Hi,
I just fell asleep in class with the camera off and when the professor called my name to make sure my group was ready to present I immediately woke up to say that I was in the lecture and almost had a heart attack because missing this specific lecture is an automatic fail. I wanted to ask anyone as to why we wake up if someone calls our name even when we’ve been asleep for 10+ minutes, but don’t wake up when hearing other people’s names or the lecture content.
In: Biology
You can get to the point, if you really work on it, where you can train your brain to listen for specific sounds or words.
I used to be a firefighter and worked at a larger house with 3 trucks and 3 crews. We would rotate every shift, randomly, between which assignment we would get and which truck we were on. Different every day. But when we went to sleep, after a while, I’d only wake up in the middle of the night if my specific truck I was on that shift was called out. Some nights your truck goes a dozen times a night and sometimes not at all. I’d sleep super hard through the calls that didn’t involve the truck I was assigned to that day.
However, now as an ex firefighter, I’ll wake up and run out of my room in the middle of the night if I hear anything that resembled our tones back in the day.
Pretty wild stuff and not too dissimilar to what you’re talking about. The amygdala is a power thing and you can basically train it.
When I’m sleeping sometimes I hear my mom quickly say my name like she’s in the room but she passed away 8 years ago. It always brings me out of a deep sleep.
Its a psychological trigger. By telling from when you are a baby a word that refers to them, they associate it into their mind.
I’m 21, and for 21 years I have been called Gaybriel. For 21 years or so, when I heard gaybriel i knew it referred to me. For 21 years it is engraved in my mind to respond to that name.
Also when you are asleep, your unconscious is still “awake”, it is a heritage from when we were predated by animals. If we sensed danger, we had to wake up to escape it.
So when someone says your name while sleeping, your unconscious lights everything in your brain and tells you something requires specifically you.
Oh haha TIL I guess. I’ll use people’s names from now on instead of yelling ‘WAKE UP!’ and shaking them.
Probably the same reason I sleep better with the TV on or other ambient noise but still wake up to an “abnormal” sound.
Better yet, why do we wake up exactly on our bus stop?
I didn’t use my nickname in Uni. So, when a guy called me by that, I recognized that someone calling me after 3-4 times. Prolly people use their name as some kind of trigger word.
Is it possible to learn this power? I sleep through everything
In the brain it’s called RAS reticular activating system. The brain never rests or goes off it’s a goddamn supercomputer Nonetheless, the RAS It is the running monitor of what’s going on while the body rests. When awake we are aware of our surroundings and dangers but when the body is “off” and the supercomputer is storing information and opening space for new information something has to keep getting the job done. It’s why we don’t roll off the bed our entire life or what alerts you if a lion was in your room. The security camera is always on and information is always under review
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