Chirp...Chirp...Chirp...

i am a horrible sleeper and i wake up with all sorts of noise but never something like that. quite often it is the cat mucking around as she sleeps most of the day. my hubby is a very sound sleeper and doesnt wake up if i am up unless i wake him up!

This is so annoying and I have had the same thing happen. One night instead of the smoke alarm it was a bat that got in. It work me up about 3 and I was up the rest of the night trying to get it out. I was here alone so had to deal with it my self. If partner had been home I can guarentee that he would have slept through it all.

This post made me laugh and think of a story. I was 8 months pregnant and not sleeping well at all. When I finally got comfortable enough to sleep I would wake up to have to pee or the little one would start kicking! Anyway I had finally got to sleep and I hear a chirp chirp chirp. So I wake my husband up and say I hear some thing. He gets up find the annoyance and back to sleep we go. About 15 mins later I wake up to a chirp chirp chirp I wake my husband again and say I still here it! He gets up and finds the annoyance. 15 mins later same thing!!! This went on till EVERY smoke dector in my house went off!!! Now I have a big house and I am guessing that the people we bought from were fire freaks because there are about 18 smoke dectors in my house! We never noticed till they all started going off!!! It was horriable!!! Every smoke decotor in my house was on the floor by morning. The next day my husband said he wasn't putting them all back up (there was no need for allllll of them) So we only put the needed ones back and now change the batteries every 4 months. We have it on the calender to change the batteries so that doesn't happen again!!! So in answer to your other questions - normally I sleep like a rock but I guess it was different since I was pregant maybe that mother instinct or some thing. I can normally go right back to sleep. My husband doesn't wake up for much.

I hardly wake up for anything any more except to go potty . and our shirping things happen while we are awake lol. and wehn every thing used to wake me up usually the kids when they were little HUbby never moved!

That happened to us the other night, and we thought it was a mouse. The smoke a lot battery was going down...

I thought you were going to talk about crickets waking you up. I used to live one a ground floor apartment and for some reason I would get the odd cricket in the place. It would chirp until it heard you coming close to it so it was hard to track down. Used to take hours to find the little chirpers but it was the only way to get sleep as they tend to be quite loud, especially in the quite of the night. I guess they were just looking for love as they do this to attract mates, but it attracted me and the bottom of my shoe instead.

I have a chirping smoke alarm too, I have just been too lazy to change the battery. I am going to get it down while I am thinking about it. Smoke alarms are so important to have, they can save your life. I never just yank the battery, I put up wth the chirping till I change the battery, its a good reminder to do it. When something like that wakes me up, I can usually go back to sleep.

Ever so often my cat will decide she wants outside in the middle of the night. She will come to me and meow to wake me up, she never did use a litter box and always goes out to potty, so I know if I don't get up I will have something to clean up in the morning. I guess it only wakes me up since I hear her so quickly and get right up. She stays out until someone is up in the morning. Normally I can go back to sleep but sometimes it might take me awhile.

We've been awaken by the famous chirp you are talking about...I am like, "What is that chirping sound?"...every now and then it would chirp...My hubby got up, yanked out the old battery..went downstairs to get another battery and replaced it...and it always happens in the wee hours of the morning... It happened in a hotel we were staying at...the light would keep blinking and it would chirp..We were so tired that we waited till morning to tell management.

You poor thing. I hate it when the smoke detectors chirp, but it does remind you to change the batteries. A few years ago, my son and I lived in an apartment complex and we kept hearing a very low chirp like that. We figured it was coming from one of the empty apartments but the maintenance man was always too busy to go exploring. We knew eventually the battery would just die. But then we noticed an even louder chirping and it seemed to be coming from outside. How strange. You know what it was? The smoke detector had chirped for so long that it...taught a mockingbird to chirp the same way. Sure enough, the mockingbird was copying the chirping smoke detector.

Me and my boyfriend often go stay and visit at his Aunt's house. But when we do we always know to expect to hear the roaster across the street. This thing clucks and doodles and whatever at all hours but generally it starts about 3 am. It is so annoying. I am usually an easy sleeper but once I'm woken by this thing it's hard to go back to sleep because I just know right as i'm about to drift off to sleep again he's going to start up! And of course the boyfriend sleeps through it all!!

One day last week I woke to some kind of tapping noise. I could not figure out what it was. I just lay there, listening, tap, tap, taptap, tap. I finally got up and walked around the bedroom. Just as I stepped up next to the window, I heard it again. There was a bird pecking at the little night bugs that land on the windows at night. There really was nothing I could do to stop it, but knowing what it was, I went back to bed, just as the alarm went off. Hubby never budged, not even when the alarm went off.

Hi ya twoey68 I was woken once by my smoke detector going off but there was no fire and even though it was going off right outside my son's bedroom doors, not one of them woke. It went off at about 3am but I don't know what was wrong with it. I phoned my housing association and they came around that day and fixed them! I did manage to go back to bed and sleep. not much keeps me awake when I need to sleep!

We have had to chase out a bat or a flying squirrel several times in the past. We believe that we know now how they were getting in from the attic and we no longer have to deal with them!I rarely have trouble getting back to sleep once I'm back in my cozy bed.

Nothing can wake me up from sleeping. For the last week I am up at 4 AM everyday, because of my long time traveling and time change. It is so quiet around and dark when I am awake. Today I was up at 5 AM.... HUGS

I don't know if I can hear the chirping sounds anymore but yes when my hearing was better, I heard it all the time and like you, it woke me up in the middle of the night. It was scary because at the time I was alone for hubby had gone off to do some training with the military but once I figured out what it was, I felt much better and just changed the battery, I went back to bed but it was hard for me to sleep alone but I made it through. My hubby hears me when I get up but I can't hear him when he does but I feel him when he gets back in the bed though for he's no softy when it comes to doing anything. lol

I've had this experience. But a bit more spooky. My daughter has a smoke/carbon monoxide detector in her room. First I heard the chirp. Then I heard a womans voice say low battery. I forgot the darn thing could talk!Scared me. THat is when I woke up my hubby and had him deal with it.

I do not hear a thing when I am asleep, not the children, not anything. I even slept through an earthquake this year! I am a really deep sleeper, yet I never used to be I have only been like this since I had a hysterectomy in 2007. I can wake up in the night to go to the toilet or something and I have no trouble whatsoever in getting back to sleep.

The last house I lived in had this problem. Shortly after we moved in the fire alarm started going off. Well I could not change the batteries because the ceilings were 12 foot and I did not have a ladder. I contacted the realty company to see if they would have someone change them out for me.....(of course I had contacted them for something else as well) but the guy who come out refused to touch it.. I got accustomed to it after a year of living there. Now I have one that is also beeping here in my new residence. I need to change it and luckily there are no 12 foot ceilings. Sorry you lost so much sleep.

this night i was woken at 3 am because someone got bored and trew a chair at night so loudly and cursed, then everybody joined; it had to be a weird party:/