do you need the tv on to go to sleep ?

I definitely have to have the tv on to help me go to sleep. If on the odd occassion I stay up later than my parents and they tell me to turn it off, I have to try to listen to my iPod to fall asleep. For some reason doesn't work as well.

This is a weird question. But on my part, I can sleep with the tv on only if I am too tired to turn it off. But most often, I want it turned off, because aside from the fact that it would save me some bucks with the bills, it would also help me get to sleep sooner.

I have to watch Criminal Minds every night but when I start to doze off I have to have the volume way down or the television off or I will not be able to sleep at all!! Same goes for the lights I have to have them off!!

I cannot sit and just watch TV exclusively without dozing off. Hence it developed into I could not fall asleep without the TV on. It has become a habit, sort of like white noise. If it is completely quiet, than the silence is too 'loud' for me to sleep. Every creak, whistle of the wind, becomes amplified and annoying to me. Nothing like some inane television program in the background to knock me right out. There have been times when the power has gone off while I was sleeping and the sudden, total silence and darkness has awakened me faster than any alarm clock.

I need pocketbook to read to fall asleep. I seldom watch TV at night.

I don't watch tv before sleep, i can't sleep with a light or tv on or even music.. some times i watch a movie before i go to sleep, but at the movie end i turn it off and than go to sleep.. :)

I put the tv on when I go to bed and leave it on all nite on fox news. I am up and down all nite and I fall back to sleep listening to the news