Worst way to be woken up
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The sound of the cat coughing up a hairball...or the 50-pound dog jumping right on me.2
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Absolute worst: 5 AM phone call that dh's 19 year old sister had died in a car accident.
Second worst- 6 AM phone call that mom died of cancer. Knew it was happening soon but still hard to wake up to that news. Third worst- Dd telling me something was wrong with our old dog and our dog dying in our arms a short time later
Fourth worst- house across the street being gutted by fire (smoke, fire engines)
Less bad: nightmare about people dying, dog peeing on the bed and on my leg, sound of my child vomitting/crying/raging, brown recluse spider in my bed biting me by my breast, the sound of men on the roof right outside my 2nd floor bedroom window, big tree's breaking and falling over during ice storm barely missing house1 -
Thankfully, I sleep like STONE...unless there is an unusual noise! Things like fire sirens, jets overhead, normal household noises like the fridge, ice maker, heat system, pipes, etc., don't faze in the slightest way...but let there be an alarm, or a scream, or a crashing noise like glass or something falling, I'm awake in an instant and fully alert. That has happened a few times over the years. I kinda like it about myself...
Most recently, about three months ago, I woke up at 3:17 AM to the sound of our downstairs neighbor's smoke alarm going off. We live in a building with 60 units. No one else reacted, oddly. I went and knocked on her door. She's a tiny, frail, elderly Chinese woman who speaks about 7 words of English. I wish I had video of the conversation we had in single words and pantomime. She apparently decided at 2:something that she wanted coffee, so put some leftover in a pot on the gas burner, then fell asleep again. Of course, it burned and smoked like crazy. I helped her turn off the alarm, and open all of her windows, then went upstairs and back to bed. My good deed for the month!3 -
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littlemissbgiff wrote: »Being woken up by the unsettling sense that even though you are alone, you aren't.
This. When you feel someone sit down beside you but no one is there.0 -
While in college at the University of Minnesota, living with a bunch of roommates in an old house, I injured my back and slept on the couch for a few days because I couldn't climb into my (upper) bunk bed. One night I awoke in the middle of the night with an asthma attack, to a house filled with extremely thick smoke down to the level of my nose, because one of my roommates had come home drunk, put a giant pot of wisconsin beer cheese broccoli soup on the stove, on high, and then passed out. The soup boiled down, caught fire, and flames (and thick black smoke) were shooting about six feet high, licking the kitchen ceiling. Fortunately, the house didn't catch fire too badly and nobody died, probably because of the old asbestos ceiling tiles. Still, waking up to a fire, asthma attack, terrible back pain, running through the house waking everyone, then standing outside half naked in the cold Minnesota winter and snow while we woke up enough to figure out what was happening and what to do about it was definitely the worst for me.1
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15 years ago I would have said the child being ill thing - definitely - and quite honestly even though he's 20 now, it still makes me feel bad to hear him when he is ill.
I'm going to have to go with:
"*kitten* on the perimeter. Lock and load and cover your *kitten*!" being hollered at full volume during a no-*kitten*- full on PTSD nightmare.
Brings you awake in no time and being a non-veteran, completely confused.
Most of the PTSD stuff to wake up to is not as dramatic and can be talked down and back to sleep in an hour or so.
That one was an all-nighter. Tremors, flashback, the whole kit and kaboodle.
So, yeah, it had to be worse for the SO who was actually experiencing it, but definitely not a fun way to be brought to full consciousness.0 -
Unwelcome morning wood delivered to the backdoor by a disliked acquaintance.0
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Smelling my wife's fart in the middle of the night.
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the police kicking down the door then rolling you over and slapping on handcuffs
night after night after night....1 -
Parents yelling at each other and fighting, drunk husband opening the entrance door at 2 or 3 am and then keeping everyone awake until the sunlight, loud explosion at the nearby factory or whatever the hell it was and a small land shake after that, waking up in a strange basement and realizing it's not nightmare, nightmares of any kind, a distant friend calling at 3 am and keeping you on the phone bawling because her gf#35789 broke up with her when you have to get up at 5:30 and work 12+ (learned how to only allow certain ##s after hours really quick after that)), possibilities are endless0
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MsAmandaNJ wrote: »Louise1491 wrote: »MsAmandaNJ wrote: »I did wake up the other night because the cat peed on me. That was pretty bad.
But warm, yes?
I thought she was being cute, putting her warm paw on my side...then reality hit. It got cold quick.
OMG...I can't imagine. That smell is awful too. I'd probably kill the cat.0 -
Cockroach to the face was the worst. I didn't sleep in that bed for 3 months like it mattered moving to the couch but it made me feel better. Centipede down my back was also a horrible feeling to wake up to. Nothing freaks me out like bugs crawling on my skin.0
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I think the news of someone's death is probably the worse ever. Some of these others, like practical jokes and peeing animals warrant murder.3
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PlaydohPants wrote: »I know that feeling. Not only half asleep but not sure how you're supposed to wake him up without making it worse. We used to leave the TV on as an immediate distraction and kind of brings you back to reality a little quicker.
Weather Channel is a gift from the gods...tunes me right out and back to sleep and keeps him distracted. And the dog. He guffs about her licking him and nestling with him, but she calms him.0 -
LiftingLady5 wrote: »hearing the sound of one of your children puking then splatter on the floor
I am a HORRIBLY deep sleeper- until I hear the unmistakable sound of the "pre puke" a cat makes while they are coughing something up. "ugck ugck ugck- ugckkkkkkk splat"
It wakes me up. Every.Single.Time.2 -
KyleGrace8 wrote: »Centipede down my back was also a horrible feeling to wake up to.
Understandable especially with how big some centipedes get.1 -
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being woken up by a fire alarm scares the *kitten* out of me0
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lorena bobette2
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Being shaken and hearing, "Somebody just opened our front door."0
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The cat gnawing on something (mouse???) beside the bed, the smell of skunk wafting in the window from outside, a child puking (days long gone, thank goodness), bad dream where I just stepped off a cliff.0
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littlemissbgiff wrote: »Heartisalonelyhunter wrote: »OP I take it you don't have kids? Once you do uninterrupted sleep becomes a distant memory...
Yours must be young. I have 3 teenagers and I promise there is light at the end of the tunnel. Sometimes it 2 in the afternoon before anyone is stirring and I'm not gonna lie, I like it.
I would like it too! The oldest is 11 and I love how late he sleeps. The youngest is 1 so I have a while to go until I get to sleep late...0 -
True. We simply exhale from behind.2
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