Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Lorns · Mon 02 May, 2011 21.45

Just wandering what your fave prog is before you go to noddy blinkums.

I often watch family guy or south park, but my absolute fave dvd to nod off to is the Young Ones. I pop in the DVD and close my eyes. I know it word for word and can picture the whole set in my mind.

Chie · Mon 02 May, 2011 22.06

Leaving on the BBC News channel for my occasional evening nap produces some amazing vivid dreams.

On Friday evening I had a dream I was at the royal wedding reception bumping and grinding with Prince Harry. :D

Beep · Mon 02 May, 2011 22.10

Chie wrote:bumping and grinding with Prince Harry.

In public, imagine what the dream press would have thought!

Gavin Scott · Tue 03 May, 2011 09.35

Chie wrote:On Friday evening I had a dream I was at the royal wedding reception bumping and grinding with Prince Harry.

A dream? You were wide awake and staring into middle distance with a grin on your face, you soppy sod.

I watch Discovery Science. Usually an episode of How its Made. Around the time they start, "coating carbon fibre with resin" I'm getting snoozy. I like to be asleep before the lame-wad puns by Tony Hirst at the end of the programme.

My telly has a sleep function, but it doesn't work on a digital input - and I *hate* to wake up at 3am with it still on, so I have to keep my hand near the remote to push the button as I'm dropping off.

marksi · Tue 03 May, 2011 16.16

I can't stand Tony Hirst's voice. But I do like How it's Made. Reminds me of going through the round window on Play School.

QVC sends me to sleep quickly, but I prefer to fall asleep to the radio. Plays on BBC Radio 4 Extra will save the NHS a fortune in sleeping tablets.

Steve in Pudsey · Tue 03 May, 2011 18.12

Tends to be catching up on podcasts for me, usually the excellent Toby Foster show from Radio Sheffield, or Fighting Talk or some such.

m-in-m · Wed 04 May, 2011 21.03

I watch Newsnight in bed which sends me to sleep. Unfortunately they often have an interesting piece after Scotland have opted out and by the morning I have no re-collection of it at all which suggests I've fallen asleep by then.

Lorns · Wed 04 May, 2011 21.28

Over the next couple of nights i will be reading a book to send me off. I didn't want to start a new thread about books, but i'll be reading Mark Billingham/from the dead. I've read a couple of his books and pretty good they are too. Mr. Hellfire usually hears the thud of the book hit the floor when i nod off and he very kindly tries to save my page for me. That is then a cue for him to pop in a Vietnam history Dvd for him to nod off to.
The Vietnam Dvd normally wakes me up when it starts getting noisy with bombs and guns and stuff and i then get in a very bad mood and stomp off to the spare bedroom for some peace and quiet. I just cannot sleep in a warzone at 1am.
I would eject the DVD but he's normally still awake. Funny how war movies and Documentaries are not sleepy stuff.

jsm · Wed 04 May, 2011 22.30

I usually fall asleep to the World Service, and occasionally local news radio (1010 WINS). It helps drown out traffic noise, as I live on a busy thoroughfare.

Gavin Scott · Wed 04 May, 2011 23.24

Where in Noo Yoik are you?

jsm · Wed 04 May, 2011 23.53

Staten Island. It's absolutely horrid. I spend most of my free time in Manhattan and Brooklyn.