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Why are you still sleeping at 7 a.m.? Early to bed, early to rise, you know the rest. Most people are up and/or out by then, unless they have second-shift or night jobs.
What a crazy statement. Any sentence that does not come with verifiable statistics and starts with the words "most people" ought to be banned here. Mightyqueen, we usually have more common sense from you.
First, according to our government, approximately 30% of fully and traditionally employed adults in the U.S. work OTHER THAN a steady day shift. That doesn't track the huge number of Americans who are now self-employed (and might be working all sorts of crazy hours). So it's actually higher than 30%. And given how many adults in this country are retired, unemployed, or cobbling together multiple part-time jobs, that 30% isn't anywhere near the number of adults who have reasons to sleep at other than traditional times. It also doesn't count the millions of Americans with sleep disorders who are happy to sleep ANY TIME they actually can.
Among the people who couldn't follow the early to bed, early to rise dictum every day even if they wanted to:
People in the armed services
Medical personnel
Police, fire, and other emergency reponders
Security workers
Night cleaning staffs
Factory shift workers
Corporate employees who interact with people in far-off time zones (e.g. yours truly)
Public transportation workers
Mail and package delivery personnel
Communication workers
Hotel, airport, and airline employees
Restaurant and bar employees
Staffs for residential homes
Musicians and other entertainers
And, in reference to the OP, teachers who teach night classes and often their students.
It's a 24-hour world and it needs to be staffed. Who makes the donuts for the guys who are waking up the OP at 7 a.m.?
I recommend noise-eliminating headphones or ear plugs and comfortable eye shades. And not answering the doorbell or the phone if they ring.
Okay, I'm a full-time student and I work part-time. I just rented a room in a suburb near my school.
My next door neighbors are having a garage built and have bulldozers and loud construction starting at 7am Monday-Saturday. Their teenage son just started playing the drums and I can hear it VERY well.
I ****ing can't believe these people. My sleep is often interupted by the 7am bulldozer and building crushing noises. Now tonight I'm staying in to study for exams and their son is practicing his drums.
Is this normal? Is this okay? Is this a justifiable reason to move out early. The construction started like a day after I moved in and the kid started playing drums a month after I moved in.
Is this the same apartment building with the screaming young child with the parents who should not live in an apartment with a young child?
Perhaps you should have visited the building a few times before moving in.
If you are not happy where you live anymore then it is certainly justifiable to move. If you have a lease I don't know that you could get out of it because the construction is temporary and as long as the drums are being played at reasonable hours it is legal. I understand how miserable it would be to live next to people that make all kinds of noise. Hopefully the construction will end soon. What time of day and for how long does the son play the drums? You could always talk to the neighbors, but I am not sure how far that will get you and you also risk starting further problems with the neighbors.
A lot of people on here are very insensitive. 7am for noise is just too early. 10 am more like it or even 9. Not everyone goes to bed early. Life is different for different people.
Bull hockey! It's welcome to trash who have nothing better to do than be noise machines! They have no inner resources. Eff 'em!
Say what??? What do inner resources have to do with construction noises and music students? In every neighborhood there are gardeners with leaf blowers, construction, garbage trucks, ambulances w/ sirens, etc. Unless you live far in the country with no neighbors, there will be noise, sometimes at hours that might be inconvenient FOR YOU. Heck, even when we lived on 5 acres out in "the sticks" we had to put up with chainsaws, people target shooting, roosters crowing at 5 am, donkeys making donkey noises, weed whackers, and garbage collectors who came at 4:30 am. You simply have to live with the sounds of the world you live in.
A few close calls with micro sleep taught me that hearing is turned off a fraction of a second before you fall asleep, you actually can catch that moment when your hearing is turned off. So if you drive drowsy and out of sudden sounds are off, do something immediately or you are about to hit a ditch. Humans can sleep soundly with some serious noise outside, because our hearing circuits are deactivated. Unless it's some major screeching sound activating our hearing, sounds should not bother a reasonable healthy (mostly mental) person.
Trouble is in that "fraction of a second", when your hearing is turned off, you also fall asleep. It's very scary to think of..I fell asleep for a couple seconds while driving myself...sooo freaky. That's one of the things I warn my children about. If you're starting to feel drowsy when driving, pull over...just catching a few zzzz's could save your life.
I think anyone who was ever woken up by a noise is going to disagree with you. Do you have a source for this? Because I don't believe it. It would be an evolutionary disaster in more ways than one.
Agreed. My son is 24 and out of the house now, but I still wake up just from the noise of someone flipping a light switch sometimes. My doctor, who has kids herself, calls it "mothers' ears." Having a baby in the house makes some people much more alert to sounds, even in their sleep.
Sometimes when a person is all geeked up over school and stressing about this thing or that, the world gets a little too noisy all around. Just sayin'....might help to look within instead of looking elsewhere for reasons you are feeling this way.
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