CONSTANTLY has to have the radio or TV on?

I'm curious... and wondering why these type of people need a constant distraction. I like peace and quiet every once in a while. Radio when I'm cooking or cleaning house. TV when I have nothing else to do.

My husband amazes me how he can surf the web and watch TV at the same time.. I guess I have must have poor concentration skills. lol

Dude at work: we have to hide the remote from him, else he'll keep the TV on FOX news ALL day long...waiting in case some disaster happens. If the boss makes him turn it off, he'll turn on his little radio and stay fixed to it.

While we are all wired differently, I'm curious as to what the reasons are for this...other than what is previously mentioned. Note, I'm not saying anything is wrong with this, I would just like to understand it more.

Your opinions, please? (Wait for the poll please)

Oh my goodness, I misspelled racket.

i don't really have an answer for why, but I find I'm more able to concentrate on work if the radio/tv is on. otherwise I find other distractions (like somd) that can't be done at the same time as writing/grading papers.

I am one that has to have the radio/music on. I sleep at night w/ the music on I cant sleep other wise.

I have to have the radio on when I'm driving.

Otherwise, I prefer peace and quiet.

TV on from time I get up till I go to bed. I love TV. Radio in car.

When I get home my tv is on from the time I get there until I leave for work in the morning. When I get to work I turn the radio and it stays on all day until I leave. I don't know why but I have always been this way.

Yes. Silenece freaks me out too much.

I watch TV and listen to radio for very few reasons and very seldom (except for sports). Music is another story, though. I needs my music...

My TV usually is on but many times I mute it. I like to be able to look if I pass by and see whats going on. But If I'm trying to concentrate I need peace and quiet.

Yes. Silenece freaks me out too much.
Ah! But why? I'm curious.

I do love listening to my music as well...gotta have that...but not all the time. If I have to study or concentrate on something I'm required to retain or compose, I can't have any distractions. I don't know why...irritates me. Brain has a spark plug that's mis-firing somewhere i guess. hehe
I envy you ppl who can do that.

I always did when I lived on my own. It erased the reality that I was really by myself in the house. Over time I got used to having it on, but initially it was so I didn't feel all alone.

Oddly enough, now that the house ISN'T empty, quiet is kind of nice, if rare.

I usually have the radio on in the car, but I also enjoy having the quiet now and then. I can be without the tv. :shrug:

I always did when I lived on my own. It erased the reality that I was really by myself in the house. Over time I got used to having it on, but initially it was so I didn't feel all alone.

Oddly enough, now that the house ISN'T empty, quiet is kind of nice, if rare.
Interesting. I can understand that reason.

I usually have the radio on in the car, but I also enjoy having the quiet now and then. I can be without the tv. :shrug:
Ya, me too. I really hate it when the TV is on, and no one is watching it for quite a while...but the moment I turn it off, I get: "Why did you turn the TV off?!!"
Uh..cause nobody was watching it and its wasting electricity?

We have some funny conversations over that here.

Sometimes I put the radio on in the car with the sole purpose of listening to either traffic or weather, but I might do it on six or seven minutes rather than eight. And since I seem to auto-tune out commercials, a lot of times I end up tuning out the traffic and weather which comes right after, too. They all seem to have similar voices. :lol:

I have to have TV on. I stay home all the time and having TV on helps me feel that someone is in the house with me instead of feeling like I'm staying home alone by myself. I can't put the TV on mute because it makes the closed captioned go away, but I can lower the volumes all the way down to zero. I can't hear, so I don't need sound.

I get enough racket at work so at home, I usually have the TV or music on very low or just complete silence if I'm overloaded. Like today. :smile:

I have to have the tv on when I sleep. It is sort of like white noise because I'm such a light sleeper, anything wakes me up. When I try to sleep without the tv on, water dripping in another room can keep me awake. My alarm clock is my cell phone, set on vibrate, that's how easily I wake up. I don't mind silence when I'm awake and moving around, but sleeping, I definitely need a constant bit of soft noise in order to actually sleep. :crazy:

I voted that the noise annoys me. I can go days with no TV or radio.

I voted that the noise annoys me. I can go days with no TV or radio.

Allllll. :huggy: It's so sweet to know that you cater to my needs by letting the tv run all night when I'm over. :love:

The TV is usually on from dinnerish time until morning (in one room or another). I have it on through the night. I don't have any real answer as to why except maybe it's always been that way. :shrug:

During the day, however, I can go without, even w/out stereo in the car.

But, if I'm walking or at the park with the dogs, etc, if no one is around, I feel irritable if I don't have music.

I have to have and use media all around me, but need silence to decompress and regenerize, I suppose.

I will listen to the radio only in the car. Never at home or at work. The TV is normally always on because one of my sons and my husband are the type that need to have it "in the background" while they are doing something else. Sometimes my husband will be in a completely different room and as soon as I turn off the TV, he comes flying out and asks me why I turned it off.

Allllll. :huggy: It's so sweet to know that you cater to my needs by letting the tv run all night when I'm over. :love:

I go into a coma the second my head hits the pillow - don't even hear the TV. Heck, you guys have sat down there still partying after I've gone to bed and I didn't hear you at all. :lol:

HLN or Newsroom on usually in the background.

I prefer peace and quiet.

I always have music or tv on in the background. Its kinda like the "sound track of my life". Have you ever watched a movie or tv program that had no sound track???

I could really do without TV, not much interest me on there......but I gotta' have my tunes..

I go into a coma the second my head hits the pillow - don't even hear the TV. Heck, you guys have sat down there still partying after I've gone to bed and I didn't hear you at all. :lol:
omg, I envy you! I have to have silence with a fan on for white noise... can't have TV because the noise varies and the variations wake me up. Takes me 15-20 minutes to get to sleep too... even when I'm really tired. I wake up all night too... terrible sleeper.

i don't really have an answer for why, but I find I'm more able to concentrate on work if the radio/tv is on. otherwise I find other distractions (like somd) that can't be done at the same time as writing/grading papers.
See, I have figured out (I think) the reason why I'm one of those people who almost always has at LEAST music, if not the Tv, on whenever I'm doing school work or something on the computer...
I am a multi-tasker.
If I don't have something else on, I actually find it harder to concentrate on what I'm "supposed" to be doing. It's like my brain needs a certain amount of input or it just starts drifting off into thinking about nonsense things. :lmao:

omg, I envy you! I have to have silence with a fan on for white noise... can't have TV because the noise varies and the variations wake me up. Takes me 15-20 minutes to get to sleep too... even when I'm really tired. I wake up all night too... terrible sleeper.

GF is just like that.
I totally had to adapt because I was a TV at night person as well, though I'd turn the sleep timer on so it didn't waste electricity overnight. I get to sleep earlier now that I'm not tempted to stay up and listen to/watch that one last show or tidbit of a show...but it is so different having (near) total darkness and no tv to listen to.
Oh, and I hate the fan in the winter...makes it even colder and is a total waste of electricity...I want to break the thing :lol:

[QUOTE=pcjohnnyb;3547054]See, I have figured out (I think) the reason why I'm one of those people who almost always has at LEAST music, if not the Tv, on whenever I'm doing school work or something on the computer...
I am a multi-tasker.
If I don't have something else on, I actually find it harder to concentrate on what I'm "supposed" to be doing. It's like my brain needs a certain amount of input or it just starts drifting off into thinking about nonsense things. :lmao:


Ok, that explains alot. You have ADD.

Ok, that explains alot. You have ADD.

Boy am I glad you're not a doctor :lmao:
Unless you're right, in which case...:shrug:...guess it does explain a lot.
I can't even sit here and just work all day long, if you don't notice my near-constant posting :killingme I do both at once, and it works out just dandy, but just sticking to work gets me too bored.
I don't think it's quite ADD though, I just feel like I'm wasting brain function if I'm doing something really monotonous and nothing else :shrug:

See, I have figured out (I think) the reason why I'm one of those people who almost always has at LEAST music, if not the Tv, on whenever I'm doing school work or something on the computer...
I am a multi-tasker.
If I don't have something else on, I actually find it harder to concentrate on what I'm "supposed" to be doing. It's like my brain needs a certain amount of input or it just starts drifting off into thinking about nonsense things. :lmao:



GF is just like that.
I totally had to adapt because I was a TV at night person as well, though I'd turn the sleep timer on so it didn't waste electricity overnight. I get to sleep earlier now that I'm not tempted to stay up and listen to/watch that one last show or tidbit of a show...but it is so different having (near) total darkness and no tv to listen to.
Oh, and I hate the fan in the winter...makes it even colder and is a total waste of electricity...I want to break the thing :lol:



See, I've often wondered if its serious things people want to avoid thinking about or confront.

Dude, you sound like my husband... I feel so bad for him some nights. He tells me, "I've seen a Robin make a nest in the time it takes you to get comfortable!'" :killingme

Seriously, I think we just need a new mattress and upgrade to a King size bed...one of those kind where if you flop, the other side doesn't move. What kind of bed is that? It's not tempurpedic..

Ya, me too. I really hate it when the TV is on, and no one is watching it for quite a while...but the moment I turn it off, I get: "Why did you turn the TV off?!!"
Uh..cause nobody was watching it and its wasting electricity?

We have some funny conversations over that here.

It is the same at my house. My family always has the TV on, even when everyone is busy on laptops or in other rooms.

Sometimes I just want peace and quiet but they won't let me turn off the devil machine.

Or, they have it turned up so loud a person can't even think -- drives me nuts!

(Of course, all bets are off if I happen to have QVC on, but then, I rarely get control of the remote...):killingme

I rarely 'watch' TV. I spend most of my time on the computer & I like to have the radio tuned to 91.3 (Jazz & Blues) on when I'm surfing/working on the computer.

I like the radio on when I'm getting ready in the AM & in the car for long drives or going to DC for traffic reports.

Hubby has total control of the TV remote; hence the reason I rarely watch it. :killingme

I only listen to the radio in the car, and I don't even drive. I like it though. 97.7 and 98.3. I also like NPR, but I have no idea what station that's on.

I have the TV on fairly often, because most of the things I do around the house are things I can do while I'm being entertained otherwise, like folding laundry, making food, dishes, any other number of chores. Pure entertainment I guess. I like movies, the Discovery Channels, and House M.D.

It has to be off when I'm reading a book. I can't even listen to music without lyrics while I'm reading, it distracts me from reading.

It has to be off when I'm reading a book. I can't even listen to music without lyrics while I'm reading, it distracts me from reading.
I love light Classical music in the background when I'm reading. It has to be very, very low volume though.