Let's see... This Troper has slept through thunderstorms (which rarely happen in my area. I used to sleep throught thunderstorms, but, due to how rare they are where I live, I've developed a fear of thunderstorms and I awake when they happen), loud parties, moderate earthquakes (as they saye here in Los Angeles, "If a moderate earthquake wakes you up, you just shrug it off and go back to sleep), but she awakened if somebody rang the doorbell when she's still sleeping and the emergency alert system doing required monthly tests. A minor subversion happened when there was a wildfire near my house. A few hours after I fell asleep (which happened after the fire started), I awoke when you could start to see the wildfire outside the office window at my house.

This troper once slept through a tornado. No joke, I woke up the next morning, made breakfast and saw my neighbor's 100 year old oak tree ripped out of the ground. I was asleep in the top floor as well.

This troper usually averts the hell out of this trope by being bothered by even the faintest cracking of the wooden pillars in his room and even wakes up every 20 minutes. However, he only once played it straight after staying up for a day sleeping though the cats yowling,calls for breakfast,and even an earthquake. That said he usually is the opposite of a log when he sleeps.

This troper once slept through getting his stomach (accidentally) stepped on (by a tall, heavy-set man) while he was sleeping on a floor. When he woke up the next morning, he wondered why his belly hurt. Another time, two roomies apologized for all the drunken noise they'd made coming in from a party late the night before. When told that the troper hadn't heard a thing, one said to the other: "Well, there you have it.... He doesn't go to sleep; he dies."

This troper tends to sleep through alarms, and most wake up calls- unless he *really* needs to be awake for something, luckily. Otherwise? Like a log is an understatement- sack of cement, more like. Also, he stays half-asleep for almost an hour after waking up- once causing him to wake up completely and wonder when he got in the car.

This troper's alarm is very effective-at waking up everyone else in the house.

This troper not only sleeps through alarms, but has even slept through the house security system going off. Said troper's family has repeatedly threatened to retrofit her alarm clock with defibrillator paddles.

This troper once slept through lightning striking the house roughly half a metre from where his head is when he sleeps.

You're lucky you woke up at all. You must have been side-on to the strike or curled up to not get enough of a charge differential to kill you. I think this qualifies for a CrowningMomentofAwesome.

On one memorable occasion, this troper slept through her best friend's father playing a trumpet right next to her bed. She bought an extra-loud alarm clock (with a thingy that's supposed to make the bed vibrate, although it's not powerful enough to make a big difference) from [=ThinkGeek=] specifically because she sleeps right through most alarms; it's worked a couple times, but she usually still sleeps through it. She has also managed to sleep in the middle of the day when people were playing DDR in the room directly above her bed.

This troper used to be a fairly heavy sleeper, but years of training (i.e. having to get up for school) have gotten her used to getting up at around 8 in the morning, when she wants to be up any time after 10. Before that, nothing could get this troper up unless she wanted to get up. Including the most annoying alarm clock in the world (one playing the "It's a Small World" tune endlessly), and fairly loud music from down the hall.

Update: She's back to being dead to the world until at least 10:30 except for odd occasions where she briefly wakes up when everyone else is getting ready to leave (but then she usually goes right back to sleep and proceeds to have dreams much more vivid and weird than the ones she was having previously).

This troper doesn't sleep through alarm clocks. He ''turns them off in his sleep'' (including, but not limited to, cell phone alarms, push-button alarm clocks, and an alarm with a physical, slightly-sticky switch). At certain points, there have had to be multiple alarm clocks setup just to ensure he's up on time. Or physically taping the "off" button to be impossible to switch without some severe concentration... The snooze button gets worn out when that happens, though.

This troper suffers the same malady, even though in his case, it involves sleepwalking across a floor buried in (usually sharp) junk, whilst barefoot. Needless to say, I am not a morning person.

Are... Are you me?

This troper, as he mentioned below, sleeps on a half-bunk bed from IKEA and has to climb down to the floor to hit the alarm. Doesn't mean he won't climb back up and go back to sleep, though.

This troper has the same problem and solution. ;)

This troper has a similar problem. He uses a radio alarm clock set up right next to his ear, and makes sure the volume is set to max before he goes to bed. 3/4 of the time, the volume manages to get set back to zero before it's supposed to go off. about 90% of the remaining time, I turn it off while half-asleep and go back to bed.

That happens to this troper as well! She'll wonder why her alarm turned itself off, only to learn that she did a mighty leap out of bed, turned off the alarm, and then jumped back under the covers without waking up. This move apparently makes a very distinctive noise...

As an update to the original troper, he's now sleeping better (sleep apnea was an issue, but is now getting fixed), and he now sleeps through any and all alarms, up to and including: a clock radio alarm, a beeping clock alarm, a cellphone alarm, and an iPod alarm, all set to go off at 5 minute intervals. He slept through, or turned off, each and every one of them.

This troper was surprised to hear that the house's fire alarm went off during the night because she didn't hear a thing.

This troper is usually a light sleeper, but she once slept through her roommate waking up screaming at the top of her lungs. Her roommate that sleeps in the ''bunk below her''.

This troper slept through that Midwestern earthquake last spring and didn't find out about it until the next morning. She also has a history of sleeping through late-night thunderstorms.

So did ThisTroper. It seems it woke both my parents and younger brother, but not me. There was one night where there was a particularly nasty thunderstorm that kept flickering our power. At some point I said "Screw it" and crawled in bed with my parents.

This troper slept through a very near and very large tornado with no idea it had happened -- her mother simply said "I was going to wake you up if the house started shaking". This came as no surprise given that several years before the troper came downstairs one morning to her parents discussing the huge number of police cars with sirens and a police helicopter hovering ''directly over the house'' for several hours the night before, and hadn't the foggiest idea what they were talking about. Not only can she turn off alarm clocks without waking up, she's frequently woken up to discover that the alarm has been blaring for a few hours and she only woke up enough to put a pillow over her head.

This troper can not fall asleep on planes, no matter how hard he tries. This was horrible on a one-stop flight to Hawaii from Tennessee. By the time we got to the hotel room, he and his three friends were talking. One of the friends asked this troper a question and said, "Right?" He proceeded to call this troper's name a couple times with no response. The logical solution? Beat this troper over the head with a pillow, and then give the pillow to someone else to do the same thing. Yup, still asleep.

This troper once took a shower in her sleep. Woke up only after she had shampooed and rinsed her hair, turned off the water, stepped out of the shower, and wrapped herself in a towel. Yes, really.

This troper has done that three times (cold showers, no less), and proceeded once from there to go to the fridge and begin cooking leftover food before waking up. Very fortunately, no one was woken up, as he did not get a towel and thus not in a condition to be seen in.

This troper had a friend in school who was not only a HeavySleeper but the world's worst snorer. During a sleepover party his snoring annoyed everyone so much that we shot him with a BB gun. He still didn't wake up.

This troper is similar to the above's friend, made worse by the fact that his snoring is irregular, therefore can't be gotten used to. He has been smacked in the face with a folder several times.

This troper's brother once slept through her father accidentally hitting the panic button on the car while it was in the garage, not being able to turn it off, and driving away with the car still honking. This troper's brother's room is above the garage.

This troper, while only a moderately heavy sleeper, is able to carry on a conversation in her sleep. Sometimes with embarrassing results.

One other troper has the same problem. He can interact with people and objects without waking, turning off most alarm clocks and throwing stuff at people. Now he is three years behind in his education due to oversleeping.

This troper once slept peacefully as her dog ''stood on top of her and barked''. And apparently, I also once slept through construction people using a ''jackhammer'' in our basement. Needless to say, I need someone to pretty much harass me until I wake up.

This troper has slept through earthquakes and sleeps through thunderstorms on a regular basis, though he has trouble actually getting to sleep. His brother will fall asleep in seconds, but will get woken up by almost anything. Just another aspect of the SiblingYinYang...

This troper is a heavy sleeper only on certain conditions. His family seems to have evolved the ability to go into comas in an attempt to avoid hangovers. This has been known to him since high school, but the first night drinking out with friends in college he slept through the night and the next day and only woke up in time for dinner that night. In the mean time his roommate had called the RA over to make sure there was not a need for a body bag.

This troper's brother can sleep through a hurricane. Literally.

This troper can also sleep through hurricanes, and also minor earthquakes (and I mean minor. Just rattling the glass in your windows and the plates in your cabinets).

When this troper falls asleep, he is ''asleep'' until an hour before he goes to work. No exceptions.

According to my roommate, I'm a very heavy sleeper who talks in my sleep. Apparently I make incredibly disjointed comments in said sleep, too. Among the gems? "Dad... tuition... I'm serious, dude!" It runs in the family, too: one night my dad dreamed he was playing wide receiver, as he - while asleep - ran down our hall yelling "I'm open!"

This troper affectionately recalls his time in the National Service (Army), when a squadmate of his managed to sleep through a faked nightly ambush which involved the firing of 2500 blanks within 50 m of where he was sleeping.

This troper has massive problems ''getting'' to sleep every night, but once asleep, I '''sleep'''. One night, when I was a kid, a bat flew into the house. This flew my parents into a panic. For ''two hours'' they were running around the house, screaming, moving furniture and crashing into things, and coming up with various methods to try and get the damn thing out that wouldn't have looked out of place in a slapstick comedy. My bedroom and theirs were all on the first floor, and the door to my room wasn't even closed all the way. It took two hours to finally get the poor thing out. This was all news to me in the morning, since I slept through the whole ordeal. My parents, interestingly, have the exact opposite problem... they have trouble staying awake any time after noon, but once they are asleep, the slightest noise wakes them!

This troper, during summer and winter vacations, sometimes goes to bed around 4-5 AM, wakes up between 10-11 AM, but falls back asleep until 1-1:30 PM. It's very annoying, and a waste of half the day. Not even sleeping on a half-bunk bed and putting his alarm clock on a mini-fridge at ground level would keep him out of bed. And when he finally does the ludicrous act of going to bed around 8-9 PM and waking up at 5 (a feat he sometimes does if he gets sleepy around dusk), he finds that there is nothing to do. T.T

This troper's mother ''and'' aunt slept through a police chase right in the neighbourhood - we're talking sirens, blowhorns, and helicopters! Even when this troper went into their rooms to lock the windows, just in case.

ThisTroper has mild insomnia, but as stated above, will ''stay'' asleep. ThisTroper slept through a sheet of plywood falling on his head. (Left a nasty bruise that totally mystified him in the morning.)

Update: I suddenly began sleeping through any and all alarms, and nothing but physically rousing me from my sleep will actually wake me.

Likewise on the mild insomnia, but as a kid, I rolled over the bars of my TOP BUNK, hit the frame (the bottom bunk was slightly bigger) and landed on the floor. Without waking up. I've also fallen asleep upside-down before on a couch, with my legs on the back of the couch and my head touching the floor.

This troper has slept through an earthquake that not only pitched him from bed to hardwood floor, but then proceeded to topple a well stocked, seven foot tall oak bookshelf onto him. He's also fallen asleep on an in-use trampoline.

As a child this troper once locked himself in his parents' bedroom in order to read without being bothered by his sister and, naturally, fell asleep. The next part he only knows because he's been told, but apparently his father had to climb in the window to unlock the door because they couldn't wake him up. He ''still'' sleeps through thunderstorms, most loud noises, and has had to train himself to wake for his alarm clock.

This troper's natural reaction to alcohol is to get sleepy. Two Guinnesses into a very rowdy St Patrick's Eve party at a student fraternity he fell quietly asleep on a chair and slept until a cleaner gently poked him and told him he had to leave.

Combined with Main/RingRingCRUNCH in Da_Nuke's case. A house is under construction right behind his house, which means he gets to hear ''all'' the noise, the machines, and the loud music being played at the construction site. Does that affects his sleep? Not in the slightest bit. And the Canadian exchange girl often complained about how annoying was the one and only alarm clock that can wake him up: instead of sounding like "Ring ring ring!", it sounds like "BRRRRREEEEEEEERRRRRPPPPPPPP BRRRRREEEEEEEERRRRRPPPPPPPP BRRRRREEEEEEEERRRRRPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!". ''And yet he managed to sleep through such an annoying alarm clock ringing for an entire hour''. (In fact, it is said that during a middle school trip, he slept through a couple having very wild sex in the same room).

While this troper finds it difficult to actually sink into sleep, once he sleeps, he sleeeeeeeps. Even through earthquakes, when the rest of the family woke up and panicked.

When he was younger, this troper's father had a friend who slept heavily and once during a sleepover, he and a friend carried their sleeping friend to the tennis courts a couple of blocks from the house, laid him down, and waited for him to wake up.

This troper once slept through a ~80 foot pine falling ''during a thunderstorm'' and nearly caving in his bedroom. Everyone else in the house was awake before it hit the ground. A year or two before this, he purchased an alarm clock and set it for 6am, and put it next to his bed. He only woke up once his mom started shaking him, after the thing had woken up everyone else in the house, on two floors. He also managed the bunkbed thing, going to bed on the top bunk and waking up ''under'' the bottom one (Not sleepwalking, the side of the bunkbed against the wall lacked safety rails, and was just far enough from the wall to slip through!)

This troper slept through a similar thunderstorm incident, where part of a huge dying oak tree fell due to wind almost directly over her bedroom. It apparently hit the roof so hard it make the house shake, and I didn't even know until I asked about the collapsed tree outside my window the next afternoon.

This troper slept through the school bus breaking down one afternoon. I should probably mention that this involved the transmission ''breaking off and being dragged down the road, complete with sparks flying off of it''. I didn't wake up until we'd pulled over into a nearby parking lot and had been sitting there for a few minutes, then I was just really disoriented.

This troper was going to be part of a raid at camp one summer. The rest of the group doing the raid promised to wake me up when it was time to go. I woke up the next morning wondering how I ended up on the other side of the tent, where my pillow was, and why no one woke me up for the raid. Turns out, they tried everything they could think of to wake me up, including dragging me around the tent (in my sleeping bag), and beating me with the pillow. Not sure why they thought the pillow would work...

This troper can sleep ''anywhere.'' In a chair, at a desk, on the floor, in the middle of a pep rally, you name it. At one point I fell asleep while sitting on a rolled-up carpet on the side of a robotics arena with nought but curtains as guardrails. One of the robots CRASHED THROUGH and nearly hit me, and I didn't wake up until shortly after, when my friends woke me up to see if I was okay. They said, and I quote "Dude, you almost died!" I am... somewhat more difficult to wake when I'm sleeping in an actual bed. I often need two alarms, and even then will go back to sleep after turning them off.

This troper slept through window-rattling karaoke ten feet away. At home in bed an hour later? WIDE AWAKE! So frustrating.

This troper can sleep through fireworks, remnants of a North Carolina Hurricane, and most loud noises. She also slept through having M&Ms thrown at her by her cousins and didn't know it till she woke up, found candy in the blanket creases, and her cousins explained. However, she also tends to wake up at an ungodly hour, so she uses her alarm to tell her when to get up rather than to wake up.

After missing out on a number of things in life due to the inadequacy of off-the-shelf alarm clocks, this troper modified his alarm clock three times. First by adding an old PC speaker to make it significantly louder, second by modifying it so that the only way to prevent the alarm from resetting it's self and beeping again is to hold down a big red button for a full minute (during which time I chug down a cup of coffee from a nearby timed coffee pot) and finally removing the buttons to set the time so I don't just reset the alarm for an hour later and go back to bed. The next version will make me do math until I get correct answers, and shock me every time I'm wrong.

You just gave Da_Nuke an idea: rigging his alarm clock with a 5 [=kW=] car audio amplifier and a HUEG subwoofer, and replacing the Snooze button with a small CPU that won't turn off the alarm until he solves a 3x3 linear equation system.

At that point, I'd be more likely to shut the damn thing off. Even if that required killing power to an entire city block. Yeah, I'm not a morning person. And yet, I get up at the ungodly hour of 0500 (5 AM for folks stuck on 12-hour time), and am out the door to work at 0600. I should've gone into a field that'd let me sleep...

This Troper was having work done on her house and because of this didn't have curtains for a year or so. She made sure to set the alarm early and to put said alarm clock on the otherside of the room to ensure she would have no choice but to wake up before the workmen came. Despite having a floor length window that leads to this troper's room being bathed with sunlight in the morning, and having a ridiculously loud clock-radio, not to mention having builders literally jack-hammering right outside of her window, this troper still managed to sleep through until afternoon every day.

This troper's boyfriend has literally had to pick her up and stand her on her feet so she would wake up in time for class.

This troper has slept through fireworks displays, huge lightning storms and the Two Towers in a surround-sound theater (not from boredom; he ate a lot beforehand). Oddly enough, the sound of his cat chewing on a discarded candy wrapper will have him up and running to stop the stupid animal from choking.

This troper has a condition where even *if* awoke, he remains semi-unconsious, just moving... which is useful, since he can trick himself into doing chores, but also provides ample time to reset, turn off, or (once) throwing his alarm.

This troper can sleep through a surprising amount, having grown up in a very noisy suburb. And can sleep ON anything due to spending time camping with scouts. He has slept curled up around lumps in a field (inside a tent and sleeping bag) under low-flying aircraft, curled up tightly across a pair of seats on a Greyhound bus, through earthquakes, on concrete floors, and so forth. Only a few things are able to reliably wake him, one of which is Concorde, the cancellation of which threw his sleep schedule on weekends into disarray.

This troper has slept through almost every major hurricane to grace the North Carolina coast since Bertha in the late 90s (I think it was the late 90s. Early 00s?). Multiple 100 year old pecan trees fell down right outside his window. He woke up, well rested, to notice that his room had a lot more sunlight coming in than it used to did. This troper subverted it in college. His nickname in college was Cookie Monster, because of his crack-like addiction to these baked goods. At Christmas-time Oreo releases the white fudge covered variety. This troper bought himself a couple of boxes. One day, whilst taking a nap, this troper sat bolt-upright in bed, looked straight at his roommate whose hand was literally in the cookie jar, said "Touch. And. Die.", and then fell promptly back asleep. This troper's roommate did not, in the end, eat any cookies.

This troper has also slept through major storms, hurricanes, alarms, people shouting at him, etc;...to the point that whenever tiredness is enough of an issue, it becomes almost impossible to wake him. The alarm does not simply continue to ring however - instead, somnambulation (sleep-walking) kicks in, he gets up, walks across the room, deactivates said alarm, and climbs back into bed. Still sleeping soundly all the while.

The same kind of thing happens when he is awoken by a person; he is actually able to get up, carry on a conversation with them (in some cases, quite lengthy and detailed, as well as coherent enough to make people think he was awake), and then go back to bed when they stop talking to him, still fast asleep all the way through. The first time he ever did this, he revealed to a tent-full of Scouts the name of the girl (in the same troop) that he had a massive crush on. Hilarity dutifully ensued. It even extends to really loud noises, such as roadworks right outside the house, home renovations in the surrounding properties, and storms directly overhead.

Once in summer camp, a girl woke up in the middle of the night screaming bloody murder due to a particularly horrible nightmare, consequently waking up the entire camp. Except for this troper, who, when she learned about it in the morning, was met with shocked stares of disbelief. Another instance happened a couple years after that. This troper and her brother shared the same room and their beds were right beside each other. Apparently, said brother once tried to wake this troper up but got a punch in the face in response. He wasn't very happy when the troper finally woke up.

This troper slept throughout the Great Storm of 1987, with gusts of wind reached 187 km/h, while a gigantic pine tree crashed next to the house and over the street and her parents cut down others to prevent them from falling on their house. More recently, she didn't wake up when a car crashed into a neighbour's house.

This troper, while generally not subject to the trope, regularly slept through ''earthquakes'' when I lived in California. The one exception was when California decided to see us off to dad's next station. My brother, on the other hand, fits the trope. A bad thing when he was in the ''Navy''. I wonder if he had a Petty Officer Nasty to deal with when this happened.

This troper is a family legend for this. In addition to the wide array of alarms and radios and beeps and buzzing that my mom bought throughout my childhood in futile attempts to find one that would work, I also had a top-bunk instance similar to one mentioned above (though my bunks lined up, so i fell the full distance. when my mom ran in paniced from the thud, i not only was still asleep, but still had my blanket around me, and pillow under my head (held there by the hand i tend to leave under it). My crowning achievement was sleeping through a lightning bolt and resultant thunder. Doesn't seem so crowning at first, but the bolt hit less than 4 feet from where my head was (we later measured to a scorch mark), right on the other side of a big, minimal-interference, single-layer window with one pane broken out.

This troper infamously sleep-chased a robber out of her house with a meat cleaver in one hand and a realistic looking toy gun in the other once. Another time, I fell out of the top bunk at my friend's place without waking up. Later on in the night, my friend rolled out of the bottom bunk and directly onto me, yet I kept on sleeping. The friend tried everything to wake me up and get me to go back into the bunk, I still didn't wake up. Then the next morning, she actually poured icy water onto me, but I still kept on sleeping soundly... until an hour later, when my mother came over to pick me up, and I woke up instantly at the sound of her voice at the front door.

That first incident (ie, the one with the cleaver)? Awesome.

This troper once slept through a tornado that tore down a tree in the front yard. Further, he once stayed at a friends house, and then heard a nice story the next morning when a third party admonished us for going back to bed after waking up. When we asked about this, she explained that we had been talking to '''each other''' in our respective sleeps, and then talked to her when she came into the room. First time this troper's heard of that.

This troper was at a LAN party once when a friend of his intentionally smashed a pizza box on my head in an attempt to wake me. Apparently it was so loud that everyone there heard it and turned to see what happened (mind you this was loud enough to be heard over the noise of games and music blaring). Apparently I didn't respond in any way whatsoever. Similar heavy sleeping incidents have occurred at other LANs with the same friends, including being stepped on, sat on, drawn on with marker, and other such.

When the house was being reblocked, this troper, at age 11, slept through concrete being broken up outside her bedroom window, and the house being physically moved.

This troper is referred to by his friends as "Damien", the son of the devil. This due to the fact that during summer camp, he took a loooong time to wake up, and had to spent some time sitting upright in his bed to avoid falling asleep again, making strange noises and staring at people. Every. Single. Day.

I've been told that people have to check on me to see if I'm is still alive, as I sleep so deeply it's as if I died (given past health issues, it may be a valid concern).

Have also had a few occurrences of ''completely cussing people out'' once I had enough brain activity (probably about 1/10 awake) if they had started use brute force (ie heavily shaking/shoving) to wake me up; no recollection of doing that once awake, though.

This troper has slept through a earthquake. When I woke up sometime after it, I glanced at the clock, and wondered why it wasn;t working. Then my grandpa comes in and asks if I felt the quake. Cue '. . .There was an earthquake?'

My best friend slept through a moderate earthquake a couple of years ago. It took me five minutes and a news bulletin on the computer to convince her there was, indeed, an earthquake. However, I came pretty close. I woke up to the shaking and a picture frame hitting me on the head. When the earthquake stopped, I looked around, shrugged and promptly went back to sleep.

This troper and her three best friends decided to go to the Renaissance Festival together. We drove to the last person's house after previously telling him the night before what time we would arrive to pick him up and got out. We knocked on the door. For ten minutes. Loudly. So loudly that the two or three dogs outside in the backyard barked their heads off. Then we got back in the car and blew the horn twenty times. Nothing. This person did not have a cell phone so we called the house phone. Nothing. We then concluded that he had left with his father somewhere and couldn't be reached so we went on without him. The next day, we discovered he had been in the house asleep. Through ten minutes of knocking, five phone calls, several horn beeps, and dogs barking. We are worried his house might collapse on him and he wouldn't even twitch.

This troper has been known to sleep through his apartment building's burglar alarm on multiple occasions, even when it wakes everyone else in the building. His best friend also has a case of this. He turns of the alarm in his sleep and failing that will pick up and throw the alarm across the room. This troper had to wake him up once. He didn't even ''move'' until I started kicking him, and didn't wake up until after I poured a glass of cold water on his head and physically dragged him out of the bed onto the floor.

While this troper will deactivate alarms in his sleep, the writing of this entry is dedicated to one man in the local college gameroom, who will sleep through anything. For context, the gameroom used to host games of SuperSmashBros Melee and Brawl, and Rock Band, and only stopped doing so because of complaints of how ''noisy'' it was to nearby offices. It is now still fairly noisy due to hosting of LAN gaming and twice-weekly [=DnD=]. Said person has also slept through having the backpacks and carrycases of the other college-gameroom-goers collectively stacked on top of him just to see what would happen, and took a picture with an obnoxious flash. STILL slept.

This Troper once slept through ''breaking his clavicle''. He woke up in his bed in considerable pain, but there was nothing in the bed which could have broken a bone. The popular theory is that he rolled out of bed onto the floor, breaking the bone, stood up, got back in bed, then only ''later'' woke up.

This troper was once physically shaken awake by a paramedic. I own a truck driver's alarm clock called the Screaming Meanie, which have an incredibly loud alarm noise. It went off one morning... and the neighbor across the street called the cops, the cops forced the front door and tried to wake me, and called the ambulance when I didn't awaken. The only surefire way of waking me is to physically pick me up and shake the crap out of me, or take a cattle prod and shock me somewhere tender.

This troper's father once slept through an 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

[[{{Bookhobbit}}This]] troper's father once slept soundly while she and her mother pounded nails into frames, making a great racket all the way. He also sleeps through his own snoring and dog's, both astonishing feats. Apparently, his mother used to stand at the door poking him with a broom to wake him up, because he would come up swinging. This troper's sister is also developing into one of these. She can be woken up by the dog licking her face, though.

This troper once slept through her brother throwing rocks at her window when he got locked out of the house. At all other times (unless she needs to go to work), she tends to not sleep through alarms, but instead enter a half-awake state where she thinks the alarm is part of the dream (a submarine emergency alarm, someone singing, crickets chirping, and one famous occasion that caused this troper to shout, "SHUT UP, IRONHIDE!!!" at the top of her lungs). And apparently she also sleeps with her eyes open.

I really want to know about that Ironhide incident now.

This troper has apparently slept through a ten foot fall from the tree branch he was sleeping in(That is another story).Also this troper also has an odd habit. He will sleep through any noise, including the twelve alarm system that set around this troper's room, but apparently physically jump up whenever a person enters this troper's room grabbing whatever is on the bed and telling them to leave while still unconscious. And there is always a camp ax on the bed... Long story short nobody goes in to wake this troper up.

This troper can sleep through her parents screaming, the loudest alarm in the world, and repeated pokings. Even if she does wake up, she usually mumbles nonsense like "But the swans aren't pink yet" and goes back to sleep. Ironically, her DS alarm set on lowest volume to avoid waking up classmates in the same hotel room at a school trip resulted in such a quick awakening that she woke everyone up anyways.

This troper is a pretty good example, the only alarm that ever woke me up was on my cellphone, but I completely lost that walking home from school one day, and now no matter how many alarms I set(iPod radio, mother's cellphone, Nintendo DS, etc.), I end up remotely late for school, missing anywhere from 10 minutes of first period to both 1st and 2nd period. And if I don't miss 2nd period, I sleep through the first 45 minutes of it the class gets to read. This has gotten me in trouble numerous times, including falling asleep in 5th and 6th period on occasion.

This troper once fell asleep on a trip to her states Parliament House. My friend had to elbow me awake.

This troper is a very heavy sleeper, able to sleep through rock concerts (literally), thunderstorms, and conversations. When about to wake up, she will mutter something unintelligible and jolt awake, often injuring herself in the process. My favorite incident? I screamed, "Wait, no, the swans haven't turned pink yet!" and woke up with a hard jerk, cutting open her finger on another nail.

This troper is frequently asked, "Oh, my God, did you hear that _____ last night!?" to which her default response is, "What _____?" (The blank is usually thunder loud enough to shake the house, multiple and very close sirens, or huge crashes from somewhere in the house.) She falls asleep enviously fast, and alarm clocks are largely pointless to wake her. She can't stay awake on long car or bus or plane rides to save her life. She used to sleepwalk when she was a toddler, too.

This Troper is among the insomniacs. Takes (at least) twenty minutes to fall asleep but once he's out he is out. Once when he was living in a different town his bedroom was 20 yards from a busy highway and 60 yards from a very busy railroad (on average four or five freight trains a night). Neither the trains nor the vehicles woke him up. He also slept through a tornado once.

This troper is a mild insomniac. Like the others, when she's out, she's OUT. The only thing that has been proven to wake her without fail is having to go to the bathroom mid-sleep. It often dawns on her during a dream, however, and prompts the panicked realization of ,"Wait-...What? Why am I on the toilet here? This isn't my life! I don't know these pe-...OH GOD". Cue frantic dash to the bathroom.

My nephew (there's actually only a couple year's age difference) is an extremely heavy sleeper. Once, I took advantage of this by scribbling all over on his face and taking pictures of him with different things surrounding him, including him reading the newspaper while wearing a cowboy hat and with a banana in his ear. At one point I burst out laughing and ducked behind the couch, desperately trying to stop my giggles. A bit later, he woke up briefly while I was standing a couple feet away, moved the newspapers to the ottoman, and promptly fell back asleep.

This troper knew a kid at camp who, during a thunderstorm in the middle of the night, managed to fall off the top of a bunk bed ''hard enough to crack the floor'', and not wake up until the morning. Of course, I didn't find out about it until the next morning, so I'm no slouch in that department either. In addition to sleeping through alarms/turning them off in my sleep, I've also held basic conversations with those trying to wake me, without actually waking up, and once at a university event (after being awake for almost 48 hours straight, along with my roommate) was sleeping heavily enough that the supervisors questioned everybody in two residences after we failed to answer the room-check to see if we had ran off. Eventually the called my teacher (at yet a third residence), who essentially told them to fuck off as we were probably just asleep. Why no-one thought to get a spare key to open the door is beyond me....

In the past, this troper was completely immune to alarms and would usually fail to recognise their existence till hours after they rang. He eventually got better; now he simply switches said alarm off and goes back to sleep. Even if it's placed across the room. The only effective way to get up early is to get his father(a light sleeper, save for the one occasion where he slept through having a mouse chew on his finger) to wake him up. And even that is only partly effective, because the troper usually bargains for another hour's sleep spontaneously. The most annoying part is that this troper rarely ever remembers his efforts to stay asleep.

The above troper's brother doesn't bother with alarms, he simply assigns the task of waking him up to a family member. And a mighty tiring task it is, because he ''never'' wakes up when he's supposed to: usually there's a lot of bargaining, cussing and even physical violence preceding full consciousness.

This troper lives near a small airport that once a year during the golf tournaments on the nearby golf course, is very busy due to the influx of private planes. Her parents often complain about this as it stops them getting any sleep. This troper does not understand what they are talking about as she usually sleeps right through it all.

This troper has always been a heavy sleeper. I've slept through many, many storms, including ones where giant tree limbs have fallen on the roof and/or the lawn, and one where the entire family hid in my basement bedroom.

Tornadoes never happen in Brooklyn. On the rare and momentous occasion that one did, this troper slept through it.

This troper has great difficulties sleeping often- while I sleep the usual eight hours a day, no matter how hard I try, my sleep schedule immediately reverts to 'going to bed at 5AM, getting up at 1PM' mode. When I do sleep, though, I sleep. I've slept through angle grinders, dogs barking, ''the skin burning off my leg due to my bed's heater'', once attempted to shoot someone who tried to wake me up (despite never having ever handled a gun, or seen one in real life) and, as a young child, managed to fall asleep after breaking my right arm and slept with said broken right arm for hours.

This Troper has several alarms. They wake him up maybe 1% of the time, for reasons including forgetting to set them, sleeping on the wrist his watch is on and muffling the sound, the phone with an alarm is set on running out of power. If all of those fail, he generally just sleeps through the alarm anyway.

This lurker once walked into her father's room to ask him what she was doing wrong on a geometry problem. He was laying on his back with his eyes closed, but he asked her what she wanted, so she explained and he told her what correction to make. She was leaving when he jerked upright, yelled, "What you doing in here?!" and proceeded to demonstrate that he had no memory of the conversation. Amazingly, once she got over her shock and explained, he gave the same correction- and it gave her the right answer.

when this troper was still in high school, he was awakend by thunder, soon after waking up, lightning struck the streetlight in fornt of his house, immediately after, an EXTREMELY LOUD (180+ dB) thunderclap shakes the whole house, waking up my mother, while my father slept through the whole storm, this troper has given him heck about this whenever his father claims that the stereo is too loud.

This troper, at a camping party, walked off with nothing but a lantern and a sleeping bag, carried on walking until I stopped hearing any noise, lay on the ground and got about four or five hours more sleep than everyone else, who were being kept up. All I can remember is two people speaking once each, when they apparently sat wtih me for around half an hour. I MISSED someone coming to steal the lantern, his friend's girlfriend coming over to look at him more than once (apparently I look cute when I'm asleep), and only woke up when his friend stuck his head right in my face and said my name several times, after which I freaked out massively, and spent the next half an hour trying to work out if he was dreaming or awake. All this, freezing cold on hard ground.

This troper grew up across the street from a volunteer fire station that called in the volunteers using a WWII surplus air raid siren, giving him the ability to sleep through fire alarms, earthquakes, and in one notable instance, an ''artillery barrage''.

Huh boy. I actually go both ways; when school comes around, I wake up at 5:30 (school doesn't start till ''8:30'') to get an hour or so to myself in the courtyard (cup of tea and a sketchbook, whoo) Any other day? Noon. Usually one. One memorable instanceI've slept through a car being lit on fire outside. With loud drunken quarrling. And half the neightborhood checking it out. In front of my own house. I wanted to see that damnit D:

YonTroper will frequently sleep through loud thunderstorms (and, on two occasions, a hurricane), and noisy car alarms going off outside his house. Once, his house was hit by an earthquake that knocked pictures off the walls and broke china in the room RIGHT NEXT TO HIS BEDROOM WHILE THE DOOR WAS OPEN, and he slept through the whole thing. And somehow he still manages to get up at six every day...

This troper plays it straight when it comes to sounds, but God help you if you so much as leave ''one light on'' in the house, if I don't sleepwalk out of my room to turn it off myself, then I will be restless for hours and ''very'' cranky in the morning.

This Troper is another insomniac- it usually takes her around an hour to go to sleep. Once she is asleep, she sleeps through everything. She lives on the very edge of tornado alley, but thunderstorms never wake her up, even when they knock over the trees outside her house, which happens annoyingly often. Also, for a little over a year her sister, brother-in-law, and their two infants lived in the bedroom next to her. The babies both had a habit of waking up in the middle of the night and screaming their heads off. This troper was never woken up by them.

It's This Troper's BerserkButton to be woken up abruptly. It does take a lot, though. You're better off leaving me alone than to either waste the energy on waking me up or risk getting your head taken off.

This troper has slept through alarms, thunderstorms (his parents attribute this to there being a thunderstorm when he was born), a sizeable van crashing into the side of his house, and earthquakes - one of which caused his bed to collapse, which was the only thing that stopped the nearby bookcase from killing him when it fell onto the bed's frame. The only thing that has a 100% record for waking him up is nine saxophones of varying size, four trumpets and two trombones, ''all at the same time''.

My best friend takes the cake at failing to regain consciousness when people try to wake him up. He's got the ''worst'' sleep inertia I've ever seen. One time, he was sleeping in the same room with me and my boyfriend. My bf and I were talking quietly, when we realized the third person in the room wasn't breathing. It went like this: #QUOTE#'''Me''': Hey! HEY! #QUOTE#'''Friend''': Huhhhh? #QUOTE#'''Me''': Dude, you weren't breathing! #QUOTE#'''Friend''': Okay. Zzzzzzz...

This troper's sister slept through a pole crashing through the window right next to her bed during a heavy storm when she was younger.

Just about everyone in this troperr family, but his older sister has had such trouble waking up, she uses alarm clocks meant for the partially deaf. ''Really'' fucking loud.

On days he works, this troper awakens regularly with his alarm clock. Days off? Up and down, up and down, up and down, zzzzzzzzzz. Between high school and employment, he regularly slept until noon. Even employed, he has laid down to think and awoken three hours later. The worst part is that his sleep schedule is utterly fucked as a result, and he regularly stays up until midnight.

Hey, remember that time when every smoke alarm in the entire country of Ireland went off? I was asleep. In Ireland. And I didn't know about it until my parents told me about it.

While visiting friends and staying over in their very small apartment, I slept through them ''vacuuming the bathroom!'' Another friend of mine had his CD player/clock radio combo set to play Judas Priest's "Painkiller" instead of a buzzing or beeping sound. For those of you unfamiliar with the song, it starts off with a pounding drum solo and Rob Halford's trademark balls-in-a-vice scream, followed by the guitars joining in. If you don't wake up to that, have someone check your pulse... you might be dead.

This Troper set the statup sound on his laptop to heavy metal, set it to start up at a certain time, and put it next to his bed. At full volume. It didn't work. Which isn't unusual. For example, this week is the party week at this Tropers college, yet he managed to just wake up a few hours ago, after falling asleep about twenty to thirty hours ago.

This Troper, when vacationing in another country, slept through a noisy party. While fireworks were being launched from the backyard. While being wrestled by rowdy siblings and cousins in an attempt to wake him up to see said fireworks. He got a full eight hours of sleep.

This troper has a friend who is very slow to wake and difficult to wake up. The result is that I often end up eating breakfast before he even wakes up-in his house.

Once, this troper fell asleep during the 30-minute period before class in the morning(I go to the local high school for extra classed, requiring me to get up at 5:30) and didn't wake up until about halfway through the class. Nobody noticed. This is the class in which the teacher regularly slaps sleepers with packets of paper to awaken them. Luckily, this was the class that he didn't really need to take, so I knew what we were talking about. Still awkward, though.

This troper used to live near an unit of the Brazilian Air Force, so he is used to sleeping through airplane noises.

This troper used to have his laptop armed with an alarm clock program that played Daft Punk's ''One More Time'' at increasingly loud volume as the music is pumped through external speakers that make it louder, and the laptop was across the room. Let it be said that I've only ever woken up after an HOUR of the looping song.

This Troper had the flu one January day, and thus slept through both a massive power plant explosion that could be heard from miles away, the Super Bowl, and the drunken Super Bowl after party that went on basically outside her window. She has also attempted to buy flashlights on Ebay in her sleep.

This Troper also has hard time getting to sleep, usually it takes from 30 minutes to over 3 hours. When I get to sleep nothing can wake me up if I don't want to, I can easily sleep over 18 hours. My father bought me a _very_ noisy alarmclock but only thing it achieves is waking up everyone else in the house. Few years ago I set up 5 spotlights to turn on same time my alarm clock rings, it did work for a short while until I developed the same resistance to bright light I have for anything else. I think I might also have a Delayed sleep phase syndrome.

I slept through an earthquake once!

I've slept through some earthquakes. I've also slept on the floor of the overcrowded booking area of Orleans Parish Prison. The other inmates found that unnerving enough that I didn't get screwed with.

This Troper once slept through his neighbour's Volkswagon Jetta exploding due to a gasoline leak. The explosion raised hell and caused minor structural damage to the adjacent houses. He also has a nasty habbit of sleeping through muscle spasms.

I've a family friend who snores at the decibel level of a rock and roll concert.

This troper is another insomniac, but as stated above, once I'm asleep, I'm asleep. The best case is when Britain had an earthquake a couple of years ago. The quake woke my mum and my sister up who began to run around the house screaming, which then woke my dad and brother up. Me? In the words of my mum: "Like trying to wake the dead."

Like others, I have trouble getting to sleep, but once there, it is hard to wake me. I snore, talk and even sing in my sleep. I've walked downstairs, talked to someone, and said that I needed to go to the bathroom before going back to sleep. Another time I woke up in a different bed after a bathroom quest. I often wake up and see standing water and am told about a storm that woke up most other people. Not me. My brother is just as bad, his alarm can be heard from downstairs, but it won't wake him. He slept (on dramamine) through a parade at Disney world.

This troper starts as this, but needs less to wake her up the longer she sleeps. This morning she inverted this ''hard'' by being woken up simply by her mother lightly brushing her side!

This troper is a rather normal sleeper, but when she takes naps, she is dead to the world. Makes for a very irregular schedule.

This troper's friend's brother sleepwalks. Once while I was at a sleepover at her house, we had just woken up and were getting dressed when said brother walked into the room, threw a pillow at her, and walked away. While asleep.

This troper is like many people above- she has trouble getting to sleep, but it's tough to wake her up once she's out. She lives close to a railroad track and her neighbors are infamous for loud parties, but the noise has never bothered her. She woke up a few weeks ago to the greeting of "Could you believe that racket last night?" To which I replied, "...What are you talking about?" Turns out there was a shooting in the house across the street and there were about 10 police cars with blaring sirens on top of it. This troper didn't even stir. Her dad is the same way, plus he spends most of the day sleeping and can fall asleep at the drop of a hat.

This troper once slept through the tent flooding during a camping trip. My pajamas were soaked.

This troper used to be a very heavy sleeper. I once rolled off the top bunk of a bunk bed, hit the floor, and rolled under the bottom bunk, while asleep. When I woke up, I wondered if I had died. I ''was'' only 4, though. I am still a fairly heavy sleeper, but cannot sleep past 6:30. And once I get up, I cannot go back to sleep until dusk, at the very least.

This troper is a very heavy sleeper and has been known to sleep through a fire alarm going off about three feet from her room for about half an hour before her grandparents could get it turned off without a clue it had happened. However, this summer as a counselor she was in a tent with three young girls with a massive thunder and lightning storm outside; she didn't wake up from the storm, but did because the nine-year-old woke up because she was scared and crying from the thunder. This troper is somewhat proud as the other counselor slept through it all.

This troper is a narcoleptic, and can fall asleep anywhere, be it on a crowded, loud bus or train or sitting in the library reading a really good book.

This troper is the polar opposite of this. He usually wakes up before the event that woke him up actually happens. My brother however, has slept through earthquakes and explosions. Literally.

To this date, this troper has slept trough fire alarms, an earthquake, fireworks, thunderstorms and more. Has been able to sleep in the floor at the back of a bus where it was nothing but noise and bumps and most recently, decided to sleep a little before her self defense lesson and woke up hours latter, in the middle of a judo lesson she didn't even knew existed. Curiously enough, this troper can't sleep past seven, but won't wake up otherwise.

This troper has a friend who slept for 16 hours straight once... and has notably slept through a hurricane.

"I couldn't get to bed with all that thunder last night." "It rained?"

"Your sister was trying to get inside quietly last night, but ended up tripping on a shoe in the entryway." "She came home last night?"

(12:25) "All right, Math's done! Now for a nap before next period..." (1:05) "Uh, you might want to wake up and get to class."

"A transformer blew just down the street. Sounded like a bomb going off!" "So that's why the power's out?"

"He managed to fall asleep on the floor here?" "Yeah, I've caught him sleeping on floors, on couches, underneath couches, most of the chairs, the basement floor, in the car, on the car, on the lawn, in the bathtub.." "So then this isn't anything too strange?" "I'm awake, you know."

When this troper's father was in the Navy, he was stuck with the moniker "Sleepy" for sleeping through several RedAlerts. Luckily, he never saw actual combat.

Whenever this troper takes a nap, he usually wakes up hours later than he expected. Many times it takes long for the sleep to "kick in", but he sleeps like a log. And for waking up to school, his method is complex: first the alarm on his watch comes off, then a some time later either the alarm of his cellphone rings or his radio turns on (if not, he'll turn on the radio and listen to at least one song). And he keeps the blinds open, just to be sure. (not to mention his clothes next to his bed, on the computer's chair, so he changes while still sleeping)

Guilty as charged.

When this troper is tired enough, a zombie apocalypse couldn't wake her up. If I really have to get up for some reason, I tend to sleepwalk. I've let my cat out of my room, gotten dressed, and even answered my cell phone once (wrong number at 1AM; thought it was a dream until I checked the call log the next morning) all while being asleep. There were days when I was younger where I'd end up staying home from school because my mother couldn't wake me.

This troper can sleep through everything except alarms clocks. Her younger sister, who is very heavy, once fell on top of her and she didn't wake up. Her sister also once threw boiling hot water on her to try and wake her up and another time, one of her little cousins dropped a hammer on her head (how my cousin got the hammer in the first place is beyond me).

This Troper has slept until 2 in the Afternoon, and even the biggest, loudest alarm clock he could find has failed to wake him up. Said alarm clock has woken up his ''Neighbors.''

This troper used to be a fairly light sleeper, able to be woken up by noises outside or someone else beginning to snore. Cue her first year of college, living on a floor of very party-oriented girls with a roommate who snores loudly and can't fall asleep without having the television on loudly. Needless to say, she is now quite a heavy sleeper.

Averted with This troper, who is a very very light sleeper. I heard the Alarm clock of my dad through 2 closed doors, from the other side of the house! Amusingly my father slept right through the alarm of his clock.

This troper saw on Facebook one morning- #QUOTE# Friend 1: My puppy pretends to be scared of storms so she doesn't have to sleep in her cage. #QUOTE# Friend 2: Couldn't sleep well during that storm last night

I immediately commented: #QUOTE# Me: There was a storm?

This troper as a kid went to a very loud concert at a high school as part of a field trip. And slept through it. Don't ask me how.

There is a saying in ThisTroper's country about HeavySleepers sleeping like an oil. It's like 'sleeping like a log', only replaced by oil. Yeah. Anyway, I'm like that. So much so, that my mom insults by saying that I might get raped or molested by someone, and ''still'' sleep through the damn thing. Sure, I sleep waaayy ''too'' long on the weekends, and yeah, maybe I slept for a day or so a few times- not that I lacked sleep beforehand, but come on, I would wake up if ''that'' happened! ... I think.

This troper is capable of sleeping through anything from earthquake to having my fucking house re-roofed directly above me unless the source of the noise is physically in the room. Other than that I'm perfectly capable of sleeping a good eleven to twelve hours straight.

This troper both plays it straight and subverts it. She can sleep through storms, alarms, indoor waterfalls (long story) and heavy noise but is easily awakened with a well-placed poke.

A few years back the fire hall in This Troper's home town was burned down by a frustrated would be burglar (he couldn't get the safe open). The ambulance service was in the same building. The ten oxygen bottles in the ambulance bay exploded and went flying like missiles. One landed in the back yard not twenty feet from This Troper's bedroom window. He slept through the whole thing. He lives three doors down from the fire hall.

This Troper has a friend who is like this. She constantly falls asleep in class; I have to prod her once she starts snoring so she doesn't get caught. She falls asleep while doing homework, leading to it not getting done. She can hit the pillow and fall asleep five seconds later. I've seen her lay down on the floor and fall asleep five seconds later. Hell, I've seen her fall asleep while she was laying on top of the bed; her mother came in and told her to get up, which she did wordlessly, and then her mom pulled the covers back and told her to get to bed. She did. She remembered nothing in the morning- she was sleep-OBEYING. Also, she's not a morning person- she's a bear when you wake her up. She just likes her sleep a lot, haha.

I've slept through my alarm clock a number of times, usually resulting in the sound of the alarm entering my dream and me being unable to stop the noise until I wake up and turn the alarm off. I also sleep in class and on the bus a lot, but somehow I always wake up at the right time and avoid being late to next period or forgetting to get off the bus.

This troper has a VERY hard time getting to sleep, and an even harder time getting up. He has been known to get up at two in the morning, with lots of help from others, coherently respond to the question "Are you awake?" with "Yeah," (which is a sure sign something's wrong: he's not being a smartarse!) and subsequently collapse right back on to the bed and be asleep before he hit it. He has also been known to repeat this pattern, er, repeatedly. He also has a tendency to get out of bed in the morning, amble over to the couch, and plop right back down away from that $#!% alarm clock (which he has been known to turn off in his sleep, despite never sleep-anything-ing before).

When this troper's older brother had a party that went out of hand, the cops showed up and he had to wake up his father, but since he's such a heavy sleeper, two minutes of shouting wasn't enough and had to slap him to wake him up.

ThisTroper has not one, but two siblings who have both slept through: Gunfire down the block (drunk college kids, has only ever happened once), my dog going berserk (happens roughly once a week), and the smoke detectors going off (three times and counting). I have yet to test whether me yelling at the top of my lungs will do it, but given that my natural speaking voice is already the roughly equivalent volume of a jackhammer, I'd rather not risk it. That said, I'm no slouch either: I wake up to the Dropkick Murphys blasting through the loudest stereo in my house.

This troper, despite being born and raised in California, doesn't know what an earthquake feels like, because I've been somehow asleep for every single one. My roommate is a much heavier sleeper than me though: I had to wake her up when the fire alarm in our building was going off since she hadn't heard it at all, despite the fact that it's SUPER loud and obnoxious.

This troper's little brother can be descibed as this. In addition, he barely seems to breathe while sleeping, so she has been known to freak out and think he's dead, shaking him vigorously until at last, he will wake up. First, she gets relieved that he's okay; THEN she gets mad and goes off on him for scaring her like that.

This Troper has the unfortunate combination of insomnia and being a heavy sleeper. I can get by if I get to bed at around 10 pm - midnight (with a melatonin supplement), but any later? I'd be lucky if I can get up at around 10 am - Noon. Even if I have my alarm set to the buzzer or to the music at max volume.

This Troper once slept from 11:30 PM to 4:30 in the afternoon. He has not been able to replicate that feat since.

This troper slept through a bombing when she was 4. According to her brother, the shock wave threw her off her bed and she just kept sleeping.

This troper and his sister apparently slept through a pretty serious earthquake when he was 11 (she's a year and a quarter younger than me, so do the maths). I can't confirm whether this is completely true though, as I don't recall anything in the room having moved or fallen over. Otherwise, however, he is a subvertion (or something), as he frequently goes to sleep about 11PM and wakes up at about 6AM.

This troper sleeps around 10 hours on a good day, but is a ''really'' light sleeper. A pin dropped downstairs would wake me up. However, once I had Trans-Atlantic Jet-lag, I slept from 21:00 to ''15:00''. Needless to say he didn't sleep at all the next night...

This troper lives in Tucson, which is somewhat infamous in southern Arizona for its summer thunderstorms from nowhere that make impressive rolls of thunder and still somehow bring relatively little rain. I've been known to sleep through every single one of them, and I can even sleep through my wall clock chiming from almost literally two feet above my head; for reference, this wall clock can, quite possibly, wake a Snorlax. But I'm a subversion thanks to some training: my incredibly loud alarm clock and my cell phone ringing can wake me, as can being touched or hearing my first name called.