Can people really sleep through a loud buzzing alarm?

[lyssword]

kick the sleepyheads in the nuts, that ought to wake them up

 

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
This morning, I wake up on one of my friend's couches to find an alarm going off in one of the neighboring rooms. It keeps me up for about an hour until my friend comes out and, at this point, I just decide to head home since I'm up anyway (I crashed last night because I was too tired to get to my place).

Anyway, I mention to my friend that perhaps she might want to turn the alarm off since her roommate's forgot to shut it off before they left, and she responds with: Oh, they are still in there!



How can anyone sleep through a loud, buzzing alarm, for well over an hour, without hitting it off? And how can TWO people do this? It woke me up instantly, and it was in the next room with the door closed and a fan in the room.

When I was in Korea I slept through the U-2 spy plane taking off. I doubt that a tornado would even wake me up. I'm a very heavy sleeper. I had to get an alarm clock with an extra loud buzzer just to get up. Most alarm clocks will not work on me.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I have the same problem. So did pretty much all of my roommates in college. We just don't like waking up.

 

[Newfie]

Setting alarm to radio and cranking it > Buzzer

Works for me

 

[Flyback]

I have two alarm clocks go off in separate rooms of my house in sequence and scheduled a repeat task on my computer to play Pink Floyd through the speakers within 30 minutes of the alarm clocks if I snooze more.

The alarms aren't always enough. I'd use the Floyd as the primary, but it's loud enough I don't want to wake neighbours.

 

[Newfie]

Using Pink Floyd to get you up? I'd figure that would put you back to sleep.

(I love Pink Floyd btw, i'm not bashing them )

 

[jw0ollard]

Originally posted by: Newfie
Using Pink Floyd to get you up? I'd figure that would put you back to sleep.

(I love Pink Floyd btw, i'm not bashing them )

Did it occur to you that he may play Pink Floyd because it's so god awful he has no choice but to wake up and turn it off?

 

[nageov3t]

one of my old roommates used to sleep through his loud as hell alarm like every morning... he'd spend like an hour and a half just hitting the snooze button every 10 minutes.

I'd do my best to sleep through it, but sometimes I'd get up and yell at him.

I mean, it's like shit or get off the pot. either go to class and get the hell out of bed or skip and turn off the damn alarm clock, just make a GD decision to I can catch some more zzz's.

 

[KK]

I got in trouble a bunch when I was in the air force because of such sleep habits. Good thing I wasn't in the army or marines.

 

[LordMorpheus]

I've slept through the firealarm in this building before. It's so loud it's physically painful to be inside.

I'f I'm tired enough you could probably remove my kidney without using anesthetic and without me waking up.

 

[0roo0roo]

if you are sleep deprived enough very little wakes ya

 

[gamefreakgcb]

I am a heavy sleeper as well, alarms do nothing for me. On the contrary my friend cant sleep in a room with a regular pulse clock, he has to take out the batteries to sleep.

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Anubis
yes, in college my roomate and i got in big trouble because we slept through the dorms FIRE ALARM, wernt drunk or any of that, were just asleep

Uhh that's probably not good at all...

I've done it. My roommate had to shake me awake when the firm alarm went off.

When living in the dorm, you pretty much train yourself to ignore anything that isn't your alarm while sleeping. The fire alarm is included in that ignore list.

 

[DrPizza]

My wife gets up at a different time than I do. I'm conditioned to sleep through the pitch of the buzzer that's set for her. Unusual sounds wake me up almost immediately. (Or, at least, a lot of the time when I wake up at an odd hour, I can trace it to some unusual sound. No guarantees that I always hear the unusual sounds, since I'm asleep and wouldn't know if I didn't wake up.) I'm also "trained" to wake up to certain other sounds, like guinea hens squawking, or one of our goats in distress over something. (The goats aren't in the house)

 

[thomsbrain]

I've worked with kids who won't wake up if you drag them onto the floor and scream at them.

 

[NatePo717]

I've slept through our house alarm.....

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: jw0ollard

I've also had alarm clocks + my roommate violently shaking me = FAILURE, also.

Got Utube vid of this? Cuz ur roomie is probably slacking off and didn't shake you

 

[Newfie]

Originally posted by: jw0ollard

Originally posted by: Newfie
Using Pink Floyd to get you up? I'd figure that would put you back to sleep.

(I love Pink Floyd btw, i'm not bashing them )

Did it occur to you that he may play Pink Floyd because it's so god awful he has no choice but to wake up and turn it off?

What! People not agreeing with Pink Floyd!?!?! Preposterous!!

 

[alkemyst]

your party skills are weaksause.