Any one find TV causes meltdown?

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I only watch a few hours TV a year and I never go to the movies.

I find the constant flashing on the screen, quick scene changes, the arty out of focus camera work and changes in volume too much to cope with.
After about half an hour I am suffering overload.

Also at the movies you have all the other people, the smells of food and the loud volume.

I was reading a forum recently about TV dramas and people were discussing their emotions and their emotional link with the characters;
I found this very strange as all I see is just a story being acted out.

But if people have such an empathy connection with the screen why do they laugh when watch funny home videos programmes and see people fall over and hurt themselves?

whats a meltdown?

At 50 yo - I detest tv - too slow and unreal. Irritating. never watch it. Same with most 'popular ' films, tho some foreign cinema is okay, tho then agn haven't seen any for years.

For me, it's difficult sitting through a show for longer than 15 minutes, because I get excited/overstimulated by whatever it is I'm watching, and I feel like I need to get up and move around.

I find many more factual programmes are like that.
They go and over simplify everything and point out the obvious.
Then they keep repeating things, especially after a commercial break.

A meltdown is when something causes you to lose your temper to the extreme.
Though so far I resisted the temptation to throw the tv through the window, but I have come close a few times.

i used to laugh at the sad parts of tv shows, because the actors and writing were so ridiculous and it was so unreal. this earned me some chastisement from the parents.

i have a theory about the constant flashing of the screen - the refresh rate of a crt hypnotizes the viewer into dumb submission. 60 times a second the picture redraws itself from top to bottom, and this usually isn't consciously noticed but is certainly picked up on by the raw visual processing systems that we have. the brain picks up on this frequency and syncs itself to it, and we lose control over our mind when it's pulsing to the beat of the tv. or something.

and the volume changes, i can't stand that either. i always have control of the remote when i'm watching tv, and the volume's always going up or down.

Elvis Presley had the right idea .....he shot the tv! Put it out of its squawking misery.

I rarely watch fiction but it happens for me sometimes watching the news. The American news media is clueless. Canada and Britain are not much better.

Provided that I'm not watching a movie, I'm usually fine with TV. Ironically, I can sit for hours watching what I have bought (well, not hours, but you get the idea), however, I cannot handle when I'm just watching the majority of movies.

Movies are my meltdowns... forcing me to sit and watch will only cause a problem with me.

I dislike TV and find it boring unless I'm watching it with someone. Jerry Springer and other noisy shows where there's lots of anger and shouting and applause make me nervous and angry. I rarely feel anything for TV or film characters because usually the attempts to manipulate your emotions are so cheesy and blatant. Even when they aren't, it's hard for me to care about someone fictional unless I have some mental investment in them. It is much easier for me to feel for characters in books because I can read at my own pace and analyze things as I go along. Film/TV is just a constant stream, boom boom boom, no time to think. Perhaps this means I don't really have feelings for other people if I have to analyze how I should be reacting first. But I often have gut reactions to others, they're just very inarticulate and hard to express.

It's interesting what you said about characters emotions and caring for fictional characters.
I have never done this and I only realised a couple of weeks ago that other people did this.
Also I never done this in books either, which is probably why I find fiction so difficult to read.
When study English literature at school I never really understood the subject of the essays we used to have write, no wonder I failed!

T.V.. never. computer games used too occasionally when i was younger now i think about it but never T.V *shrugs*