Just wow...

[greyias]

I use this icon because apparently I "iz ded" to the world when I'm sleeping.

I mean, really really.

There was a shootout, an honest-to-god shootout not even half a block away from me last night (which you know, I should be more freaked about, but apparently I'm like "Oh, guns happen.") Do I wake up? Do I have a moment of clarity where I'm like "Jesus Christ it's a lion! Get in the car!" or some equivalent?

No.

I just snore.

This worries me, because now I'm really wondering if someone were to, I don't know, break in or something, would I just snort and roll over?

Because it's all about me and not my traumatized neighbors who just had someone die in their front yard.

Comments

[leesa_perrie]

Are you a geek? If so, I'll send over the Geek Protector. He won't sleep through something like that - and protect you as well!

Actually, my hubby's a sound sleeper too. He's slept through massive thunder and lightning (when he lived on the coast, where they're bigger and better than inland) storms, and he said he slept through a big fireworks display that was only five minutes walk from his place once!

And he was in London when that big hurricane (big for the UK) hit in the 1980's...and didn't know anything had happened until he left to walk to work the next morning!!!

He almost slept through the recent earthquake (which shook the house something fierce) and says it was more me that woke him up more than the house shaking...!!!

As for me, not a light sleeper once I get off, but the above things tend to wake me, so not a particularly heavy one either!

Maybe you should get a guard dog? Oh, wait, that's right, I'm sending the big guy over instead...!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I'm a fairly light sleeper, I think. I tend to wake up when my daughter goes to the bathroom, though her room and toilet are as far from our bedroom as you can get in our wonderful split floor plan (I have a few problems with this house).

Yet a few weeks ago, it turns out, the cops roused our neighbors across the street and down one by banging on their door and shouting. They were looking for a fugitive, apparently, and expected her to be there. Whoops! Wrong street! Confusion of similar street names! Ten cops who had apparently been surrounding the house traipsed out to go to the other street. My neighbor said there were cars and lights and everything.

We never noticed. Scared the frell out of her and her husband. Then again, their daughters slept through it, so maybe it wasn't that loud.

I think if someone actually breaks into your house, your spider senses will tingle; it's different when it's half a block away, even though that seems awfully close.

I do think, however, the proposed Geek Protector is your best option.