Could years of falling asleep with the TV on inadvertantly cause lucid dreaming?

Question

Serious question. For years i've been falling asleep with the tv on. it seems apparent that i have trouble sleeping without background noise. i've also exhauseted myself by sometimes working mutliple full time jobs, but now i work third shift so needless to say my sleep pattern is very irregular, and i seem to be able to fall asleep on command. as of late, since i started third shift, my dreaming has been extremely frequent (almost every time i fall asleep) has seem to have had more involved plots, been extremely vivid, and my ability to recall the dreams are done so with ease. i don't really believe in a conscious value of dreams, and i'm not worried about what they mean. first Question; my dreams sometimes become scripted to the programs on the TV. i know this because i can recognize lines from movies i've already seen within my dreams. could it be possible that while falling asleep the background noise somewhat bridges the gap between my conscious state and my dream state? more...

yesterday, i had what i felt to be a step in the direction of controlling my dreams. while i don't believe i've ever had lucid dreams before, i don't know if i'm slowly training myself for this without knowing it. in my dream i found myself inside a dark dark haunted mansion hunting zombies with a steaknife (stupid i know). what intrigued me is that when i have dreams like this i usually get very apprehensive, and my movements seem very very slow and ineffective. a couple weeks ago i had a WW2 dream and i was trying to stab this nazi in the name of self defense with all my being, but physically, i just couldn't do it. i remember being very scared. but in the zombie dream, i felt very capable and sure of all my actions. it felt like it was supposed to be a nightmare, but i was balls to the wall duke nukem style ready and eager to kill some zombies. maybe im just a wierdo, but i've never had dreams of violent manner where i was fully capable by my own will to carry out my own functions.

i don't believe it was a lucid dream, but i wonder if i'm on to something, like a crash course to lucid dreaming, because if i was that would be friggin awesome!!!

if you knew me, deep sleep is no problem.

Answer 1

~I know exactly what you're talking about! I know that having the TV on while sleeping does affect your dreams. It's sort of hypnotic.
When I leave the TV on and fall asleep and some rather bad shows come on, I have bad dreams. I try to turn it off when I'm tired enough to sleep.
We were all watching a video we rented and my sister fell asleep in front of the TV. In the show, the car was skidding and about to go off the cliff and she shoved her feet out and jerked herself awake, she thought she was actually going over the cliff. It was funny at the time.
That's an excellent answer, but one I knew already. Thank you!~

Answer 2

Reality is *all* inclusive! If you (or anyone) perceives it, it exists, is a real feature of Reality. Whether a thought, a hamburger, a dream, a galaxy... all that is perceived is real. Existence = the complete Universe = Reality = Truth Everything exists! Everything is Real! Existence/Reality is all inclusive! That which is perceived exists. That which exists is perceived. Not a thing exists that is not perceived. Not a thing is perceived that does not exist. There is no, nor can there be, any evidence to the contrary, as; Everything exists, thus, everything is real. "The complete Universe can be defined/described as the sum-total of all Conscious Perspectives (us, Souls)!" - Book of Fudd

Answer 3

I know that having distractions on while sleeping keeps you from getting a deep sleep. So I think that you stay in the dream portion of sleep rather than reaching the rapid eye movement portion of the sleep sequence.