Do you get annoyed? If anyone breaks your Sleep

Surekha: This is an interesting situation. Sleep is very important all living beings including human beings. Our mind may tell us it is alright to postpone sleep when there is urgency. For example when I travel from India to USA via Germany -- we are forced to skip our sleep or re-regulate our sleep to suit flight schedule. those days it is ok. Once on reaching we sleep for more hours. But under normal circumstances when sleep is disturbed most of us will get anger especially older people. It is because once sleep is disturbed it is difficult to get sleep again for elderly people like me and your MIL. In case we are not interested in our sleep being disturbed it is better to keep the cell phone in silent mood and then sleep. I am reminded of 1960s when my dad use to sleep on Sunday afternoons and if anybody makes some noise and he gets up he will shout. I use to wonder why he was doing like that in those days. Now I understand, after becoming old. So...what is the learning out of this.

Surekha beti Yes i get annoyed, it is righly said, as we grow older, we develop irritating nature, more over disease like diabetes add fuel to it.. You are young, your case is different, your mother in law must be 50+, i guess so, no wonder she gets annoyed.. Thanks for sharing Best of luck. Professor

I can be really annoyed when someone breaks my sleep, but mostly when I'm still sleeping in the morning and then someone wakes me up for the most idiot reason; When people wake me up when I'm sleeping during the day, I'm not so annoyed, because ok they woke me up, but it is the middle of the day, so I can't be mad then. When they wake me up in the momrning, like my parents for the moment. I have very irregular hours and so they can't really follow when I have to work and when not. So when I have a morning where I can sleep in for once, my mother often wakes me up to ask if I don't have to get up for work. At those moments I can be really annoyed.

sleep when really tired ,and if someone wakes up from the sleep then it is really disturbing.Sleep once gone will give some headache or drowsy feeling which is not that much good .Deep sleep is something which can get anyone away from tiredness.i never disturb when someone is sleeping,its a good thing not to disturb.

hi surekha, I really hate if I will be disturb during my sleep But if it is really important that will be fine But if not it can ruin my whole day happy mylotting hope you feels better now

Hello surekha! For me, being disturbed in my sleep is really irritating and i think that most of us do. No one wants to be disturbed when resting especially when sleeping after a long hard day of work and taking naps in afternoon helps us to regain some strength. I think, it can only be acceptable if something urgent happens and my attention and presence is needed very badly. But since, we are still nice, we can't complain that loud but still managed to say, "it's okay, I'm awake now" but deeply irritated inside.

Hi! It depends on what kind of disturbances and circumstances that caused my sleep to be interrupted. Like for example, I was taking a nap a while ago and I suddenly woke up because of the sound from my netbook. I was not angry, in fact, I was thankful because I did not want to take a long nap since it was getting dark already and dinner was about to be served. Also, I was working on something so I could not take a long nap. If the circumstances is different, like if I'm trying hard to sleep so bad and when I'm finally able to, then someone or something interrupted my long awaited sleep, I will definitely be annoyed. But if the person is someone I adore who interrupted my sleep, then I wouldn't be so annoyed.

I treasure my sleep and everyone at home has been informed not to disturb me even when the house is on fire!!

hi surekha, i get annoyed when my naps are interrupted. it gives me a headache. i could not take a nap during office days and i get to do it only during weekends. i put my cellphone in silent mode during my naps. ann

Yes, sometimes I do get angry if someone wakes me up especially if I'm sound asleep.When your sleep is disturbed sometimes it's very hard to go back to sleep.There is an exemption though if it's really important then it's okay.

I don't really have much control over it, it's best not to disturb me when I'm sleeping because when I am I get very agitated and I start being very grumpy and would shout who ever woke me up! I am probably better in the mornings, it's probably a bit better to disturb me in the morning and in the night. I guess everyone is a bit different, I know somebody who is fine with all sorts of distraction from the night but it's kept very annoyed if they are woken up in the morning and they are not ready to wake up yet.

hello, Yes, I get annoyed when someone break my sleep because I am really having a hard time to find my sleep. I get disturb when someone do some noise even it is not too loud. I just have insomnia.

I don't like to be disturbed when I am sleeping, especially since I hardly get enough sleep. So, I will get annoyed when my sleep is interrupted but I hardly show it. If my mobile phone keeps ringing when I am about to fall sleep or if my sleep is interrupted because of the persistent ringing, I won't even bother to pick up the call.

If I wake up, I cannot get back to sleep. I get really annoyed, when anyone breaks my sleep :-(

surekharathi I get really annoyed when my sleep is interrupted late at night as I have a hard enough time getting to sleep and if woke up for no reason,I feel angry as its almost impossible to get back to sleep. I have insomnia so when I can sleep I do not want to be woke unless its an extreme emergency. I feel its wrong of anyone to wake some one for no reason. now if the building were fire or someone is in bad trouble and needs my help of course I will not be upset b ut to wake me just by putting my clean clothes on my chair is unforgivable to me.I live by the golden rule do unto others as you would have them do unto you, so I never wake anyone from sleep unless ita a total emergency.

I feel annoyed yes most especially my first part of sleeping,,,, grrrrr! if someone disturbed me at my deep sleep.. I feel to sleep at home so i know i cant be disturbed by anybody except my phone ring. And why i hate to disturbed by sleeping my head was to much pain after i woke up in that way.

Surekha beti I was inactive in mylot for somedays because of several issues, you know i have diabetes, so i have to get up several times at night for urination, my sleep is as such disturbed, i really want to sleep undisturbed.. Once i am sleep and somebody disturbs i really get annoyed, even if it is Professor In noon, i try to take nap, the maid servants keeps disturbing me.. Thanks for sharing. Have a nice day. Kalyani

Hii.... Surekha good morning Good question you are right some people annoyed when their sleep are break by anyone but my habit is same like you. I am not annoyed because I cant sleep in the afternoon hahha.... and If breaks sleep at night then I know some emergency will be there so our family members disturbed us. I never annoyed on anyone but yes will ask ohhh why you are disturbing me.

Hi friend surekharati. I get grumpy if someone disturbs my sleep. Although it's not that hard to get back to sleeping again, it's just sometimes I have a terrible headache if I get abruptly woken up. If it's really important or I'm expecting someone to wake me up, it's perfectly fine. But it's really annoying when my phone rings especially in the middle of the night or some time very late. I used to have to work night shifts and had to sleep during mornings. I really couldn't get any sleep done because my nieces kept coming in my room and I'm usually a light sleeper. It became more often that I usually have a frown on my face while preparing for work.

Hello! I hate it when I'm forced to wake up unless it's work or something important. Not only I get annoyed, but I also throw a tantrum to people around me. I can't help it. If I found out that I'm being played at, that person better stay away from me or else.