How funny that a few of us have the TV on all nite habit! I know mine is all fear based..for some reason having it on calms me. If it goes off for any reason, I will wake up immediately. I also have to have the ceiling fan on 24/7 too, but living in AZ, a ceiling fan is almost a prerequisite!
I once went to Vegas with a girl friend and she was the polar opposite of me....TV had to be off, room pitch dark and dead silence. It made for a very long nite for me....
Spongemonkey(cool name, btw!), I get nervous too if I accidentally drift off in the afternoon. Im not a napper either so any deviation from my "normal" routine puts me on edge, wondering what might be wrong.
Wow, if we could somehow combine all the brain cells we kill with worrying, rationalizing, etc etc, we could probably come up with a cure for world hunger