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!)

It's a funny topic but reading about people farting a lot through the night, it doesnt strike me as entirely normal to be that gassy. Lots of people could probably do with reviewing their diets.

@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.

Otherwise I guess we would talk about a crock of farts...

I'm not the best sleeper and i'm often awake at stoopid o'clock. Often i'll be listening to my OH's trumpet bum parping away whilst he's asleep 😉 The snoring is more annoying than the farting.

I'm sure lack of nighttime farting is why I get so bloated and uncomfortable when I'm on night shifts, because I'm holding it in. That and the eating in the middle of the night.

I find it hard to believe an adult is unaware that farting in ones sleep is normal!
I’ve been known to fart myself awake more thane once.

I used to know someone who claimed she never farted. Her boyfriend blew the whistle on her, alleging that in her sleep she never stopped farting!

Hope so 😊

Have to admit I have never heard DH farting in his sleep. The farts must be drowned out by his snoring.

When I'm on a night shift, I get terrible wind pain from holding in my farts - I've come to the conclusion that I must just fart all night long when I'm asleep and my body is confused by the change in routine. Sexy, eh??

DD often fartles herself awake in the middle of the night. When she was tiny (and her allergies undiagnosed) we called her Brian, because she farted like a 60 year old docker who lived on Newkey Brown and never ate a vegetable

I've never heard OH fart in the daytime, but when he's asleep he makes up for it. They're not loud but they go on for a long time. One lasted about 7 seconds, with the sound of a balloon deflating. I honestly expected to wake up next to something resembling Flat Stanley after that one.

Wake up next to flat Stanley 🤣🤣🤣

DP and I have never, so far, farted in front of each other (four years! Although we don't live together yet).

It started because before we started dating, he was a long term friend of mine, and often heard my rants about XH farting luxuriantly and noisomely all evening, every evening (it was truly gross, like a rat had crawled up there and died).

So DP decided that he wouldn't fart in front of me.

And my body decided it wouldn't fart in front him until he farted in front of me.

Anyway, this is all leading up to the real story:-

Sometimes I wear earplugs, when he's staying overnight. One morning, as I woke, I let rip with the most enormous bottom burp. I couldn't hear it, but I could feel it, iyswim and smell it.

I froze! Did he hear? Was he awake? Had I broken the ice, as 'twere, in spectacular fashion? Without any gentle parping lead up?

I still don't know, because DP, ever the gentleman, has strenuously denied that I ever fart in my sleep.

But I know better...

Oh yes yes yes to the night shift trapped wind issues!

Am I right in thinking that dead bodies can fart or have I made that up?

When I was in hospital after giving birth I was really ill so the midwives came in through the night to feed my baby while I slept and one night I farted so loud I woke myself up . I j sat up, turned round and stared at the midwife while she looked at her feet and went back to sleep .

When you have just farted then wake up and can smell it

My dog farts in his sleep and scares himself so much that he wakes and barks at his arse.

How have you got this old and not known this grin

THIS! OH MY GOD OP!

My partner did a really smelly loud fart one night that woke me up, of course he still blames me, but mine are not that smelly or loud. I couldn't breathe.

I have a new boyfriend and im soooo worried about farting in my sleep, I barely sleep!

Then I'm exhausted the next day and have the worst stomach pains. Horrific 😂

I once went with a friend on a national trust volunteering holiday, where we were all - men and women - sharing a dormitory. After the first night, my friend said it was like sleeping with a herd of wildebeest.

@instaglow

I have a new boyfriend and im soooo worried about farting in my sleep, I barely sleep!

Then I'm exhausted the next day and have the worst stomach pains. Horrific 😂

Couldn't you let rip with gusto before getting into bed? Get it all out of your system, so to speak?

My DP claims he knows when I’ve finally drifted off to sleep (I lie still but awake for a long time, trying to unwind) because of the relaxation fart as I succumb to slumber. He has no proof and it is clearly a lie designed to unsettle me before bed.

Yes think it's normal. My husband does so I expect I do too.
What I find strange is that my husband can't multi task even in his sleep. Every time he stops snoring it's so he can fart. When he's stopped farting it's back to snoring.

I’ve just done a very loud one but I was definitely asleep at the time so it doesn’t count.

Ffs !