TV in the bedroom, yes or no?

[ShyGuy68]

I was just wondering what my fellow posters opinion about having a TV in the bedroom is?

Personally I don't have one, and it's not something that I desperately want. When I go to bed I'm usually so tired that I can't stay awake for long anyway, unless I go to bed early to read.

 

[graceanne]

We don't and we won't. K's parents offered us a TV to put in our room and K said no.

When we first got married we talked about it, but I felt that our bedroom should be a place to sleep and have sex. I didn't want it to become another living room. Beyond that, K's parents used to let the kids watch TV in the living room while they went and watched TV in their room, with the door shut. The kids might as well have been alone. Their was no superivision on what they watched or did, as long as they stayed quiet. I don't feel that that's a healthy atmosphere. Even our computer is in the living room, cause I want us to at least be together in the evening.

 

[Kierae]

I am in the other camp - I have no tv in the living room but have one in the bedroom. We tend to only watch it in the morning to catch the news/weather and a couple of shows thru the week. I also tend to sleep very little so if am on a bit of a manic phase I tend to watch it on mute at night. I know my poor father was completely lost when he came over and couldnt understand how we functioned without one in the living room (he wanted to watch a game). Our computers are in the living room and normally I play music thru the day.

 

[bibphi]

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[sphynx's dragon]

Actually, we don't have a TV. We have a projector in the living room to watch movies on but no cable or anything. So why would we need a TV in the bedroom? It would just be one more thing to get in the way of the floggers.

 

[Killishandra]

Well, I vote yes. I like to cuddle up on the bed and watch movies. Lucky for me, I now live in a studio... My living room is my bedroom is my dining room is my kitchen! LOL

 

[FurryFury]

Once we had a TV in the bedroom. It wasn't a good thing. I am a light sleeper. We are often on opposite schedules. The only time I even think about wanting a TV in the bedroom is when I am sick.

I really don't think he can understand how frustrating it is to be trying to sleep so I can do a good job the next day while he is flipping channels or finding what must be the noisiest thing on TV to watch. He can't understand because he would sleep through most everything.

Yes, I agree the bedroom is for fucking, sleeping, reading and just hiding out from the noise of other family members. *grr*

If I lived alone, I could trust myself to have a TV in the bedroom though. I'd never keep myself awake with the damn thing.

Fury

 

[ellediablo]

I was just wondering what my fellow posters opinion about having a TV in the bedroom is?

Personally I don't have one, and it's not something that I desperately want. When I go to bed I'm usually so tired that I can't stay awake for long anyway, unless I go to bed early to read.

Actually...I would prefer not having a television in the bedroom - although I do have one. On - it's too distracting for me when I am engaged in boudoir activities but - I do need it on to fall asleep...unless my partner is holding me tight...I watch television to fall asleep.

 

[graceanne]

When I'm sick my mom lets me borrow her portable TV. But I still don't watch much TV, cause when I'm sick I mostly sleep. Beyond that, I never bored enough to watch day time TV. When I was in the hospital one doctor even remarked on it. He said that he thought it was cool that I was either sleeping or busy, instead of vegging in front of the TV. I just said that I'd go stark raving mad if all I had to do was watch TV all day. *shudders*

 

[DVS]

Well, it's like this...I've had a TV in my bedroom, and I will have one again, some day. I have a cable hookup in there, and that's where one computer is. I see it as a welcome addition for someone who's single and wants to lounge a little on his days off. And, a remote will probably be necessary, too.

I've also had a VCR in my bedroom, too. That's for playing the porn vidieos I've had in the past. See, that's also something that's nice, when you have someone over. And, when this someone is already in the bedroom...and on the bed...everything is easier to set into motion.

But, I do understand how some don't like a TV in the bedroom, but I'm not married, I don't have kids and I don't read that much. I don't veg in front of it, but I do like to watch certain shows, when I can.

If I'm also working on the computer, I don't want to be forced into deciding what I'm going to do...continue working or stop and watch TV. The temptation will always end up that I stop and watch TV. If both are in the same room, I am quite good at multitasking.

There is something against having a TV in your bedroom, or even a computer. Some people have a problem sleeping, and the reason can be because other things are done in the bedroom other than sleeping. Doctors say take everything that isn't involved with sleeping OUT of the bedroom, so your body knows you are going to go to sleep, when you go in there.

If you have a phone, TV, computer and/or anything else taking up bedroom space, and you can't sleep when you should? That could be part of the problem. A bedroom is primarily for one thing...sleeping. If you have no problem sleeping, then other things in this room are fine, within your personal preferences.

But, if you have all of this stuff crammed in the room and you can't sleep when you need to...I'd think about moving all of that stuff out. Hopefully, after a while, you will be sleeping, again.

 

[Epona's Chylde]

Because I love to fall asleep watching tv, I do keep one in my bedroom. I also enjoy playing video games in there, so that's one more reason to have it.

Right now I have three tvs. I keep the big one in the living room and it has the cable, vcr, xbox, ps1, gamecube, and n64 attached to it. I have a secondary tv in the living room with a NES, SNES, sega genesis, and dreamcast hooked up to it. In the bedroom, I have my third tv with has cable, vcr, and ps2 attached.

3 tvs may sound like a lot for someone living alone, but it works out for me.

 

[Quint]

I'm trying not to limit myself to fucking in the bedroom. We're going to have a play room once we're done moving in (yay!) so I hopefully won't have any crossed signals..."I'm sorry, honey, we're in the bedroom...but I wasn't supposed to be yawning?"

We do have a TV in ours in our apartment, which is nice when it's my day off and I just want to cuddle with T and play video games and watch movies. But that will probably change when we move into the house. Haven't decided yet.

 

[Chicklet]

Well, I have a roommate, and my own room is really my only personal space. So I have a TV in there, in case I want to watch something alone, or naked, or with a boy and naked...

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I am a light sleeper so conversation and/or noise along with flickering light will not allow me to sleep.

 

[Miss Diva]

I like it to be quiet when I sleep. I don't even the TV in the other room on. I voted no. Besides I only watch TLC (the learning channel)

 

[Xelebes]

I don't even watch TV in the first place.

 

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[DVS]

I am a light sleeper so conversation and/or noise along with flickering light will not allow me to sleep.

I like it to be quiet when I sleep. I don't even the TV in the other room on. I voted no. Besides I only watch TLC (the learning channel)

Well, here's where I"m different. When I was growing up, I remember going to bed while my parents were having friends over to play cards. No, not poker, but I think they played spades, mostly. Hell, I don't know, I'm not a card player.

Anyway, I would go to sleep, listening to them laughing and haivng fun. I guess I got used to it. Also, we had this huge attic fan that my dad put in. He took a couple windows out of my sister's bedroom and put that fan in. It would draw cool air into every window of the house. Yes, it was kind of loud, but actually it would drown out all other sounds, so it was sort of a loud silence, if you can understand that.

I got used to hearing that fan, at night. The switch to turn in on and off was downstairs, and my dad would wake up after we had gone to sleep and turn it off. But, I would usually wake up when he did that.

Over the years, I've loved hearing traffic noise or parties from next door, a fan, the TV or even music playing to sleep by. I enjoy the flashing of lights, as long as they aren't directly on me, so the lights of a TV when it's the only light in the roon is nice.

Mostly, I don't want to have something on that I would want to watch, because that's what will lhappen...I'll watch it, instead of sleep. The same with music. Something soothing and mellow, just a little softer than my alarm will be, so it will still wake me up, in the morning.

Silence is very difficult for me to try and sleep to. All I do is lay there and listen to the silence. I hear the house creek, the furnace go on and off and other things like that. Plus, I have four cats, and they aren't always quiet, at night.

I've almost decided on getting a TV that has a remote timer, so it will go off after a couple hours. But, I'm wondering if that will be too similar to the big attic fan we had, so when the TV goes off, I wake up.

Sure, I understand most people need silence to sleep. In fact, I didn't go in for many overnight dates, and my sex life kind of suffered, in those formative years. Try explaining the reason you don't want to sleep over is NOT because of her, but because her place is too damn quiet, and watch the look on her face.

Give me the hum of a fan, the rumble of a TV and car horns honking down on the street...all at the same time and I'll get a peaceful night's sleep.

We're all weird in our own ways.

 

[chris9]

We don't have a TV. We never had our own one in our separate homes, and when moving in we decided to not buy one, because, first, he isn't interested in watching, second, I'm unable to stop once I started, so studying wouldn't happen, and third we figured we could use the money on things we wanted/needed more.
I would not want a TV in my bedroom. I like to read, talk, cuddle, fuck, laugh, sleep in bed. That's enough for one room.

 

[His_pita]

I don't mind having a TV in the bedroom. What I do mind is having to sleep in complete silence. I'm like DVS and have to have noise. I like my box fan on high. If the power goes out I'm awake. Now what scares me is that I'm going to be moving in with my Dom and he likes the silence. He has a white noise machine that he said we can try and see if he can sleep with it on. I trained my ex-husband to sleep with a fan instead of the radio and I got my fingers crossed I will win out again.

 

[DVS]

I don't mind having a TV in the bedroom. What I do mind is having to sleep in complete silence. I'm like DVS and have to have noise. I like my box fan on high. If the power goes out I'm awake. Now what scares me is that I'm going to be moving in with my Dom and he likes the silence. He has a white noise machine that he said we can try and see if he can sleep with it on. I trained my ex-husband to sleep with a fan instead of the radio and I got my fingers crossed I will win out again.

I am the same way, if the power goes out. I'll wake up, too. Strange, isn't it...that silence can be so loud.

I also understand your concern about moving in with your Dom. A white noise machine is OK, but there really isn't anything that can equal a fan's noise. I have a radio that has several different sounds to sleep by...birds, waterfall, rain, etc., but they are all pretty lame. But, my cats would sit and watch the damn radio, wihen I had the birds sound on. Silly cats are easliy fooled, I guess.

I honestly think your best bet is to shoot for him adjusting to the fan, as your ex did. A white noise machine is electronic, and it can only imitate the pure harmonious ambiance of an analog sound. With any electronic sound reproduction, there's a beginning...an end, then it repeats. There's no variation for true ambiance. With a good ol' cheap box fan, there's just that pure and natural analog sound...puts me right to sleep.

God, I can't believe I'm actually rating noise machines, but I guess that's really what I"m doing. I've been involved with recording music for nearly 40 years now, so I have a trained ear for hearing sound. And, my trained ear says the box fan is the way to go!

Well, I know has nothing to do with having a TV in the bedroom, but it's only a small deviation from the thread topic. Right? I'm a fan of fans!!

 

[His_pita]

God, I can't believe I'm actually rating noise machines, but I guess that's really what I"m doing. I've been involved with recording music for nearly 40 years now, so I have a trained ear for hearing sound. And, my trained ear says the box fan is the way to go!

I am so sending my Sir the link to this thread! I might not win in the end, but I do feel I should do all in my power to bring him to the good side of the box fan.

 

[brioche]

i have a TV in my room. i was the last one in my family to get one. i do find it very useful when i have insomnia. Like now. i was supposed ot go see a movie so i napped, but plans changed.

 

[Evil_Geoff]

My girl jane and I have a box fan AND a pedestal fan in our bedroom. She's a light sleeper, but the fans do a great job generating white noise. The Doorbell might wake her up, as will an alarm clock or her cel phone, but other outside noises like traffic and neighborhood noises are blocked out.

Makes for better sleep for both of us.

And we have 3 TV's (only the 27" in the living room is ever used). She and I both had 19"'s before we got together, and neither of us has ever been "TV in the bedroom" type folks so it was a non-issue.

 

[graceanne]

We have a fan, too. I sleep better with it, cause it drowns out all the little noises that freak me out. Now I'm not up in the middle of the night investigating every creak and moan the house makes.