A FUD File : How Well Do You Sleep?

FUD,
As i sit here and type one-handed (daughter in the other), my sleep depth varies. Most of the time I wake up at the drop of a pin but sometimes I am so tired I shut down and sleep like a dead log.
My wife went out of town to show off the little one to old friends for two days. I still woke up at midnight, 0300, and 0500 with no one else in the house, :rolleyes:

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Those who use arms well cultivate the Way and keep the rules.Thus they can govern in such a way as to prevail over the corrupt- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
 
I'm a very light sleeper, as my husband works nights and I'm at home alone with 2 young kids. When I'm not experiencing my insomnia, I sleep w/ a Mossberg 12g under the bed, and my Sig under the pillow. The least little noise and I'm FULLY awake. Even when he's home, I still sleep lightly. We got a dog back in May, a Collie, and since he's been around I sleep better at night. If I do get woke(?) up at night, it takes forever till I can go back to sleep.

About the kiddo, as everyone has said, get her on a schedule! Our 7 yo had a bad habit of getting out of bed at night and bugging us about a year ago. I finally figured out I was letting her sleep too late in the morning, and so she wasn't sleepy at 10:30. Since then, I have been getting her up earlier and she's usually ready to go to bed. Since she can read now, she gets to look at books until she's sleepy, that usually does the trick.

Good luck w/ it and get your Z's! :)

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Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail... DON'T TREAD ON ME!!-Metallica

"The best way to deal with a [criminal] with a gun, is to say, 'I know you're upset.'...Compassion is the answer...Try to be compassionate with them and relate to them." -Jessica Flag, MMM
 
During the night, I usually awake when there is a sound that breaks the quiet. I am usually only awake (half-awake would be more precise) for a few moments, long enough to assess what the sound was and go back to sleep.
 
This one is simple.. I DO NOT SLEEP EVER... So I do not know what it is like to wake up :p

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Dead [Black Ops]
 
I have a very light sleep, and I suffer from insomnia. And, I have a
big German shepherd in my 3 room appartment. And I even keep a gun
nearby.

If I can't sleep, I go outside with Jaffi, roaming the neighborhood.
And usually, my dog wakes me at 0600 to have his walk.

One perp sent to hospital half-dead is good enough for Jaffis
reputation, I suspect.
 
It seems just like yesterday when I was in college and discovered how great deep sleeping was. When I got out of college, I slept soundly and woke easily in the middle of the night. The only down side was that unless I stayed up or there was some evidence, I never knew that I had woke up. It got so that anyone who called late would have me write myself a message so that I know what was up. Then there was the sleep walking - only intermittently - just to keep things lively. I was living alone and woke up freezing and didn't have any covers - they were all on the kitchen counter. These days I'm doing good if I get 3 hours continuous sleep.
 
Well when I was little I used to sneek out the bedroom window when my mom put me down for a nap.... Now I wish I could take all those naps I missed. Yep, I sleep like a log. If it were not for the dogs...



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
 
I sleep with the dead, But I have a dog on duty ;) Now if only I could get her awake :D


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We preserve our freedoms by using four boxes: soap,ballot,jury, and cartridge.
Anonymous
 
FUD - I be cautious with huskys. One, without other dogs, would be fine. IMHO huskys have too much of a pack instinct.

If there is another dog around that snaps or growls at something (child, cat, another dog) that seems to trigger something in them and they join in the gang bang. Singely they are an excellent family pet - loyal and protective.

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Jim Fox
 
You know FUD.. I can't help but notice. Are you sure you aren't a salesman at heart? Everytime you mention some sort of gun-related product or something similiar, I keep expecting to see the entire schematic laid out for me. For example:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>My wife wakes up and grabs her Browning BDA380 (fourteen rounds of .380ACP)[/quote]
and
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I wake up, tumble out of bed, grab my S&W4006 (twelve rounds of .40S&W)...[/quote]

I really love it when you mention the lockbox deal. I swear, you must cut-n-paste that stuff right out of a text file. Go ahead and humor me.. you do, don't you? ;)

But any rate -- enough picking. My sleeping habits are dictated entirely based on my surroundings. Usually, if I'm somewhere I am not familiar with, I am a very light sleeper. If I'm at home, I often wake to unfamiliar sounds like a bump from a neighbor or what have you. The easiest thing I've found to wake me in the night, is the annoying buzz from my APS UPS unit when the power goes out -- but thats another FUD file. ;)

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President, FUD's Fan Club.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>... I tumbled out of bed and grabbed my S&W4006 loaded with twelve rounds of .40S&W as my wife reached for her Browning BDA380 loaded with fourteen rounds of .380ACP ...[/quote]
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What ad would be complete without photos ;)
 
Me, I sleep like a baby...

I wake up and cry every 20 minutes.

:) ;) :o :) ;) :o :)

[This message has been edited by Mr. Pub (edited September 26, 2000).]
 
This is something I can respond to.Almost all the replies focused on NOISE. Let me broaden this horizon. Ever notice the level of noise difference between your active daily life and your restful sleep? Are you as responsive to sounds in your environment during your wake day? I would wager that those with employment time on a graveyard shift view "noise" differently. Its a more rounded experience. The same noise could occur during day or night; yet many without night experience "white out" certain sounds just as potentially dangerous when heard during daylight; its a different mindset. And many redundant harmless sounding night noises cause suspicion to those not familiar with them. What's my point? Just this - are you TRULY aware of both your day and night sound sources?
D'ont get paranoid about this; but think, and remember; everyone has a different "sound emviroment" that they live and function in. Whether it be city, country,'burbs, etc., and our personal safety meters all have different triggers. Try expanding the envelope of your experienceto be prepared for a strange environment; so that you may respond more effectively should need be. Just a training tip.

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NRA LIFE MEMBER
Better to have it and not need it; than need it and not have it
 
Hey FUD!
Back in the army, we had these cool little TA-312 field phones. When we had trouble waking someone up for a shift, We'd just wrap one end of the telephone wire around each big toe, and give the ringer crank (aka alternator) a few spins. > :) Though some were less conductive than others, I never had to do it to anybody more than once.

I doubt that would be a good solution for voluntary use, but the point is to try alternative stimuli to wake yourself up. My cat for example uses kinetic energy to get me out of bed in the morning, normally in the form of some heavy object crashing down on my head from the bookshelf :)
 
T-Rex, that is funny, in a sick sort of way. Years back I had an idea for an alarm clock, the technology for which didn't exist until today. A wire would be attached to your toe, and at the set time while you're dreaming away, you would have an orgasm and perhaps a concurrent dream. Of course, I could never get used to the idea of rubber underwear.

Dick
Want to send a message to Bush? Sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/monk/petition.html and forward the link to every gun owner you know.
 
The longer I live, the more bleesed I become. I have been given the ability to not need a lot of sleep. my average for the past 5 years is somewhere less than 5 hours a night. an sleeping past 9:30 AM doesn't happen. top that off with being a light sleeper and entering and exiting REM sleep rather quickly and easily, I feel rather lucky. of course i'm only 22 so things will probably only get worse

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It ain't mah fault. did I do dat?
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