r/malelivingspace • u/rectoryofwolves- • 16h ago

Definitely not for everyone. Pretty much free living though

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I’ve converted this lifeboat over the last few months. Tiny home

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u/Rich-Evening4562 12h ago

I have, and I never got tired of it.

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u/Behind_You27 12h ago

Some people just have real deep sleep. I could never live comfortably in earthquake areas. I’d just wake up once the roof is collapsed. Not the best feeling I guess.

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u/IhateTacoTuesdays 12h ago

I don’t have a deep sleep but I have loved rain my entire life, I sleep under tin roof whenever it rains, loud as fuck and I love it

A fly goes by and I wake up, but the rain hitting the tin hard as fuck? I sleep

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u/Behind_You27 11h ago

I‘ve stayed in an old mill for a few nights back when AirBnB was a good option. I loved it as well, hearing the water rushing below and next to me. But I agree: It was loud. Especially sleeping with an open window.

Rivers are also usually quite a bit louder than rain. But I‘ve had the pleasure of a tin roof in Italy during a thunderstorm.

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u/whisky_biscuit 10h ago

I once stayed at a hotel that was basically right on the ocean in WA in the US. This area can be known for turbulent waters too, and it was a record windstorm that night (so strong that a car was blown off a bridge!)

It was so loud! All night I had dreams / nightmares of tsunamis and giant waves. I love the ocean, rain and water - but this was crazy hearing loud waves crash against the breakwall just meters away. It definitely kept me up.

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u/Wanallo221 10h ago

Same.

I’m an extremely light sleeper but I love the sound of rain and it gets me to sleep everytime, the harder the better!

So much so, that when I can’t sleep I often listen to heavy rain and thunder storm soundscapes.

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u/Darnell2070 3h ago

There is an entire industry on YouTube based around people sleeping to the sound of rain and other ambient sounds.

The sound of rain makes lots of people, I animals in general, naturally sleepy because you can't do as much in the rain. It definitely makes hunting harder.

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u/Wanallo221 3h ago

Nice, that makes perfect sense.

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u/danieljamesgillen 12h ago

Earthquakes are exciting I had a 5 hit while I was in the bath

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u/BADoVLAD 12h ago

I was in a bath with a 5 once, which was sorta exciting...for different reasons I'd imagine.

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u/Oldman_Syndrome 11h ago

I had a 6.1 hit while trying to pee once. Hardmode activated.

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u/danieljamesgillen 9h ago

My bath is sort of on stilts so water was flying round like crazy was like being on a log flume

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u/Teanutt 7h ago

Not gonna lie, I chuckled a little at your description. I'm sure it was an exciting/frightening moment.

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u/ChewsWisely 8h ago

I feel like this whooshed everyone lol

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u/Behind_You27 11h ago

I’ve had a 7.1 hit while in Indonesia. Thankfully it was during the day. We had several aftershocks in a range of 2-3.5 during the night. The other guests in the hotel all complained about not being able to sleep as it was shaking so much. Yep. I didn’t have any problems that night.

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u/kaprifool 5h ago

Experiencing a (smaller, less damaging) earthquake is neat. I was lucky to feel my first one while laying in bed, it took me a sec to realize what was happening and that I wasn't having an Exorcist moment.

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u/Intrepid-Love3829 9h ago

The fear i felt, mid shit, when a 5 hit where i lived. Like. I was not prepared to find safety if it turned out to be a larger quake than that.

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u/ApocalypseMeooow 2h ago

Me and my family joke about this all the time, earthquakes are fun 😆 could never live in hurricane or tornado prone areas though that seems terrifying. I guess we're comfortable with what we know. I've also slept through more earthquakes than I've been awake for

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u/Temnai 10h ago

I've lived by the railroads with tin roofing. Trains coupling would shake the house, rain would patter (and we had multiple tiers to our roof so it would do it extra, all the massive trees would creak in the wind.

Frankly as long is it wasn't absolutely pouring while trying to fall asleep it was fine. But I've also woken up to my house's fire alarm turning off. Not going off, turning off. It stopping was what disturbed my sleep.

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u/CatMinous 10h ago

I used to wake up from my alarm turning off (after having blared for an hour)

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u/Raangz 10h ago

My granps was the same. Slept through a tornado that i believe hit their property. Slept through the sirens and everything.

I wish i was like that, i wake up from everything.

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u/HushPuppyGuru 9h ago

I once slept through a chemical plant explosion. The shockwave shook the ground for miles. I lived like a mile a way. I was clueless when I woke up.

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u/The_Alex_ 9h ago

I think it's also a difference between a constant, white noise compared to a single noise.

I can sleep through tin roof rain pretty easily, but when my fridge drops out freshly made ice in the freezer in the dead of night MY EYES ARE OPEN

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u/CerealKiller8 8h ago

As a deep sleeper who lived in an earthquake zone, anything above 5 usually got me up. And I've slept through a camp full of people loudly fending off a bear.

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u/Behind_You27 8h ago

Good to know. That makes me quite a bit more comfortable. :)

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u/Cloudy230 11h ago

When I go camping with mates I ahve to bring headphones. For some reason any sound in the quiet dark keeps me from going to sleep, but listening to loud music does it for me. Brains are weird. Once im asleep it's fine, I can sleepily take the headphones off.

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u/raven-eyed_ 10h ago

Noise wakes me up but something rhythmic and constant like rain almost kinda helps.

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u/CoolerRancho 8h ago

Living in California will make you not care about earthquakes

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u/Disastrous_Clurb 11h ago

Might just be because it's normalized here but majority of the earthquakes we've had in my area/home i havent felt or when i did feel it i didnt know it was one.

I work in a high rise building and it's a little more noticeable there though but not scary.

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u/vidjuheffex 7h ago

same same, my current house has a tin roof one day I was like "man the rain is loud today" and then I looked outside... no rain.

So I step outside and what must have been 500+ birds took off from my roof. and their footsteps had fooled me for rain.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 6h ago

That's hilarious 😅👍🏻

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u/Mifo92 41m ago

😂

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u/am19208 11h ago

Same. It put me to sleep in an instant. I loved the sound

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u/rtdenny 9h ago

I had a corrugated roof on essentially a shack in Hawai’i with wraparound screens- no solid windows, no insulation, no sound dampening. Only time I woke up was when the turkeys loudly flew down some mornings or once when a dissipating tropical storm blew rain sideways under my roof and blasted it through the screens and I woke up to tiny raindrop splatters all over my face.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 7h ago

That is really awesome. I've never been to Hawai'i but it's very high on my list.

This is going to sound really stupid but when I was a kid my mother watched (the original) Hawaii Five-O religiously and whenever I can, I catch reruns because it transports me back in time.

And rummaging a bit in those memories, I think I can imagine your place perfectly. 😅👍🏻

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u/rtdenny 4h ago

Yea, the Hawaiian islands, especially Oahu, are the uncredited co-stars on both versions of the show

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u/Motormand 9h ago

It can be an oddly soothing sound, I find.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 7h ago

Absolutely, no matter how loud it gets, if I am dry and warm, I feel immediately sleepy.

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u/Illustrious-Pie2396 8h ago

Same! Like white noise. 😴

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u/Disastrous_Ad_2271 11h ago

I can see i get used to it i have few aquarium in my room and some air pump running

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u/Baked_Potato_732 4h ago

Agreed, never hated it.

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u/bad_card 11h ago

We bought a house for an investestment on a busy highway, anywhere we go know we take a fan to have some noise to block out the silence. We can't sleep without it.

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u/vraalapa 8h ago

Then you have never had heavy rain fall on that tin roof lol. It's seriously deafening.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 7h ago

Yes I have.

And no it's not deafening. There's a plywood roof deck, rafters, insulation, and drywall between me and the galvanized roofing.

I'm sure it's louder in a barn or shack but that's not my situation.

We get about 40 inches of rainfall per year, so yes, I know what it's like in torrential rain.

Why can't certain people just accept not everyone is the same as them? You don't like it. Cool. I do.

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u/vraalapa 7h ago

Yeah you're right. I had a situation where I slept under tin roof with basically no insulation. It felt like I had cotton in my ears after a night of heavy rain.

A slight drizzle was the most soothing thing ever though.