Next time

Ear plugs and diphenhydramine (Benadryl here in the USA) and, free on the internet....
http://www.simplynoise.com/
http://www.simplynoise.com/classic/

I sometimes wake myself up with my own snoring

I know, I know, sometimes I am a real bastard, especially around midnight.

Snoring and ticking clocks. Those two things are pure agony at night and it's astounding how much hate one can foster just because one has to endure the sound sleep of someone else. One of my neighbours has recently taken to washing their laundry in the middle of the night. Unfortunately I don't know which one so I'm not sure which wall to shout at.

A Jewish operasinger once slept in the same dormitory as I was. He did not only snore immensly loud, but managed to choke every time he snored. This was terrible and he knew it, as did the hotelmanagement. The second night we got earplugs. This didn't help, but the jesture was nice.

When I go on a holliday with my mother , I always take my earplugs, ear protectors and a sleeping pill and I make sure I'm asleep before she does.

Gender specific

I wonder if you can hear from the sound of snoring if the snorer is a man or a woman. However, I do applaud your positive discriminatory thinking in that an inhumanly loud snorer is per definition a man. There are more than enough deceptions in the world... a loudly snoring woman would be too much.

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Where there any guests in the other adjacent room, Arnon?

peanuts

Cherish your nightrest as long as it lasts. Snoring sounds like peanuts compared with the noise a baby in the room nextdoor makes when it's hungry.

Jeanette

I don't think so.

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT....

THINGS TO DO WHEN DISTURBED BY NOISES AT NIGHT:

- ACTIVATE YOUR OWN (BURGLAR OR SMOKE/FIRE) ALARM,
OR JUST ACTIVATE YOUR ALARM CLOCK.
- BANG ON ALL THE WALLS OF YOUR BEDROOM.
(WITH A BROOMSTICK OR SOME OTHER PIECE OF WOOD)
- TURN ON THE RADIO OR TELEVISION (LOUDLY).
- START YOUR CHAINSAW AND CHOP SOME WOOD FOR YOUR
OPEN FIREPLACE.
- NICE (AND DEVIOUS): USE A MICROPHONE TO RECORD THE
SOUND THAT IS ANNOYING YOU AND IMMEDIATELY PLAY IT
BACK, FULL THROTTLE.. OVER SOME GOOD SPEAKERS.
(ANY NOISE MADE AND PLAYED BACK FOR A FEW MINUTES WILL
ALMOST ALWAYS STOP) ESPECIALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
NIGHT...
- PLAY THE FIFTH BY BEETHOVEN: SOME BABIES WILL STOP CRYING IMMEDIATELY!
- DON'T SHOUT ! IT'LL NEVER DO THE TRICK.
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bert

Those are all very fine passive-aggressive techniques but won't they lead to making you the one that has to open the door to a police officer in the end for disturbance of the peace by night? I'm quite sure that loud music as opposed to snoring is an offence.

P.S.: What's the matter with your caps lock key?

I don't understand people's problems with caps. They make things a lot more legible.

L. David

More legible? Not for me I'm afraid even though I can't quite put my finger on what exactly makes it more difficult for me. And what's more, ever since I started surfing the net it meant shouting.

@Juliane & David

I didn't mean to shout, it was the subject that prompted this...!
I also said that shouting won't help. Ever...
Once I was in hospital, and at night someone in the room with patients started to snore heavily, waking everyone else there.
One of us just starting commenting on this sound, we all got into some strange and increasingly comical discussion on snoring.
In the end we were all laughing so loud, the snorer woke up and asked some hilarious question (so we thought and experienced it at that time!), making us going into an even louder fit of laughter...
Nurses the other day commented we had sounded like a bunch of school-kids that night.
But.... the snorer was moved to another room in the hospital.
Of course I agree making noises playing loud music etc at night might get the police on your doorstep, but afterwards you can no doubt go to sleep quietly....
You are not afraid of the police, are you?
If it solves the problem, almost anything wiil do.
As they say: fight fire with fire...

whistle

have you tried whistling?

Relax!

Hi Arnon!

Good news can probably make you feel better (and I recommend also hot bikram yoga for extra relaxation). You are The Big Three (not tree mind you) from the Netherlands according to a learned Dutchman named Buelens .
See also:
http://www.dub.uu.nl/content/de-nieuwe-grote-drie-grunberg-0

I am a very modest student with only three stupid competitive questions:
(i) Who is your favorite philosopher (male and female)?
(ii) Who is your favorite writer (male and female)?
(iii) Who is your favorite scientist (male and female)?

wybo

I am a very modest student with only three stupid competitive questions:
(i) Who is your favorite philosopher (male and female)?
(ii) Who is your favorite writer (male and female)?
(iii) Who is your favorite scientist (male and female)?

"Competitive" ??!! "Male AND female" ??!!
Shall I try and answer this one for you?
(i) Bertrand Russell (You know of any great female philosophers?)
(ii) Arnon Grunberg of course. In the wake of great writers like WFH, KvhR, Kafka, Erasmus etc etc.
(iii) Probably someone like Richard Dawkins, Frits Staal, Steven Pinker, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Newton...
Not to forget someone like Susan Blackmore.
[Check her out!]
http://www.skepdic.com/parapsy.html
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OK? That should keep you busy for some weeks to come!

http://www.amazon.com/reader/1573920614?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
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Bert Hesper

Hella Haasse.

i : Wittgenstein
ii : Coetzee
iii: I'm curious as well