Yup. And once you experience a breakin, you will suffer this forever…
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.
the pitty patter of little squirrel feet on the roof for instance. mean i have more tree trimming to do.
The little fucks love scampering.
I hate them.
(I also do nothing to stop them so it’s on me)
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.
not only that, but if they get in, they will shred a rafter to nest with
Just get cats! Then you can just blame all strange noises on them.
I have a liiiiitle suspicion that it won’t be just strange noises.
And then be tripple worried that some of those sounds will be the sounds of something expensive breaking
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.
10x worse with cats. What the fuck have you gotten into…
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.
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.
*gun cocking noises"
meh, probably the cat.
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.
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?
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.
Damn, one of your neighbors might have found baby Superman instead of you.
A son? In this economy?
That’s just my lovely GF watching me sleep ❤️
(she doesn’t like her dreams)
Exploding head syndrome sufferers REPRESEEEENT!!!
I CAN’T HEEEAR YOOOOU!
Thankfully it doesn’t happen to me very often.
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.
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
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.
Alexa has a wake word. We have wake noises
Me right now after just having moved into a new place. Every damn night.
I read house as horse and thought this was referencing long horse telling you shit bouta get shitty.
If I had a ghost in the house, I wonder if he/she would help out with the rent?
I’d be more concerned about the mysterious light in my face.
