How HEAVILY do you sleep?

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Balt

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About 10 years ago, I was sleeping at home on the couch by our fireplace. After the fire had dwindled down, my parents closed the glass over the front of it and went to bed.

As it turns out, the person who built the house (we had just moved in)didn't use the right kind of glass, and it shattered during the night (from the heat I presume). I woke up the next morning to see my parents sweeping up the glass.

The funny thing is, the two huge panes of glass shattered about 5-7 feet from me that night, and it didn't wake me up. :p



Nowadays, I still sleep pretty heavily but only for 2-3 hours or so each night. Sometimes I'm out like a light as soon as I fall asleep, but it doesn't last for long.

So, what have you people slept through and how heavy is your sleep now? ;)
 
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yakko

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I slept through a house blowing up and getting knocked on the floor by the blast. Was not my house it was across the river.
 
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Viper GTS

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I don't normally sleep very heavily. When I was in PA this summer, Sarah came in to wake me up. She bumped the edge of the bed with her leg, & I was INSTANTLY awake & 1/2 way through pushing myself up & off the bed (Like I was doing a pushup, almost). She thought it was hilarious, she'd scared the crap out of me.

:eek:

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Namuna

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I'm a 'heavy' sleeper, short of airhorn at less than 5 feet...You ain't waking me up.

The average person only get about 3 hours of 'quality' REM sleep.
 
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Balt

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Ah, just remembered another story I can share.

Probably about 6 years ago, I think lightning struck right outside my house (the thunderclap was LOUD).

That was the only time I can recall in my life that I've gone from being sound asleep to being COMPLETELY awake. I heard it and before I knew what I was doing I was sitting up in bed (seemed to be completely by reflex).

I couldn't sleep for hours after that. It didn't scare me or anything, but I think it just shocked the hell out of my senses. ;)
 
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I've slept through a smoke detector that was 10 foot away from my bed multiple times :(

Does that count as a heavy sleeper?
 
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Ariel

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I am a very light sleeper. Sometimes the automatic coffee maker in the kitchen down the hall wakes me up when it goes off in the morning. :(
 
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Imported

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It's hard to wake me up. I've slept through earthquakes that the rest of my family felt, but I usually wake up after 7 hours of sleep anyways.. :)
 
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piku

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I used to be a very heavy sleeper.

Around 10 years ago my cousin was sleeping over (I was 5 or 6 at the time probably). Our fire department is a very short distance away, and you can hear the siren very well. Well that night it did go off. Not only did I sleep though the siren itself, I slept through my cousin waking, screaming like mad, crashing over the gate blocking the entrance to my room (there are steps _right_ next to the entrance and my parents didn't want him accidentally falling down the steps during the night), running down the stairs, and my parents getting up and getting him back to sleep.

My parents still can't believe I slept through it. The next day everybody was talking about it and I had no clue what was going on :)
 
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Soybomb

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Usually I sleep pretty soundly. Its not uncommon for me to sleep through my loud alarm 2 feet from my head. When I'm sleeping next to my g/f I seem to sleep even more soundly!
 
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Balt

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piku,

That may even top my heavy sleep back in the day. Not sure though since I don't how loud what I slept through was. ;)
 
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sweetrobin

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It depends ... sometimes I sleep like the dead ... e_mc_2 can come to bed and I not even wake up till the next morning and see him laying there. then again sometimes he can come in the room and it wake me up ... lol ... one night he climb into bed and went put his arm around me and I woke up screaming not realizing it was him. However e_mc_2 is a very heavy sleeper ... my brother is worse though .. he slept through an earthquake ...
 
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Passions

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im a very light sleeper. even if i dont fully wake up, i usually know when someone comes into my room.
 
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Farbio

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i'm usually a very deep sleeper, and esp when it comes to ignoring alarms....if its a new sound or something that doesn't happen very often, i wake up, but alarms, phones, etc don't get me up. someone walking into my room, i usually wake up just at the door opening
 
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KevinF

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I'm a somewhat light sleeper . It takes me a while to fall asleep, and once I'm asleep I wake up with any noise louder than someone talking outside my room.
 
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Dameon

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Very deep. Family thing... my dad, my bro, and I all do.
The running joke is that we die and ressurect ourselves in the mornings. I swear I could still sleep through a tornado... waking up 200 miles away and having no clue how the hell I got there.
 
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BoberFett

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Heh, how about this one. :)

I was a forward observer in the army. That involves being on the front line and calling back with target info for the cannons. During field training one time, they were doing some night fire. Something went wrong with one of the rounds, and a shell apparently hit not far from camp. I wouldn't know, as I was fast asleep. People were scrambling around, doing damamge assessment, and making sure there were no casualties, but I slept right through it. I caught hell from the sergeant when I didn't show for formation either, LOL. :D

My career in the army was rather short-lived. :)
 
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Regine

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I'm a very light sleeper. Napalm pisses me off almost every day, because by the time he gets out of bed, I'm wide awake (and I still have an hour until I have to get up). So by the time I finally get back to sleep it's almost time to get up again.
Sometimes people in the hallway wake me up too. Then there's the garbage truck right outside the building at 8 am on days when I can sleep in ;)
 
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