ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

For some strange inexplicable reason, I am able to hear the car alarm of any of our cars on the drive in my dreams whilst asleep, I awake to find it actually IS the car alarm going off!!!

Now, not so strange you may say....but My room is at the back of the house, cars are round the front. We have UPV double glazing, windows are shut, and you can only just about hear the siren from my room.

Someone can get up, go to the bog and flush it, the washing machine can go on spin, or nova boy will do a sound check of his 1000watt boot install whilst driving past at 7000rpm and cherry bomb back box....yet it will not wake me up!!

Yet the faint tone of the alarm is enough to make me hear it in my dreams (I actually dream the car alarm is going off!), waking me up and switch me onto super pumping adrenalin mode ready to kick the crap out of anyone who is on our drive

And I'm only one who is woken up by this, even when the person in the front room right above the car, with window open sleeps through it!

Over the years this must have happened at least half a dozen times, most of which was either false, cats, or duff vehicle battery.


Does this or anything similar happen to anyone else?

Dracoro

I think you'll find it's all to do with frequency, not volume

BTW - are you alarms a bit sensitive? I'd get them fixed

Reffro

Either that or its the same instinct mothers have when their babies are crying.

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Alarms are intentionally sensitive...thus why I hate cats

They have never gone off falsely unless the car battery is about to die (low unstable voltage). I used to fit the damn things so I have them adjusted to a tee

LOL Must be the mothers instinct in me: My baby's outside crying

ajm

I have a similar thing, incredibly light sleeper when it comes to certain noises. When I shared a house I used to scare the **** out of my housemates if they came creeping back at 3 in the morning because I would wake up when the front gate opened (it made a tiny creak). It would give me enough notice to run downstairs and pull the front door open violently just as they were about to push their key in!

PeteT

It just goes to show that your brain is never really 'off'. You hear everything that makes a noise when you are asleep (you can't turn your ears off!), but your brain filters it all and only wakes you up when it's something important. The baby crying or in my case the dog whining to be let out for a pee. In your case it's the car alarm.

In't the brain brilliaaaaaaaaaaant?