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“I wasn't asleep”

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QuitChewingMyPlectrum · 30/12/2023 23:41

What is this phenomenon? Is it only in our household or does anyone else experience this.…

Watching TV, DH has eyes closed and is snoring.
Me: Why don't you go to bed to sleep? You must need it
Him: I wasn't sleeping

HE WAS!

It genuinely winds me up - why not admit you were sleeping. What's to gain?

OP posts:
LessOfMe99 · 30/12/2023 23:42

My DH is exactly the same 😬

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QuitChewingMyPlectrum · 30/12/2023 23:43

LessOfMe99 · 30/12/2023 23:42

My DH is exactly the same 😬

Does it wind you up? It gives me the rage!

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vodkaredbullgirl · 30/12/2023 23:44

My ex was like that.

He be watching footie then fall asleep. I turn tv over and he would say "I was watching that"

Redglitter · 30/12/2023 23:45

My Dad did that

Same as when he nodded off in church. Not dozing no he was listening to the sermon but resting his eyes while he did 🙄

doriangraybutimthepaintingintheattic · 30/12/2023 23:45

I think sometimes if you're just having a quick nap that your brain is active so you're aware of what's around you (apart from your loud snore) so you think you are awake.

Experience: Sunday napper.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 30/12/2023 23:46

Dh can sleep for an hour ,proper flat out snoring and then declare he wasn't asleep!

Mumof2NDers · 30/12/2023 23:49

I’ve started filming mine as proof 🤣. I’ll wake him because I can’t hear the TV over his snoring!! He’ll insist he wasn’t snoring! He wasn’t snoring, he wasn’t asleep! Like I’d just make that shit up?

Pinkyponker · 30/12/2023 23:52

Mine does this too.

And also in bed if I wake him for snoring too much, he wasn't asleep apparently 🙄

Doesn't make me angry though as I've also been known to doze off on the sofa in the evening sometimes.... Although I never declare I wasn't sleeping 😂

PaperDoIIs · 30/12/2023 23:54

QuitChewingMyPlectrum · 30/12/2023 23:41

What is this phenomenon? Is it only in our household or does anyone else experience this.…

Watching TV, DH has eyes closed and is snoring.
Me: Why don't you go to bed to sleep? You must need it
Him: I wasn't sleeping

HE WAS!

It genuinely winds me up - why not admit you were sleeping. What's to gain?

He wasn't sleeping he was just resting his eyes . And listening to it, obviously.

Can you tell i have one of those too?Grin

PurpleWhirple · 30/12/2023 23:55

My DH and both his parents. Drives me bananas.

It's particularly irritating when I moan at him for snoring and he tells me he wasn't snoring as he's not asleep

TheLazyToad · 30/12/2023 23:57

My DH does this! He likes to rest his eyes 🙄(his exact words). I've taken photos of him, and he STILL maintains that he wasn't asleep (but unable to hear me if I was talking, can't really remember what was on the TV, or why his book fell off his lap). I don't care if he takes a nap, so why say he wasn't!

ActuallyChristmas · 30/12/2023 23:59

If you ask that of someone you get them on the defensive, it’s the wrong thing to say. Plus, no way should you have to go to bed because you are dosing on the sofa, that’s what sofas are for

ManateeFair · 31/12/2023 00:00

It’s because, when you doze (or certainly when some people do) you can be asleep but still very aware of your surroundings, so you don’t really know you’re asleep. Your body is asleep but your brain isn’t. You can be snoring away with your eyes closed and still hearing the TV or the conversation around you.

He’s not deliberately lying to you, basically. As far as he’s concerned he was awake because he was aware of the sounds etc around him and still having thought processes etc.

EeesandWhizz · 31/12/2023 00:07

ManateeFair · 31/12/2023 00:00

It’s because, when you doze (or certainly when some people do) you can be asleep but still very aware of your surroundings, so you don’t really know you’re asleep. Your body is asleep but your brain isn’t. You can be snoring away with your eyes closed and still hearing the TV or the conversation around you.

He’s not deliberately lying to you, basically. As far as he’s concerned he was awake because he was aware of the sounds etc around him and still having thought processes etc.

Edited

There's no way on god's green earth that my DH is listening to conversation or the TV, because you can't hear it over his bloody snoring!

If he is 'still having thought processes etc', surely one of the thoughts would be 'where the fuck is that loud snoring noise coming from?'

Devilsmommy · 31/12/2023 00:11

🤣😆 I've got a chainsnorer too

FreshWinterMorning · 31/12/2023 00:13

@AuDHD4Me 100% agree. Does my fucking head in. DH snores like a fucking buffalo - hence we have had separate bedroom for 10 years BLISS! Grin so he cannot possibly hear what he is meant to be watching on the TV!

And he is a twat for putting some shitty 1970s crap on that he has seen 100 times, and dozing off to sleep with the remote in his hand. Luckily I have a remote too, and turn it off. I am 10 minutes into what I want to watch, and he opens his eyes and says 'hey I was watching insert random crap 70s show ... why did you switch if off?' with a Hmm kind of look.

HE WAS NOT WATCHING IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Angry

FreshWinterMorning · 31/12/2023 00:14

Devilsmommy · 31/12/2023 00:11

🤣😆 I've got a chainsnorer too

CHAINSNORER!! 😆

mrsmacmc · 31/12/2023 00:15

Yup! Mine is the exact same 🤨 then snarls he wasn't asleep gives me the rage 😡

theprincessthepea · 31/12/2023 00:15

It is so annoying. We stayed away and OH had a show he likes playing in the background to help him “fall asleep in a new place”. He slept wayyyy before me. So I turned it off as he was asleep, heavy breathing, snoring.

He wakes up and tells me he was listening to that. He accepted to leave it off as I said I can’t sleep with this background noise.

So confusing!

Devilsmommy · 31/12/2023 00:15

FreshWinterMorning · 31/12/2023 00:14

CHAINSNORER!! 😆

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Unfortunately it's a bloody great description of it😆🤣😆🤣

FreshWinterMorning · 31/12/2023 00:16

It sure is @Devilsmommy !

MorrisZapp · 31/12/2023 00:16

I like a wee doze I must say, I get told to 'go to bed' which is entirely missing the point.

Manyandyoucanwalkover · 31/12/2023 00:17

What annoys me, is when he chooses what we’re going to watch, falls asleep and then denies he’s asleep after I’ve nudged him awake. It happens frequently and he always claims he was watching the TV.

Wouldcouldcantwont · 31/12/2023 00:17

My DH does this. Nods off on the settee during the evening but claims when I go up that he wasn‘t sleeping at all. He then gets up early in the morning and makes a big deal about how little sleep he needs. Yeah right!

FreshWinterMorning · 31/12/2023 00:19

MorrisZapp · 31/12/2023 00:16

I like a wee doze I must say, I get told to 'go to bed' which is entirely missing the point.

It's fine to have a 'wee doze' - I think we all do, and as pps have said, that's what sofas/armchairs are for. But dominating the TV with what YOU want, and then falling asleep, snoring like a buffalo, and then going off on one when you wake up because your partner has put something else on the TV is unacceptable.