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Do you sit in the dark to watch TV?

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LighteningRidge · 26/10/2019 21:46

My DP has turned the light off again to watch TV. I hate sitting in the dark particularly at this time of year when the nights are getting longer. I just feel like I spend all my time in darkness (up at night due to hip and back pain/8 months pregnant).

What's everyone's preference? I just want the light on again Sad

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Pinkbonbon · 26/10/2019 21:49

Only if it's for a big blockbuster movie. And everyone in the room is watching (and not eating dinner of course). Think having it off all the time is a bit much :/

FusionChefGeoff · 26/10/2019 21:50

We have lamps - I hate the big light on but agree total blackness is a bit much!

PristineCondition · 26/10/2019 21:52

We turn the big light off but have a lille lamp on and candles lit

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SpookilyBadOooooooh · 26/10/2019 21:52

No definitely not!

It’s an ‘under the patio’ offence as far as I’m concerned!

lazylinguist · 26/10/2019 21:52

Nope. I hate sitting in the dark. Besides, I often knit in front of the tv, so I need light!

Bluntness100 · 26/10/2019 21:53

No, but we don't have rhe main light on, we have side lifts, as well as table lamps and Philips hue uplighters. I wouldn't sit in the dark, we would all find that weird.

Span1elsRock · 26/10/2019 21:53

I share your pain. DH spends all winter walking around turning lights off. We're sat in a dark living room, with only the light from my laptop and the TV. I hate hate hate the dark.

Roll on summer.

alexdgr8 · 26/10/2019 21:55

i think it's easier to see the screen without harsh light above it or shining on it, but I understand your point too.
could you install a standard lamp and sit under it?

nameymcnamechangeagain · 26/10/2019 21:55

We sit in the dark almost all of the time, the curtains only ever get opened if DP opens them, I like them shut. Love the dark!

Bluntness100 · 26/10/2019 21:55

To be fair though if it was a straight choice between ceiling light and darkness, I'd pick darkness. But who the heck would only have those two choices and not have side lights?

nameymcnamechangeagain · 26/10/2019 21:57

We don’t bar side lights!! Just big light. Will eventually get a floor lamp or something but have never had one before! My natural reaction to someone turning lights on/opening curtains is “ew why”

fanniboz · 26/10/2019 21:58

If a film is on it's nice to watch it in the dark with the sound up. Just normal telly I feel like I can hardly see it in the dark! Feels weird, even one lamp on doesn't feel like enough

PorridgeAgainAbney · 26/10/2019 22:04

No way I'd sit in the dark as that's just an open invitation for spiders to creep up and the first I'd know about it would be when I felt their hairy legs crawling on me.

Nope, at least with table lamps on there's time (for DH) to catch them and prevent me having a heart attack.

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LighteningRidge · 26/10/2019 22:08

We have an uplighter which usually goes on. It doesn't give off that much light such as a ceiling light but enough not to feel suffocatingly dark. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I feel trapped by the darkness. I've put the light on and he has just asked why it is on. I might go sit in the other room and let him be. Roll on summer!

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Adversecamber22 · 26/10/2019 22:44

We watch tv in the dark but we both like it so it’s fine for us

ginghamstarfish · 26/10/2019 22:46

Two lamps on, hate the big central light and never use it.

Floralnomad · 26/10/2019 22:47

I only watch tv with the lights off when I’m watching in bed , downstairs I like it as bright as possible .

theydontknowweknow · 26/10/2019 22:51

We have a couple of lamps on or the wall lights with candles, I like it cosy. Would never use the big (ceiling) light as it looks horrid and would only watch TV in the dark if there's a good film on with the sound up!

Wheninfrome · 26/10/2019 22:53

One table lamp and scented candles here. I don't think I've ever used the main light. I love this time of year when I can feel cozy in my sitting room!

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 26/10/2019 22:56

Curtains drawn at lamps on (big light off) at about 6.30 in our house. Id only have pitch darkness if we were settling down with a movie, so maybe once a month.

BarbaraofSeville · 26/10/2019 22:56

We only have the main light, which we use all the time.

Didn't realise so many people sat in the dark or pissed about with lamps and candles.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 26/10/2019 23:00

Yes when watching a film I put the lamp on

When watching a scary film all light are off to add to the atmosphere wtf I do this to myself it don’t know Confused

Drinkciderfromalemon · 26/10/2019 23:00

Only put the big light on in cases of cat sick, wine spillage or insect capture. Lamps all the way. Hate sitting in darkness to watch a film, barely tolerate the cinema- in my own home would have to abandon the living room kick off.

ineedaholidaynow · 26/10/2019 23:01

Isn’t it meant to cause eye strain?

DH watches it in the dark if I am not around but I will put on the lights as I don’t like watching it in the dark and will usually be reading or sewing at the same time so need a light.

safariboot · 26/10/2019 23:02

Another who turns the overhead light off. Our "side light" is leaving the door open and the hall light on though!