#380 – Dripping
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
I think exposure to sounds when you are an infant gives you the ability to sleep through them when you are older. Whatever the real reason, my son has thankfully inherited my ability to sleep through most anything. He has a rather noisy bed if an adult sits on it.b If he falls asleep during story time its impossible to leave his room without a full minute of sound effects from “Creaky Old Boat: The Movie”.
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Tags: parenting, rain, sleep, umbrella
Pulled rainymood.com’s mp3 last year, relaxing stuff.
Thank you!
I needed this.
Oh, sure, it starts out a gentle rain…but it’s a slippery slope and before you know it he’s moved on to harder stuff, like river beds….
When my sister was deployed in Iraq, her sons often spent nights at our house. Ma would often play one of her classical CDs for them to doze off to. One time, the youngest one went on a field trip to OKC to see a orchestra. Within about five minutes, he was asleep. They started with one of the same pieces Mom played for him and his brother.
I was born during a thunderstorm. Now I can sleep through wind and rain, thunder and lightning, hail, floods, earthquakes, and people yelling at me.
I can sleep through just about anything. I slept through a 5 alarm house fire down the street from my house when I was a kid. This became problematic, when I briefly worked third shift at a factory, where I learned that I could fall asleep surrounded by bright lights and loud machinery, while standing up and still sort of doing my job, albeit haphazardly. I would wake up after just a minute or so, to find that several rows had gone by, and I had only put tops on a few random jars. I would have to scramble to catch up before anyone noticed.
As a Native American, I can truthfully say, that if you can doze off at a pow-wow, you can sleep through anything.
maybe i’ll play foghorns and train whistles to test that theory someday (naw not really, for those of you who are parents)
if i was ever, god forbid, a parent, i’d do crap like this all the time.
I have extreme trouble actually falling asleep. Once I’m out though, nothing can disturb me. I slept through the alarm of the car I was in at the time.
My cousin grew up on the west side of Chicago; right next to what is now called the Pink Line, ‘L’ train. It was pretty loud, but they got used to it – you didn’t even notice it after awhile.