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!)

I don't know if I do because when I wake up I always need to fart, and it can be quite prolonged. Maybe I just save it all up during the night

it is normal, i have an embarrassing memory of this
also embarrassed when i think about being under anaesthetic and wondering if the same thing happened

@LegArmpits 🤣🤣🤣 that cracked me up!

‘Rude smells’

My cat always farts in his sleep. It always amazes me how something so small and so cute can produce a gas so noxious it can clear a room.

I’ve also woken myself up by farting.

This thread is brilliant. My stbexh once woke up with his head next to my arse (we we're sleeping in a massive bed and he had managed to wiggle down) and I'd let out the stinkiest fart. The smell woke him up

Agree with PPs it’s utterly normal. Something we all do. It has to come out at some point
DDog has had a few scares with sleep farts it’s rather funny. Waking himself up then he looks at me like this like I did it

How have you got this old and not known this

@Crockof

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.

🤣🤣

I do find if I wake a bit at night and turn over I often need to let one go.

It never occurred to me I may also fart whilst asleep.

Maybe that's what wakes me up

@LegArmpits

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 😂

PML !!!!! That’s hilarious. My DH also scares me with the loudness of his farts when he’s asleep. Actually loud enough to wake me up in a panic. He is considerate enough, even in his sleep, to at least turn over so he doesn’t fart on me.

I wake myself up doing a huge fart sometimes. It's marvellous

DH ‘claims’ I do this....

Little babies... how do they make SO much volume? That and the snoring. DS snores worse than DH. These are the things they don’t tell you

Have you never woken yourself up farting? I do it when I'm in bed with my boyfriend sometimes - it must be my subconscious trying not to fart around him even when I'm asleep

This thread is so funny 🤣🤣🤣

@msflibble

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

Sounds like a major change in diet is needed.

It’s one of the sweetest things to see a dog wake themselves up by farting loudly and then looking around to see what the noise was.

On the whole mine and DH’s guts tend to go into a kind of torpor during the nighttime .....the risky time is always the wee small hours - particularly bad after Chinese or a veg rogan josh unfortunately. The dogs are always silent and deadly .....she never bats an eyelid at her own but always slinks off with the expression of existential crisis if anyone else ever drops one.

An former lover once farted so loudly in his sleep I woke up terrified! One of those 'WHAT WAS THAT????' moments. Even he was startled.

My much-missed cat used to fart in her sleep & they were lethal. Don't know why as she was on a vet approved dry diet! Her son never farted and always seemed appalled by the smell.

Does anyone know if you fart under a general anaesthetic? All that relaxed body & muscles, etc??? Any theatre staff out there?

The dogs are always silent and deadly .....she never bats an eyelid at her own but always slinks off with the expression of existential crisis if anyone else ever drops one.

Yes my dogs’ ones have always been SBD. Did once hear a neighbour’s cat let off the daintiest little one. Smell was vile though.

I know that DH farts like a trooper through the night. I’m not so sure I do though. TMI coming up - I always do a huge fart with my morning wee and I’m sure there wouldn’t be that much if I’d been farting all night too!

And the cocker spaniel we had as a child would cock her head in a mixture of puzzlement and disgust if anyone farted in her presence.

Absolutely normal & often hilarious! DH does some corkers in his sleep!
Sadly I am no longer in touch with my now 30 year old Godson but I could embarrass him by reminding him how he crawled along in our kitchen when he was 16 months old, did a huge fart & looked behind him to see what was going on 🤣🤣🤣

Michael McIntyre does a whole comedy routine on his wife's nighttime farting!

Maybe the reason you are not allowed to eat before an operation isn't to stop you vomiting & aspirating under General anaesthetic, but to stop you farting.

It's how I know DP is pretty much asleep - it's a long tromboning reverse fanfare.

It amuses me. He goes to the bathroom rather than do it in front of anybody as he thinks it's rude/finds the macho 'Get a load of this' fart stuff insulting and disrespectful. But once he's crossing over to proper sleep, his body feels the need to announce it as long and loudly as possible.