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1065 People who fall asleep with the television on aren’t lazy or undisciplined — many learned in childhood that voices in another room meant the house was safe, and the nervous system still reads the equation the same way decades later

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/25/2026 04:04 EDT

People who fall asleep with the television on aren’t lazy or undisciplined — many learned in childhood that voices in another room meant the house was safe, and the nervous system still reads the equation the same way decades later

Falling asleep to the television isn't laziness — it's a self-soothing strategy with deep roots. But new research on broadband background noise suggests the cost is showing up in the parts of sleep you can't feel directly.

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