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Posted by Timothy Ervin (Member # 733) on 03-07-2005, 01:29 AM:

How many of you sleep with a fan on, or know of somebody else who does? I personally do not but I know of a few people who do and I was just wondering what's up with that? [Confused]

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-07-2005, 01:34 AM:

In the summer here, my room gets warm enough that I must have a fan running. The noise is annoying but I can't sleep otherwise.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-07-2005, 02:10 AM:

Most people I know sleep with a fan on because of the white noise it produces.

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 03-07-2005, 02:17 AM:

Same here in AZ, even with regular house A/C, a ceiling fan is a necessity during the summer.

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 03-07-2005, 02:31 AM:

I do it for the noise. In fact, I find I almost cannot sleep at all if it is silent. A bad habit to get into because of that.

Posted by John Hegel (Member # 628) on 03-07-2005, 02:35 AM:

In order for me to sleep I must have the TV on. If for whatever reason during the night I’m left without the noise of my TV I will wake up.

On a side note: if anyone ever sees the producers and or voice of the Nickelodeon’s show "Dora the Explorer" please hurt them from me. That show makes waking up to the Tela Tubbies seem pleasant.

Posted by James Faber (Member # 2796) on 03-07-2005, 04:01 AM:

I know plenty of people who need a fan on to get to bed, but not I. I need absolute silence. I guess I can't have white noise due to my paranoia issues. I want to be able to hear if someone is in the house, in which case I would employ any of the numerous weapons I keep in my room. I'm beginning to think I might have serious issues. I mean, is a crossbow REALLY necessary?

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-07-2005, 04:44 AM:

That depends. How close do you live to Phil? [Eek!]

Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 03-07-2005, 06:27 AM:

Sleeping with a fan turned on nearly ruined my relationship. I cant stand that noise.

Bought a 1962-era Vornado window fan on eBay. It is seeing duty in the living room as the producer of white noise. Roomie likes its noise. I have to close my bedroom door to block it out.

I want QUIET!

Roomie sleeps in the living room.

And now, our next post...

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-07-2005, 09:13 AM:

I have slept with a fan on for at least the past 50 years. It doesn't matter how cold the temperature is outside, I need that cool breeze to sleep.

Speaking of sleep, I average two to three hours a night, max.

How many hours do other people sleep?

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 03-07-2005, 09:28 AM:

4 if I'm lucky. Even less with the fan off.

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 03-07-2005, 10:19 AM:

I sleep during the day.And only then with the casket lid closed.

Don't let the sunlight in. It burns! It burns!

Posted by Brent Neal Jones (Member # 1048) on 03-07-2005, 11:16 AM:

Got ot have that fan. If are is not moving, I toss and turn and overheat. Then, I have a really bad day the next day. Also, I'm very choicy of the fans I buy. they have to be good, last forever and be repairable. they also have to be capable of moving an insane amount of air for their size.

Wal-Mart has a fan that does this for just over $12. It is called a Lakewood but I have the suspicion it's made by patton. It's just a ten inch personal fan, but it has perfect noise, quiet, and delivers a lot of air. Best of all, it's all metal!

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 03-07-2005, 03:58 PM:

I also sleep with the fan on for the noise. I live in an apartment that sits on the corner of two rather busy streets. My apartment is the one on the end, and my room is... in the corner facing the street corner. So without the fan making a steady noise, it's easy to be awakened by a noisy truck, or squealing tires or whatever.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 03-07-2005, 04:39 PM:

Fans? We're much more high-tech here...we have one of those "sound machines" that produces various types of noise. My wife introduced me to it to help us "cover up" each other's snoring. (She got the idea from her mom.) I've gotten to where I can't fall asleep without it. We prefer either "Waterfall" or "Rain."

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-07-2005, 04:53 PM:

I'm getting by on five hours a night these days. Used to need seven. One of the advantages of getting older I suppose (and I turn the big five oh this month).

Posted by James Faber (Member # 2796) on 03-08-2005, 02:09 AM:

I get around 7 or 8 hours of sleep every night. If left to sleep, I will sleep around 14 hours, though. Damn alarm clocks...I have to use two of them.

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 03-08-2005, 03:00 AM:

I need to have silence, but the chimes from the clock every 15 minutes don't consciously register. Some folks can't sleep with that regular dinging.

Some people have tinnitus which for them is very distracting & they cannot sleep without masking sound like fans, surf, radio, etc. (Some folks with tinnitus aren't distracted by it at all, & only find it a handicap because *it* masks intelligibility in hearing others' speech).

Some folks are hypervigilant & need masking sound to shut down the process so they can sleep. Some folks just get accommodated to masking sound from some previous exposure (they're just used to it).

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 03-08-2005, 03:43 PM:

I sleep with the TV on, the computer running, the stereo blasting, and the lights on. Im afraid of everything in the world so I HAVE to have everything on at night or there is no way I can go to sleep.

Ciao

Posted by Kurt Zupin (Member # 2751) on 03-08-2005, 05:32 PM:

I get around 2-3 hour a night and if I'm lucky I can get another 2-3 some time in the day...but its usually the 2-3 hours. My girlfriend can't sleep with out the fan on. So when we started dating 4 years ago I couldn't sleep cause of the fan but now I can't sleep with out the damn thing. What a pain in the ass...I go and stay some where I got to have a fan or something thats going to make noise...but it can't produce light, like a tv or something cause that just bothers me...gotta have that dark room..and slight sound.

Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 03-08-2005, 09:41 PM:

I sleep with a milkhouse heater on in the winter, and the patio door open during the summer. Nothing like waking up to 80 degrees and very sweaty sheets..

JJ

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-08-2005, 09:55 PM:

Josh, you make it SOOOOOO easy for Phil to reply after your posts. [Razz]

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 03-08-2005, 10:08 PM:

I have to sleep with some type of fan on. Even a properly cooled room still gets stagnant air, and the fans help. Like being in a car....even if the temp is good, you still need air moving....

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 03-08-2005, 11:12 PM:

Screw the fans... how many of you have fell asleep in your booth??? I have once. I was sick as a dog and I had just started the last movie of the set. It was winter time and the booth was nice and cozy and warm. I curled up on the floor and took a 10 min. nap. Not that I like to admit that, but I did. First and last time. The sounds of the projectors plus the warmth just was too tempting for me. [Smile]

As for average amount of sleep I get in a day.. 9-10 hours. That includes my must have 1 hour nap after I get off of work at 5pm. I'm always getting teased about how much I sleep but I do love it.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 03-09-2005, 12:51 AM:

Never in the booth, but I fell asleep in the boxoffice once. I was really tired and just laid out on the floor to rest my eyes and fell asleep. I woke up when I heard the "rumble" of the crowd walking by exiting the show.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-09-2005, 01:40 AM:

quote: Brad
Josh, you make it SOOOOOO easy for Phil to reply after your posts.

WTF are you talkin' 'bout Grand-Poo-BAH? I mean, ***IF*** I were that type of person I "could" say something like:

"So Josh, do you sleep nude? And what are you wearing ***RIGHT NOW***?" or perhaps "Josh! What have you been doing to make your sheets wet and sticky?" or... Ok OK OK! I won't suggest THAT one!

But of course, I would NEVER post such crass drivel.

Posted by Kyle Caudill (Member # 1252) on 03-09-2005, 03:07 AM:

My wife got me hooked to having a fan.

But she has changed where she puts its. She use to put it at the foot of the bed till chilli night [Smile]

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 03-09-2005, 06:41 AM:

Leaving the ceiling fan on at night still gives me the creeps from that Twin Peaks show. [Eek!]

[ 03-09-2005, 04:36 PM: Message edited by: Jennifer Pan ]

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 03-09-2005, 12:54 PM:

I only sleep with the fan on when it's hot.
I've gone through different stages as far as what I have for sound when I sleep.
Until my girlfriend and I moved in together, I would have some sort of music on until I get to sleep but have it on a timer so it doesn't stay on all night.
At one point I would also have a ball of light (one of those thing you get at Wal-Mart or a prty store that is basically like a mirror ball but the light shines from the inside and is colorful) hanging on my cieling.
Since we moved in, the only white noise in our room at night comes from the computer, which is on all the time.
I can sleep either with or without it though.

Allison, I can relate to the falling asleep in the booth while you're sick scenario.
I was working one night and was barely functional.
I had to stick it out because I couldn't get anyone to cover for me.
I would thread up my movies and while waiting for them to start, I would lean against the wall or lay on something so I could rest for a minute but kept the booth monitor turned up so I wouldn't fall asleep.
We had a digital preshow, so there was a beep that went off when it was time to start the movie.
It would go off, I'd start the movie, and move on.
I got to the last show which was ready to go ahead of time and started 10 minutes or so after my other last start.
There was a table and chair nearby and I actually fell asleep while waiting to start the show.
The show started about 10 minutes late when the manager called up and asked if I was going to start it.
Oops.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-09-2005, 04:04 PM:

"Sleeping with the Fan On"? What the hell kind of topic is this? Even more pathetic is that there are 2 PAGES of responses so far, and there will probably be more! Are y'all afraid that the fan blades will fly off and chop you to pieces as you sleep? What the hell? Nobody cares if you sleep with the fan on or not. Why not start some threads that would be every bit as interesting like "Sleeping when the sun is up", "Sleeping with the furnace on", "How many times do you press the snooze button?" or "How many pieces of toilet paper do you use when you wipe your ass after explosive diarrhea?"

After seeing this I want to start a thread called "Sleeping with my head in the oven"!

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 03-09-2005, 04:17 PM:

We all got bored with the "_____ word games" and this was the only alternative.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-09-2005, 04:25 PM:

We'll supply the match Joe. Feel the love. [Big Grin]

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 03-09-2005, 06:00 PM:

quote:
After seeing this I want to start a thread called "Sleeping with my head in the oven"!

Don't tempt me, Joe.

Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 03-09-2005, 07:28 PM:

I sleep with the fan on.. and the tv on as well. I make use of the sleep timer on the tv, so it doesn't stay on all night long.

I can't sleep without something on in the background...

Posted by Brent Neal Jones (Member # 1048) on 03-10-2005, 12:36 AM:

I have been known to test to make sure the fan was turning by inserting my toes.... [Razz]

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 03-10-2005, 01:15 AM:

A fun cinema industry handout at trade shows would be those little machines which make noises like surf or crickets while people sleep. You could put your company logo on it, & program it so that every 2 1/2 hours it makes a noise like it's lost its loop & is stripping sprockets for 15 seconds.

I wanted to find an old mantel clock with an hourly strike at a yard sale somewhere to refinish & fix up for a retired projectionist/tech friend of mine - pull out the strike hammer, cam & noisemaker & drive an end of reel bell off the axle. But he has a heart condition, so it would be murder & not really worth it for the fun unless his wife splits the insurance money with me.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-10-2005, 01:42 AM:

Dear Diary:
FYI and just a thought; me thinks Brent is into S&M and perhaps B&D too.

>>> Phil

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-10-2005, 11:33 PM:

My wife got the fan habit and it's only gotten worse. For the noise. She started with a little cigarette air cleaner deal with a muffin fan in it. Then, after that burned up, she went to a room fan on low. Then medium. Then high. Now, years later, she has a larger fan and the damned thing's on high. It's like a wind tunnel in there. Unless it's summer, then the window air conditioner takes its place.

Mike, we tried the noise generator. It was one with about 10 different noises on it: sea shore, light rain, wind, etc.. She loved it, but it drove me nuts after about 15 minutes. It got to where I picked out the LOOP POINTS. As soon as that happened, of course, the crossing got louder with each repeat! It was like listening to a Dolby pink noise generator after several minutes, and you hear the repetition: "crOOOSH..crOOOSH..crOOOSH..crOOOSH..crOOOSH..!!!"

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-12-2005, 12:32 AM:

Several years ago, I lived off a busy street with a lot of traffic noise. It kept me awake and I tried all those white noise generators, wave machines, etc. NONE worked!

The I got a DVD called "Thunderstorm" and it was heaven sent! It was a 60 min CD that had rain sounds on the roof coming and going and a few thunder claps every now and then... It was ***THE*** answer to the outside noises.

I put it on repeat play and it was great all night!

Not only was it great for masking the traffic noise, it was great to listen to while making love! Hubba Hubba!

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 03-14-2005, 06:40 AM:

quote:
Several years ago, I lived off a busy street with a lot of traffic noise. It kept me awake and I tried all those white noise generators, wave machines, etc. NONE worked!

There are a number of effective CD's for auto-suggestion which are very effective. Even for people who are hypnosis-proof, the relaxation routine generally becomes effective enough to eventually just require mentally counting backwards from 5 to go out like a light. Some of the best are actually for pain management, as achieving sleep is one of the main issues addressed. The technique is very useful for people in jobs where you've got to take fast naps.