening to music or talk with earbuds or a pillow speaker many years ago so I wouldn't have to hear whatever sitcom my wife would watch when she went to bed. Now the wife's gone but I can't go back to silence. Lately I've listened to podcasts at bedtime but I usually fall asleep so fast I never remember what was said the next morning.

If sitcom and movie plots are correct, you could subliminally teach yourself Italian or Chinese while you sleep.

[Buzz]

Did I say beer

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Frosty

Man, I can't sleep with any music or talking at all. If it's low enough to just be a murmur, my brain goes nuts trying to make it out. If it's louder, I just end up listening to it instead of sleeping. White noise is the trick for me, in the form of a loud box fan.

I can't do talking or light from the TV. I have a standing fan for white noise. Turn out every little light, even the directv receiver. Need it to be pitch black and cold. Keep the AC cranked and have black out curtains. White noise is the real trick though. Very hard for me to sleep without it.

[lewdog]

Ok I found mine.

I have to sleep with a fan, or white noise (99.9% fan). Which usually means I take a fan with me when we travel. At home it's a huge, loud, thundering box fan. I CANNOT sleep without white noise.

[Rain Man]

I don't need white noise at all, but maybe it's because tinnitus provides all that I need.

[stumppy]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I don't need white noise at all, but maybe it's because tinnitus provides all that I need.

The television keeps my mind off of the crickets that are always there.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I don't need white noise at all, but maybe it's because tinnitus provides all that I need.

I don't think I could handle tinnitus. I think I'd rather be deaf.