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How do you sleep at night?

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  • #32
    jma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭jma


    I turn on my Spotify tunes on my phone. But even though I live in a town, it's dead quiet at night, even with the window open. I used to live on another street; across the road was a massive hedge and some trees. The birds really wrecked my head there in the early mornings. I didn't have Spotify then :/


  • #33
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    stevek93 wrote: »
    Yeah but it is not spooky not being able to see what's outside your window?

    I've been in the dark a long time and I haven't seen anything worse than myself yet:)


  • #34
    Ciderswigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I've been in the dark a long time and I haven't seen anything worse than myself yet:)

    That's enough of a reason to keep the lights on! :P


  • #35
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    What noise? I live in a quiet cul de sac in a settled area. There's no passing traffic, loud people, noise, bustle, commotion or carry on. In fact the only noise I can hear from outside is a dog that has just started barking, but I believe you have them in rural areas too. So to answer your question, I sleep like a baby thanks. :)


  • #36
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    City is not that bad. I'm two minutes from the city centre, 20 yards from one of the busiest roads in Dublin and you'd hear a pin drop right now. Granted, someone was shot outside the door one night but that's a bit of a rarity to be fair. If it does get noisy and I can't sleep, I just listen to Enya.

    I like being near the hustle and bustle in general though. It can be company at times. Used to visit my grandmother in the middle of absolutely nowhere (seven miles from Scotshouse, Monaghan on an old unapproved road) and as a kid I used to cry for ages as we used to drive off and leave her there on her own (my Granddad had died a couple of years before).

    I think I have a bit of a phobia about being too far from a town, city and even a sea or an ocean. It just feels weird to me to be surrounded by nothing but land for miles and miles and miles and miles. Just the thought of it is freaking me out in fact.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dgv-Jjs9xk


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  • #37
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    It's all about getting back to nature, because when the sh!t hits the fan, I'd rather be on the cliffs of Aran looking at the night-sky with my monocular while drinking a few beers and smoking away on a herb.

    Why anyone would fear the wide fields and mountains of free boggles my mind. Back to real reality and nature, the way it's supposed to be instead of listening to constant noise from people and traffic in a bustling claustrophobic city.

    I can feel the lotto win coming soon, then I'm off to the cliffs and mountains to listen to the natural earth environment far away from insanity :)


  • #38
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    My neighbour has a miniature sun in their back garden which they leave on all night. Additionally, because it's so hot now I have to leave the AC on all night as well.

    How do I sleep, with blacked out windows and earplugs!


  • #39
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Bongalongherb wrote: »
    I'm off to the cliffs and mountains to listen to the natural earth environment far away from insanity..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSD18uBh5Mo


  • #40
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I sleep in peoples houses when they're away.


  • #41
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    On a pile of dead bodies.


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  • #42
    Kommander Kaputnik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Kommander Kaputnik


    I dont. Hence the ungodly hour im posting this.


  • #43
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    On top of a big pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.


    You stole my line.


  • #44
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    When I lived with my dad, and I'd get down to my last ten euro it was either a taxi or two more drinks. When I'd been drinking all day, two more drinks always seemed like the better idea. We lived about 3/3.5 miles outside the main town. And once you got up the Main Street, you probably wouldn't meet a car the rest of the journey. My dad used to be having fits about me walking that distance that time on my own, but like my brother used to tell him "don't worry, if anyone took her they wouldn't be too long about bringing her back".

    I loved living in the country. No cars. You could sit outside at nighttime knacker drinking from cans and nobody would bother you. Your neighbours are too far away to complain about noise from a party. You don't have to close the blinds and curtains when you're getting dressed cause all that would be looking in at you would be the cow across the field. So much space for so many animals. Pet cows, pet cats, pet dogs, pet puppies, pet calves, pet sheep, pet pigs.

    Now I live in a quiet estate. I really like where I live now. The kids are good kids, there's never trouble, neighbours are lovely, it's clean and safe. But when you grow up in the country it's a little clausterphobic. Small garden that neighbours can look into, not a lot of space for the dogs, no privacy. Can't drive around the house so it looks like you're not home.

    Lot to be said for living in the sticks


  • #45
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Ever since living in a hostel and subsequently sharing a house with 8 other people when I was in Toronto, I can get to sleep with almost any sort of noise going on.

    It used to bother me when next door had a dog at one stage though- the poor thing was never walked and constantly barked/snarled. All day, all night. They gave him away in the end. Disliked them before. Loathe them now.


  • #46
    sassychick91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭sassychick91


    It's what your used to tbh


  • #47
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    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?

    Live smack bang in a city centre but my apartment is silent. There could be a carnival outside and you wouldn't hear it until you went out the front door. Ground floor apartment at back of building. Also when you turn the lights out it's pitch dark at night so sleeping is a joy.


  • #48
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,060 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    I'm in Limerick so I can't sleep without the comforting noise of gunfire.


  • #49
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    On top of a big pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.

    I find the €2 coins usually dig into my back though


  • #50
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    HensVassal wrote: »
    Live smack bang in a city centre but my apartment is silent. There could be a carnival outside and you wouldn't hear it until you went out the front door. Ground floor apartment at back of building. Also when you turn the lights out it's pitch dark at night so sleeping is a joy.

    What amazing city is this that you live in ? is it a city on the moon ? is it a city outside of a city ? because if you live in a city the noise is constant, sirens most nights. Do you have quadruple window glazing ? Is your abode completely encased in egg cartons ?

    How can it be silent in the city as you say ? it's impossible I tells ye.


  • #51
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I've been in the dark a long time and I haven't seen anything worse than myself yet:)

    Wait till ye see me :D


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  • #52
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Grew up in a house backing onto a main road, now live in an apartment close to a London Overground line that has freight trains all night. I'm used to noise at night - dead silence would be weird!


  • #53
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    I used to live in Islandbridge - near the underground rail line under the Phoenix park. The trains never bothered me but whenever I had a ...eh...'guest'... they were driven demented by them.


  • #54
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,103 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    I'm a really light sleeper, the smallest noise wakes me up

    The summer is a pain because it's bright so early and the crows like to perch on our roof. Inconsiderate B*starts don't even wear slippers so I can hear their little crow feet banging off the tiles.

    We live in a small little estate on the very edge of town, so it's really quiet most of the time

    I love the peace during the day. I love that when we go for a walk with the kids that we can hear each other talk and the only noise on a warm day are the sounds of children playing and the occasional lawnmower, horse or cow.

    Ban billionaires



  • #55
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Being stupidly tired - every single night - generally helps. In general I am tired enough every day that I can sleep regardless of extremes of noise or silence.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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

    It's one of the things I really look forward to when I go home at the weekend, proper darkness. With blackout curtains and pitch black outside my bedroom at home is proper dark so much better for sleeping.

    As other have said the silence is great and no bloody house alarms!!


  • #57
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Love the peace and quiet of the countryside, yes it is dead quiet at night unless some animal or bird decides to be noisy.
    If you wake up at dawn you hear the dawn chorus while lying in bed, no need for Derek Mooney and RTE.
    On the road I live on, there is usually no traffic at night, just the odd time.

    I have neighbours who moved down from Dublin back in the 90s, they love the scenery and how quiet the area is and said they could never return to Dublin to live.

    I sleep very easily anywhere, once I am tired I could sleep anywhere and I am quite a heavy sleeper.


  • #58
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    On top of a big pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.

    What he said, albeit without the big pile of money and the many beautiful ladies.


  • #59
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    Bongalongherb wrote: »
    What amazing city is this that you live in ? is it a city on the moon ? is it a city outside of a city ? because if you live in a city the noise is constant, sirens most nights. Do you have quadruple window glazing ? Is your abode completely encased in egg cartons ?

    How can it be silent in the city as you say ? it's impossible I tells ye.

    Amsterdam


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I live in Cork city next to a pub. Can't stand noise. So I use earplugs! Go through so many silicone earplugs though because they get manky. Don't think the foam ones work as well. Saying that I did have to syringe a silicone one out of my ear before years ago because it got stuck in my ear. You would think I'd learn. Anyone have any tips for great earplugs that last longer?


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  • #61
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    I've always lived in a town so traffic noise and dogs barking don't bother me. At one point I lived along the N11 in a crappy Georgian house with single glazing, along an ambulance route and down the road from a nightclub. Not long after that I lived out the country, briefly. The absolute silence at night was impossible to get used to.


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