I genuinely can’t tell anymore, is it normal to be sensitive to noise while sleeping?
Posted by Decent-Ad-3933@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 90 comments
I’ve been asking myself this for a while now: is it normal to be sensitive to noise while sleeping? And I don’t mean “oh wow that was loud.” I mean waking up because of things that seem so small I feel embarrassed even trying to explain them.
A soft footstep. A door somewhere in the building. A little click in the room that probably wouldn’t even register for most people. For me it’s instant. My whole body is awake before my brain even catches up, and once that happens, I’m basically done. Now I’m listening for the next sound whether I want to or not.
That’s the part I can’t explain to people. They hear “sensitive to noise” and think picky, light sleeper, maybe a little high-maintenance. It doesn’t feel like that from the inside. It feels automatic. Like my nervous system is doing security checks all night and forgot to ask permission.
So yeah, is it normal to be sensitive to noise while sleeping? Because I honestly can’t tell if this falls under “annoying but common” or if I’ve crossed into territory where other people here will immediately know exactly what I mean.
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