Do Not Disturb…

Grrrrrrrrr! Yes, my husband! He works from home quite often and keeps the oddest hours so he's sometimes up at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m., working. He'll come into the bedroom while I'm sleeping, not doing anything to try to be quiet so he wakes me up. Once he realizes I'm awake, he'll start talking like I've been awake for awhile. My brain doesn't function when I first wake up. Heck, it takes at least an hour before both eyes are fully open! I have fibromyalgia which comes along with CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) so I take naps but try very hard to get as much sleep as I can at one time at night. It's very hard for me to sleep four hours straight without waking up so, when he wakes me up, I get pretty angry. I've told him over and over that the less I sleep in one stretch, the worse my pain is the entire next day but he keeps, uh, forgetting. I'm thinking that, one of these days, I'll throw a bucket of ice water over his head while he's sleeping.

I used to work nights, so therefore, I slept during the day. I had uninterrupted sleep, I turned the ringer off on the phone. Didn't matter who called or how many times they called, all they got was the answering machine. I also turned the volume down on that as well. There are always going to be those ones that 'forget' you sleep during the day and call anyway. Just turn the ringer off........it's soo nice and quiet.

I feel the same way when someone calls, hangs up, and then calls again...and again. I don't usually mind when people wake me up, but then again, I don't nap much (not because I don't want to, but because I can't fall asleep during the day). However, the other day my mom asked me to come over to her house. I hadn't slept any the night before, and while I was at her house I started to feel like I could actually take a nap. So I went to lie down in the guest room. I guess it was about ten minutes later when my mom came in to ask if the TV was up too loud. I was ticked! She knew I was sleeping, yet she came in to ask if the TV was too loud? But it is her house, so it shouldn't have been a big deal to me. It's just that I hadn't gone any sleep the prior night.

Oh yeah, this morning my husband who leaves very early in the morning called me to tell me the neighbors dog who I watch during the day, (between 9AM-@:30 PM, not 4:30 in the morning), may have been hit. He wanted me to leave my sleeping son and walk up the street with a flashlight to make sure he is ok. I said, why are you calling em, call the owners. So he did and my head barely touched the pillow when he calls again to tell me that he got a hold of the neighbor who said their dog is at their door wagging his tail..Maybe the first call was important because he was so concerned about the dog, but he could have waited until I got up later to tell me the dog was ok. Usually if I get really tired, I turn the ringer off my phone or at least turn it down so I can't hear it as well. I don't know how your answering machine works, but some you can turn the sound down too, that way someone can leave a message, but not disturb you..

i know how you feel,i have M.E and Fibromyalgia so i need to have a sleep during the day,all my friends and family know not to ring me between 12 and 3:30pm,but i always get some blinkin salesman ring right in the middle of my sleep,,i hate it so much

We're night owls, we go to bed around 5AM and get up at noon all the time, even later on weekends sometimes. My phone is off. Everybody knows they can call us in the middle of the night if theres an emergency as we're the only ones in the family up at this time, so in a way, thats good. I leave my cell on vib so if theres an emergency while we're sleeping, they know they can call........but when its daytime outside, Im sound asleep and wont even hear my cell vibrate!!!

try to nap[ with a 5 year old that wants to talk lolololl

I sometimes find myself desperately in need of a little snooze in the afternoons and it seems inevitable that the phone rings or the door bell sounds. I hate it when I am woken up suddenly, it makes me really grumpy especially when the caller is usually someone trying to sell me something I don't want.

My brother is one of those people who will continually call even if he gets the answering machine. He used to do it when I worked nights and he knew I was home but wasn't answering the phone. It drove me insane! Leave a message meant nothing to him.

Like you I never like my sleep or nap be disturbed. Everyone in the family knows this and dare not wake me up or the sleeping tiger will wake up and pounce on them. I too prefer to take my time to wake up on my own and I won't want to receive calls regardless of phones or guest coming to the house. I treasure my resting time.

hi twoey I am also a diabetic and lately I have been getting sleepy after lunch but I try to lie down,as suggested by my roomie, then she gets on a talking jag, try sleeping when someone talks who does not hear well,it stinks, so I am up now and mylotting. guess what she has gone to sleep.grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.So try taking a nap with a person who loves to talk and talk then talk some more. then fall asleep.double grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I am now wide awake and grouchy as sin.

Sorry, I do call but no I do not call and hang-up I hate that. I call and leave a message. My problem is that I keep forgetting to look at the time. So, by the time I call and get the message I realize that you are napping. So, now I just don't call only once in a blue moon. i hope you will just one day feel the need to call me once in awhile. That way we still keep in contact. I do this usually. When I go to take a nap which is often do to my surgery that makes me sore and tired. (Whipple Surgery) I usually put the massage one and turn it down low. Tell my kids to answer my cell or my phone only if it keeps ringing other then that let the voice mail pick-up. If they do get someone on the phone then they take a message and tell them I am sleeping with Meds. doctors orders. They do know how to get ride of ppl. Got to love them. Then, I can usually get a good sleep. The only one that I have a problem with is my sister who will call my cell, then the house, then the hubby's cell and so forth until someone answers. Then, it is always not major but something minor like, "How is you day? or "Are you hungry?" Sometimes, I just want to yell at her and say, "Why don't you call once and leave a message like everyone else? I will call you back!" Anyways, Yes, I am a witch when I wake-up and was not ready to do it yet on my own. *Peace and Love will get you through everything in Life* (So, do good ear plugs - cotton works just fine too!)

Yeah, I hate it when I actually get a second to catch a power nap and the phone rings! Ugh!! My mom had a rule when we were kids that if we woke her up to ask if we could do something it was always No! (I had the same rule for my kids! )

it can be annoying specially if you are already in a deep sleep. what i do is put my phone on a silent mode so i won't be able to hear it when it rings.

i am similar like you... i don't like it at all when somebody disturb me when i am sleeping... the person will get it from me as well... i am very particular about my sleep and i don't like it when somebody interrupt me unless if it is really an emergency... i will be very grumpy if i have to wake up in the middle of my deep sleep suddenly because i will have a headache... take care and have a nice day...

I do not take naps at this time although there have been times when I have needed them. That is so bad for you to be woken from a sound sleep, too. It might be good to turn the ringer off on the phone. Actually, unless I am awake I cannot hear the phone when I am in the bedroom. I promise that I will not call you. I think I would make a point of calling those "certain ones" who will not stop at a very inconvenient time for them.

Yeah, i understand that. It can be quite irritating to be waken up by the phone when we are in sound sleep. Even research shows that people who are disturbed in sound sleep are likely to be irritated and anxious. That may explain your behavior after being disturbed. I also have the habit of taking a nap and i usually turn off my phone to avoid being waken up. There are always some people out there who show no regard for others. They should learn some manners first.

I take naps too, just because I'm old, not ill. You are right, someone always calls. Usually it is nothing that couldn't wait and they just won't leave a message. It is very annoying. Now I just turn the ringer off for that hour. I can call back so people know that if they want to talk to me leave a message or I will check caller ID and if I know them I will call back. Nine times out of ten, though, it is a charity begging for donations. The numerous chapters of the police charities are the worst. I made the mistake of donating to one of them years ago and they have shared my name and number with every single one of their chapters. Try turning the ringer off while you nap. It won't stop them from getting the answer machine, it just sounds like an unanswered ring on their end. It really does help.

I usually take at least one nap a day. Sometimes two a day, but not usually at the same time everyday. The phone ringing wakes me up also, but I am afraid to unplug it in case there is an emergency. One of my friends doesn't like to call me in case I am sleeping, which can be anytime, so I call her everyday. The thing that really bothers me, is it seems everytime I lay down to take a nap, they come to cut the grass. Then I can't sleep for a half hour or so because of the noise. If the phone rings, I can usually go back to sleep. I have talking caller ID so I don't answer if I don't want to.

I can imagine how annoying it can be. My mom is a diabetic and she too takes an afternoon nap. And every afternoon while she is asleep, we either get these sales calls, or we have someone at the door. Usually the tele sales guys trouble my mom a lot. She is the only one at home in the afternoons. So it can be very annoying for her to explain the same thing over and over again that she is not interested and that she doesn't want them to call again. But they still do so, with different names. Which is why, we have now reduced the ringer of our mobiles and the telephone handset too. So she manages to get her usual naps.