Do you fall asleep while watching television?

I cannot sleep when I am watching television. I always have a hard time sleeping more so if there are things that will affect my sleep. That is why, when I really want to rest well and sleep well, I turn of my television and turn of the lights.

i have never fallen asleep while watching television. I might get a bit drowsy and my eyes become really heavy, it never came to a point whee I really slept. Reading school books (studying) makes me fall asleep all the time.

I actually feel the opposite. When I watch television, I tend to feel alive instead of sleepy, unless of course it's already dawn. On the other hand, I've seen my uncle and grandmother fall asleep while the television is on. Then when you turn it off for them (since they have fallen asleep), they'd wake up! hehehe.. It's really funny.

Although it doesn't happen very often, it does still happen from time to time that I will fall asleep while watching television, or a movie, or something to that effect. It has happened. There were just times when I couldn't help it.

My husband and I actually don't even have a television in our bedroom, so the answer to the main question is that I very rarely, if ever fall asleep with the television on. The main exception to this is when I haven't slept well at night and I'm exhausted the following day and I fall asleep while my son is watching cartoons or something like that. I do find that I'm not ever able to sleep well when the television is on.

It depends. If I'm tired I fall asleep while watching television in about 20 minutes. It happened to me to sleep for about an hour in front of the TV in the afternoon. If I'm not tired I do not fall asleep while watching television. On the contrary, I feel like not being able to fall asleep if I watch TV late at night. Specialists say it is better to go to sleep when you feel you need it. If you loose this moment, falling asleep will become more difficult. This is also happening to me especially when it was a scary movie or something like that.

I fall asleep almost all the time, when I sit in front of the tv. I do sleep with the tv running, but put in in sleep mode, so that it shuts off. It does make me sleepy most of the time.

No usually I am wide awake. Reading does make me fall asleep but it rarely happens while I am watching television. I have limited watching television to sports so usally I am wide awake to follow what is going on in a football match. Usually when I feel I am sleepy I just switch tv off and I prefer to go and sleep in my bed than lying on the sofa.

Yes, I sure do fall asleep when I am watching TV. If a film is very good though I just may stay awake, but quite often I am watching one minute and asleep the next. I tend to wake up feeling diappointed that I have missed what I was intending to watch. My wife thinks it is quite funny sometimes. _Derek

So it is with my mother, she often falls asleep while the television is on. And when she wakes up and turns it off at midnight, she can hardly go to sleep.

We actually don't have television. I mean, we have a tv, we just don't have cable so watching it really isn't going to do us any good. xD And our TV with the DVD player and the VCR is hooked up in the living room and we don't have a tv in the bedroom, so we don't really have the option of watching television while we fall asleep. Sometimes when I'm really tired and have trouble going to sleep I'll stretch out on the couch and put on a DVD to watch while I fall asleep, though. It helps me to focus on one thing and relax my mind enough for me to fall asleep. ^_^

It does not happen so often but happens sometimes nor I'am in a habit of it. Sometimes when I work hard or after doing homework when I watch T.V to relax myself I get sleepy and forgets to Switch Off the Telivison.

I always do that , I can't get to sleep if i don't watch some TV. And my TV is all night on.

when i get sleepy while watching television i usually turn it off and go to bed. however, my husband always falls asleep watching tv. in fact we already know that within five minutes after he starts watching he would be asleep. but when we turn the tv off he is sure to wake up.

I always have the television on when I go to bed. It is probably a bad habit but I continue to do this every night. I like to have the tv on with the sound turn down low but audible as it blanks out the sounds from outside my bedroom window, ie cars driving by, birds tweeting, the wind. While on the subject of sounds that keep me awake, I cannot have a clock in my room which you can hear ticking, this is like torture to me. Are any other myLot users like me with the noisey clock, I'm sure I cant not be the only with this pet hate.

No, I really do not fall asleep watching television. At least, I do not fall asleep when watching television anymore. The fact is there is so little that is on television that interests me these days, that I find me not watching the thing until all hours of the night. Still, there is something that can be said about staying up too late and falling asleep. I think during the exciting moments, it is easier to stay awake but otherwise, it might be a bit trickier. I think about the only time when I might have fallen asleep is when the commercials were on. Those made me rather tired and restless, unable to focus. I always did something else when commercials were on but at night, it was sometimes not possible. However, I do not fall asleep anymore. Partly because I do not watch much television at night anymore.

I have found that as I get older I do tend to fall asleep more when I am watching the TV. This can be so annoying, especially when you were watching a film and you miss the end!!

I love watching programs on television. Most of the time that i watched at night i didn't fall asleep however there were times that i fall asleep while I am watching. During that time I am so tired.

i sometimes fall asleep whilst watching tv in the afternoon more so if ive been working at nights. it annoys the hell out my wife drifting of on the sofa for an hour or so but sometimes im not actually asleep if that makes sense i just tune out close my eyes and listen to the world go by its like sleeping in bed with the wife but without actually being there

lol i love falling asleep with the TV on i go right too sleep. sometimes it makes me sleepy but its for the best because am always woke