The Queen's Chair: Watching TV With Your Eyes Closed
I know people fall asleep watching the tube. My husband was the biggest offender of this in our home.
One day, I came home from work and saw him sleeping on the couch. The TV was on and he was in full snore. The remote was lying next to him. I muted it and he kept on snoring. The minute I turned off the TV, he woke up and demanded to know why I turned off the TV. I just looked at him and reminded him that he was sleeping. He protested that he wasn't sleeping, but "resting his eyes."
I walked out of the room to start dinner and he wanted the TV back on. I put the remote on the counter and told him he could get up and get it. I also let him know that snoring wasn't a part of resting his eyes, but sleeping was.
I know many people who go to sleep with the TV on: my mom just admitted the other day that she does this. I was shocked. The woman who yelled at us, as children, about wasting electricity, keeping the lights on, and the heating bill. How ironic that I was now carrying on her legacy now that I was a mom.
Watching TV stimulates the brain and makes one stay awake longer. I know parents who have TVs in their children's rooms. Not me. Not only don't they have a TV in their room, they will never have a phone or computer there either. When they do have these things in their room, they will most likely have their own place and a job.
Keep the TV off and get a good night's sleep.
One day, I came home from work and saw him sleeping on the couch. The TV was on and he was in full snore. The remote was lying next to him. I muted it and he kept on snoring. The minute I turned off the TV, he woke up and demanded to know why I turned off the TV. I just looked at him and reminded him that he was sleeping. He protested that he wasn't sleeping, but "resting his eyes."
I walked out of the room to start dinner and he wanted the TV back on. I put the remote on the counter and told him he could get up and get it. I also let him know that snoring wasn't a part of resting his eyes, but sleeping was.
I know many people who go to sleep with the TV on: my mom just admitted the other day that she does this. I was shocked. The woman who yelled at us, as children, about wasting electricity, keeping the lights on, and the heating bill. How ironic that I was now carrying on her legacy now that I was a mom.
Watching TV stimulates the brain and makes one stay awake longer. I know parents who have TVs in their children's rooms. Not me. Not only don't they have a TV in their room, they will never have a phone or computer there either. When they do have these things in their room, they will most likely have their own place and a job.
Keep the TV off and get a good night's sleep.
Sister Marsha this blog is so hilarious, but the truth is television helps many people fall asleep especially back in the day when the "white noise" would come on after the Star Spangled Banner played. I routinely ask my patients as apart of their hospital admission paperwork if they have trouble sleeping and if so, what do they do to help them fall asleep --- warm milk, a warm shower/bath, drinking glass of wine, sleeping pill, and so on and so forth---
Television white noise sounds can be purchased in the store along with the sounds of the ocean, rain, and other noise on those sound machines. Thanks for this blog, because my mom used the television to fall asleep and would wake up the minute I would turn it off. She would say the say thing as your husband did, "I was resting my eyes."