I sometimes wonder if attributing every weird noise to the cat is dangerous. I'll hear something and think "ah, it's just the cat" and go back to sleep without checking.
The worst is when you think "ah, it's just the cat", but then you see them sleeping nearby. So now I have to assume it's just a little ghost cat, so I can go right back to sleep
My cat actually saved me from a break in by straight up attacking the dude.
I was sleeping on the couch in my trailer and suddenly woke up to my cat yowling and some dude screaming and by the time I realized what was going on the guy had already run out the door with my cat right behind him.
Kitty cut deep too cause there was blood spatter on the door frame where dude grabbed it while running away.
Good for you. My cats would be cowering in the basement under the bed. They are scared of people. My dog on the other hand would alert the entire neighborhood to the existence of the break-in. But she's a 17 lbs dog, and would be scared of the thief, so she'd then just let them steal whatever they want.
My house is almost 100 years old, and so I hear my cat when he's coming up the stairs, and I get robbed of the extra 60s before he just starts meowing. He's an old man now, 15 or so, and so he spends the nights inside now, and he's not a fan. He will come upstairs anytime between 1145 and 230 in the morning and just start meowing, loudly, and I have a wife and two kids and I need them all to stay asleep, so poor Bruce Willis gets locked in the basement.
Sometimes it's right as I turn my light off when I'm done reading, and I lay my head on my pillow, he just rolls in. Sometimes I'm fast asleep and he does it. But five nights a week, at least, he needs to wake me up, and he goes to the backdoor, so the farthest place from my spot in bed, because he thinks he's going outside, and then I pick him up and put him in the basement. He will never learn.
Have you tried setting up a little cat bed near your own bed? In the basement, he's probably lonely. Getting older, he might be feeling lonely down there at night, and wanting to seek out company.
He just wants to go outside. He's a lone wolf type cat. I may try the bed thing, but sometimes he'll hang on my bed or my daughter's for a bit, before ultimately deciding to wake everyone up so he can go outside.
I'm sure you've heard it but in most areas it's strongly recommended to always keep your cats indoors or otherwise leashed or restrained when outside, as they can be devastating to local wildlife and being outdoors can shave years off a cat's lifespan.
Yeah, I know, but he was a steet cat until my wife scooped him up, he was about three then, and it was very hard to take the street cat out of the street cat. The alternative, as you can tell, becomes locking him in a basement, which isn't a great alternative to me.
I wasn't trying to be judgey, a lot of people think it's better for the cat to let them have freedom to roam, but indoor cats have nearly double the lifespan.
No, it's cool, I didn't interpret it that way. I get it and I understand it, but I wrestle with having had this cat since 2014 at this point, knowing what he's like and where he came from, and it definitely conflicts with guidance I've read, but he's healthy and great weight and active when he goes out, and so here we are.
Lol. My home (not even a house, but a flat) is WWII era lol. It has rudimentary electrical installation. Like, it fullfills all requirements...if we back the clock by around 30-40 years. Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason. And I have old communist newspapers as "insulation" in the floor xD
Anyway, what I wanted to say...if you live in similiar conditions, everything that your mind connects to possible shortcircuit somehow manages to reboot you from sleep to full awareness within nanoseconds. xD
I'm a super heavy sleeper but when we had our baby its like any baby sound is kept in the light sleep category and it wakes me up.
Its bizarre because I have the memory of hearing the sound and processing it while I was asleep, like was I even sleeping or does my memory just scrub everything until triggered like some game recording software to save the last x minutes
It sounds like you'd have to wind it back more, 30 years only puts us in the 90s and the stuff you're talking about sounds like even the 80s would have at a minimum raised eyebrows by the inspectors
DING DING DING. We have a winner! WWII deutsch building then renewed under communist gov*. From that point forward, all changes were made only by flat owners. I have a total hodgepodge of handyman shit in my home xD
God, there really is something there with that "problem!" signal that our brains can give off before any conscious dots have been connected. And this is for abstract shit that you'd figure our monkey brains wouldn't give a damn about.
Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason.
My house is from the 30s and we had old knob and tube wiring, some of which had the lead sheathing as well. I would advise you probably replace that old wiring as soon as you can. The insulation under the sheathing is most likely cotton soaked in asphalt. After a while the asphalt dries out and becomes brittle and the cloth kinda just disintegrates over time. If that insulation fails the sheath can become electrified or create shorts.
We thought about keeping some of the original wiring when refinishing the house, after chasing down shorts for a couple days and one small electrical fire later..... We ended up redoing the whole system.
Wish I could replace it, but heavy case of living from paycheck to paycheck. Thankfully flat isn't mine but a third party organisation belonging to city, so they cover every electrical f-up that happens.
I...am not sure if knob and tube was even used in EU, and between short search and LLM query the answer seems to be "no". So this may be the closest EU equivalent to that xD
All in all tho, I can relate to hunting shorts. At this point 5/7 of my mini electrical boxes (can-like shape hole in the wall where cables junction?) were replaced by electrician, because they all shorted to all hell. When I moved in it was worse - I had parallel connection between lightswitch and outlet and similiar shit xD Last owner was a handyman builder and...it was showing. A lot.
Also I have only one circuit on singular fuse so that's also fun.
Home maintenance is 98% keeping the water where it belongs and out of where it doesn't.
After decades of it, any deviation, whether sound or creak or mark or moisture, gets my immediate attention like a frugal, OCD prairie dog intent on minimizing the cost of whatever impending home disaster is about to cost it thousands of dollars.
One morning I had a sleep paralysis while heat radiator was audibly leaking water. Woken up by sound of slowly unfolding emergency, but unable to do anything about it, even take a look, what a timing.
Anyway, when I finally was finally able to look, nothing was out of ordinary. It was just a sleep paralysis hallucination, either fully fabricated or creatively reinterpreting sounds of water in pipes from some works
The other night I heard a weird explosion sound and eventually classified it into the firework category and moved on. It was a meteor. Always investigate the weird sound at 5am, who needs sleep?
Around me it’s always pricks setting off illegal fireworks but somehow the bad guy is the person slashing their tyres so they don’t come back to the neighbourhood
My problem is that my landlord would make random unscheduled visits with his dogs. I assumed it was him or his dog. It was a home invader, who found the front door unlocked. My landlord left it unlocked. I know it was him, because I parked in the back and never used the front door.
You probably know by now but the landlord just entering your rented space is illegal in many countries. In many parts of the world you can change the lock even so only you have access.
My cat once deterred a home intruder back when I lived in a very shitty first floor apartment across the street from several very cheap bars. I had a rack of DVD's by the front door next to a small table like area where I'd put my keys. My cat would be sitting there when I got home, or when outside sounds got interesting, and occasionally he would knock over that DVD rack when he'd leap away, especially if a loud sound scared him.
then one time I got home to a busted lock and a slightly open door. I tried to run in, but that dvd rack had fallen forward from him kicking off of it, bounced off the wall, and landed between the door and the wall, essentially wedging it closed. I had to hulk it open, crushing the dvd rack, but that had kept the intruder from actually getting in. My cat was panting in panic, so it probably happened only minutes before I got there. I made sure that cat lived like a king for 15 more years.
Listen, thst dog ain't assing anything except a boot in the face. The average mall ninja has a machete that will corportulate that furry fuck in 1.87 seconds, flat. Even sound, because there are Buddhas who are fucking on your coffee table at .1 picometers and they WILL make a noise when they want to teach you how to perceive n undo the karmic fetters that bind one to the existence-illusion complex, obviously.
My recliner makes a creaking noise whenever I fully recline it. The other day I was napping in it, fully reclined already, when I heard the creaking noise. Way to fucking ruin a great nap.
Wife coming to bed? Nope. Clearly must be another break in. Obvious wind? Grab the pepper spray you keep under the bed and scan the room as your heart pounds. Literally nothing? Let's wake up in a start and double check that the doors are double locked and barred.
It is absolutely ptsd. Fortunately I came to the situation pre diagnosed. And unfortunately it's not even the only thing from that month I have ptsd symptoms about. But yeah anyone experiencing those symptoms should seek out professional help. Ptsd is a real pain in the ass to treat, but there are treatments and they can help.
Unfortunately, this is one of those situations where you can't fully leave the situation. Moving helped, no longer living on the ground floor helped (came in through the window), but so long as I have a front door there's a fear. Contrary to what a lot of people think/suggest, a gun very much wouldn't help.
But yeah I should probably see someone about this, but American.
I one hundred percent have it. Like you, infrequent, but it's either a bang or a crack, and sometimes a horn. Was so glad to learn they've got a name for it, because now I just chalk my waking up to a noise to it.
Not really sure if you made a joke and this is a screenshot from some weird horror movie or you took your phone out to snap a picture of your actual girlfriend sleepwalking instead of helping or it's just AI.
I have a cat who likes to hunt insects, dust mites, shoe laces, and charging cables at night.
And she's pretty clumsy.
My list of approved house sounds is very long.
My landlord had to cut a hole in my bathroom roof, and they taped plastic over the hole promising to come back later and patch it. Every time there’s an air draft the plastic rustles, and since I had forgotten all about it I was half convinced I was haunted.
I once rented a 2BR apartment and a couple of months in my landlord removed one of the bedrooms. It was like pulling teeth but I finally got him to lower my rent by $50.
Yeah, I don't know about the legality of it. Probably worse than the removal of the bedroom was the fact that it also removed one of the two ways of getting into/out of the apartment, so I'm sure it violated fire safety regulations. The funny thing was that the downstairs was a music store with the upstairs being three apartments, and they removed my back bedroom so they could build a new addition on the back of the building. For months, I could just walk out of my kitchen and into the new addition, and had I wanted to I could have just gone downstairs and helped myself to the music store's stock (like, guitars, amps, synthesizers etc.). The store had locks and an alarm system on all the doors and windows, but nothing securing its connection to the new addition. Oh well, Stratocasters are shit anyways.
my grandmother put out a dish of radiator coolant for them.
they loved it for the rest of their lives.
then her house smelled like death for like a year.
edit: just like to add that this was probably 40 years ago. squirrels are rodents that carry disease and other pests that can cause disease (looking at you yersinia pestis). old timers didn't fuck around and took immediate action to solve their problems. you don't have to like it, but you have to accept that it was effective.
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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 88 pts · 79d
10x worse with cats. What the fuck have you gotten into…
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 79d
I sometimes wonder if attributing every weird noise to the cat is dangerous. I'll hear something and think "ah, it's just the cat" and go back to sleep without checking.
StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today · 29 pts · 79d
Is that not one of the reasons to have a cat?
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 79d
Easily one of the top 5 reasons, right up there with killing spiders
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 79d
The worst is when you think "ah, it's just the cat", but then you see them sleeping nearby. So now I have to assume it's just a little ghost cat, so I can go right back to sleep
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 79d
*gun cocking noises"
meh, probably the cat.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
Anyone who's ever owned cats wouldn't think twice about their ability to cock a gun.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 78d
The cat was getting ready for the revolution.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 79d
My cat actually saved me from a break in by straight up attacking the dude.
I was sleeping on the couch in my trailer and suddenly woke up to my cat yowling and some dude screaming and by the time I realized what was going on the guy had already run out the door with my cat right behind him.
Kitty cut deep too cause there was blood spatter on the door frame where dude grabbed it while running away.
Coggsie@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 78d
Good kitty!! My girls have saved me more than once, people underestimate how much they love and protect us💝
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
I need a cat…
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
Good for you. My cats would be cowering in the basement under the bed. They are scared of people. My dog on the other hand would alert the entire neighborhood to the existence of the break-in. But she's a 17 lbs dog, and would be scared of the thief, so she'd then just let them steal whatever they want.
toynbee@piefed.social · 2 pts · 78d
My cats would mostly probably try to cuddle an intruder.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 79d
My house is almost 100 years old, and so I hear my cat when he's coming up the stairs, and I get robbed of the extra 60s before he just starts meowing. He's an old man now, 15 or so, and so he spends the nights inside now, and he's not a fan. He will come upstairs anytime between 1145 and 230 in the morning and just start meowing, loudly, and I have a wife and two kids and I need them all to stay asleep, so poor Bruce Willis gets locked in the basement.
Sometimes it's right as I turn my light off when I'm done reading, and I lay my head on my pillow, he just rolls in. Sometimes I'm fast asleep and he does it. But five nights a week, at least, he needs to wake me up, and he goes to the backdoor, so the farthest place from my spot in bed, because he thinks he's going outside, and then I pick him up and put him in the basement. He will never learn.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 79d
Have you tried setting up a little cat bed near your own bed? In the basement, he's probably lonely. Getting older, he might be feeling lonely down there at night, and wanting to seek out company.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
He just wants to go outside. He's a lone wolf type cat. I may try the bed thing, but sometimes he'll hang on my bed or my daughter's for a bit, before ultimately deciding to wake everyone up so he can go outside.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
I'm sure you've heard it but in most areas it's strongly recommended to always keep your cats indoors or otherwise leashed or restrained when outside, as they can be devastating to local wildlife and being outdoors can shave years off a cat's lifespan.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
Yeah, I know, but he was a steet cat until my wife scooped him up, he was about three then, and it was very hard to take the street cat out of the street cat. The alternative, as you can tell, becomes locking him in a basement, which isn't a great alternative to me.
edible_funk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
I wasn't trying to be judgey, a lot of people think it's better for the cat to let them have freedom to roam, but indoor cats have nearly double the lifespan.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
No, it's cool, I didn't interpret it that way. I get it and I understand it, but I wrestle with having had this cat since 2014 at this point, knowing what he's like and where he came from, and it definitely conflicts with guidance I've read, but he's healthy and great weight and active when he goes out, and so here we are.
Demdaru@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 79d
Lol. My home (not even a house, but a flat) is WWII era lol. It has rudimentary electrical installation. Like, it fullfills all requirements...if we back the clock by around 30-40 years. Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason. And I have old communist newspapers as "insulation" in the floor xD
Anyway, what I wanted to say...if you live in similiar conditions, everything that your mind connects to possible shortcircuit somehow manages to reboot you from sleep to full awareness within nanoseconds. xD
xylol@leminal.space · 21 pts · 79d
I'm a super heavy sleeper but when we had our baby its like any baby sound is kept in the light sleep category and it wakes me up.
Its bizarre because I have the memory of hearing the sound and processing it while I was asleep, like was I even sleeping or does my memory just scrub everything until triggered like some game recording software to save the last x minutes
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 79d
It sounds like you'd have to wind it back more, 30 years only puts us in the 90s and the stuff you're talking about sounds like even the 80s would have at a minimum raised eyebrows by the inspectors
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 79d
No, clearly 30 years ago is the 60's. I'm not old.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 79d
I would accept early 70s but otherwise it’s nonsense
itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 78d
I don't think anyone here is claiming no nonsense
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 79d
I'm getting Eastern Bloc vibes
Demdaru@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
DING DING DING. We have a winner! WWII deutsch building then renewed under communist gov*. From that point forward, all changes were made only by flat owners. I have a total hodgepodge of handyman shit in my home xD
^*^ ^At^ ^least^ ^from^ ^what^ ^I^ ^know^^.^
Demdaru@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
80's sound possible, tbh.
sidelove@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 79d
God, there really is something there with that "problem!" signal that our brains can give off before any conscious dots have been connected. And this is for abstract shit that you'd figure our monkey brains wouldn't give a damn about.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 79d
But... might be a predator?
gibmiser@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 79d
Alexa has a wake word. We have wake noises
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 79d
My house is from the 30s and we had old knob and tube wiring, some of which had the lead sheathing as well. I would advise you probably replace that old wiring as soon as you can. The insulation under the sheathing is most likely cotton soaked in asphalt. After a while the asphalt dries out and becomes brittle and the cloth kinda just disintegrates over time. If that insulation fails the sheath can become electrified or create shorts.
We thought about keeping some of the original wiring when refinishing the house, after chasing down shorts for a couple days and one small electrical fire later..... We ended up redoing the whole system.
Demdaru@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
Wish I could replace it, but heavy case of living from paycheck to paycheck. Thankfully flat isn't mine but a third party organisation belonging to city, so they cover every electrical f-up that happens.
I...am not sure if knob and tube was even used in EU, and between short search and LLM query the answer seems to be "no". So this may be the closest EU equivalent to that xD
All in all tho, I can relate to hunting shorts. At this point 5/7 of my mini electrical boxes (can-like shape hole in the wall where cables junction?) were replaced by electrician, because they all shorted to all hell. When I moved in it was worse - I had parallel connection between lightswitch and outlet and similiar shit xD Last owner was a handyman builder and...it was showing. A lot.
Also I have only one circuit on singular fuse so that's also fun.
laranis@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 79d
Home maintenance is 98% keeping the water where it belongs and out of where it doesn't.
After decades of it, any deviation, whether sound or creak or mark or moisture, gets my immediate attention like a frugal, OCD prairie dog intent on minimizing the cost of whatever impending home disaster is about to cost it thousands of dollars.
dakelite@piefed.zip · 13 pts · 79d
One morning I had a sleep paralysis while heat radiator was audibly leaking water. Woken up by sound of slowly unfolding emergency, but unable to do anything about it, even take a look, what a timing.
Anyway, when I finally was finally able to look, nothing was out of ordinary. It was just a sleep paralysis hallucination, either fully fabricated or creatively reinterpreting sounds of water in pipes from some works
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 79d
Plumbing is the worst. Just kill me now
Raccoon_Rick@altgag.net · 39 pts · 79d
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 79d
I swear random shit crackles and pops in the middle of the night
Inucune@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 79d
Thermal expansion.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 79d
Is that like domain expansion? /s
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 79d
The other night I heard a weird explosion sound and eventually classified it into the firework category and moved on. It was a meteor. Always investigate the weird sound at 5am, who needs sleep?
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 79d
Damn, one of your neighbors might have found baby Superman instead of you.
new_guy@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 79d
A son? In this economy?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 79d
I'm guessing that's what I heard a few months ago.
People all around our lake heard a loud explosion at the same time, but nobody ever found the source.
Cypher@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 79d
Around me it’s always pricks setting off illegal fireworks but somehow the bad guy is the person slashing their tyres so they don’t come back to the neighbourhood
janus2@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 79d
The year is 199X...
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
Twenty years ago today...
animephantasm@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 79d
Just get cats! Then you can just blame all strange noises on them.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 79d
My problem is that my landlord would make random unscheduled visits with his dogs. I assumed it was him or his dog. It was a home invader, who found the front door unlocked. My landlord left it unlocked. I know it was him, because I parked in the back and never used the front door.
wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org · 29 pts · 79d
You probably know by now but the landlord just entering your rented space is illegal in many countries. In many parts of the world you can change the lock even so only you have access.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 79d
My cat once deterred a home intruder back when I lived in a very shitty first floor apartment across the street from several very cheap bars. I had a rack of DVD's by the front door next to a small table like area where I'd put my keys. My cat would be sitting there when I got home, or when outside sounds got interesting, and occasionally he would knock over that DVD rack when he'd leap away, especially if a loud sound scared him.
then one time I got home to a busted lock and a slightly open door. I tried to run in, but that dvd rack had fallen forward from him kicking off of it, bounced off the wall, and landed between the door and the wall, essentially wedging it closed. I had to hulk it open, crushing the dvd rack, but that had kept the intruder from actually getting in. My cat was panting in panic, so it probably happened only minutes before I got there. I made sure that cat lived like a king for 15 more years.
Nalivai@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 79d
And then be tripple worried that some of those sounds will be the sounds of something expensive breaking
kamen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 79d
I have a liiiiitle suspicion that it won't be just strange noises.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 78d
Nah. I have a layer of abstraction. He will assess any aunauthorised house sounds. Harshly.
OozingPositron@feddit.cl · 4 pts · 77d
He looks loud.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 78d
Listen, thst dog ain't assing anything except a boot in the face. The average mall ninja has a machete that will corportulate that furry fuck in 1.87 seconds, flat. Even sound, because there are Buddhas who are fucking on your coffee table at .1 picometers and they WILL make a noise when they want to teach you how to perceive n undo the karmic fetters that bind one to the existence-illusion complex, obviously.
mech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 78d
That's nice, dear.
DragonAce@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
Are......are you okay?
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 77d
This is what Jim Carey wants me to do.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 78d
Woof.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 78d
My recliner makes a creaking noise whenever I fully recline it. The other day I was napping in it, fully reclined already, when I heard the creaking noise. Way to fucking ruin a great nap.
Etterra@discuss.online · 14 pts · 79d
Oh that sound was just the radiator banging. Wait a second, we have electric heat...
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
sometimes you get water-hammered
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 79d
I’d be more concerned about the mysterious light in my face.
halloejsovs@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 78d
Yup. And once you experience a breakin, you will suffer this forever...
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
I just suffered childhood trauma involving my narcissistic father always knowing what floortile of the kitchen I was standing on.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 2 pts · 77d
Or an earthquake. You will have fear every time it happens, for the rest of your life
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 77d
Wife coming to bed? Nope. Clearly must be another break in. Obvious wind? Grab the pepper spray you keep under the bed and scan the room as your heart pounds. Literally nothing? Let's wake up in a start and double check that the doors are double locked and barred.
Yeah, I wouldn't wish it on anyone
AstralPath@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 77d
This has to qualify as PTSD.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
It is absolutely ptsd. Fortunately I came to the situation pre diagnosed. And unfortunately it's not even the only thing from that month I have ptsd symptoms about. But yeah anyone experiencing those symptoms should seek out professional help. Ptsd is a real pain in the ass to treat, but there are treatments and they can help.
Unfortunately, this is one of those situations where you can't fully leave the situation. Moving helped, no longer living on the ground floor helped (came in through the window), but so long as I have a front door there's a fear. Contrary to what a lot of people think/suggest, a gun very much wouldn't help.
But yeah I should probably see someone about this, but American.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 79d
Exploding head syndrome sufferers REPRESEEEENT!!!
I CAN'T HEEEAR YOOOOU!
Thankfully it doesn't happen to me very often.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 79d
I one hundred percent have it. Like you, infrequent, but it's either a bang or a crack, and sometimes a horn. Was so glad to learn they've got a name for it, because now I just chalk my waking up to a noise to it.
SpacePanda@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 79d
Wow that really sucks! I'm sorry you go through this
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 79d
That’s just my lovely GF watching me sleep ❤️
(she doesn’t like her dreams)
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org · 1 pts · 77d
What, exactly, am I seeing?
Not really sure if you made a joke and this is a screenshot from some weird horror movie or you took your phone out to snap a picture of your actual girlfriend sleepwalking instead of helping or it's just AI.
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
It’s a scene from the (very good) movie ‘Obsession’
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 78d
Can your girlfriend defile me in my sleep. We'll sign a contract beforehand, obviously
mech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 78d
I have a cat who likes to hunt insects, dust mites, shoe laces, and charging cables at night.
And she's pretty clumsy.
My list of approved house sounds is very long.
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 79d
My landlord had to cut a hole in my bathroom roof, and they taped plastic over the hole promising to come back later and patch it. Every time there’s an air draft the plastic rustles, and since I had forgotten all about it I was half convinced I was haunted.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
I once rented a 2BR apartment and a couple of months in my landlord removed one of the bedrooms. It was like pulling teeth but I finally got him to lower my rent by $50.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
I'm sorry, but what the fuck‽ How the hell does someone decide to remove a bedroom while they have a tenant‽ That can't be legal…
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
Yeah, I don't know about the legality of it. Probably worse than the removal of the bedroom was the fact that it also removed one of the two ways of getting into/out of the apartment, so I'm sure it violated fire safety regulations. The funny thing was that the downstairs was a music store with the upstairs being three apartments, and they removed my back bedroom so they could build a new addition on the back of the building. For months, I could just walk out of my kitchen and into the new addition, and had I wanted to I could have just gone downstairs and helped myself to the music store's stock (like, guitars, amps, synthesizers etc.). The store had locks and an alarm system on all the doors and windows, but nothing securing its connection to the new addition. Oh well, Stratocasters are shit anyways.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
Oh shit they like actually took it away, I'd interpreted it as them combining two rooms giving you less functionality but equivalent space.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 78d
the pitty patter of little squirrel feet on the roof for instance. mean i have more tree trimming to do.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 78d
The little fucks love scampering.
I hate them.
(I also do nothing to stop them so it's on me)
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
not only that, but if they get in, they will shred a rafter to nest with
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 78d
my grandmother put out a dish of radiator coolant for them.
they loved it for the rest of their lives.
then her house smelled like death for like a year.
edit: just like to add that this was probably 40 years ago. squirrels are rodents that carry disease and other pests that can cause disease (looking at you yersinia pestis). old timers didn't fuck around and took immediate action to solve their problems. you don't have to like it, but you have to accept that it was effective.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
I'd rather not. I usually put out water for them and the birds and the rabbits. I might yell at the squirrels, but I don't want them dead.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 77d
We feed them peanuts once a week. Keeps them out of our bird feeders. They're pretty chill when they're not desperately hungry.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 79d
Me right now after just having moved into a new place. Every damn night.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 78d
This has aroused me
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
When i'm turdating in my bed I sure scare myself when I make a noise the house is physically incapable of producing
LordCrom@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 79d
If I had a ghost in the house, I wonder if he/she would help out with the rent?
conartistpanda@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
I read house as horse and thought this was referencing long horse telling you shit bouta get shitty.
thlibos@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 79d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfTT7mxGw8I