I remember that too....and the surprise I get still when I can't sleep and turn on something and there's something there. Yeah, she (step-daughter) slept to it. My own girls were content with fans as white noise. I think at a certain level people (kids growing up particularly) get so accustomed to a decibel level during waking hours that they can't relax/sleep w/out it. Not exactly healthy, and not necessarily true -- just my theory. Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Poetry and Madness Date: 10/22/2006 8:29:09 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _rpaul@xxxxxxxxx (mailto:rpaul@xxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: > Hey -- I keep saying..... > > (before she moved out his adolescent daughter was even worse -- she had to > have it on all night....). I can remember, honest, when TV stations SIGNED OFF THE AIR around midnight, certainly by 1:00 a.m. Maybe in New York or Kansas City there were all night stations, but not where I was. A recorded Star Spangled Banner, some grainy footage of WWII fighters in goose formation, then snow and white noise. Maybe your daughter was comforted by the white noise. Even in her sleep. She did sleep? Robert Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html