Is it normal to fart in your sleep?

[DebbieFiderer]

I was woken by a phone call at 4.45 this morning and haven't been able to get back to sleep. I am now lying here is bed listening to DH sleeping peacefully, with occasional gentle parps emitting from his backside. Farting in one's sleep has never really occurred to me (and I would have now way of knowing if I do it myself!) so I was wondering how common it is? (and also thinking what odd things you think about while lying awake in the early hours!)

Didn't mean to enable voting, also thought I was in Chat, sorry!

Yes. It's perfectly normal and commonplace.

How have you got this old and not known this

Same for people and dogs

Who rang you?? Yes normal but annoying when trying to get back to sleep. Clever mind that the body knows the difference even when sleeping between a fart and shitting.

😂

May I recommend enabling the setting on your phone that silences phone calls overnight. You can set exceptions for certain numbers or if any number calls twice.

According to DH I do this He has nothing left to emit by bedtime!

@Crockof that really made me laugh!! Let’s hope so anyway

Bit tricky to block calls when I am on call, wouldn't go down too well with work

Crockof - exactly - the things the body can do!!

Bless him, they are such gentle little parps, it's almost cute. Almost.

Perfectly normal.

Everyone farts in their sleep. In my experience it's babies that let out the loudest sleep farts. It must be all that milk they drink.

LTB. It's utterly vile and abusive behaviour.

Hope you got back to sleep and are well rested!

My dogs do it all the time. One of them wakes up from the smell and looks at me with a lot of bemusement.

DH farts like a trooper at the best of times but at night it's constant. I often find myself dreaming about changing nappies because of the constant ejections of toxic gas gently puffing from the folds of the duvet. Some of his farts smell exactly as if someone has shat in the bed. It was even worse when we had a loft bed and the farts would linger for ages with nowhere to go

My DH gently parps throughout the night, as do I (allegedly). My very victorian stepfather, who referred to farts as "rude smells" and considered them the height of bad manners, once emitted the loudest trumpeting fart when having a kip on the sofa. I was 12 and just about died laughing.

I once knew a microbiologist, who explained to me in very technical terms how the nerves in that particular body cavity know the difference between gas and faeces (i.e when to trust a fart).

Until it malfunctions and all bets are off...

Oh joy. Now he has started snoring. I should probably give up on sleep and just get up but my bed is sooo comfy...

I’ve woken myself up by farting so loudly in the night! And I have no one else to blame, so I know it’s me. All perfectly normal.

@petrocellihouse

I’ve woken myself up by farting so loudly in the night! And I have no one else to blame, so I know it’s me. All perfectly normal.

Yep, me too. 😂

I once farted so loudly I woke myself up

Hahah, excellent thread :D

My DH-to-be is quite the trouser cough supremo when he's awake but it rises (ugh) to a whole new level when he's asleep. If I wake up at about 6/7am, I'm subjected to the entirety of what I've affectionately called a Dawn Chorus of long farts that change in pitch and tone and actually last for a few seconds. His bowels wake up about an hour before he does and it's quite a funny way to wake up.

Before you ask, we're 35 :D Mere children.

@Lindy2

Everyone farts in their sleep. In my experience it's babies that let out the loudest sleep farts. It must be all that milk they drink.

This is so true, I have a newborn DD and I never realised until the last month how loud a tiny persons farts can be!! There are times when I’m amazed she doesn’t propel herself out of the Moses basket...

How else can humans expel all that gas privately?

My df is 89 and would never fart in front of anyone.
He somehow manages to save them up until he goes to the toilet and if I walk past the door it sounds like a brass band warming up!

My dog was asleep and dead to the world and suddenly let out a squeaky high pitched fart. She shot up like bullet from a gun looking startled and was tearing round the room frantically trying to find out what it was and where it'd come from !

My DH farted so loudly the other night that I sat up quickly shouting WHAT WAS THAT?! because I thought the cat had brought a duck in 😂

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