What Cacophony distrubs your slumber ?

Nevyn

Being naturally nocturnal we tend to when possible to sleep during the day
and whether you are the type to goes to bed as the sun rises or at noon there are certain discordant noises the day dwellers will make which will disturb us from our slumber.

What will wake you with out fail or keep you from slumbering ?

Today it was a pneumatic drill, bastards started at 9:10 and didn't break for lunch until 12:30.

Doctor DooM

Thaedydal wrote: »

Being naturally nocturnal we tend to when possible to sleep during the day
and whether you are the type to goes to bed as the sun rises or at noon there are certain discordant noises the day dwellers will make which will disturb us from our slumber.

What will wake you with out fail or keep you from slumbering ?

Today it was a pneumatic drill, bastards started at 9:10 and didn't break for lunch until 12:30.

CHILDREN.

I used to live in a place and the neighbours knew I worked shifts but made zero concession to me. All they had to do was not let them play in the room next to me.

Thats when the 150 watt amp with Metal zone distortion had to start making appearances.

MizzLolly

Usually my housemates stirrin' about early in the morning. My bedroom is beside the bathroom :rolleyes:


Also, if one of them leaves the heating on. Can't sleep if Im too warm

orestes

SDooM wrote: »

Thats when the 150 watt amp with Metal zone distortion had to start making appearances.

Nice, that oughta learn em!

Personally, if the builder who has been working on my house for the last few weeks doesn't start showing some damned consideration you're gonna see me on the front page of a newspaper some time veeeeery soon :mad:

Edit: weird, I'm the same Lolly, and the fact that builder-boy is working on the heating and testing it on full blast at crazy intervals is one of the things that's edging him towards a hole in my back garden

Moonspell

I am a light sleeper

There are some sounds once I get used somehow I manage to block, like the dart passing outside my window.. but my flatmate never holds the doors behind her, and literally leaves it to slam, that wakes me everytime... also the annoying noise when she plays SIMS. That music is just nerves wrecking :mad:

lolly22

Some sleeping right beside you who snore's................oh dont get me started :mad::p

DirkVoodoo

Sorry, bit of a lurker here.

Boy-racers on the M50. Its not even that close but my God it reminds me of my old scalextric. They do it at like 2 or 3 in the morning, up and down this little stretch of road that runs parallel to the motorway. I can hear everything, each little gear change!

Latchy

Tinnitus (ringing in ears ) guaranteed at least two days / nights in a week , the sound of a low flying jet screeching it's way across the skys will be in my head /ears instead of over my head

fonpokno

Some f*cker in my neighbour's garden yesterday and today cutting the hedge for about 5 hours straight! Jebus, he did not make me happy.

Galvasean

Cats having sex on the tin shed in my garden. Noisy buggers. :mad:

AlmightyCushion

Going to bed at 6/7 in the morning and trying to sleep while birds are chirping or cats are meowing. Mother nature is a bítch!

Happiness

Having no work to go to, nowhere I have to be, and having the choice of sleep by day or sleep by night, as much as I can , I choose staying up all night.My life turned upside down a few years ago so why not turn, time sunny side up. I have very little control of my days now, so I stay awake as a kind of protest. Makes little sense but thats me. As the saying goes; of all the things I've lost,I miss my mind the most!

tribulus

Girlfriend stealing my sheets wakes me up and puts me in foul humour! Other than that it's people getting up for work and general movement.

I live on a relatively quiet estate so not much traffic or building work to wake me.

HalloweenJack

Cat fights. And not the good kind.

Galvasean

A freaky one last week.
Had one of those dreams about the aliens. You know the little grey dudes with big eyes and a passion for probing things. Woke up in the complete darkness to hear weird noises coming from the floor below (I sleep on a top bunk). Naturally I'm more scared than a skinny white business man in a state prison.

Turns out it was the dog licking his paws.

BAsTid

For me living near the airport means i've grown a thick skin for noises, unless its next door doing house repairs there aint alot that will wake me. however i find girls who sprawl in the bed tend to always wake me up and i can never get back to sleep, most of the time i get up and get some food or have a shower until they wake up. Anyone have this problem? Better yet anyone got any solutions that dont involve waking her the hell up and tell her to get the hell out!

CianRyan

During the summer my bed time was when i noticed it was bright out, so i'd go to bed, and id here my dad getting up and bumping around about an hour later.
I found this as a reason to give out to him, he just told me to go to bed earlier, i did not! :pac:

Gary ITR

There's a feckin dog in a garden near me that barks 24-7.... I have called the dspca to no avail.... Next step is to kill the owner (poor doggy has done nothing wrong, not his fault he is being mistreated)

Raze_them_all

my training partner waking me up to make me go train

o1s1n

We have some new neighbours in next door who have turned their driveway into a garage. They're constantly working on cars.

One really REALLY annoying thing they keep waking me up with is sanding. There is absolutely nothing as annoying as the sound of a piece of sandpaper. Over and over and over. For about 4 hours. :mad:

RxQueen

Keep my phone beside me pillow(on slient of course) , but was asleep early morning the other morning and i got a text, (new phone still not used to it) and it starts flashing blue and white, it woke me , i thought we were having tunder and lighting, i was scared:(:D

Other things that wake me , be my little brother, who still hasnt master the whole talk in a normal tone, but shouts everything, woke me up one morning shouting at the top of his lungs to my ma, " asking why she and dad got married" ha inquizitive little thing!

Latchy

emo!! wrote: »

Other things that wake me , be my little brother, who still hasnt master the whole talk in a normal tone, but shouts everything, woke me up one morning shouting at the top of his lungs to my ma, " asking why she and dad got married" ha inquizitive little thing!

Well, did he find out ?

Galvasean

His next question was "Whats a shotgun wedding?"

RxQueen

latchyco wrote: »

Well, did he find out ?

well Latchyco i was laughing to much to hear what she said, think i'll ask her myself! im sure it has something to do with my surprise of an older brother!;)

KnifeWRENCH

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Cat fights. And not the good kind.

Yup, I concur.
We have sort of "adopted" a stray cat (or at least we feed him.) And every so often a black and white cat comes along and fights with him. Cats are noisy feckers when they're angry.

If I'm just settling down and trying to sleep, then birds chirping will annoy me. But if I'm already asleep they probably won't bother me because I'm quite a heavy sleeper.

The worst I have ever had to put up with (luckily it's only happened twice) is a fox yelping near my window. You have to hear it to believe - how the hell one fox makes that much noise I'll never know. It was headwrecking! :eek:

Zwillinge

I'd have to say builders.
Car/House alarms.
Snoring people, whether beside or in the next room.
When it's cold and your nose goes ice cold, that always wakes me up with the shivers.
Cats clawing each other out the back.
The neighbours out the back, when their back garden spotlight goes off, it seeps into my room.
The bathroom is next door to me.
The hamster scratching downstairs.

rainbow kirby

Of all things - today it was a dream which involved my laptop being stolen.

*blush*

Quality

Some fu*ker in an airplane is keeping me awake today... He is at it all week... He is up and down the coast all day...:mad:

anonymous_joe

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Of all things - today it was a dream which involved my laptop being stolen.

*blush*

Ooooh, that's scare the Bejesus out of me.

Someone I knew had a nightmare their WoW account had been attacked once. :pac:

SmileyPaul

so this mornin I was havin the weirdest dream i was walkin bout
and I saw the date and it started flickering til it came to friday the 13th... then the 13 started bleeding :S
then my lil bro like the w**ker he is woke me up by jumping on me.... he's 16
weird dream :P

Aisling(",)

takes effort to wake me.i sleep through most things
-planes
-smoke alarms
-car alarms
-alarm clock
-phone going off on my face
-cat sitting on me
-doors slamming
-people shouting on the road
-people coming in and poking me to wake up

im kind a heavy sleepper:P