Why is it that when you are sleeping and you hear a sound that wakes you up, it is so much louder than it really is?

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The other day I was sleeping and my room mate shut the door across the hall. Normally is isn’t that loud, but it sounded like a gun shot and it woke me up.

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Your ears work as a mic, setting the volume quieter if it’s loud (to avoid going deaf, this is done both in the brain and withing muscles in the ear), and vice versa when your surroundings are quiet, where you sleep. Also when you’re asleep the senses are a bit more sensitive, it’s animal remnants.

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