The Furnace Wakes Me Up

Lucky you, we live in an apartment where the landlord forgets we live here. It is like sitting outside as it is so cold in here. Oh how I wish warmth would wake me up as this way I know I was sleeping. LOL, I am usually unable to sleep because it is so cold in here. We will be moving sometime this spring/summer as it is truly ridiculous for us. Is there anyway you can place something nearby safely to prevent the heat from generating directly into your bedroom, maybe... Stay warm or should I say COOL.

I get hot around that time of morning, too. I solved it by shutting the floor vents (I have an old, old house) upstairs. The heat from downstairs makes its way up so it's not cold up there but if I open the registers it's too hot upstairs and not warm enough downstairs!

i have been waking up in the middle of the night too and i hate it! i already have fibromyalgia and now i am getting ready to head into menopause blah! do you sleep well in the summer?

It's not the heat for me. The duct work downstairs in my house pops when the heat turns off. That will wake me. If I get too warm, I wake up too. I do sleep better and don't wake when it's cooler.

Well, I don't have a heating vent in my room.. so that doesn't happen. I can sleep through the noise, I'm used to it. We keep a space heater in here, otherwise it gets really cold. Some nights it's so cold that I leave it on high.. and then I wake up feeling too hot. If I forget to turn it on before we go to sleep, I end up waking up too cold.

We're in a tropical country and as much as we want to have winter here, we just really have to go overseas to experience one. Here, we need ACs and coolers. However, if I were indeed in a much cooler place like yours and it's WINTER, I'd also be easily awakened by the heat. That's what always happens to me. So the easiest way to not feel it is to stay a bit away from it hehe.

i don't have a furnace in my house and never use one before... so i don't know much about it... i just feel sorry that your sleep has to be disturbed every day at 3.00 am because of the heat during winter... can't you do anything about the heat so that it won't be that hot at 3.00 am??? i know how annoying it can be to have to wake up from your sound sleep at such wee hour... take care and have a nice day...

Unless I am extremely tired or go to bed late I always wake up around 3 give or take an hour! It isn't any particular sound that I am aware of, I just wake up! Then when I go back to sleep, that is when I sleep my heaviest!

I would be bothered by it, and I am past menopause, had a hysterectomy. Believe me that the hot flashes and night sweats are worse than that. We do not have a working furnace upstairs. Like Dragon, we have heat from downstairs. I also have an electric mattress pad. I turn it on before bed, and turn it off when I get in. When I was in college the blowing heat bothered me. I put a book over the register as we could not shut it. That helped a lot. Having the heat drop helps you get to sleep and stay asleep better. I hope you can figure out what words for you.

My dad joked when he was here awhile back that is sounds like there is an alien spacecraft taking off in my house when my furnace kicks on. The blower motor is getting pretty loud sometimes and you can actually feel the floor in the living room vibrating when it is blowing. ( The furnace is directly below the living room.) That will sometimes wake me if I am on the verge of sleep, but the dry air from the vents is what gets me the most. It really dries out my eyes and sinuses.

OMG... I've been having the same problem lately. It is driving me up a wall. I don't know if it is the dryness of the heat or what but I keep getting up, lowering the heat even more (down to 64 last night) and keep turning our ceiling fan on... off... on... off all night! It doesn't seem to be bothering my husband as much as me though... of course. lol

You can buy little plastic thingies to re-direct the heat to a different direction. Maybe you need one of those.

Hi there, In India only winter sees people using furnace or room heater. What I feel dangerous about the use of furnace is that if there is not proper exhaust fan system it could have related health hazards. Besides keeping yourself away try to keep you woolen cloth away for in emergency you could easily get down. Waking at midnight depends on person. Some manages without and some have to get up and answer the nature;s call.

I am a light sleeper, but the furnace never bothers me. If anything I like it when it comes on as I know it will be a little warmer. I turn the heat down at night, so if I have to get up to go to the bathroom or anything, I try to do it when the furnace is on.

i get more annoyed when it comes on during the day. our thermostat seems to be overly sensitive,and i'm thinking of having it replaced with a programmable one.

What wakes me up is when the heat doesn't come on, it doesn't always work and I wake freezing, I can sleep through any noise if it's normal but not when I'm cold.

When we lived at the other house this was something that would drive me absolutely and completely insane. However, in our bedroom at our house now we actually don't have a vent in our room (it was originally a garage and was converted at some point without having a vent put in.) That means that I don't have the heat to drive me bonkers blowing over my body. The one thing that does wake me up occasionally is the cats. They will come in the bedroom and walk over me while I am sleeping and that is kind of irritating.