Neighbor dogs barking

[Gameface]

Ear plugs.

I've worn ear plugs to bed for about 18 years now. I honestly can't imagine sleeping without them.

But there are a lot of people who absolutely cannot bring themselves to do it. Like they think they'll sleep through a fire alarm or something.

 

[Alfalfa]

I've worn ear plugs to bed for about 18 years now. I honestly can't imagine sleeping without them.

But there are a lot of people who absolutely cannot bring themselves to do it. Like they think they'll sleep through a fire alarm or something.

It's become a habit for me too.

 

[Deleted member 95]

I feel your pain. Quite a long time ago now, I lived in an apartment downtown and my neighbor below me was the devil incarnate. For 1 year straight I put up with an enormous stereo system thumping heavy metal music EVERY SINGLE DAY (not exaggerating) from about 5 pm to 2-3 am. It was a studio and there was no escaping the sound (earplugs did nothing). I could feel the thuds and vibrations on my bed. The guy was buddy buddy with the landlords and cops wouldn't do anything. I felt like I was taking crazy pills for a long time. Nothing worse than not feeling comfortable in your own home.

 

[bigb]

I feel your pain. Quite a long time ago now, I lived in an apartment downtown and my neighbor below me was the devil incarnate. For 1 year straight I put up with an enormous stereo system thumping heavy metal music EVERY SINGLE DAY (not exaggerating) from about 5 pm to 2-3 am. It was a studio and there was no escaping the sound (earplugs did nothing). I could feel the thuds and vibrations on my bed. The guy was buddy buddy with the landlords and cops wouldn't do anything. I felt like I was taking crazy pills for a long time. Nothing worse than not feeling comfortable in your own home.

That one is easy to solve. Turn his main breaker off and put a padlock on it. Boom, problem solved.

 

[Miggs]

I've worn ear plugs to bed for about 18 years now. I honestly can't imagine sleeping without them.

But there are a lot of people who absolutely cannot bring themselves to do it. Like they think they'll sleep through a fire alarm or something.

How are you then able to wake up via an alarm?

 

[bigb]

@prodigy if you’re going to get police/animal control involved, document the nuisance. Record it on your phone or something. Too many times when the authorities show up, the dog is inside, not barking. Have proof.

 

[enchilada_style]

Burn their house down. Let the dog out first.

 

[LogGrad98]

How are you then able to wake up via an alarm?

I started using one of those natural light progressive alarms a while back and I love it. I find even on short nights I wake up better. It takes me about 10 minutes to wake up to it on average and I feel like I slept better than if I just had a blaring alarm. It lets me set a sound alarm as a fail-safe and it almost never reaches that point. I recommend it.

 

[Rubashov]

It was a mean chow that got loose a lot too. The other neighbor caught it raping his dog and thought he killed it when he body slammed it on a storm grate.

How do you know the neighbours dog didn't consent?

 

[Rubashov]

My neighbors dog likes to bark through the night. It wakes me up everytime. This seems to be getting worse and worse. And now tonight(its nearing 1 am in the morning) the other neighbor who lives right next to them seems fed up and now has their bigger dog barking at the smaller dog. Its like a neighbor war of dogs barking and im stuck right in the middle of it(i dont own a dog) I cant sleep because of it. We already went and talked to the one neighbor about this but he kind of brushed it off as nothing. I dont know much about this guy but he seems really shady..anyways Its annoying af and dont really now what else to do.

25 minutes later yep still at it. These arent just little barks the bigger dog is really loud. I looked through the window and the guy is just watching a movie on his projector. Suck for me i have to actually wake up early and go to work. But what can i do? Earplugs dont see to block it out.

2 o clock am. Still going on..

Its pretty clear you need to kill your neighbour and his dog. Do it, you know i'm right.

 

[Gameface]

How are you then able to wake up via an alarm?

Earplugs don't block out all sound. Not even close. They do take the hard edge off of sounds, especially like doors closing or the snap of a dog bark.

I started wearing earplugs when I had to sleep on a ship next to a couple dozen other dudes within 6' of me. Still wanted to torture and murder the ones that snored. Still wanted to break the fingers of the ones that set their alarms 1.5hrs before they had any intention of getting out of their rack. I kept wearing them when I worked nights. Now that's just part of how I sleep.

But as far as waking up to the alarm clock, the most important thing, earplugs or not, is to wake up when it goes off and not use the snooze feature. If you've spent your whole life hitting snooze, first, decide when you need to wake up and set the alarm for that time and then get up at that time, but if you don't then you are training yourself to not fully come out of sleep when the alarm goes off.

But honestly, 90% of the time I wake up and look at my clock 3-4min before the alarm goes off and get up. If I actually sleep until it goes off hearing it, even through earplugs, makes me wake all the way up.

 

[Alfalfa]

Earplugs don't block out all sound. Not even close. They do take the hard edge off of sounds, especially like doors closing or the snap of a dog bark.

I started wearing earplugs when I had to sleep on a ship next to a couple dozen other dudes within 6' of me. Still wanted to torture and murder the ones that snored. Still wanted to break the fingers of the ones that set their alarms 1.5hrs before they had any intention of getting out of their rack. I kept wearing them when I worked nights. Now that's just part of how I sleep.

But as far as waking up to the alarm clock, the most important thing, earplugs or not, is to wake up when it goes off and not use the snooze feature. If you've spent your whole life hitting snooze, first, decide when you need to wake up and set the alarm for that time and then get up at that time, but if you don't then you are training yourself to not fully come out of sleep when the alarm goes off.

But honestly, 90% of the time I wake up and look at my clock 3-4min before the alarm goes off and get up. If I actually sleep until it goes off hearing it, even through earplugs, makes me wake all the way up.

I think if you get enough sleep, you won't have a problem with hitting the snooze. I've never had that problem. Typically wake up 10-30 minutes before alarm goes off.