I’ve always been a heavy sleeper. The stories are endless of the alarms I’ve slept through, the fire alarms that have gone off, the intense thunder and lightning storms overhead that haven’t even made me flinch in my sleep.
I’ve fallen asleep numerous times in flight, while coming in for a landing, and while taxiing down the runway about to take off.
One of my favourite places to fall asleep is in the middle of a movie at a theatre. Scary movies, action-thrillers, you name it. I’ve slept through some of the major bombardments of World War II during war films.
I’m told by a secret source that the mother of my children once put a crying baby up to my ear while I was sleeping and not a mumble or a fluttering of eyelids occurred.
And then we found two newborn kittens in our backyard two years ago. We took them in, bottle fed them and nursed them back to health. It was a 24 hour job over a couple of weeks and I managed to get up at the appropriate times and give them their medicine or their bottles. Laz and Mary are very loving pets, no doubt because they think Karen and I are their parents. Laz likes to play, but knows to leave me alone at night. He tortures Karen all night instead.
Mary, on the other hand, knows that my alarm goes off at 3am. Most nights she can’t wait for the alarm, so around 2:30 or a quarter to 3 she snuggles up to me and does the one thing that will bring me bolt upright out of a deep sleep. She sticks her long tongue up one of my nostrils.
I’m no longer a heavy sleeper as I have to be half-awake enough to pull the covers up over my mouth and nose when I feel a big white furry ball next to my face, or it’s the dreaded cat wake up call. The things we do for pets!
Who’s the heavy sleeper in your home? You or another member of the family? Is there anything that will rouse them or you from a deep slumber?
