Maybe It's Me

[Trayol]

but can somebody please explain the logic in asking someone if they are asleep.

After being awoken by my roommate, albeit accidentally, he leaves to go swim. I tried and failed to get back to sleep so I decided to eat something and check my email. When he returns, he has the great audacity to look right at me and ask if if I was still sleeping.:confused:

If my mouth wasn't full of food, I'd probably said something mean. But I conveyed my thoughts through a well conjured look; a combination of the preceding smilies :headscratch::headdesk::rolleyes:

He is a good guy, but he can sometimes be a meathead.:D

[Broomjockey]

"Yes, but I'm sleepwalking. So don't wake me up or I'll turn violent."

The only thing I can think of when people ask "Are you sleeping?" is they really mean "Are you going to go back to sleep?" or possibly "Have you gone to sleep yet?"

[MadMike]

My wife has a bad habit of doing that too, specifically if she comes home from work and sees me still in bed, usually because I'm sick or have a migraine. ("What's wrong with you, why didn't you go to work?") Strikes me as rude, actually.

One day I woke up feeling OK, and went into work, but around lunchtime a really bad migraine hit me, and I ended up going home early. This one was so severe that I thought I was going to hurl as soon as the sunlight hit me, and I was in enough pain that I was almost in tears on my way home. I wrote a note for her, saying that I was in a lot of pain and not to disturb me, and left it on the door coming in from the garage. If I didn't, she would have come up and started bugging me for sure.

[NightAngel]

I ask my hubby if he's asleep.

If he's laying in bed with his eyes closed he might just BE asleep and if he is- trust me- just saying something is NOT going to wake him.

But, sometimes he just has his eyes closed and he answers and then I can talk to him.

I probably wouldn't bother asking if he was sitting in front of the computer eating though...

[Trayol]

It is just that my biggest pet peeve is being woken up unjustly. I have varying sleep issues, and prefer not to have a restful night ruined. If my roomie wasn't such a good person, I'd had probably shook him like a rag doll for all the times he has woken me up. :D Not a lot but enough to ensure he'll be quieter in the future. Even if it doesn't work, I will still feel better.:devil:

Now would this be considered assault or self-defense in the eyes of the law?

[crazylegs]

It is just that my biggest pet peeve is being woken up unjustly. I have varying sleep issues, and prefer not to have a restful night ruined.

One thing my ex did that really bugged me... (she would come into the bedroom and have really cold hands and put them on my back, just as I have drifted off to sleep), its never a pleasant experience awaking crazylegs!

[BookstoreEscapee]

Now would this be considered assault or self-defense in the eyes of the law?

Just tell them you were asleep when you did it...it's worked before! :sleep:

When I was a freshman in college, my roommate went on a Theater Department trip to NYC to see Les Mis (they get group-rate matinee tickets and charter buses and usually go somewhere fancy for dinner, too, all for a set price), and they were leaving really early in the morning. I was prepared to be woken up at 4am while she got ready to go (it was a Saturday; I had the rest of the day to sleep). She left the room, and was hanging out in my friends' room across the hall (they were both going, too) and I rolled over and went back to sleep. Well, almost. She forgot something and came back in and left again. And then realized she forgot something else. After the 4th time she came back in I told her she better have everything because if I saw the hall light again I'd kill her. :devil:

[blas]

Ya'll would hate me. I do it every night at work with my trainees. Some of them, naturally, are having a tough time adjusting to night shift, and I see them either staring off into space or sleeping with their face in their hands in their lap. I'll go up and scare them. I'm trying to protect them and let them know I saw them, before anyone else can.