How do you sleep at night?

The Backwards Man · 21-06-2016 01:04AM #1

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?

KERSPLAT! · 21-06-2016 01:06AM

Have you tried counting turf to try send you off?

Realt Dearg Sec · 21-06-2016 01:07AM

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

The Backwards Man · 21-06-2016 01:07AM

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Have you tried counting turf to try send you off?

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

PTH2009 · 21-06-2016 01:08AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:08AM

I don't.

thisistough · 21-06-2016 01:09AM

Double glazing

Samaris · 21-06-2016 01:09AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:09AM

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

RayM · 21-06-2016 01:10AM

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! · 21-06-2016 01:10AM

thisistough wrote: »

Double glazing

:eek: filthy!!

Samaris · 21-06-2016 01:11AM

....and there starts up the owl.

pablo128 · 21-06-2016 01:12AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:14AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:17AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:19AM

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

stevek93 · 21-06-2016 01:22AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:24AM

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

count the laps those lads do on the bikes.

The Backwards Man · 21-06-2016 01:24AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:27AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:30AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:32AM

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

21-06-2016 01:32AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:33AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:34AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:35AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:36AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:38AM

You're all freaks!

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

Skerries · 21-06-2016 01:38AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:39AM

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 · 21-06-2016 01:40AM

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?

How do you sleep at night?

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