14 Deep Sleepers Share What They've Slept Through

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Aug 6, 2019 10:00 PM EDT

Someone on AskReddit asked what kinds of stuff deep sleepers have slept through, and the resulting stories are all kinds of ridiculous. While a deep sleep is nice and restorative, sometimes your livelihood can really benefit from your ability to wake up if there's something dangerous happening around you. 

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    AskReddit - Text - Posted by u/anarachelb 3 days ago Deep sleepers, what have you slept through? Give Award Share 3.4k Comments
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    AskReddit - Text - thatnuttypeej 648 points 3 days ago A car hit our house when I was fourteen. It happened at about 2:30am, and the cops estimated the driver (quite drunk) was doing more than 80mph through our subdivision at the time. There was the impact, the damage to the house, shattering windows, screaming, shouts from the neighbors, staircase charges of my siblings, sirens, everything I would have slept through until morning if my sister hadn't woken me telling me I didn't want to miss thi
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    AskReddit - Text - Maximilliaaan 5.2k points 3 days ago A tornado. I woke up and my neighbor's roof was gone
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    AskReddit - Text - Zogamizer 234 points 3 days ago Northridge, CA earthquake of 1994. I woke up on the floor the next morning. Was slightly surprised when there was a power outage and I couldn't play my SNES.
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    AskReddit - Text - ASSISYUM 520 points 3 days ago I slept through my cat giving birth Reply Give Award Share Report Save cannotfoolowls 222 points 3 days ago On you? My limited experience with pregnant cats is that they either give birth on the bed of their owner while said owner is asleep, or they hide somewhere to give birth and you only notice after you haven't seen your cat in a couple of hours
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    AskReddit - Text - hc987 137 points 3 days ago My wife gently slapping me to wake me up. I did not sleep through my wife violently shaking me, though
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    AskReddit - Text - klutzykangaroo 2.2k points 3 days ago A fire alarm. My parents thought I had died when they got out of the house and I wasn't there.
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    AskReddit - Text - thatisaginger 2.6k points 3 days ago My grandmother was staying at my house and one night, she got up to get some water, and fell and broke her hip. I slept through the ambulance arriving to pick her up
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    AskReddit - Text - herman-the-vermin 285 points 3 days ago My friend slept through his wife beginning labor. She was screaming and shaking him, and then screaming in pain. He wouldn't wake up. She called the non emergency line to ask for help, and they finally woke him up so he could take her to the hospital.
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    AskReddit - Text - 3 days ago edited 3 days ag notsiouxnorblue 1.1k points Same but it was on a company trip. We had a rental and someone started a fire in the kitchen. Another guy went room to room checking to make sure everyone had evacuated while freaking out and woke me up and I was just like "Yeah ok, I'll get my stuff." which just made him freak out more saying "leave it, just get outside!" but I keep my stuff packed so I just had to grab my bag and go. Wasn't very fast about it though bec
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    AskReddit - Text - purpelpeepleeater 540 points 3 days ago Multiple mortar attacks while deployed. Woke up one morning to get ready to go get chow and was confused why everyone was eating MRES...our dining area had been obliterated, maybe 200yds away from my billet
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    AskReddit - Text - BigManLongPants 88 points 3 days ago Car crashed into the light pole at like 3am outside my house, which then fell onto my dads car which set off the car alarm, and the crash must of broke the horn cuz it kept going, then the cop and fire fighters came all with the sirens blasting. And i found out all about this when i woke up at like 8 and my mom told me, 7 year old me was so mad that i didn't get to see the car crash hahaha
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    AskReddit - Text - mysqlpimp 19 points 3 days ago Many years ago Mum slept through a bomb blast while we were visiting relatives in Italy.. They blew up a car literally next door, we were staying in the embassy district. Dad reckons he was thrown from his bed, we all reckon we were jostled like an earthquake. to be fair their room was really close .we went down stairs with dad and the cops were just arriving and looking under other parked cars with mirrors. we told mum about it when we got back
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    AskReddit - Text - 3 days ago greywintergem 723 points Ive slept through a hurricane and a break in. The guys didn't come in my room so all my stuff was fine but my dad who leaves his phone charging on the counter got all his shit stolen
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    AskReddit - Text - FalalaLlamas 1.6k points 3 days ago edited 3 days ago One time I was on vacation with some extended family. They were nice enough to let me have a hotel room to myself. I woke up the next morning, and there standing in front of me is the hotel manager. So, naturally, I was like, what the hell?!??! Turns out I slept through my alarm. Slept through the relatives calling my room. Slept through them banging on the door. Slept through the maintenance guy prying/breaking my door ope
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