(01-04-2022, 11:03 PM)RicoTx Wrote:

(01-04-2022, 10:51 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: I can't have a television in the bedroom. I would never sleep. Ever. Before we got married my husband said he'd turn on a show and fall asleep to it. Me? I need silence (other than the low hum of the ceiling fan) and darkness to sleep. As soon as the sun starts peeking around the side of the blackout curtains and my early morning neighbors start their vehicles to go to work I am waking up and won't go back to sleep.

My stepdaughter leaves the TV on all night.  I don't get it.  For one, I need it as dark as possible.  I have trouble sleeping once it starts getting light.  A 'late' morning for me is 6:00...occasionally 6:30.  But I'm usually up at 5:00 to get in my 4 mile walk.

I've been sleeping with a pedestal oscillating fan on for more than 40 years.  I started doing it when I was on shift work and had to sleep during the day.  I'd put cardboard cutouts in the windows and a sleep therapist had told us to have some 'white noise'...like the fan.  I actually will have trouble sleeping when I'm out of town without my fan.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."