Tuesday – Selective Hearing

[ninanevermore]

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My husband is astounded at the things I can sleep through. Train whistles, low flying plains, honking car horns, wailing sirens, blaring television sets, and all other things that rudely drag most people from a sound slumber have no effect on me. A tornado has passed right outside my bedroom window and failed to rouse me, though the rest of the house said it sounded like a freight train. This last September, my husband stayed awake while Hurricane Ike blew over our house, listening to banshee-like winds and crashing trees, including one that landed on our house. I, on the other hand, slept unaware through the whole thing and woke annoyed that I missed all the excitement.

To say I am a sound sleeper is an understatement. For all I know, my sex life is way better than I think it is and I may be, despite my not being aware of it, scoring on a regular basis (Jeff swears this isn't true, and claims it would be too much like necrophilia for his liking).

Which is why I am amazed that the one thing that can rouse me without fail is a small voice urgently whispering, "Mommy, I need to go potty."

It wakes me up every time.


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Comments

[simplecity2htwn.livejournal.com]

It's funny. It has been my experience that married women can usually sleep through a bomb blast. Single women who live alone will wake up at the sound of two atoms colliding.

it would be too much like necrophilia for his liking

I'm busy co-signing Jeff's statement. How could you even suggest a thing? LoL

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Ha! We've actually had this conversation:

Him: "But you always fall asleep when I'm reading stories to (our son)."

Me: "Well, wake me up after you put him in his bed."

Him: "I've tried. You don't wake up."

Me: "Maybe you should start without me. I'll wake up at some point."

Him: (look of horror on his face). "Ewwwwwww..."

[adamant-turtle.livejournal.com]

I've always worried that I wouldn't wake up to a baby's cries, because I too am a very heavy sleeper. Apparently nature takes care of itself.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

It does. I would wake up for my son's cries, unless I knew Jeff was home, and then I would sleep as soundly as ever.

[martina-d.livejournal.com]

I used to be as sound a sleeper as you, until the rugrats came along. Now, I swear I wake up if one of them down the hall, with a closed bedroom door, coughs. And there is nothing worse than waking up to one of them standing next to the bed, staring at me. I guess I wake up because I hear them breathing near my head?

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

I guess instinct lets us know when we're being stalked...

[mugglemomjsw.livejournal.com]

Yup, my husband is the same way... Funny how that works! I've actually had conversations with him while he's sleeping that he doesn't remember later. But, if Jackson comes creeping in the room, he can hear him and is WIDE awake. I think it's all about priorities. haha

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Becoming a parent does funny things to your brain, I tell you. They change us.

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

Since I am deaf, I sleep through all noise. It is a luxury, but it is also dangerous, as I sleep through alarms!!! Any type of alarm, fire alarms, smoke alarm, whatever. I have to be shaken awake. I am such a heavy sleeper as well, so this also doesn't help. Although I have some vision, I hate to sleep during the day as well, the light bothers me to sleep during the day, dunno why. I am not sensitive to light so much any more, butto sleep it is a nuisance.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Scary. I hope your dog can wake you up. I assume that's part of the training?

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

Nope. Nixon doesn't wake me up, my first guide has a very deep bark that I can hear without my hearing aids, and jumped all over me, when I couldn't anything without my aids... Nixon doesn't do anything.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Maybe you need an alarm that makes a noise annoying to dogs that would inspire Nixon to make an even louder noise or act up and pester you to make the annoying sound stop.

Someone needs to invent this. :)

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

Well, if I move to Ontario, no more issue with this, as the housing I will live at has a little gadget, wear on belt while asleep, and fire alarm goes off, it vibrates.

[woohag.livejournal.com]

HA, love it. That's like being able to hear your name in a loud crowd, b/c you're attuned to it. And I'm glad your husband doesn't do you while you're asleep b/c yeah...Hi...sicko. :)

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Nature wires up to see that our young are taken care of, I guess.

As for my husband, I was hoping I'd wake up after the first few moments, before things got to hot and heavy without me. Considering what all I sleep through, I can see why he doesn't even bother. *sigh*

[ithoughtsheknew.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way. Mark's alarm can go off...he can move around the room, take a shower, whatever and I sleep right through it all. A storm blows through with thunder and lightening and 9 times out of 10, I'll sleep right through it.
We still have a monitor in Sarah's room since our hallway is rather long so if I hear her quietly call my name or cry out, cough, move around, I'm wide awake. God certainly wired us according to necessary priorities. LOL!

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

He did. We can ignore a husband, but not a kid. I think this is because, in large part, husbands don't wet the bed, but little kids will.

[drippedonpaper.livejournal.com]

I had to laugh. My husband isn't doesn't think it's too much like necrophilia but I ask him to wake me first. He hasn't tried the "While she is asleep" in awhile (maybe he should?)

What wakes me without fail is, "Mommy, my bed is wet"

Gotta love those nighttime voices.

May your sleep be sound and without nightmares:)

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

After a wet bed, I told mine to wake me up if he needs to go (he needs help turning on the bathroom light). Since then, no problems. :)

[jenelycam.livejournal.com]

I'm a very sound sleeper too, but a lot of the time just Camie walking into my room is enough to rouse me. I can sleep through much...thunderstorms, Greg's loud TV...or when he has the radio up full blast in our room, etc. Greg on the other hand, is a light sleeper...yet he sleeps through my alarm every time. :P

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

You and I have "Mom" hearing. "Dad" hearing doesn't hear alarm clocks, but it does hear a wife trying to find a pair of shoes with out waking him and makes him grunt and roll over while he makes an annoyed sound, or kids playing too loud while he's trying to nap. They're funny creatures, men.

[jenelycam.livejournal.com]

Yeah they are. And I agree...that's the difference between "mom" and "dad" hearing!! He only hears me yelling at the daycare kids to be quiet...but not the kids who are screaming too. LOL

[noblwish.livejournal.com]

LOL! Lately, I've slept through Buddy's cries and pounding on the bedroom door in the middle of the night. It's when his cries begin to quiet that I jolk awake. A quiet Buddy is a DANGEROUS Buddy!!!

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

I know. Micky is still recovering from watching him for you months ago, I hear.

[uawildcatgrl.livejournal.com]

A feather dropping on the pavement outside wakes me up...sometimes I wish I could sleep as soundly as Jeff (he's like you) and sometimes I think it's a good thing I'm a light sleeper.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

My Jeff is totally jealous of how I sleep. Not only do I sleep like a rock, I fall asleep as soon as my head touches the pillow. He, on the other hand, tosses and turns and then, once he finally falls asleep, wakes up at the slightest noise.

Sucks to be him. I rarely miss any Z I try to catch. :)

[renewedme.livejournal.com]

Ironically, we had a tornado warning last night (midnight to 7 am) and not being a flat lander, I sat awake watching tv next to an open window listening for the siren packing things into the bathroom for the 3 of us all because I was terrified that I would sleep through it LOL

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Glad you didn't get blown away!

Yeah, I'd'a snoozed right through that.