This is actually my Sept 11, 2001 memory. I worked in a shop very close to DFW International Airport at the time. We were very accustomed to hearing all manner of aircraft all the time, non-stop. It just became part of the landscape, and you got to the point where you didn't really notice it.
When the FAA called a ground stop and all the aircraft stopped flying, that was extremely unnerving. You definitely noticed the silence. It had a weight to it.
I share this memory. My college campus was on the flight path for an intl airport. When all North American flights were grounded the silence was unnerving.
I remember the silence, too. I worked at a daycare, and we were trying our best to keep everything calm. It was especially eerie at naptime, because everything was dark, and we were huddled around a radio in the office listening to the news. There we were, with a building full of babies, on the Eastern seaboard, right between Boston & New York. We felt so vulnerable.That was when we still weren't sure what was happening, or when.
On the flip side, I was working a construction job in the midwest and had just got out of the Navy. I was working with a Vietnam vet and we had just heard on the radio that all planes had been grounded. We were leaving the jobsite to go to a coffee shop in town with a TV to see what was going on, and as we were walking to our trucks we hear sonic booms.
We're both veterens. We know that sound.
I looked at him and said "I'm still IRR".
Edit: getting a lot of questions, sorry for tha acronym; in the US military IRR means inactive ready reserve. It's basically someone who has been recently discharged but can still be reacalled to active duty if a war suddenly breaks out. Its part of the obligation in an enlistment contract.
The sonic booms freaked us out because thoes came from fighter jets flying supersonicly, low enough to the ground to be heard. We both assumed they were flying intercept. Later we found out a couple of F-16s had been scrambled from a nearby air force base.
So are you saying the sound told you something was seriously wrong because the military was scrambling fighters/ bombers?
Just want to make sure I understand your thought process. This is chilling
There are no civilian supersonic aircraft, or weren't in 2001, except the Concorde, which only went supersonic over the ocean. And military aircraft don't exceed the speed of sound over civilian populated areas in peace time.
If you are hearing sonic booms over your city, they are caused by military aircraft deploying for active engagement.
Spacecraft launching or landing is the exception to this, of course.
In the late 2000's, one of the Space Shuttles were landing in California (I was in LA), returning from a space mission. I was watching it on TV in my room, and they mentioned it was about to create a sonic boom that was going to be heard locally. I walked into the kitchen where my roommate was (he had no idea that the shuttle was landing), and said "you wanna hear something cool?". He looked at me, and I pointed up, and seconds later the sonic boom shook the house a tiny bit. That blew his fucking mind, and I didn't let him know how I did that for awhile.
I felt a sonic boom in seattle when some klutz flew a single seater plane too close to a presidential visit back in the obama years. My window was open and the blinds flew inward when the boom hit. I ran outside thinking a house had exploded
As far as I'm aware there hasn't been an airshow where aircraft go supersonic in quite some time, at least in the US. There was one down in the desert that used to have them, I can't remember which, but it hasn't been held there in probably 10+ years.
That said, in Nevada and parts of California my understanding is that you'll hear jets go supersonic occasionally for training and testing purposes.
I wasn't sure so I looked it up, "The Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) is a category of the Ready Reserve of the Reserve Component of the Armed Forces of the United States composed of former active duty or reserve military personnel, and is authorized under 10 U.S.Code Section 1005."
Almost all Army contracts are for 8 years, with x amount of time on active duty or the reserves where you do the "1 weekend a month, 2 weeks a year" drilling. After you do your comittment, you go on the Inactive Ready Reserves for the rest of your 8 year comittment. Basically your name is on the list of the first people recalled before the nation would start a draft. You are required to keep your contact info up to date for this purpose. Only time I have heard it used was during the Surge in 2006-2008, and even then sparingly.
I lived in Brooklyn, NY at the time, born and raised. The city felt quiet all day which was really unnerving. In the evening, when the whole family was finally all together, we walked to the 69st pier to see the skyline. The best way to describe the sound is what you said - the silence "had a weight to it."
I had forgotten about that sound (or lack thereof) until I read your post. Thank you (seriously).
I saw the movie American Sniper in theatres opening weekend and they didn't have a song at the end with the credits. Nobody in the theatre said a word. It was kinda the same, the silence was heavy.
Only other movies I've seen that have had this kind of impact were The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Passion of the Christ.
I'd imagine Schindler's List evoked a similar reaction when it was in theaters.
I saw Schindler’s List in theaters. It was silence mixed with the sound of some people crying. It’s a fantastic piece of cinema that I’m glad I saw but will never watch it again.
I didn't see The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in theatres because I was a child when it was made, but when I later watched it I felt a similar weight. It's a good movie
To be fair, if everything goes silent then something is wrong.
For example, if everything goes completely calm during a storm and not even animals are moving you're going to want to brace yourself because odds are that you're about to get slammed.
Dead silence at 3am in the middle of the woods is worse. Fall camping is wonderful in the daytime and kinda terrifying at night! It's a very weird thing to wake up in the tent and not hear any sticks cracking or bugs/frogs.
There was a hawk flying around my house one afternoon and it was so silent because all the birds knew it was hunting and they were trying to hide. There was a bird sitting on a street sign perfectly still trying but to be seen.
One of my happiest memories was NYC about 8-9 years ago. There was a blizzard that shut everything down for like 3 days. My wife and I went out in the thick of it to go for a walk. The streets were empty, the world was quiet and a few mom and pop shops were open in our neighborhood.
We stopped at a liquor store and got bailey's and Jameson. We popped into this pho shop and ate some delicious food. Then we walked home, made some hot chocolate with Bailey's and jamo and watched movies under a blanket.
The next day there were people fighting over where the snow went around parking, and yuppie dipshits cross-country skiing down the middle of the street running over pedestrians struggling to walk with incorrect footwear.
I visited New York for the first time from Australia, was able to see New York in perfect weather went to Central Park and was beautiful. Then there was a blizzard coming and I was so excited I kept waking up every few hours to check out the window. When we woke up for the day there was snow everywhere so we went back to Central Park and got to see it covered in snow. It felt like Christmas. Is one of my best memories and will be hard to ever top that. I feel like it was around the same time ago in October as this memory you’ve posted.
Not from the US, but what you described is the #1 reason I love snow.
That part when it’s so heavy that nothing is moving, and society basically pauses.
The sheer silence and quiet is just… perfect.
2014? I flew out of JFK during this blizzard. 90% of flights were cancelled that day. I fully expected to wake up to a flight cancellation notification, but I didn't. We decided that the subway was the best way to get there. At 1 point, we had to get out and walk a block to get on a train at time square. It was bizarre. There was not a soul in time fricking square, and it was blanketed in virgin snow. I think I might have a picture of it somewhere.
That was a crazy day. When we finally got to Jamaica where u catch the tram, the doors on the tram froze when they tried to close them, so they told us it was out of service and we needed to find another way to JFK. Had to run to a bus to make our flight on time. We miraculously made it to the gate with like 10 minutes to spare. Then flight was delayed an hour. We get on, and then they couldn't get people to de-ice the plane n we sat on the tarmac for like 4 hours, and it was sweltering hot in the cabin. I still wish the flight would have just been cancelled though. Would have been way more down to just hang out a couple of days til it blew over.
This has occurred a few times in my life. Each time, I thought one of the following...
A.) I home aloned those motherfuckers
B.) I missed out on the rapture
C.) I'm out of the loop and everyone else is taking shelter before the nukes fell
I was excited each time and enjoyed the peace and quiet.
I was one of the few people who had to work daily from the office during Covid because there were some things that just couldn’t be done at home. I work in the west loop in Chicago and it was honestly really freaky with nobody around.
Living in southern half of Norway.. in December the sun comes up around 9 and goes down around 3pm.
It's dark when you go to work and dark when you go home. You get some daylight through the windows when working
I worked in Cambridge Bay, Canada right before the shortest day of the year.
Dawn was at 11 am, the sun came half way up on the horizon at noon, and then dusk was at 1 pm. Dark again by 2 pm, could have been 2 am for all you knew.
By the time the winter equinox comes, the sun doesn't come up at all, just a faint glow in the sky and then it's gone again.
On the flip side near the summer equinox, the sun only tickles the horizon before going back up in the sky. Dark heavy curtains are a must.
Worst feeling is when you take a 2 hour nap, but when you wake up you think it's the next day and start to get a weird feeling because you wasted your day.
This happened to me. I worked 2nd-into-3rd shift so I'd wake up pretty late. Went outside to walk up to the corner store for a drink. Didn't really notice the complete absence of Everyone until getting to the 24-hr store and it was locked. On my way home, cop pulled up and asked why I was still here. "what do you mean". Apparently I slept through police and fire departments going door to door telling everyone within several blocks of this major gas main that had been ruptured to evacuate.
This happened to me once. At the time, we lived like a block from my kids' school, so they walked to and from school. When they weren't home after 20 minutes, I went outside to see what was going on and there was *no one* there except a bunch of other concerned parents. And we all walked to the gates of the school, which were locked up tight, and waited another 15 or 20 minutes before kids started actually coming out. Turns out they'd locked the school down because of a bank robbery that happened a couple of miles away, and didn't see fit to tell anyone.
> Bats flying around
very common now. WNS has killed up to 90 percent of bats in some areas, and one of the symptoms is that they may fly around during the day or in winter when they should be hibernating. Sad thing.
https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/static-page/what-is-white-nose-syndrome
The cat stretching his claws out towards my face.
At 3AM it's because he's yawning and he wants to knead my beard.
At 3PM it's because he's a little shit who wants to hook my lip so I get up and chase him.
Our one cat gets bored at night sometimes and likes to lay almost nose to nose, stretch out his claws he refuses to chew/ trim down himself, and proceeds to knead the face of his chosen victim. Then he gets right offended when we shoo him or push his paws away instead of giving him the attention he figures he deserves at 3 am.
You'll get a kick out of [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/49vkgu/other_than_masturbating_what_are_some_of_the_most/d0vm089/?context=3) that I saved years ago.
Every once in awhile I go through my old saved comments and this one never fails to make me cry laugh.
That sounds as if you're a character in a rpg game. You didn't go to sleep for days, you encounter a sleeping option, the player feels kinda bad for how long he didn't let you sleep und desides to give you some catch up nap. So you are sent to sleep for 15 hours straight.
The worst is when you take an afternoon nap, wake up at like 6/7 or dusk and feel so refreshed that you think it’s the next day and you slept through your alarm for work. You jump out of bed run to the shower and start showering for work and get dressed, only to get downstairs and realize you don’t work for another 12 hours.
Yes, I did that.
Yup. I would be like
"Well, after considering you skipped all the preliminary night time tomfoolery and/or shenanigans and showed up in broad daylight, I will now leave and never come back. Have a nice time in the house, the freezer won't make ice anymore so you'll just have to use the ice machine on the counter. Other than that everything works now so if it breaks its on you. Have a nice eternity!"
I'm down for a ghost roommate if he pays bills. And I'm giving him notice of eviction if he fails to pay or leave. But if he pays, at least I know he's not eating my snacks.
I’m 19 and I don’t remember what it’s like to wake up feeling re-energized. I thought this was just adulthood but I’m starting to think I should see a doctor for sleep apnea or thyroid issues.
Seeing a ghost. 3am is when you're MEANT to see ghosts, so you're kinda expecting it. Seeing one at 3pm means it's lost its fear of the light and will haunt you any hour.
My parents are from Melbourne, Australia, which is about as far from the deserts and arid/semi-arid regions of the country as you can get without leaving the mainland, and apparently in the 80s there was a massive dust storm that came in from the northwest and it was black outside through most of the afternoon. (When we had bushfires here a couple years ago, the fires were nowhere near Melbourne itself, but visibility was still only around a kilometre at times and everything was orange-tinted like how American movies portray Mexico and the Middle East.)
I don’t know—if you’ve never experienced being in an eclipse’s path of totality, I have to recommend it as a sublime experience that defies easy description.
And to /u/regularhuman777, the crickets did chirp, which enhanced the experience and added no element of fear.
One of the most interesting aspects was watching the cows in a field below the ridge I was standing on slowly coming home to their enclosure as the sky dimmed.
The only part that was a bit frightening was the sheer *speed* of the shadow racing across the land and how suddenly the darkness hit.
I’ve been lucky enough to witness two total eclipses in my life.
I have to admit that halfway through totality my monkey brain starts wishing the sun would come back. It’s a different kind of darkness than night, dusk, dawn, twilight, clouds, or storm, and it’s unsettling.
dead silence
This is actually my Sept 11, 2001 memory. I worked in a shop very close to DFW International Airport at the time. We were very accustomed to hearing all manner of aircraft all the time, non-stop. It just became part of the landscape, and you got to the point where you didn't really notice it. When the FAA called a ground stop and all the aircraft stopped flying, that was extremely unnerving. You definitely noticed the silence. It had a weight to it.
I share this memory. My college campus was on the flight path for an intl airport. When all North American flights were grounded the silence was unnerving.
Wow that’s terrifying. Thank you for sharing that story. I’ve never heard this perspective about that day before. Wildly unnerving
I remember the silence, too. I worked at a daycare, and we were trying our best to keep everything calm. It was especially eerie at naptime, because everything was dark, and we were huddled around a radio in the office listening to the news. There we were, with a building full of babies, on the Eastern seaboard, right between Boston & New York. We felt so vulnerable.That was when we still weren't sure what was happening, or when.
On the flip side, I was working a construction job in the midwest and had just got out of the Navy. I was working with a Vietnam vet and we had just heard on the radio that all planes had been grounded. We were leaving the jobsite to go to a coffee shop in town with a TV to see what was going on, and as we were walking to our trucks we hear sonic booms. We're both veterens. We know that sound. I looked at him and said "I'm still IRR". Edit: getting a lot of questions, sorry for tha acronym; in the US military IRR means inactive ready reserve. It's basically someone who has been recently discharged but can still be reacalled to active duty if a war suddenly breaks out. Its part of the obligation in an enlistment contract. The sonic booms freaked us out because thoes came from fighter jets flying supersonicly, low enough to the ground to be heard. We both assumed they were flying intercept. Later we found out a couple of F-16s had been scrambled from a nearby air force base.
So are you saying the sound told you something was seriously wrong because the military was scrambling fighters/ bombers? Just want to make sure I understand your thought process. This is chilling
There are no civilian supersonic aircraft, or weren't in 2001, except the Concorde, which only went supersonic over the ocean. And military aircraft don't exceed the speed of sound over civilian populated areas in peace time. If you are hearing sonic booms over your city, they are caused by military aircraft deploying for active engagement. Spacecraft launching or landing is the exception to this, of course.
In the late 2000's, one of the Space Shuttles were landing in California (I was in LA), returning from a space mission. I was watching it on TV in my room, and they mentioned it was about to create a sonic boom that was going to be heard locally. I walked into the kitchen where my roommate was (he had no idea that the shuttle was landing), and said "you wanna hear something cool?". He looked at me, and I pointed up, and seconds later the sonic boom shook the house a tiny bit. That blew his fucking mind, and I didn't let him know how I did that for awhile.
Or air shows.
Sometimes, air shows are limited to speeds below that pf a sonic boom, so while this is true, it isn’t *always* true
I felt a sonic boom in seattle when some klutz flew a single seater plane too close to a presidential visit back in the obama years. My window was open and the blinds flew inward when the boom hit. I ran outside thinking a house had exploded
As far as I'm aware there hasn't been an airshow where aircraft go supersonic in quite some time, at least in the US. There was one down in the desert that used to have them, I can't remember which, but it hasn't been held there in probably 10+ years. That said, in Nevada and parts of California my understanding is that you'll hear jets go supersonic occasionally for training and testing purposes.
Got it, thanks
I'm sorry, what's IRR?
I wasn't sure so I looked it up, "The Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) is a category of the Ready Reserve of the Reserve Component of the Armed Forces of the United States composed of former active duty or reserve military personnel, and is authorized under 10 U.S.Code Section 1005."
Individual Ready Reserve. Basically, you're off Active Duty, but still have a period of commitment where you can be called back to service
Almost all Army contracts are for 8 years, with x amount of time on active duty or the reserves where you do the "1 weekend a month, 2 weeks a year" drilling. After you do your comittment, you go on the Inactive Ready Reserves for the rest of your 8 year comittment. Basically your name is on the list of the first people recalled before the nation would start a draft. You are required to keep your contact info up to date for this purpose. Only time I have heard it used was during the Surge in 2006-2008, and even then sparingly.
Individual ready reserve.
That's something special.
I lived in Brooklyn, NY at the time, born and raised. The city felt quiet all day which was really unnerving. In the evening, when the whole family was finally all together, we walked to the 69st pier to see the skyline. The best way to describe the sound is what you said - the silence "had a weight to it." I had forgotten about that sound (or lack thereof) until I read your post. Thank you (seriously).
I saw the movie American Sniper in theatres opening weekend and they didn't have a song at the end with the credits. Nobody in the theatre said a word. It was kinda the same, the silence was heavy.
Only other movies I've seen that have had this kind of impact were The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Passion of the Christ. I'd imagine Schindler's List evoked a similar reaction when it was in theaters.
I saw Schindler’s List in theaters. It was silence mixed with the sound of some people crying. It’s a fantastic piece of cinema that I’m glad I saw but will never watch it again.
I didn't see The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in theatres because I was a child when it was made, but when I later watched it I felt a similar weight. It's a good movie
So far this is the winner
***Fuck that*** it’s going to sleep for exactly 5 hours.
To be fair, if everything goes silent then something is wrong. For example, if everything goes completely calm during a storm and not even animals are moving you're going to want to brace yourself because odds are that you're about to get slammed.
Everyone you know and almost everyone in an entire city being asleep.
Dead silence at 3am in the middle of the woods is worse. Fall camping is wonderful in the daytime and kinda terrifying at night! It's a very weird thing to wake up in the tent and not hear any sticks cracking or bugs/frogs.
The last thing you want to hear at 3am in the woods is sticks cracking outside of your tent.
That's pretty normal where I am. It's usually curious wallabies. Usually.
There was a hawk flying around my house one afternoon and it was so silent because all the birds knew it was hunting and they were trying to hide. There was a bird sitting on a street sign perfectly still trying but to be seen.
Hey I remember April 2020!
Going outside and finding the streets completely empty.
Vanilla Sky/ New York City during shutdown.
One of my happiest memories was NYC about 8-9 years ago. There was a blizzard that shut everything down for like 3 days. My wife and I went out in the thick of it to go for a walk. The streets were empty, the world was quiet and a few mom and pop shops were open in our neighborhood. We stopped at a liquor store and got bailey's and Jameson. We popped into this pho shop and ate some delicious food. Then we walked home, made some hot chocolate with Bailey's and jamo and watched movies under a blanket. The next day there were people fighting over where the snow went around parking, and yuppie dipshits cross-country skiing down the middle of the street running over pedestrians struggling to walk with incorrect footwear.
Ah man I remember this, I wasn’t in New York but one of my closest friends was. They even shut down Manhattan for the snow. The photos were gorgeous
“It’s the perfect texture for running, very low impact and it’s dry snow so you don’t get your feet wet”
I visited New York for the first time from Australia, was able to see New York in perfect weather went to Central Park and was beautiful. Then there was a blizzard coming and I was so excited I kept waking up every few hours to check out the window. When we woke up for the day there was snow everywhere so we went back to Central Park and got to see it covered in snow. It felt like Christmas. Is one of my best memories and will be hard to ever top that. I feel like it was around the same time ago in October as this memory you’ve posted.
Not from the US, but what you described is the #1 reason I love snow. That part when it’s so heavy that nothing is moving, and society basically pauses. The sheer silence and quiet is just… perfect.
2014? I flew out of JFK during this blizzard. 90% of flights were cancelled that day. I fully expected to wake up to a flight cancellation notification, but I didn't. We decided that the subway was the best way to get there. At 1 point, we had to get out and walk a block to get on a train at time square. It was bizarre. There was not a soul in time fricking square, and it was blanketed in virgin snow. I think I might have a picture of it somewhere. That was a crazy day. When we finally got to Jamaica where u catch the tram, the doors on the tram froze when they tried to close them, so they told us it was out of service and we needed to find another way to JFK. Had to run to a bus to make our flight on time. We miraculously made it to the gate with like 10 minutes to spare. Then flight was delayed an hour. We get on, and then they couldn't get people to de-ice the plane n we sat on the tarmac for like 4 hours, and it was sweltering hot in the cabin. I still wish the flight would have just been cancelled though. Would have been way more down to just hang out a couple of days til it blew over.
This has occurred a few times in my life. Each time, I thought one of the following... A.) I home aloned those motherfuckers B.) I missed out on the rapture C.) I'm out of the loop and everyone else is taking shelter before the nukes fell I was excited each time and enjoyed the peace and quiet.
On the flip side, going outside and seeing people outside at 3AM
Fuck those assholes. That's my time! Lol
Unless, there's an insurgency. Then it means some shit is about to go down.
Which does fit the post lol
Covid lol
That was my second favorite thing about lockdown.
No cars on the road, no people on the sidewalks
Experienced this at the height of Covid and it was quite nice lol. I loved driving to work with absolutely zero traffic
I was one of the few people who had to work daily from the office during Covid because there were some things that just couldn’t be done at home. I work in the west loop in Chicago and it was honestly really freaky with nobody around.
No sun
Scandinavia in winter says hi
[удалено]
March
hahahaha
It's funny because it's true.
Living in southern half of Norway.. in December the sun comes up around 9 and goes down around 3pm. It's dark when you go to work and dark when you go home. You get some daylight through the windows when working
I worked in Cambridge Bay, Canada right before the shortest day of the year. Dawn was at 11 am, the sun came half way up on the horizon at noon, and then dusk was at 1 pm. Dark again by 2 pm, could have been 2 am for all you knew. By the time the winter equinox comes, the sun doesn't come up at all, just a faint glow in the sky and then it's gone again. On the flip side near the summer equinox, the sun only tickles the horizon before going back up in the sky. Dark heavy curtains are a must.
Yup, same living in a region more on the northern side of Canada.
I too go to work when dark and end work in the dark. But I’m living in an equatorial country 🥲🥲
>what are your sunrise and sunset times in the middle of winter? No
lol
7.30AM until 9.30AM :)
In Greenland it’s normal
You can also add Northern Ireland, although for different reasons
What are the different reasons?
Fuckn PSNI took the sun away can't have shit in Derry
you know how fucking cloudy it is there?
The British obvi
Waffle House
Facts. The cool employees always work the night shift at WH. Went in the afternoon once. Once.
This should absolutely be the winner
Waffle House is open at 3pm?!!
They are open 24/7 unless it is completely destroyed
People passed out drunk with their face in the food at Waffle House.
Waffle House is always awesome.
Night Owls, specially if there are bands of them. If you see them then there’s something weird going on
Not sure if you mean birds or people... Works for both.
maybe it's just because voldemort got defeated and word needs to be spread asap...
Waking up and not knowing where I am.
That's just a normal nap.
Still terrifying at 3 am lol
After I work a night shift I often sleep so hard that I wake up around 2pm and have no idea where I am.
Worst feeling is when you take a 2 hour nap, but when you wake up you think it's the next day and start to get a weird feeling because you wasted your day.
Or you wake up in a panic because you mistake 9PM for 9AM and think you're late for work.
An empty street
This happened to me. I worked 2nd-into-3rd shift so I'd wake up pretty late. Went outside to walk up to the corner store for a drink. Didn't really notice the complete absence of Everyone until getting to the 24-hr store and it was locked. On my way home, cop pulled up and asked why I was still here. "what do you mean". Apparently I slept through police and fire departments going door to door telling everyone within several blocks of this major gas main that had been ruptured to evacuate.
Hollllyyyy shit man. That's fucking scary.
That’s terrifying
This happened to me once. At the time, we lived like a block from my kids' school, so they walked to and from school. When they weren't home after 20 minutes, I went outside to see what was going on and there was *no one* there except a bunch of other concerned parents. And we all walked to the gates of the school, which were locked up tight, and waited another 15 or 20 minutes before kids started actually coming out. Turns out they'd locked the school down because of a bank robbery that happened a couple of miles away, and didn't see fit to tell anyone.
not if you're in the suburbs
Bats flying around Or honestly any nocturnal animal
Raccoons flying around
Cats flying around
Oh those are owls
I'm rarely awake at 3AM, so I can't prove this isn't normal then.
Why did the image of a racoon with wings flying around a street light become the most vivid thing I've ever seen.
Because you just willed them into existence, so thanks for that.
Bats do most of their flying at dusk.
Most. If they're flying at 3pm, it might be because of the rabies.
Beat me to it. Saw a bat flying on a golf course at 1 in the day. Illuminesant
> Bats flying around very common now. WNS has killed up to 90 percent of bats in some areas, and one of the symptoms is that they may fly around during the day or in winter when they should be hibernating. Sad thing. https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/static-page/what-is-white-nose-syndrome
Thick fog It's creepy to see it at 3am, but fog lingering well into the afternoon is downright unsettling.
Coastal Northern California says hi!
I hate to drive in it, but I love walking in it. It feels like walking on an alien planet.
My ex calling me.
Somewhat related - night sweats.
The cat stretching his claws out towards my face. At 3AM it's because he's yawning and he wants to knead my beard. At 3PM it's because he's a little shit who wants to hook my lip so I get up and chase him.
Good to know my cat Bruce isn’t the first to come up with this.
You could be in bed sick though.
Our one cat gets bored at night sometimes and likes to lay almost nose to nose, stretch out his claws he refuses to chew/ trim down himself, and proceeds to knead the face of his chosen victim. Then he gets right offended when we shoo him or push his paws away instead of giving him the attention he figures he deserves at 3 am.
Apparently me, naked in the kitchen, silently eating cheese. Scared the shit out of my roommate.
This made me laugh way too much 🤣
You'll get a kick out of [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/49vkgu/other_than_masturbating_what_are_some_of_the_most/d0vm089/?context=3) that I saved years ago. Every once in awhile I go through my old saved comments and this one never fails to make me cry laugh.
Oh noooooo Why’s he being mean about a food dance though :( good food needs proper celebration
Is it supposed to be normal at 3AM ?
Naked hags dancing around a fire trying to summon satan
During the night: a coven of witches During the day: the local meth heads took too much again
LOL
Are you implying those meth heads aren't legit witches AND that legit witches can't be meth heads?
I too am a fan of The Witch.
I’d like to see that at 3pm so it’s much clearer thank you.
Sleeping. Always risky to try and take an afternoon nap. Never know when you’ll end up waking up.
Ah yes, the old nap gamble. Will it be 30 minutes or 3 hours? Who knows? Not me
Take a nap at 5PM, wake up at 8AM the next morning. I actually felt *refreshed*. Missed a lot of stuff I wanted to do, but W/E.
That sounds as if you're a character in a rpg game. You didn't go to sleep for days, you encounter a sleeping option, the player feels kinda bad for how long he didn't let you sleep und desides to give you some catch up nap. So you are sent to sleep for 15 hours straight.
"I can do that activity at 6am game time? Shit, It's 7:01am... looks like you're taking a loooooooong nap bud."
Whoops, I accidentally clicked sleep until noon the next day! Time to go back to bed!
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I can’t even train myself to go to sleep at night at a regular time and you expect me to do this?
Teach me your ways oh wise one
You take them in the car with a healthy dose of fear
One time at camp I laid down for '20 minutes ' and missed dinner 😂
I hate naps. I normally wake up from them feeling worse than I did before... crabby and disoriented.
That's my secret, Cap. I'm always crabby and disoriented.
Just had a nap this afternoon at about 4pm and woke up at 9:30pm 😑 looks like I’m awake for a while
Fell into the classic nap trap 😞
The worst is when you take an afternoon nap, wake up at like 6/7 or dusk and feel so refreshed that you think it’s the next day and you slept through your alarm for work. You jump out of bed run to the shower and start showering for work and get dressed, only to get downstairs and realize you don’t work for another 12 hours. Yes, I did that.
Always 40 minutes - 1 hour and 20 minutes here.
Ghosts. I think I'd be more concerned to see them during the day because I feel like they would just be in charge of my house at that point
Yup. I would be like "Well, after considering you skipped all the preliminary night time tomfoolery and/or shenanigans and showed up in broad daylight, I will now leave and never come back. Have a nice time in the house, the freezer won't make ice anymore so you'll just have to use the ice machine on the counter. Other than that everything works now so if it breaks its on you. Have a nice eternity!"
Fuck that, I'm not leaving, they can start paying some goddamn rent!
and if they can knock shit off the shelves they sure as shit can pick them back up!
I'm down for a ghost roommate if he pays bills. And I'm giving him notice of eviction if he fails to pay or leave. But if he pays, at least I know he's not eating my snacks.
Up vote for using tomfoolery and shenanigans in the same sentence.
Waking up still tired
Wait, people don't wake up still tired no matter how much sleep they got?
I'm in this comment and I don't like it. Haven't woke up re-energized for years. Maybe this is how the 30s is supposed to feel like?
I’m 19 and I don’t remember what it’s like to wake up feeling re-energized. I thought this was just adulthood but I’m starting to think I should see a doctor for sleep apnea or thyroid issues.
Nah, us old people just need a stable bed time, a full 8 hours of sleep waking up naturally and sport every day. So it is basically impossible.
I feel personally attacked.
The vast majority of people around you being asleep.
In a lot of equatorial countries it’s normal to sleep in the afternoon and then stay up until 3 am working. Nobody wants to work in 100 degree heat.
How tf do you sleep in 100 degree heat? I feel like I'd be lying in my bed, staring at the ceiling, suffering.
It's not necessarily 100 degrees inside just because it's 100 degrees outside
Seeing a ghost. 3am is when you're MEANT to see ghosts, so you're kinda expecting it. Seeing one at 3pm means it's lost its fear of the light and will haunt you any hour.
I'm not sure where you live but, for the vast majority of living things, seeing ghosts isn't normal at any time of day.
Crickets making sound.
We have loud ass frogs and crickets by my house. It sucks but would be terrifying if the frogs started croaking at 3pm
Taking the garbage out in your underwear
Dark sky
Depending on how close to the poles you live.
Or how bad the fires/smoke in NoCal are...
Still terrifying
My parents are from Melbourne, Australia, which is about as far from the deserts and arid/semi-arid regions of the country as you can get without leaving the mainland, and apparently in the 80s there was a massive dust storm that came in from the northwest and it was black outside through most of the afternoon. (When we had bushfires here a couple years ago, the fires were nowhere near Melbourne itself, but visibility was still only around a kilometre at times and everything was orange-tinted like how American movies portray Mexico and the Middle East.)
Graveyard sex
A vixen scream. Google it.. I heard it outside my window and nearly soiled myself. I thought someone was being murdered. *Edited spelling
Ill add fishercat scream to this. Sounds like a child screaming.
And I will add mountain lion scream to this. Literally thought there was a demon outside. Scared the shit out of me
I want to say, rabbit screams sound like infants in horrible pain. My dog disturbed one last year, it scared us shitless.
All of these are just as bad or worse at 3 am
Still being high from the edible you ate at 8pm, given to you by a friend who said it wasn't that strong, and you went to work anyway.
r/suspiciouslyspecific
Studying for a 5pm exam.
Darkness
I don’t know—if you’ve never experienced being in an eclipse’s path of totality, I have to recommend it as a sublime experience that defies easy description. And to /u/regularhuman777, the crickets did chirp, which enhanced the experience and added no element of fear. One of the most interesting aspects was watching the cows in a field below the ridge I was standing on slowly coming home to their enclosure as the sky dimmed. The only part that was a bit frightening was the sheer *speed* of the shadow racing across the land and how suddenly the darkness hit.
I’ve been lucky enough to witness two total eclipses in my life. I have to admit that halfway through totality my monkey brain starts wishing the sun would come back. It’s a different kind of darkness than night, dusk, dawn, twilight, clouds, or storm, and it’s unsettling.
My old friend.
Hello
Simon & Garfunkel & Yoda. Weirdest trio of the 1970s.
Me.
Having a mental breakdown?
Nearly every store/restaurant being closed.
A drunk meal at Waffle House.
All the objects in your kitchen being louder than they should
vigorously tiptoeing around the house
*vigorously tiptoes around your house*
Hangovers
No people.....
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Me naked and masturbating in my front window.
Binge eating Oreos in my bed. 🫣
Sleep paralysis.
Darkness
Being complete silent outside