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How do you sleep at night?

The Backwards Man

City folk I mean, and townsfolk, and even village folk I suppose. With all that noise and bustle and carry on.

The farmer a mile and a half away from me is covering his silage pit and the noise of the plastic is keeping me awake.

How do you live with le commotion all the time? Are you all Kylie fans of wha?

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KERSPLAT!

Have you tried counting turf to try send you off?

Realt Dearg Sec

On top of a big pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.

The Backwards Man

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Have you tried counting turf to try send you off?

Turf excite me though, they don't have the right effect.

PTH2009

If I'm sharing a room with a snorer I can't sleep

Hate snoring with a passion (heavy breathing while sleeping also irritates me)

bodice ripper

I don't.

thisistough

Double glazing

Samaris

I can deal with city noises since I lived for a year beside a motorway (in a house, not actually on the side of the motorway). I live right out in the countryside now, and the country is anything but quiet! Sure, little to no traffic, but there's two donkeys that like to have LOUD braying conversations between their fields, a horde of cats, ..a dog until today, cows all over the place lowing - and every so often they all act like they're possessed and do their best to howl at the moon, owls, foxes, cuckoos, crickets (which are surprisingly noisy) and all the other noises that come under the general heading of Modh Coinníollach as far as I'm concerned.

Beware the Modh Coinníollach.

jimbobaloobob

count the revs of his tractor, sure he wont be out there at that lark 6 months from now.

RayM

Very accusatory thread title. I don't know what you think I've done, but you can't prove anything.

I find it difficult to sleep without a little bit of noise - some music or a podcast playing quietly in the background.

KERSPLAT!

thisistough wrote: »

Double glazing

:eek: filthy!!

Samaris

....and there starts up the owl.

pablo128

Samaris wrote: »

I can deal with city noises since I lived for a year beside a motorway (in a house, not actually on the side of the motorway). I live right out in the countryside now, and the country is anything but quiet! Sure, little to no traffic, but there's two donkeys that like to have LOUD braying conversations between their fields, a horde of cats, ..a dog until today, cows all over the place lowing - and every so often they all act like they're possessed and do their best to howl at the moon, owls, foxes, cuckoos, crickets (which are surprisingly noisy) and all the other noises that come under the general heading of Modh Coinníollach as far as I'm concerned.

Beware the Modh Coinníollach.

What happened to the dog?

Samaris

pablo128 wrote: »

What happened to the dog?

She was hit by a car reversing earlier today. She was a terrier, barky little thing, so she came to mind while I was typing before I remembered again. Poor mite.

Shint0

Samaris wrote: »

I live right out in the countryside now, and the country is anything but quiet

This is actually true although in my case there was lots of traffic when I was growing up. When I moved to an urban environment I found it really difficult to sleep with the eerie silence and no traffic passing in the night. Where I live now is dead quiet day and night. No more traffic lullabies for me.

jimbobaloobob

where i live i hear the sea crashing against rocks and cliffs day and night, can someone go and settle it please

stevek93

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

where i live i hear the sea crashing against rocks and cliffs day and night, can someone go and settle it please

Jesus aren't you lucky... I to go to sleep hearing police sirens and helicopters also maybe the odd dirt bike doing laps in the field.

jimbobaloobob

yes steve i agree i am lucky. wouldnt swap for anything sorry.

count the laps those lads do on the bikes.

The Backwards Man

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

where i live i hear the sea crashing against rocks and cliffs day and night, can someone go and settle it please

There was a fella beside me, lived right on a cliff face, he went to Birmingham to work when he was young and he used to have to get the landlady of the digs he was staying in to throw buckets of water up against the bedroom window so he could sleep at night!

Ciderswigger

My parents were publicans so I've always grown up living over pubs. The hum of people chatting or the noise of them out on the street afterwards is what I'm used to. My best friend, when I was a teenager, lived in the sticks and I couldn't handle the lack of noise late at night. I can't imagine myself living anywhere but a busy town or a city.

Bongalongherb

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

where i live i hear the sea crashing against rocks and cliffs day and night, can someone go and settle it please

I'd pay good money to live where you are listening to the sea and wind crashing in all night, that would put me to sleep in minutes.

How lucky some folk are.

jimbobaloobob

Bongalongherb wrote: »

I'd pay good money to live where you are listening to the sea and wind crashing in all night, that would put me to sleep in minutes.

How lucky some folk are.

yep i agree bongalongherb. I paid good money to live here. Love it.
I love listening to the sea and hearing the traffic reports in the morning, its hard not to feel that Score mentality when you hear of tailbacks

511

The same way people can sleep while camping a music festivals, the noise is constant so you get used to it.

I've always found it easier to sleep with a television on than complete silence, the constant sound drowns out any sudden sounds that may disturb you. Seems to relax me better too.

jimbobaloobob

511 wrote: »

The same way people can sleep while camping a music festivals, the noise is constant so you get used to it.

I've always found it easier to sleep with a television on than complete silence, the constant sound drowns out any sudden sounds that may disturb you. Seems to relax me better too.

that white noise like kids who can sleep to the sound of the hoover

stevek93

511 wrote: »

The same way people can sleep while camping a music festivals, the noise is constant so you get used to it.

I've always found it easier to sleep with a television on than complete silence, the constant sound drowns out any sudden sounds that may disturb you. Seems to relax me better too.

I sleep with a fan going helps block out any outside noise.

Ciderswigger

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

that white noise like kids who can sleep to the sound of the hoover

My flat mate used to put on the light in his ensuite so that the extraction fan would come on and he'd be fast asleep within minutes.

Bongalongherb

I live beside Dublin airport and most nights they do engine testing, and the coast guard helicopter and also the garda chopper hovering overhead don't bother me as I can sleep no problem. You get used to certain noises over the years and the brain just switches off to it, unless you focus on it.

Still, I'd love to live on the mountains of the far west listening to all that wind and waves. I need a holiday.

The Backwards Man

You're all freaks!

There's no better feeling in the world than drifting off hearing absolutely nothing.

Skerries

what weirds me out when I sleep in the country is that when I turn off the light the room is pitch black whereas in the city unless you have blackout curtains you get light bleed from the lamp posts or other houses outside

jimbobaloobob

Bongalongherb wrote: »

I live beside Dublin airport and most nights they do engine testing, and the coast guard helicopter and also the garda chopper hovering overhead don't bother me as I can sleep no problem. You get used to certain noises over the years and the brain just switches off to it, unless you focus on it.

Still, I'd love to live on the mountains of the far west listening to all that wind and waves. I need a holiday.

take yourself wild camping on the cliffs in aran, its magic on a starry night and a bright moon. its what its all about.

stevek93

Skerries wrote: »

what weirds me out when I sleep in the country is that when I turn off the light the room is pitch black whereas in the city unless you have blackout curtains you get light bleed from the lamp posts or other houses outside

Yeah but it is not spooky not being able to see what's outside your window?