Nah. I have a layer of abstraction. He will assess any aunauthorised house sounds. Harshly.
He looks loud.
I have a cat who likes to hunt insects, dust mites, shoe laces, and charging cables at night.
And she's pretty clumsy.
My list of approved house sounds is very long.
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.
Yup. And once you experience a breakin, you will suffer this forever...
Or an earthquake. You will have fear every time it happens, for the rest of your life
Wife coming to bed? Nope. Clearly must be another break in. Obvious wind? Grab the pepper spray you keep under the bed and scan the room as your heart pounds. Literally nothing? Let's wake up in a start and double check that the doors are double locked and barred.
Yeah, I wouldn't wish it on anyone
This has to qualify as PTSD.
It is absolutely ptsd. Fortunately I came to the situation pre diagnosed. And unfortunately it's not even the only thing from that month I have ptsd symptoms about. But yeah anyone experiencing those symptoms should seek out professional help. Ptsd is a real pain in the ass to treat, but there are treatments and they can help.
Unfortunately, this is one of those situations where you can't fully leave the situation. Moving helped, no longer living on the ground floor helped (came in through the window), but so long as I have a front door there's a fear. Contrary to what a lot of people think/suggest, a gun very much wouldn't help.
But yeah I should probably see someone about this, but American.
I just suffered childhood trauma involving my narcissistic father always knowing what floortile of the kitchen I was standing on.
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.
I need a cat…
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.
Is that not one of the reasons to have a cat?
The worst is when you think "ah, it's just the cat", but then you see them sleeping nearby. So now I have to assume it's just a little ghost cat, so I can go right back to sleep
*gun cocking noises"
meh, probably the cat.
Home maintenance is 98% keeping the water where it belongs and out of where it doesn't.
After decades of it, any deviation, whether sound or creak or mark or moisture, gets my immediate attention like a frugal, OCD prairie dog intent on minimizing the cost of whatever impending home disaster is about to cost it thousands of dollars.
One morning I had a sleep paralysis while heat radiator was audibly leaking water. Woken up by sound of slowly unfolding emergency, but unable to do anything about it, even take a look, what a timing.
Anyway, when I finally was finally able to look, nothing was out of ordinary. It was just a sleep paralysis hallucination, either fully fabricated or creatively reinterpreting sounds of water in pipes from some works
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
I'm a super heavy sleeper but when we had our baby its like any baby sound is kept in the light sleep category and it wakes me up.
Its bizarre because I have the memory of hearing the sound and processing it while I was asleep, like was I even sleeping or does my memory just scrub everything until triggered like some game recording software to save the last x minutes
Just get cats! Then you can just blame all strange noises on them.
My problem is that my landlord would make random unscheduled visits with his dogs. I assumed it was him or his dog. It was a home invader, who found the front door unlocked. My landlord left it unlocked. I know it was him, because I parked in the back and never used the front door.
You probably know by now but the landlord just entering your rented space is illegal in many countries. In many parts of the world you can change the lock even so only you have access.
My cat once deterred a home intruder back when I lived in a very shitty first floor apartment across the street from several very cheap bars. I had a rack of DVD's by the front door next to a small table like area where I'd put my keys. My cat would be sitting there when I got home, or when outside sounds got interesting, and occasionally he would knock over that DVD rack when he'd leap away, especially if a loud sound scared him.
then one time I got home to a busted lock and a slightly open door. I tried to run in, but that dvd rack had fallen forward from him kicking off of it, bounced off the wall, and landed between the door and the wall, essentially wedging it closed. I had to hulk it open, crushing the dvd rack, but that had kept the intruder from actually getting in. My cat was panting in panic, so it probably happened only minutes before I got there. I made sure that cat lived like a king for 15 more years.
Oh that sound was just the radiator banging. Wait a second, we have electric heat...
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?
Damn, one of your neighbors might have found baby Superman instead of you.
A son? In this economy?
When i'm turdating in my bed I sure scare myself when I make a noise the house is physically incapable of producing
This has aroused me
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)
not only that, but if they get in, they will shred a rafter to nest with
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