Cruise ship performer shares cabin with obnoxious snorer, who denies disruptive sleeping habits, so performer records her snoring, playing it back every time she tries to sleep, sparking tension between bunkmates: 'Allowed me 2 hours of sleep'

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Emma Saven
Nov 11, 2025 1:00 PM EST

When if only you knew, becomes well now you do… Roommates can be tricky as is, but when you're actually sharing a room, things tend to become a lot more intense! Now, to make matters 5x more interesting, put that room on a 5000-person cruise ship…and we'll let you imagine how things unfold. 

It wasn't necessarily being on top of each other that started the wedge between this friendship, it was more due to the sounds that came with it… This performer was a cruise-ship star, but the problem with being a cruise-ship star is that it's not as luxurious as you may have imagined, instead of private suites…they have private bunks, with someone sleeping above or below them. Unfortunately for this woman, who thought she was getting the perfect roommate, actually ended up with one who had a terribly disruptive snoring habit. The type that your headphones, ear buds, blaring music, and loud ship noises couldn't even drown out! How is a ship-performer, or anyone in fact, meant to run on maybe 2 hours of sleep a night, while their roommate refuses to admit to her severe sleeping patterns!?

(and no, that wasn't the ship-horn…but it sure sounds like it!) 

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  • When someone refuses to believe the news that they have a problem, sometimes the only solution is to prove it to them! So this exhausted roommate decides to record her roommate snoring, and plays the recording for her every time she attempts to lie her head on the pillow…and as you could've guessed, instead of dozing off peacefully, she alarmingly jumps up at the noise, question marks plastered across her face. This went on for days, until neither of them could put up with her snoring anymore…

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  • My roommate kept snoring and refused to address it, so I recorded her and played it whenever she tried to rest.

    I work and live on a cruise ship, depending on the route we dock every 2-4 days.
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  • Have one roommate and we have bunk beds, with me on top. I'm a performer so we get to pick our roommates and my roommate never told me that she snored, very loudly too.
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  • I tried ear plugs, nope. I have big over the ear headphones and was playing music, still can hear her.
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  • I can even hear her over the ship docking and our room is near the anchor, it's LOUD.
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  • Her snoring is not only loud it's concerning because she chokes in her sleep too. The first time I heard it, I almost fell out my bunk to rush down and check on her thinking she was having some kind of medical emergency.
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  • I talked to her to see if we could come up with a solution and she basically shot me down, because she thought since she was sleeping fine it wasn't a big deal.
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  • Also it's really hard to change roommates unless something major happens, and snoring isn't considered one of those.
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  • Despite me voicing my lack of sleep. I did my best to live with it, but I was fed up when I got done with a long work day (got up at 9am and didn't get officialy done with work til 11pm) and had to be up at 6am.
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  • And the snoring only allowed me 2 hours of sleep. So I decided to record her.
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  • The next day when I was going to the room for a break she was there and said she was gonna take a nap.
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  • I was like okay, and as she laid down I started playing her snoring. She immediately shot up and looked at me like I was insane.
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  • When all I did was stare at her she asked me to turn it off. I just said "Well this is you snoring and you said it's not a big deal, so why should I?" She gets really mad says a few choice words and leaves the room.
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  • For about 3 days whenever she tried to rest I played her own snoring back. Finally I got called in for a meeting with our manager, because roommate was mad at me.
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  • I explained my side of the story (because roommate failed to mention that she refused to address her snoring and made it seem like I was just playing loud noises for the heck of it).
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  • Roommate is angry that the manager didn't fully take her side and even told her she was being difficult by not trying to address her snoring and brushing off my need for sleep.
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  • Frustrating woman screaming about the loud noises.
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  • We ended up getting moved with new roommates though.
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  • S7ageNinja Gotta get promoted to dance captain for that sweet single berth cabin
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  • OP Adorable-Calendar-19 Literally my only motivation to get a promotion.
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  • macross 1984 That kind of snoring is not normal at all. Your former roommate has medical issue which she refuse to address as mentioned by other user.
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  • OP Adorable-Calendar-19 Yeah, I have family members snore too. My uncle needs surgery. My mom snores too just not bad, and she got a bit lucky in that she had to get a special bed for her back and it forces her to sleep on her back which has almost fully stopped it. Roommate didn't seem at all concerned that I told her she was choking in her sleep. She didn't want nasal strips or a mouth guard either. Edit: fixed some words.
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  • ab2425 Yeah i think this might be alot more serious than you think.
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  • OP Adorable-Calendar-19 Yeah, and I tried to tell her that. Normal snoring I can handle, but she sounded like she was drowning sometimes. And when I told her about the choking it was like she didn't believe and down played it because she didn't think it was negatively impacting her. And there's no way she was getting a restful sleep no matter how much she said she did. She didn't want to try nasal strips or a mouth guard either.
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  • rose_catlander The lack of sleep do strange numbers on physical and mental health. That was good on your part, at least you got to change roommates. My husband snores loudly (as does his father and his grandfather). We were lucky to move into a place where we both have our own rooms (also, he works shifts, so it's easier for us).
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