It is 350am. Almost every day I am awake at this time. Is it because I wake up on my own? No. It is because I am woken up by the TV clear in the living room. I am extremely sensitive to sounds, apparently. I can hear the TV downstairs!! Now, I have gotten pissed before and gone to check the volume, but it a level that really is quiet! Any lower and I would have trouble listening to it myself! It isn't that I can sit in my room and hear what people are saying, or music being played or anything, I can just hear noise. But that is the problem! I guess I recognize that I "should" be able to hear it and i focus on it. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I currently have the TV in my room up so loud to drown out the sound outside, that there is no way I can sleep. I have tried putting ear plugs in, and it doesn't work. I have also tried music, and soundscape stuff. And again, in order for it to drown out that sound it is so loud I can't sleep. I can't ask Dan not to turn on the TV, because he can't sleep either, and nothing to do while sitting awake is torture. Believe me, I know!! I can't move the room I am in, and I can't move my furniture in my room either, because of cable lines, and outlets. See both of those affect this too. The staircase to my floor is across the living room from the TV and just to the left of it. My room is then just to the left of that staircase, My bed is in a continued line across my room. This layout creates a straight line from the TV to my bed. The house was made over 50 years ago, so the doors are hollow core, and nothing is anywhere close to sound proof. You can hear the backdoor shut from anywhere in the house!
Any suggestions? Any experience that would lead to advice? Would one of those "as seen on tv" door things (that are essentially one piece of foam tube on each side of the doorjam, encased in fabric so that when you open and close the door it goes with it) work do you think? Or am I doomed to forever wake up at 350am until I am exhausted to the point of passing back out?
Oh, and I forgot to mention that I already take tylenol PM to go to bed in the first place. I am desperate for good sleep! Please help!
Installing solid wood doors could work. You could change your sleep cycle so you go to bed earlier and are up at 4am to watch the shows, too. Or, the number one thing you could do is you could have the person watching TV wear headphones that plug into the TV. If your TV doesn't have headphone outlets, then you could have them watch the tube on the computer (Hulu, Fancast, Joost) and use the headphones with those. That is exactly what I do, in that situation. Courtesy is had all around, and sleep, precious sleep.
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A white noise maker in your room might work, or ear plugs might work also.
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