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Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Mon 02 May, 2011 21.45
by Lorns
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.

Re: Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Mon 02 May, 2011 22.06
by Chie
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

Re: Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Mon 02 May, 2011 22.10
by Beep
Chie wrote:bumping and grinding with Prince Harry. :D
In public, imagine what the dream press would have thought!

Re: Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Tue 03 May, 2011 09.35
by Gavin Scott
Chie wrote:On Friday evening I had a dream I was at the royal wedding reception bumping and grinding with Prince Harry. :D
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.

Re: Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Tue 03 May, 2011 16.16
by marksi
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.

Re: Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Tue 03 May, 2011 18.12
by Steve in Pudsey
Tends to be catching up on podcasts for me, usually the excellent Toby Foster show from Radio Sheffield, or Fighting Talk or some such.

Re: Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Wed 04 May, 2011 21.03
by m-in-m
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.

Re: Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Wed 04 May, 2011 21.28
by Lorns
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.

Re: Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Wed 04 May, 2011 22.30
by jsm
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.

Re: Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Wed 04 May, 2011 23.24
by Gavin Scott
Where in Noo Yoik are you?

Re: Sleepy TV/vhs/dvd

Posted: Wed 04 May, 2011 23.53
by jsm
Staten Island. It's absolutely horrid. I spend most of my free time in Manhattan and Brooklyn.