What is the most annoying thing to ever wake you up?

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Neighbours with power tools

I'm another one that gets irrationally angry at the birds. I lie there seething "oh shut the fuck up you chirpy little bastards"

This happened to me at 2am. Carbon monoxide alarm going off. Had someone out who capped my gas supply... but did say it was my alarm in its death throes (it was going off out in the garden).
But when someone came out to reconnect everything, it was found there was a very small gas leak and they didn't have the stuff to fix it. Had no gas for a week, and faced the grim prospect of potentially ripping up floorboards to find the source of the leak. My house is full of clutter. It drove me to the edge!

😂😂😂 that made me laugh! Brilliant.

Where do I begin... DH snoring, neighbour with a noisy dog and their son who has a car with a loud exhaust pipe. Living next to a motorway and seemingly an area with a high crime rate so police sirens are in abundance. .
The least annoying is my 7 month old who wakes every two hours but he's too damn cute to fit it to get on my nerves.

The man with a van over the road...I'm not sure exactly what he uses the van for but it involves throwing stuff into the back of it at 3am every Monday. If he has to be awake, so do we all! 😠

Sleepwalking small child standing 2 inches away staring blankly empty-eyed at you like something from the shining.

Oh but more terrifying than annoying maybe

I have an old dog, and I prop a stair gate up in my bedroom doorway so she does not go up and down the stairs in the dark (she sleeps with me).
My DP stayed the other night, got up for a pee, and didn't prop it up properly in the doorway. Well a while later, it fell over, and my god.... it is a wonder I did not shit myself!

When I've left my phone hanging half off the bedside table and I knock it with my hand in my sleep and it clatters onto the floor and gives me a massive fright at 3am. Awful and totally my fault every time 😭

Yep. That was my first thought. On a Saturday morning.

My husband bringing me in a boiled egg and toast at 8.30am when he knew I had not slept ALL night and had only dropped off at about 6.30am.

It was thoughtless thoughtfulness.

DH to tell me Michael Jackson had died. I was newly pregnant & very hormonal. DH quickly understood that I did not appreciate being woken for such news

The little fucking shithouse kids across the road, screaming at the top of their lungs in the middle of the road (near the bottom of my driveway!) At 7 fucking a.m. 3 or 4 times a week!!!

Their mother lets them run around wherever they want to - up and down the road like feral little demons - (despite being just 4 and 6!) And the screams are blood curdling and LONG. There is nothing wrong with them, they are just attention seeking, and badly behaved, with fuck-all discipline - EVER!

I hate sleeping with my window closed as I like fresh air coming in, but I am going to have to start. AND I need a white noise machine. And before anyone says anything 7 a.m. IS EARLY for me.

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Neighbours had a workman for about three years and he had the loudest most annoying voice. I was often close to offering to pay him a great deal to do a sponsored silence during his working day.

That feeling when my calf muscle goes into a knot and I know excruciating pain is coming.

I feel your pain - our ex-neighbour had two of them, which would start at 4am and try to outdo each other.

DD1's method of waking me after a full 75 minutes of sleep because she'd had enough for the night.

Loom over my face, mouth breathing and usually dribbling a bit to see if I'd open my eyes - and if I didn't (because I was clearly either dead asleep or silently praying that she'd get bored and fuck off back to bed again), she'd peel my eyelid back and shove her pointy little claws - because she'd snap awake and scream like a banshee if anybody ever even merely considered the possibility of clipping her nails in the single 2.30-3.45am sleep slot - into my eyeball.

I swear that child could hear my brain activity from her bedroom, as she always got up when I was either trying to work out how long I could lay there in silence until my bladder got in the way or if I was mid-exhausted-dream-hallucination-from-absence-of-sleep.

At least the blasted cat would curl up and go back to sleep after standing on my chest and staring at my face thinking 'I LOVE YOU' for a couple of hours. And there were fewer ocular wounds.

Neighbours young children screaming front their porch outside 'bye bye mummy' when she goes to work at 6am.
Even worse, once a week, when they are allowed to scream and wave at the bin men at 5am! 😠

Our neighbour setting of for work at 5am. On his motorbike. Which apparently needs to warmed up by being left to run for 10 minutes, before being revved relentlessly then roaring off down the street. I hate the motorbike and I hate the neighbour, because after this, when I’m finally starting to fall asleep again, my husbands alarm goes off at 6.45 only for him to snooze it till 7am 😭😭

Air raid siren

When my cat decides to drink out of my water glass and tips it over on my head. I use a bottle now.

My ex sticking his dick into me.

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i once woke up because my husband hit me in the face. I was extremely indignant (and surprised as he’d never previously been abusive) and looked over at him. He was lying on his front, both arms by his side, fast asleep, not looking at all like someone who’d just punched someone. Then realised my arm was completely dead and the most likely explanation was that I’d hit myself in the face…

other than that, the excited meowing sound of my cat bringing me a live mouse. Was a regular hobby last summer.

One of my line reports texted me on my personal mobile which woke me up. I think it was to check if they'd booked leave or something like that. Hours before shift and I had kids to get up and ready for school before I even planned to turn the work laptop on. I felt shitty blanking them for a few hours but seriously, who does that?

Drunk uni housemate shouting and screechy laughing when stumbling back at 3.30am. I d

The house alarm going off and after lots of investigation turned out to be a massive spider on the sensor 😵‍💫🤣

Posted too soon. I don't begrudge others a good time but what was more annoying was her insistence that everyone tiptoe round on silent mode until midday while she slept off a hangover