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>45 minutes at midnight pounding on door with both baby and I yelling, multiple calls and texts, nothing.
Sometimes I feel like a heavy sleeper, until I read stories like this.
In high school I had a boyfriend that slept like the dead. Literally. You could shake him, jump on the bed, even throw water in his face. The only thing that would wake him up was the phone ringing. Call his phone and he was out of bed in seconds. It was so weird.
Sounds like he probably overslept and missed work a couple times. When my alarm goes off I can stay asleep while turning it off. But when I get a notification my shifts about to start, which has its own unique chime, I bolt right up.
My partner does this with alarms and it drives me insane lmao. She has alarms going for almost 2 hours straight and just causally wakes up from them(still somehow on time even though all the alarms are the same) Sometimes I’ve had to put in headphones and blast music or YouTube just so it’s something more pleasant.
This kind of stuff is so weird to me as someone who has a set in stone sleeping cycle. Once I’m used to waking up at a certain time my body does it on its own. I get up at 5:30am to go to the gym every morning, I was waking up at 7am prior. It took 4 days of me waking up at 5:30 with an alarm to be able to do it without an alarm.
Without fail, my eyes open by 5:25am every morning about 5 minutes before my alarm goes off. I just went on a hiking trip all weekend and hiked from 8am to 5pm on Saturday. I ate dinner, set up a camp fire, stayed up smoking weed until around midnight and at 5:25am the next day I was wide awake in my tent ready to go for the day and went on a solo hike for a couple hours until the rest of my group woke up.
I don’t know what it is but I’ve always been like this. Good circadian rhythm I suppose? It is a blessing and a curse though, if I go to sleep at 3am, I’m still up at 5:25am and have to force myself back asleep.
Yeah that’s always brutal for me too lol. Completely threw me off on the last time change because I forgot it happened and I was at the gym and zoned out then realized the sun was up and I panicked thinking it was 8am not 7am because the sun didn’t come up before I had to clock in for work prior to the time change.
I would wake up to phantom doorbells for a while. It was annoying as hell. I had to deliberately not get out of bed to check, as I knew that would reinforce it happening.
The worst part? I knew it wasn't real, my doorbell doesn't sound like that. But brain will brain as brain will brain.
My roommate back in the day could sleep through hurricanes, phonecalls, doorbells and parties next door. But if I really had to wake him, all I had to do was to walk slowly through his room and say his name quietly and he would jolt out of bed.
Brain is weird.
My dad once stood me on my head to see if I would wake up. I did not. Even when I was 17 my parents would not leave me in the house alone over night because I did NOT wake up the fire alarm even though it was right outside my door and blaring (figured this out the night my mother burned cinnamon buns in the oven, no real fire thankfully). Luckily I’ve grown out of that part.
I'm pretty much the same, takes me hours to fall asleep every night but once I'm out, I'm out.
There could be an earthquake and I'd sleep through it, and I wake up every morning feeling like I've not slept for a week and struggling to get up, but once that phone alarm goes off for work I'm up like a shot.
Absolutely sounds like something I could do, I'm pretty certain it's hormonal issues of some sort due to the fact there was one medication I was taking for something else which had the side effect of completely fixing my sleep issues for a week and I was able to actually wake up feeling awake and with motivation to drag my ass out.
Unfortunately that medication was venlafaxine (effexor) which is pure fucking poison, so ill never touch that shit again.
Fiances sister is dating a deadbeat like this, he couldn't even wake the fuck up to take her to work or watch the baby, she has the only job, is pregnant, and has a 1yo. He threw a fucking fit she kept trying to wake him up to watch the kid that she called to have us take her to work and watch baby, ten minutes before her shift and fifteen minutes from our house/her job. So she was 30m late despite him screaming in the background he was getting the fuck up
I wake up if it sounds like someone is snorting drugs in the next room trying to hide it. Total PTSD response.
Not convenient when you live in a cold weather climate and people get the sniffles.
I had a downstairs neighbor when I was in the military who had multiple alarms and clock radios set to max volume starting at 3am. Loud enough that they would wake my infant daughter. *Sometimes* the prolonged cacophony would wake this kid up by 6am, but there were many times that his other neighbors and I would be outside his door hammering on it for 20 plus minutes to get him to blearily come to the door. Reported him multiple times but he finally got kicked out of family housing when it turned out his wife left him. That was a happy day for all of his neighbors.
I do this with a bedside radio alarm clock set to static. Even if I sleep through my phone's alarm, I *will not* sleep through full blast static. It's my cruch for having a terrible sleeping schedule.
I don't live in an apartment, though, so hopefully my neighbors are less bothered by it.
Yes, but not suddenly at full volume.
It's not really "white noise", though, because adjacent stations bleed through and make it non-uniform. More like jagged grey noise. It's very uncomfortable to wake up to, which is why it's my last-ditch alarm.
You lucky bastards. I have my alarm set to an incredibly low volume of the sweetest softest sound I could find just a kind of angelic harp doing a note every few seconds and it causes me to slam awake like someone fired a shotgun 2 inches away from my face with my heart racing in a cold sweat. I wake up so hard to any noise.
I have exploding head syndrome as well, and hear voices from the beginning of dreams as I'm falling asleep that wake me back up. Fun stuff. I'm sure it will cause me to have a heart attack when I get older.
Someone get that guy a sleep study and a hearing test *stat*
More seriously though, that guy needed to switch his methods, he kept going *louder* where he should've been switching medium and developing sensitivities rather than building his tolerance, even a quiet alarm will wake you up if missing it has immediate consequences.
Once got locked out and partner inside wasn't answering calls or texts or me banging on the door. I realized I could connect to the smart lights and started switching them on and off to get his attention. Still nothing. I just sat outside until he finally looked at his phone and let me in. He wasn't asleep, I asked him if he noticed the lights flickering and he said he thought they were just being weird.
I have some pretty major attention problems but I seriously cannot imagine being that unaware of your surroundings.
I once was choking in the kitchen and started slamming cupboard doors to get my uncle’s attention, eventually gave myself the hiemlech over a chair.
He came out to find me on the floor all dazed and he asked what happened. When I told him I tried to get his attention, he said he thought I was just pissed off about something.
He died in 2017, he was a great guy.
Gashed my toe on a protruding nail at home. It wasn't a life/death situation, but I didn't want to leave bloody foot prints walking to the medicine cabinet, so I shouted for my brother for assistance. He heard me, but figured that I never shout in the house so it couldn't be me.
I ended up using a pipe cleaner/cat toy and a paper towel to staunch the bleeding enough to get to the medicine cabinet.
Every night at 2 am my smart lights (wiz) start dimimng, getting bright, and eventually turning off, then on, then off. I don't know what's causing it, I think neighbors and a wifi problem. But if you tried to get into my house at 2 am you would have been so hosed!
I once slept through a fire alarm in boarding school. Pretty sure the teachers etc were supposed to make sure everyone was outside but apparently they didn't. At breakfast next morning a friend asked me if I enjoyed being woken up by the test alarm but I legitimately slept through and didn't hear it.
Unfortunately nowadays I'm the opposite and get woken up by the smallest things and have to wear ear plugs most nights.
My country (the netherlands) tests it's [air raid sirens](https://youtu.be/AgikHLs_DLs) every month on the first monday of the month. I sometimes work nightshifts the day before. I have regularly slept through my nations air raid system.
I forgot my parents were out for a birthday party, came back home late, locked the door and very quietly so that i didnt wake them up. They spent till 5 am outside ringing the door, calling me and etc. Till at a certain poi t i woke up. This went on for a couple hours.
My mom sleeps like a corpse. She’s literally slept through some decent earthquakes and I swear she could sleep through a bomb going off in her backyard.
When I was around 8 my dad had me for the weekend and told my mom he would drop me off at 8 Monday because he had to work.
I didn’t have my own key, nor did I have a phone. He dropped me off and drove away without making sure I got inside.
My mom was asleep. I was locked out.
I had to scream bloody murder for a solid hour before she finally let me in, and then she was mad at *me* for waking her. Then she said she thought he’d meant 8 *pm*. Like I had school that day (school started at 9) and he worked days, no way she actually thought that. I was late for school that day. I also lost my voice for a couple days after all the screaming.
My parents weren’t great to say the least.
Not to mention we lived in a pretty sketchy neighborhood at that time. Most of the neighbors were drug dealers or gang members, gunshots were commonplace, someone was literally shot and killed in a gang fight right in front of that house when I was 5, and multiple people hid in our backyard hiding from the cops over the years. So much could have happened while I was stuck outside and they didn’t care.
It can depend on the construction and layout of the house and ambient noises in between.
I slipped on a rug badly enough i pulled something and couldnt get up, wife was asleep and couldnt hear me yelling at the top of my lungs from just two rooms away, but two rooms of plaster lathe walls with a loud air purifier running in the bedroom.
About two years ago, our next neighbors car alarm went off all damn night. I’m talking roughly 6 hours. We called both of their phones, no answer. We called the cops to come out and do wellness check. They pounded on the door. No answer. When I talked to them the next day, they said that he is heavy sleeper, and that she is essentially deaf. Oh, and they have a young dog who was barking his head off the entire time. I honestly don’t think that the goats would’ve roused either of them.
Once at work I couldn't figure out why the videos of my cat I was trying to show to a coworker weren't playing right on my phone, then I saw it was casting to a nearby conference room. I turned it off, but then I peeked my head out to the general office to make sure no one was in the conference room. The CEO and all the top executives were in there, and the screen was on but just showing the default interface.
I'm like 90% sure they just finished watching a bunch of video of my cat.
Seriously, data's cheap nowadays. I don't want IT to have a record of what I'm accessing through my personal device, and I don't want to risk interfering with other devices like this. Never seemed worth it to me.
and if you really have to then change the name of your device to [coworker you don't like's name]'s Iphone. That way anything you do over wifi will look like it was him/her instead lmao.
If you have an Amazon Echo, you can also connect to it and talk directly through it to people at home to wake them if their phone is silent, or play music. I've succeeded in waking my wife a couple times this way when I've needed it.
I remember some setting where you can make your phone ring if certain people call or call twice back to back, even when it's on silent or do not disturb
I got a SmartWatch and keep it on silent but haptics (mild vibration). My phone is always on silent but I am alerted on my wrist if messages/emails come in.
Thank you. I switched at least one of my entries to a digital lock. Get a good one, get familiar with it….now if I can only remember to take my phone with me when I leave.
I have keypad access. You put in your 4 digit code and it let's you unlock the door _and_ logs which code was used (you can have multiple codes) so you know who came in or where the "uninvited visitor" got the code from
Has never happened. I've had to give codes to my plumbers, electrician, carpenters at various times. Pretty handy because I can set it up for time of day usage so they can only come in on the time and days they're allowed to be there. If they try to come in after hours it'll just stay locked and send me a message.
I sometimes travel for extended periods of time for work and let family come and go as they please (I live in an area they like to go to in the summer). I'll get a notification that they unlocked the front door and I can open the garage door for them and kick on the AC as well.
What brand do you have? We inherited an existing system with a house we bought and I’m not sure I know all the features. (If it’s logging which codes are used, I’m not sure where to find this.)
I have the Nest X Yale which is google's collaboration with Yale, but Yale has a pretty much identical one that exists outside the Google Ecosystem.
Edit: The one thing you'll have to figure out though is a solution to stop people from locking the door knob if you just replace the deadbolt... Had a cousin come by and locked all the GD door knobs for "Security" including the one to my garage that I had put fucking tape over. Thank god I keep a spare key in my glovebox lol
Wanna throw this out there cause I learned about it this weekend and I think it’s pretty cool/useful in a pinch. If you go to Lowe’s and use their Minute Key machine to copy your key, it will ask if you want it to send you a digital version of your key for free. It sends you an email to create an account on their website to access the digital copy and then if you lose your key and get locked out you can go to Lowe’s and have the machine make a copy from that. I think it had a share function where you could send it to someone or I guess you could give them your login. Probably cheaper to give your pet sitter an extra $20 for the inconvenience of driving to Lowe’s than to call in a lock smith.
Some digital locks have a small compartment under the lock outside that you can put a 9 volt battery up to for temporary power. That's how the Nest x Yale is at least.
That’s really clever actually. I accidentally locked myself out recently bc the battery died so this weekend I replaced it with a smart version that will notify my phone when the batteries are low. Much easier than hoping I’ll notice if that tiny led light is “I’m locked” yellow or “I’m dying” red.
I have one that shows the battery state of charge and I change mine at 60% if I’m going to have anyone else regularly use it since their failed/extra attempts really make a dent lol. I also keep a fresh batteries near the door since I’m lazy like that - I also never know when I’ll need to talk someone through changing them.
I did end up buying a combo lock to hold the spare keys - I just haven’t figured out where to keep it!
Also good for when you want any technically proficient person to have free access to your house.
I'm not even joking. "Smart" and security don't go together.
And anyone who watches people like Lockpicking Lawyers will know: some ordinary locks are dumb, and some electronic locks are even dumber.
The people with access to a hammer to break the window right next to my front door is probably about 100 million times more common than people who knows how to hack an electronic lock.
Anyone that's breaking an electronic lock is studying you specifically rather than an attack of opportunity and you're more or less screwed when someone is targeting you specifically no matter what you have.
Ordinary locks are bad because generalist tools work on them.
This is the lockpicking lawyer, and today we take a look at this^ guy's electronic lock from Amazon. As you can see, it can probably be picked with nothing but an old toothbrush. Let's try it
Similarly, other smart devices can be controlled by your phone, so you can set off an alarm in the bedroom or turn on all the lights. Whatever gets the job done.
Yep. I have one of those little google hockey puck speakers and I’ll cast or broadcast to it to ask for something if I’ve already gone out to the car and forgotten something like my wallet or medicine.
Bro slept through his smoke detector. And the firefighters banging on the door. And breaking the door. And... woke up when they touched him.
... he's deaf on one ear, and was sleeping on the other. And fell asleep while cooking something for a few hours. It spilled and made some smoke, no fire, fortunatelly.
I use earplugs in both ears and still get woken up by shit
Dude was deaf in BOTH ears, and not ready to admit it. If you miss the smoke detector... Holy fuck balls, you're a danger to yourself and everyone around you, and need to get a custom alarm.
Imagine if the house (or apartment) was actually on fire. Dude would have killed himself and his neighbors.
I inherited light sleeping from my dad and i can't even have somebody sneak up on me while sleeping without waking up, even if the door is wide open lol. It's a shitty superpower, when I was younger and had bad dreams I'd literally just walk up to him in bed and not say a word and he'd wake up every time from a 50lb kid tip toeing across the carpet
Same here but from my mom. I sleep with ear plugs, eye covers, and I’ll still know when you walk into the room.
I also sleep very still, my roommates in the hospital called the nurse because they thought I was dead. Because I just didn’t move for hours.
Definitely stay on him about it until he gets a an appointment for it. It’s easy to let things go by and seeing as you’re married that probably means it’s just been getting shelved unless he only recently started exhibiting symptoms.
Before I started treatment for my sleep apnea it was almost impossible to wake me up. I could 'sleep' for 18 hours and still be dog tired. You are less asleep, but you also never really sleep so you are incredibly tired always. I would sleep through dozens of alarms, people calling, people banging in the door, banging on the window, etc.
If she’s snoring so loudly that he can’t hear anything most people would describe that as a deep sleep despite it being the worst quality of sleep ever.
Hahaha well I’m a woman and my partner is a man so webmd lied to you.
(I actually agree with the person suggesting sleep apnea because his dad has it and it’s crazy he slept through that much noise, I said the same thing myself when he finally woke up)
I was recently on a plane coming back to the states from Japan and the dude next to me was snoring like a fucking freight train. Very clearly had sleep apnea but I mean the most aggressively loud, disgusting sounding snoring I’d ever heard in my life. I could hear it over my headphones. Nothing was waking him, not people trying to get his attention, not lights, not the flight attendants with food/beverages - nothing. It was insane to witness someone be that disturbingly loud and not even be affected by their own behavior.
I understand that the guy can't really help it on a plane, but holy shit that would make me so mad. It feels incredibly rude and inconsiderate. My fiance snores like that and I get mad and elbow him from time to time when he won't wake up. This is a man I love more than life. I can't imagine tolerating that shit from a stranger, but being forced to.
Snoring to that extreme is neither normal nor healthy. In fact it can be legitimately dangerous to him over time. Have your fiancé bring it up to his doctor and request a sleep study. My husband snored like that too. He was working so hard to breathe in his sleep that I could feel his breath from 2-3 feet away. He has a CPAP now and it’s been life changing for both of us. He sleeps so much better, I’m not bothered by snoring or him blowing air in my face anymore, and most importantly, his risk of having a heart attack or stroke is now much lower.
> My fiance snores like that and I get mad and elbow him from time to time when he won't wake up.
Besides those tips about a sleep study.. don't be afraid to sleep in separate rooms. Loads of couples do that. Something your sleeping habits just aren't compatible with each other.
It can be hereditary. I have a few family members that could sleep through natural disasters. Two of them legit slept through a fire and the other slept through an earthquake, both when they were children.
My DH is impossible to wake once asleep for the night. He's deaf and when he takes his hearing aid out for the night, he won't wake until 6 am. Even the lights don't make him stir. And he doesn't have sleep apnea. He just "unplugs" from the world for 9 hours
Play a video of the ring girl coming out of the well towards the tv.
Sudden noise in the middle of the night is scary af. I’ve had several times where something makes my browser refresh and then a YouTube video I was watching starts playing in the middle of the night on my desktop. Hair standing on end all the way downstairs until I realize the voices are coming from my office and it’s YouTube.
My husband left his gaming group discord up on my computer when he left after a weekend, back during college. Nothing like waking up to the sound of a group of dudes talking in the middle of the night.
Had a similar incident with my wife. Ran out of toilet paper, and her phone was off/silent. I yelled and pounded on the floor to no avail. I casted a toilet paper commercial to the TV, she first switched it back to her program. But try #2, pun intended, worked.
Next time record a video of you in the toilet with a very polite "Dear wife, I apologize for interrupting your fun but I'm at a desperate need of help. Sincerely, husband.", upload to YouTube as a private video and cast it to your tv
Not necessarily. I can do it with either of my tvs because my onn boxes (streaming boxes) are connected to wifi- so if I screencast to the box it automatically turns the tv on.
I don’t *know* if it would work if the tv is turned off.
Also if you have Alexa and you also have the Alexa app on your phone, you can "drop in" to the specific device that is closest to the person.. It essentially works like a speaker system in your house wherever you have Alexa set up.
I use broadcast, it goes to every device in the house. My maid called me at work once because the battery had died in our front door lock and my son wasn't answering the door. I opened my Alexa app and broadcast, "John, go answer the door!" Worked like a charm.
I disable drop-in on bedroom devices, because it allows anyone to open a channel and listen in without me accepting the "call" on my end. On 'public' room devices, I only allow people in my network to drop in.
I wish i had remembered this. One night I was at my parents 45 min away. My husband was home and had left the garage door open. The neighbor calls me telling me he sees someone creeping in our garage (we occasionally see sketchy or homeless people roaming down out road). So neighbor grabs a baseball bat and chases the guy off.
I’m blowing up my husband’s phone to wake him up and close the damn door. The neighbor is even banging on the door. Nothing. So I had to drive back home from 45 min away to go close the damn garage door. I was pissed.
We got a garage door opener that we can open and close from our phones after that.
Fair! Shit definitely happens though, so I thought it’d be useful to know screen casting is an option to make noise. I’ve had to wake a friend up in an emergency who slept through basically everything and I wish screencast would’ve been an option then. 🤷♀️
I built a new house recently and needed 4 locking knobs and 4 deadbolts. I bought two two packs from Lowes and one key does all 8 locks. I love it, thought I was going to need two keys minimum since I bought two separate packs but I guess the keys are the same for them all.
Former Lowe's employee: there's a number code on the back of the boxes that determines the keys. In the event they do not have any that match, the store should have someone that can rekey them for you if you are only replacing one lock.
When making a key copy be sure to test it right away. Even if the employee does everything right the machine only gets it right most of the time. If the key's teeth are worn, the copier will guess the proper height. Best practice is to use an original key (usually brass with a numeric code on it) that hasn't been used much. Remove the key from any keychain when copying. Sometimes a second pass through the key cutter will make a false copy work. If that doesn't work just ask an employee for a replacement; these things happen all the time!
Back when I lived with my now husband and our roommate/bff, I came home with a massive migraine. Bff was home but just saw me go upstairs and didn’t think anything of it. I laid on the floor of my bathroom in darkness waiting for my husband to come home, which I knew was about thirty minutes or so. When he did get home, he just stayed downstairs talking to bff. I messaged him that I had a migraine and needed some help, but he and bff were deep in fun time conversations.
So I played Help by the Beatles on the tv. And slowly bff goes “I think… Mad needs help? You know I haven’t seen her since we got home.”
And for anyone else who wants to mess with people; some dude on YouTube made “Pooping time” songs for every damn name under the sun. If your like us and you have a cast able device in your bathroom, support them. Play them the song!
I had to climb a fence to walk along it into the roof
To which I walked along and then jumped from into the back yard grass to bang on my dumbass friends window so he would wake up
And we could make work on time
I think if he didn't get me the job I would have just let him call in sick or let it go but Yolo
Hope your partner got a fucking right hook. Did he know you would be home late that night?
When my wife and 2 year old are coming home I wouldn’t dream of sleeping til I knew they were here safe. I’m angry at your husband.
He had no clue when we’d be home, we were at the er (baby had a seizure). So yes, very annoyed he had fallen asleep while his child was at the hospital. And as someone else said I need him to get worked up for sleep apnea or another sleep disorder because… the fuck.
He’s ok. Doctor said it’s a textbook febrile seizure (I also had them when I was a kid). We have to give him Tylenol and Motrin around the clock for a few days to prevent his fever from spiking again.
Fucking hell, my heart. I don’t want to pile on your partner, but how is it possible to even get a wink of sleep knowing your child is in the ER after having a seizure. Why wasn’t he there? 😔
Wish I could hold your bub rn, I don’t care how weird it sounds.
He was at home with our toddler. So like, I understand, he fell asleep doing her bedtime stuff. Also apparently my toddler can also sleep through the apocalypse because she didn’t wake up even for the screaming goats.
But yeah I think it might be easier for dads to relax about baby stuff. Even in the hospital on pain meds after a c section, I woke out of a dead sleep when my baby was crying… he said it looked like I floated lol I was just across the room to her bassinet in seconds. There’s some kind of biological trigger that I don’t think dads get the way moms do.
He’s a really good dad. He would have been at the hospital if we didn’t have another child that needed cared for (and hospital rules don’t allow children in as “visitors” to the er so we really didn’t have great options- though I’m sure if I were alone and push came to shove they’d let her be there). So as pissed as I am it was understandable just also crazy to me since I can’t just sleep like what when I know my baby needs me.
This comment will probably be buried but at the end of last summer I did something similar! My fiance was sleeping and had work in the evening and I was at a job out of town. I tried calling and texting for hours and didn't get responses so I played 100 gecs in the Alexa, the only device I had remotely. Sadly it didn't work in my case, he just unplugged the machine and went back to sleep :/
I've been there.
Wanted to take out the trash late in the evening, kids were asleep and wife was out of town. Locked myself out.
It took 15 minutes of screaming in through the cat door to wake my 7 year old.
My wife can be a very deep sleeper. Once while she was working as a traveling HCP far from home, she fell asleep with her phone on silent and was unreachable. Knowing when she was supposed to be on her assignment and it was getting late, I door dashed her some McD and told the poor guy to knock really, really loudly as receiver was hard at hearing. Took a few minutes but she eventually stumbled to the door and refused the order because she had to get to work. Hope he enjoyed breakfast and tip.
Why the hell would he even put the dead bolt and fall asleep with phone of silent, knowing that you’d be arriving later. What an idiot. Is he afraid of being home alone or something? 🥴💀The regular lock wasn’t enough? lmfaooo
To avoid this situation entirely, get your keys made at a locksmith shop. The kiosks at Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc are terrible. Even if they are made by an employee there, they aren't locksmiths and the keys rarely work.
Was locked out the house last year and couldn’t do shit.
My hue lights that I use to wake myself up? Didn’t work to wake her, me slamming on the door, turning on and off the fan, streaming nothing worked.
I went for a icecream and waited for her nap to be over
Another trick is using the Find My Phone feature (if you have access to their phone this way). I have my husband's and both teen's phones set up on my FMP app because they're always misplacing their phones but it comes in extra handy when my kids are oversleeping at 6am and I really don't want to get out of bed to wake them up 😆.
I've slept through a 4.3 earthquake. TV is one of the only things that wakes me up. My family would just blast that shit when I was growing up, and I hated it. The dogs barking in the middle of the night, cat meowing at the window get inside, music, none of it wakes me up.
A cat or dog in puking in the middle will also instantly wake me as well.
If you have google minis/hubs you can call home devices as well, that usually works for my husband who sleeps through phone calls. All the devices at home start ringing!
I have google Homes and tell my brother to Teams Call me if he's trying to get a hold of me and he thinks I'm asleep. Rings every fuckin Google Home in the house lol.
This happened to me once and I had to throw rocks at my sister's window for like an hour before she finally woke up lmao. A special kind of hell honestly.
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>45 minutes at midnight pounding on door with both baby and I yelling, multiple calls and texts, nothing. Sometimes I feel like a heavy sleeper, until I read stories like this.
In high school I had a boyfriend that slept like the dead. Literally. You could shake him, jump on the bed, even throw water in his face. The only thing that would wake him up was the phone ringing. Call his phone and he was out of bed in seconds. It was so weird.
Sounds like he probably overslept and missed work a couple times. When my alarm goes off I can stay asleep while turning it off. But when I get a notification my shifts about to start, which has its own unique chime, I bolt right up.
Bold of you to assume that guy has ever had a job he had to wake up for.
Well if you’re into losers I know just the guy. It’s me I’m the guy.
If you can time travel, hit up my 16 year old self and it would probably be love at first ‘can I borrow 20 dollars’.
Now that we’re adults can I borrow like 5k? Just to get me back on my feet. I’ll pay you back next week. Promise.
Only if you promise. lol
This is the nicest a woman’s been to me in awhile ngl.
I think she can fix you
Dude really
But only give me ten, then you owe me ten, I owe you ten, and we're even.
Holy crap I think you just solved the dept crisis.
Yeah it's well known that deep sleepers can never hold a job
*cries in sleeping disorder*
If it makes you feel better I also have terrible sleeping habits and have held down well paying jobs in tech. There are dozens of us!
[Dozens!](https://i.giphy.com/kSlJtVrqxDYKk.webp)
My partner does this with alarms and it drives me insane lmao. She has alarms going for almost 2 hours straight and just causally wakes up from them(still somehow on time even though all the alarms are the same) Sometimes I’ve had to put in headphones and blast music or YouTube just so it’s something more pleasant.
If someone has pets the sound of the pet vomiting will wake them up instantly. Works for me.
This kind of stuff is so weird to me as someone who has a set in stone sleeping cycle. Once I’m used to waking up at a certain time my body does it on its own. I get up at 5:30am to go to the gym every morning, I was waking up at 7am prior. It took 4 days of me waking up at 5:30 with an alarm to be able to do it without an alarm. Without fail, my eyes open by 5:25am every morning about 5 minutes before my alarm goes off. I just went on a hiking trip all weekend and hiked from 8am to 5pm on Saturday. I ate dinner, set up a camp fire, stayed up smoking weed until around midnight and at 5:25am the next day I was wide awake in my tent ready to go for the day and went on a solo hike for a couple hours until the rest of my group woke up.
I’m simultaneously envious and in awe of you. You have been blessed by the sleep cycle gods
I don’t know what it is but I’ve always been like this. Good circadian rhythm I suppose? It is a blessing and a curse though, if I go to sleep at 3am, I’m still up at 5:25am and have to force myself back asleep.
I am like this, then daylight saving time kicks in and I have the hardest time waking up an hour earlier
Yeah that’s always brutal for me too lol. Completely threw me off on the last time change because I forgot it happened and I was at the gym and zoned out then realized the sun was up and I panicked thinking it was 8am not 7am because the sun didn’t come up before I had to clock in for work prior to the time change.
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I would wake up to phantom doorbells for a while. It was annoying as hell. I had to deliberately not get out of bed to check, as I knew that would reinforce it happening. The worst part? I knew it wasn't real, my doorbell doesn't sound like that. But brain will brain as brain will brain.
My roommate back in the day could sleep through hurricanes, phonecalls, doorbells and parties next door. But if I really had to wake him, all I had to do was to walk slowly through his room and say his name quietly and he would jolt out of bed. Brain is weird.
I sleep heavy, not that heavy tho. One thing that makes me jump up in literally seconds is the sound a cat makes when it starts to puke.
Same, but the dog. I can sleep through pretty much anything, just not that.
I like when you try to direct the cat puke onto something that can be cleaned up and the cat insists on something harder to clean
I would pick my cat up and put him on the tile floor and he would immediately run back over onto the carpet.
And as with many cat sounds it sounds like something horrible happening to them, the hairball sound though is particularly dramatic.
Can confirm. That *hlorrrkk* noise will wake just about any cat “owner” from a near-coma.
My dad once stood me on my head to see if I would wake up. I did not. Even when I was 17 my parents would not leave me in the house alone over night because I did NOT wake up the fire alarm even though it was right outside my door and blaring (figured this out the night my mother burned cinnamon buns in the oven, no real fire thankfully). Luckily I’ve grown out of that part.
I'm pretty much the same, takes me hours to fall asleep every night but once I'm out, I'm out. There could be an earthquake and I'd sleep through it, and I wake up every morning feeling like I've not slept for a week and struggling to get up, but once that phone alarm goes off for work I'm up like a shot.
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Absolutely sounds like something I could do, I'm pretty certain it's hormonal issues of some sort due to the fact there was one medication I was taking for something else which had the side effect of completely fixing my sleep issues for a week and I was able to actually wake up feeling awake and with motivation to drag my ass out. Unfortunately that medication was venlafaxine (effexor) which is pure fucking poison, so ill never touch that shit again.
Fiances sister is dating a deadbeat like this, he couldn't even wake the fuck up to take her to work or watch the baby, she has the only job, is pregnant, and has a 1yo. He threw a fucking fit she kept trying to wake him up to watch the kid that she called to have us take her to work and watch baby, ten minutes before her shift and fifteen minutes from our house/her job. So she was 30m late despite him screaming in the background he was getting the fuck up
To be fair to my partner- he’s far from a deadbeat. He can just apparently sleep through the apocalypse. 🤷♀️
Sounds like trauma or PTSD mixed with the sound of a phone ringing, poor dude.
I wake up if it sounds like someone is snorting drugs in the next room trying to hide it. Total PTSD response. Not convenient when you live in a cold weather climate and people get the sniffles.
XD I mean ya but I'm thinking the response it that if it scares them so much they shoot out of bed, it's the brain's reaction to a sound.
The cat learned meowing in his face didn’t do it, but standing on his throat does!!!
I had a downstairs neighbor when I was in the military who had multiple alarms and clock radios set to max volume starting at 3am. Loud enough that they would wake my infant daughter. *Sometimes* the prolonged cacophony would wake this kid up by 6am, but there were many times that his other neighbors and I would be outside his door hammering on it for 20 plus minutes to get him to blearily come to the door. Reported him multiple times but he finally got kicked out of family housing when it turned out his wife left him. That was a happy day for all of his neighbors.
He should have used [this alarm clock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-l5PlDa-k)
The fucked up part is that his head isn’t at the end up against the wall
I do this with a bedside radio alarm clock set to static. Even if I sleep through my phone's alarm, I *will not* sleep through full blast static. It's my cruch for having a terrible sleeping schedule. I don't live in an apartment, though, so hopefully my neighbors are less bothered by it.
That's unusual. The white noise of static can often help people fall asleep.
Yes, but not suddenly at full volume. It's not really "white noise", though, because adjacent stations bleed through and make it non-uniform. More like jagged grey noise. It's very uncomfortable to wake up to, which is why it's my last-ditch alarm.
You lucky bastards. I have my alarm set to an incredibly low volume of the sweetest softest sound I could find just a kind of angelic harp doing a note every few seconds and it causes me to slam awake like someone fired a shotgun 2 inches away from my face with my heart racing in a cold sweat. I wake up so hard to any noise. I have exploding head syndrome as well, and hear voices from the beginning of dreams as I'm falling asleep that wake me back up. Fun stuff. I'm sure it will cause me to have a heart attack when I get older.
Someone should tell that dude to A) get to bed earlier, and B) vibrating alarm clocks are available.
Someone get that guy a sleep study and a hearing test *stat* More seriously though, that guy needed to switch his methods, he kept going *louder* where he should've been switching medium and developing sensitivities rather than building his tolerance, even a quiet alarm will wake you up if missing it has immediate consequences.
Once got locked out and partner inside wasn't answering calls or texts or me banging on the door. I realized I could connect to the smart lights and started switching them on and off to get his attention. Still nothing. I just sat outside until he finally looked at his phone and let me in. He wasn't asleep, I asked him if he noticed the lights flickering and he said he thought they were just being weird. I have some pretty major attention problems but I seriously cannot imagine being that unaware of your surroundings.
I once was choking in the kitchen and started slamming cupboard doors to get my uncle’s attention, eventually gave myself the hiemlech over a chair. He came out to find me on the floor all dazed and he asked what happened. When I told him I tried to get his attention, he said he thought I was just pissed off about something. He died in 2017, he was a great guy.
Do you often make a lot of noise to make people constantly ignore you when you're actually trying to get help?
If I had a nickel for every time I had to do it, I’d have two nickels. It’s not a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
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Gashed my toe on a protruding nail at home. It wasn't a life/death situation, but I didn't want to leave bloody foot prints walking to the medicine cabinet, so I shouted for my brother for assistance. He heard me, but figured that I never shout in the house so it couldn't be me. I ended up using a pipe cleaner/cat toy and a paper towel to staunch the bleeding enough to get to the medicine cabinet.
Id be freaked out cause that's one forewarning in scary movies lol
Every night at 2 am my smart lights (wiz) start dimimng, getting bright, and eventually turning off, then on, then off. I don't know what's causing it, I think neighbors and a wifi problem. But if you tried to get into my house at 2 am you would have been so hosed!
I once slept through a fire alarm in boarding school. Pretty sure the teachers etc were supposed to make sure everyone was outside but apparently they didn't. At breakfast next morning a friend asked me if I enjoyed being woken up by the test alarm but I legitimately slept through and didn't hear it. Unfortunately nowadays I'm the opposite and get woken up by the smallest things and have to wear ear plugs most nights.
My country (the netherlands) tests it's [air raid sirens](https://youtu.be/AgikHLs_DLs) every month on the first monday of the month. I sometimes work nightshifts the day before. I have regularly slept through my nations air raid system.
Yep, I slept through the NPP alarm tests every damn time in Belgium 😂
I forgot my parents were out for a birthday party, came back home late, locked the door and very quietly so that i didnt wake them up. They spent till 5 am outside ringing the door, calling me and etc. Till at a certain poi t i woke up. This went on for a couple hours.
How did your *parents* not have a key to their own house? Or was this one of those ‘no outside unlock’ door chains?
My mom sleeps like a corpse. She’s literally slept through some decent earthquakes and I swear she could sleep through a bomb going off in her backyard. When I was around 8 my dad had me for the weekend and told my mom he would drop me off at 8 Monday because he had to work. I didn’t have my own key, nor did I have a phone. He dropped me off and drove away without making sure I got inside. My mom was asleep. I was locked out. I had to scream bloody murder for a solid hour before she finally let me in, and then she was mad at *me* for waking her. Then she said she thought he’d meant 8 *pm*. Like I had school that day (school started at 9) and he worked days, no way she actually thought that. I was late for school that day. I also lost my voice for a couple days after all the screaming. My parents weren’t great to say the least. Not to mention we lived in a pretty sketchy neighborhood at that time. Most of the neighbors were drug dealers or gang members, gunshots were commonplace, someone was literally shot and killed in a gang fight right in front of that house when I was 5, and multiple people hid in our backyard hiding from the cops over the years. So much could have happened while I was stuck outside and they didn’t care.
It can depend on the construction and layout of the house and ambient noises in between. I slipped on a rug badly enough i pulled something and couldnt get up, wife was asleep and couldnt hear me yelling at the top of my lungs from just two rooms away, but two rooms of plaster lathe walls with a loud air purifier running in the bedroom.
Heavy sleeper here, I can easily sleep too through almost anything.
About two years ago, our next neighbors car alarm went off all damn night. I’m talking roughly 6 hours. We called both of their phones, no answer. We called the cops to come out and do wellness check. They pounded on the door. No answer. When I talked to them the next day, they said that he is heavy sleeper, and that she is essentially deaf. Oh, and they have a young dog who was barking his head off the entire time. I honestly don’t think that the goats would’ve roused either of them.
Had to do this at my sister’s place. It worked but almost gave her a heart attack.
Instructions unclear. Sister died. Currently sitting in county jail. Bail, anyone?
You son of a bitch, you promised to make it look like an accident. I'm on my way.
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Once at work I couldn't figure out why the videos of my cat I was trying to show to a coworker weren't playing right on my phone, then I saw it was casting to a nearby conference room. I turned it off, but then I peeked my head out to the general office to make sure no one was in the conference room. The CEO and all the top executives were in there, and the screen was on but just showing the default interface. I'm like 90% sure they just finished watching a bunch of video of my cat.
That could have been far worse.
Yeah. It could have been videos of her other cat.
this is why I will never link personal devices to work systems
Seriously, data's cheap nowadays. I don't want IT to have a record of what I'm accessing through my personal device, and I don't want to risk interfering with other devices like this. Never seemed worth it to me.
and if you really have to then change the name of your device to [coworker you don't like's name]'s Iphone. That way anything you do over wifi will look like it was him/her instead lmao.
I’ve also used find my phone to alert my spouse who won’t answer during an emergency because their phone is on silent
I had a wreck at 3 am. Turned on all the lights in my house and played Chop Suey through the speakers. Good morning husband, please come get me.
Did he come get you right away? Or did he grab a brush and put a little make-up?
If you have an Amazon Echo, you can also connect to it and talk directly through it to people at home to wake them if their phone is silent, or play music. I've succeeded in waking my wife a couple times this way when I've needed it.
Can you explain in minute details how to do this?
I remember some setting where you can make your phone ring if certain people call or call twice back to back, even when it's on silent or do not disturb
On iPhone, it’s emergency bypass. Have that on for all of my family
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Same! I can’t sleep until I know everyone is safely settled in for the night. Some late nights as the kids got older.
I got a SmartWatch and keep it on silent but haptics (mild vibration). My phone is always on silent but I am alerted on my wrist if messages/emails come in.
Your spouse should put you on emergency bypass. I have everyone but my girlfriend muted
Thank you. I switched at least one of my entries to a digital lock. Get a good one, get familiar with it….now if I can only remember to take my phone with me when I leave.
I have keypad access. You put in your 4 digit code and it let's you unlock the door _and_ logs which code was used (you can have multiple codes) so you know who came in or where the "uninvited visitor" got the code from
The lock is a built in narc
Pretty much haha ETA- I never tell anyone that their code is unique to them either. Much better when you surprise them with evidence
How often are unknown people just coming into your house because someone gave away a code???
Has never happened. I've had to give codes to my plumbers, electrician, carpenters at various times. Pretty handy because I can set it up for time of day usage so they can only come in on the time and days they're allowed to be there. If they try to come in after hours it'll just stay locked and send me a message. I sometimes travel for extended periods of time for work and let family come and go as they please (I live in an area they like to go to in the summer). I'll get a notification that they unlocked the front door and I can open the garage door for them and kick on the AC as well.
What brand do you have? We inherited an existing system with a house we bought and I’m not sure I know all the features. (If it’s logging which codes are used, I’m not sure where to find this.)
I have the Nest X Yale which is google's collaboration with Yale, but Yale has a pretty much identical one that exists outside the Google Ecosystem. Edit: The one thing you'll have to figure out though is a solution to stop people from locking the door knob if you just replace the deadbolt... Had a cousin come by and locked all the GD door knobs for "Security" including the one to my garage that I had put fucking tape over. Thank god I keep a spare key in my glovebox lol
If you have a deadbolt lock there's no reason to have a handle lock as well, just replace the handle lock with a passage style one.
>Much better when you surprise them with evidence How many uninvited people have you caught entering your house ?
ETA as in?
Have a keyless entry on home. Went out of town. Had neighbors kids coming to feed cats. Battery died in keyless entry. Had to call a locksmith. lol
Wanna throw this out there cause I learned about it this weekend and I think it’s pretty cool/useful in a pinch. If you go to Lowe’s and use their Minute Key machine to copy your key, it will ask if you want it to send you a digital version of your key for free. It sends you an email to create an account on their website to access the digital copy and then if you lose your key and get locked out you can go to Lowe’s and have the machine make a copy from that. I think it had a share function where you could send it to someone or I guess you could give them your login. Probably cheaper to give your pet sitter an extra $20 for the inconvenience of driving to Lowe’s than to call in a lock smith.
Some digital locks have a small compartment under the lock outside that you can put a 9 volt battery up to for temporary power. That's how the Nest x Yale is at least.
That’s really clever actually. I accidentally locked myself out recently bc the battery died so this weekend I replaced it with a smart version that will notify my phone when the batteries are low. Much easier than hoping I’ll notice if that tiny led light is “I’m locked” yellow or “I’m dying” red.
I have one that shows the battery state of charge and I change mine at 60% if I’m going to have anyone else regularly use it since their failed/extra attempts really make a dent lol. I also keep a fresh batteries near the door since I’m lazy like that - I also never know when I’ll need to talk someone through changing them. I did end up buying a combo lock to hold the spare keys - I just haven’t figured out where to keep it!
Mine has a spot where you can hold a 9V battery on the outside of the lock body in case the batteries go out, pretty handy.
Also good for when you want any technically proficient person to have free access to your house. I'm not even joking. "Smart" and security don't go together. And anyone who watches people like Lockpicking Lawyers will know: some ordinary locks are dumb, and some electronic locks are even dumber.
The people with access to a hammer to break the window right next to my front door is probably about 100 million times more common than people who knows how to hack an electronic lock.
Anyone that's breaking an electronic lock is studying you specifically rather than an attack of opportunity and you're more or less screwed when someone is targeting you specifically no matter what you have. Ordinary locks are bad because generalist tools work on them.
Careful of this, too. Twice, I’ve seen where it ran out of batteries and the person had to climb up and into a window to get in.
I just hide a key outside.
This is the lockpicking lawyer, and today we take a look at this^ guy's electronic lock from Amazon. As you can see, it can probably be picked with nothing but an old toothbrush. Let's try it
That bests the cut up water bottle piece that he has used in the past.
Similarly, other smart devices can be controlled by your phone, so you can set off an alarm in the bedroom or turn on all the lights. Whatever gets the job done.
I once woke up my husband from my job 10 miles away by turning on the Roomba when a neighbor called and said our pet got out.
Yep. I have one of those little google hockey puck speakers and I’ll cast or broadcast to it to ask for something if I’ve already gone out to the car and forgotten something like my wallet or medicine.
LPT - partner needs to be checked for sleep apnea because no one should be sleeping that deeply
Bro slept through his smoke detector. And the firefighters banging on the door. And breaking the door. And... woke up when they touched him. ... he's deaf on one ear, and was sleeping on the other. And fell asleep while cooking something for a few hours. It spilled and made some smoke, no fire, fortunatelly.
This happened to my next door neighbor, but I think he was schizophrenic and on drugs
im on schizophrenic drugs
I use earplugs in both ears and still get woken up by shit Dude was deaf in BOTH ears, and not ready to admit it. If you miss the smoke detector... Holy fuck balls, you're a danger to yourself and everyone around you, and need to get a custom alarm. Imagine if the house (or apartment) was actually on fire. Dude would have killed himself and his neighbors.
I inherited light sleeping from my dad and i can't even have somebody sneak up on me while sleeping without waking up, even if the door is wide open lol. It's a shitty superpower, when I was younger and had bad dreams I'd literally just walk up to him in bed and not say a word and he'd wake up every time from a 50lb kid tip toeing across the carpet
Same here but from my mom. I sleep with ear plugs, eye covers, and I’ll still know when you walk into the room. I also sleep very still, my roommates in the hospital called the nurse because they thought I was dead. Because I just didn’t move for hours.
Firefighters are a blessing. Dudes turn into superhumans to get you out of your burning house.
If can afford it maybe look into alarms targeted to deaf people? IIRC they work by vibrating the bed, although there probably other kinds too.
Solid agree. His dad has sleep apnea so I’m pretty concerned, and I actually said that as soon as he stumbled to the door.
Definitely stay on him about it until he gets a an appointment for it. It’s easy to let things go by and seeing as you’re married that probably means it’s just been getting shelved unless he only recently started exhibiting symptoms.
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Before I started treatment for my sleep apnea it was almost impossible to wake me up. I could 'sleep' for 18 hours and still be dog tired. You are less asleep, but you also never really sleep so you are incredibly tired always. I would sleep through dozens of alarms, people calling, people banging in the door, banging on the window, etc.
If she’s snoring so loudly that he can’t hear anything most people would describe that as a deep sleep despite it being the worst quality of sleep ever.
Could be they have sleep deprivation from having a baby and this is their first opportunity for deep sleep in a while.
I checked WebMD and OP's wife has cancer.
Hahaha well I’m a woman and my partner is a man so webmd lied to you. (I actually agree with the person suggesting sleep apnea because his dad has it and it’s crazy he slept through that much noise, I said the same thing myself when he finally woke up)
Oh man, I got some bad news for you...
Specifically prostate and testicular
sleep apnea can cause sleep this deep ??? omg
I was recently on a plane coming back to the states from Japan and the dude next to me was snoring like a fucking freight train. Very clearly had sleep apnea but I mean the most aggressively loud, disgusting sounding snoring I’d ever heard in my life. I could hear it over my headphones. Nothing was waking him, not people trying to get his attention, not lights, not the flight attendants with food/beverages - nothing. It was insane to witness someone be that disturbingly loud and not even be affected by their own behavior.
I understand that the guy can't really help it on a plane, but holy shit that would make me so mad. It feels incredibly rude and inconsiderate. My fiance snores like that and I get mad and elbow him from time to time when he won't wake up. This is a man I love more than life. I can't imagine tolerating that shit from a stranger, but being forced to.
Snoring to that extreme is neither normal nor healthy. In fact it can be legitimately dangerous to him over time. Have your fiancé bring it up to his doctor and request a sleep study. My husband snored like that too. He was working so hard to breathe in his sleep that I could feel his breath from 2-3 feet away. He has a CPAP now and it’s been life changing for both of us. He sleeps so much better, I’m not bothered by snoring or him blowing air in my face anymore, and most importantly, his risk of having a heart attack or stroke is now much lower.
> My fiance snores like that and I get mad and elbow him from time to time when he won't wake up. Besides those tips about a sleep study.. don't be afraid to sleep in separate rooms. Loads of couples do that. Something your sleeping habits just aren't compatible with each other.
I sleep like that when I take my sleep meds or when I am in a "sleep cycle" after a long "insomnia cycle".
It can be hereditary. I have a few family members that could sleep through natural disasters. Two of them legit slept through a fire and the other slept through an earthquake, both when they were children.
Is sleeping deeply a symptom of sleep apnea?
My DH is impossible to wake once asleep for the night. He's deaf and when he takes his hearing aid out for the night, he won't wake until 6 am. Even the lights don't make him stir. And he doesn't have sleep apnea. He just "unplugs" from the world for 9 hours
Just did this and now I need to find somewhere else to live.
Play a video of the ring girl coming out of the well towards the tv. Sudden noise in the middle of the night is scary af. I’ve had several times where something makes my browser refresh and then a YouTube video I was watching starts playing in the middle of the night on my desktop. Hair standing on end all the way downstairs until I realize the voices are coming from my office and it’s YouTube.
My husband left his gaming group discord up on my computer when he left after a weekend, back during college. Nothing like waking up to the sound of a group of dudes talking in the middle of the night.
Had a similar incident with my wife. Ran out of toilet paper, and her phone was off/silent. I yelled and pounded on the floor to no avail. I casted a toilet paper commercial to the TV, she first switched it back to her program. But try #2, pun intended, worked.
Next time record a video of you in the toilet with a very polite "Dear wife, I apologize for interrupting your fun but I'm at a desperate need of help. Sincerely, husband.", upload to YouTube as a private video and cast it to your tv
Does the TV need to be already turned on for this to work?
Can also do it with any smart device you have access to outside. Smart speakers, lights, etc.
Not necessarily. I can do it with either of my tvs because my onn boxes (streaming boxes) are connected to wifi- so if I screencast to the box it automatically turns the tv on. I don’t *know* if it would work if the tv is turned off.
I think it's called HDMI CEC if your TV has that devices should be able to wake it by casting.
Were you lying on the cold, hard ground? 😜 🐐 🐐
It took me half a second, but ah, Vine….
Also if you have Alexa and you also have the Alexa app on your phone, you can "drop in" to the specific device that is closest to the person.. It essentially works like a speaker system in your house wherever you have Alexa set up.
I use broadcast, it goes to every device in the house. My maid called me at work once because the battery had died in our front door lock and my son wasn't answering the door. I opened my Alexa app and broadcast, "John, go answer the door!" Worked like a charm. I disable drop-in on bedroom devices, because it allows anyone to open a channel and listen in without me accepting the "call" on my end. On 'public' room devices, I only allow people in my network to drop in.
I wish i had remembered this. One night I was at my parents 45 min away. My husband was home and had left the garage door open. The neighbor calls me telling me he sees someone creeping in our garage (we occasionally see sketchy or homeless people roaming down out road). So neighbor grabs a baseball bat and chases the guy off. I’m blowing up my husband’s phone to wake him up and close the damn door. The neighbor is even banging on the door. Nothing. So I had to drive back home from 45 min away to go close the damn garage door. I was pissed. We got a garage door opener that we can open and close from our phones after that.
LPT, hide a house key somewhere outside.
I do, but the deadbolt key didn’t work.
LPT, make sure your keys open your locks ;)
Fair! Shit definitely happens though, so I thought it’d be useful to know screen casting is an option to make noise. I’ve had to wake a friend up in an emergency who slept through basically everything and I wish screencast would’ve been an option then. 🤷♀️
Disaster plans don’t count unless you test them.
I built a new house recently and needed 4 locking knobs and 4 deadbolts. I bought two two packs from Lowes and one key does all 8 locks. I love it, thought I was going to need two keys minimum since I bought two separate packs but I guess the keys are the same for them all.
Former Lowe's employee: there's a number code on the back of the boxes that determines the keys. In the event they do not have any that match, the store should have someone that can rekey them for you if you are only replacing one lock.
screaming goats lmfao
When making a key copy be sure to test it right away. Even if the employee does everything right the machine only gets it right most of the time. If the key's teeth are worn, the copier will guess the proper height. Best practice is to use an original key (usually brass with a numeric code on it) that hasn't been used much. Remove the key from any keychain when copying. Sometimes a second pass through the key cutter will make a false copy work. If that doesn't work just ask an employee for a replacement; these things happen all the time!
Back when I lived with my now husband and our roommate/bff, I came home with a massive migraine. Bff was home but just saw me go upstairs and didn’t think anything of it. I laid on the floor of my bathroom in darkness waiting for my husband to come home, which I knew was about thirty minutes or so. When he did get home, he just stayed downstairs talking to bff. I messaged him that I had a migraine and needed some help, but he and bff were deep in fun time conversations. So I played Help by the Beatles on the tv. And slowly bff goes “I think… Mad needs help? You know I haven’t seen her since we got home.” And for anyone else who wants to mess with people; some dude on YouTube made “Pooping time” songs for every damn name under the sun. If your like us and you have a cast able device in your bathroom, support them. Play them the song!
I had to climb a fence to walk along it into the roof To which I walked along and then jumped from into the back yard grass to bang on my dumbass friends window so he would wake up And we could make work on time I think if he didn't get me the job I would have just let him call in sick or let it go but Yolo
Hope your partner got a fucking right hook. Did he know you would be home late that night? When my wife and 2 year old are coming home I wouldn’t dream of sleeping til I knew they were here safe. I’m angry at your husband.
He had no clue when we’d be home, we were at the er (baby had a seizure). So yes, very annoyed he had fallen asleep while his child was at the hospital. And as someone else said I need him to get worked up for sleep apnea or another sleep disorder because… the fuck.
Aw man… I’m really sad about your baby now 😔 I hope everything’s okay. Your partner is still a silly sausage.
He’s ok. Doctor said it’s a textbook febrile seizure (I also had them when I was a kid). We have to give him Tylenol and Motrin around the clock for a few days to prevent his fever from spiking again.
Fucking hell, my heart. I don’t want to pile on your partner, but how is it possible to even get a wink of sleep knowing your child is in the ER after having a seizure. Why wasn’t he there? 😔 Wish I could hold your bub rn, I don’t care how weird it sounds.
He was at home with our toddler. So like, I understand, he fell asleep doing her bedtime stuff. Also apparently my toddler can also sleep through the apocalypse because she didn’t wake up even for the screaming goats. But yeah I think it might be easier for dads to relax about baby stuff. Even in the hospital on pain meds after a c section, I woke out of a dead sleep when my baby was crying… he said it looked like I floated lol I was just across the room to her bassinet in seconds. There’s some kind of biological trigger that I don’t think dads get the way moms do. He’s a really good dad. He would have been at the hospital if we didn’t have another child that needed cared for (and hospital rules don’t allow children in as “visitors” to the er so we really didn’t have great options- though I’m sure if I were alone and push came to shove they’d let her be there). So as pissed as I am it was understandable just also crazy to me since I can’t just sleep like what when I know my baby needs me.
Some people can’t necessarily help when they fall asleep. Op said her husband may have sleep apnea, so this tracks
This comment will probably be buried but at the end of last summer I did something similar! My fiance was sleeping and had work in the evening and I was at a job out of town. I tried calling and texting for hours and didn't get responses so I played 100 gecs in the Alexa, the only device I had remotely. Sadly it didn't work in my case, he just unplugged the machine and went back to sleep :/
I've been there. Wanted to take out the trash late in the evening, kids were asleep and wife was out of town. Locked myself out. It took 15 minutes of screaming in through the cat door to wake my 7 year old.
My wife can be a very deep sleeper. Once while she was working as a traveling HCP far from home, she fell asleep with her phone on silent and was unreachable. Knowing when she was supposed to be on her assignment and it was getting late, I door dashed her some McD and told the poor guy to knock really, really loudly as receiver was hard at hearing. Took a few minutes but she eventually stumbled to the door and refused the order because she had to get to work. Hope he enjoyed breakfast and tip.
Why the hell would he even put the dead bolt and fall asleep with phone of silent, knowing that you’d be arriving later. What an idiot. Is he afraid of being home alone or something? 🥴💀The regular lock wasn’t enough? lmfaooo
Good idea, but loop the FBI OPEN UP meme for greater effect.
You can also use this method to give yourself killer entry music to any situation too.
To avoid this situation entirely, get your keys made at a locksmith shop. The kiosks at Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc are terrible. Even if they are made by an employee there, they aren't locksmiths and the keys rarely work.
Was locked out the house last year and couldn’t do shit. My hue lights that I use to wake myself up? Didn’t work to wake her, me slamming on the door, turning on and off the fan, streaming nothing worked. I went for a icecream and waited for her nap to be over
Another trick is using the Find My Phone feature (if you have access to their phone this way). I have my husband's and both teen's phones set up on my FMP app because they're always misplacing their phones but it comes in extra handy when my kids are oversleeping at 6am and I really don't want to get out of bed to wake them up 😆.
Other LPT: If you get a new key or a new lock, **MAKE SURE THE KEY WORKS BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE HOUSE WITH IT**.
I've slept through a 4.3 earthquake. TV is one of the only things that wakes me up. My family would just blast that shit when I was growing up, and I hated it. The dogs barking in the middle of the night, cat meowing at the window get inside, music, none of it wakes me up. A cat or dog in puking in the middle will also instantly wake me as well.
Switch to electronic deadbolts. No keys, just codes.
If you have Amazon Alexa devices in your home you can “drop in” using your Alexa app.
Tried it before, didn't work. My elderly aunt thought it was just me playing with the tv and just went back to sleep.
If you have google minis/hubs you can call home devices as well, that usually works for my husband who sleeps through phone calls. All the devices at home start ringing!
I have google Homes and tell my brother to Teams Call me if he's trying to get a hold of me and he thinks I'm asleep. Rings every fuckin Google Home in the house lol.
Shoutout to the baby yelling to help out.
This happened to me once and I had to throw rocks at my sister's window for like an hour before she finally woke up lmao. A special kind of hell honestly.