Randomness alert!
Scientific experiments with lab rats and the like can study how certain sounds effect animals and how to train them to use those sounds as a cue, e.g. when rat hears bell it gets food and therefore it eventually associates the bell stimulus with food.
Aaaaaaaanyway my point. This morning, not for the first time, my housemate set the fire alarm off cooking at stupid hours. Ever since first year when fire drills were carried out, I have reacted to every single fire alarm in the same way:
I wake up, leap out of bed in a almost frantic fashion, find my dressing gown and get out the room. Normal behaviour you might say. This morning however I threw my covers off, leapt out of bed in the usual manner and when I'd come back from turning the alarm off on the ground floor I was actually shaking from the adrenaline rush. Again maybe normal behaviour (I don't know, reactions to fire alarms don't usually come up in conversation!). Might sound odd but I'm beginning to think my reaction to the sound of the fire alarm is my brain sort of "training" itself to that particular sound like the rat and the bell.
Obviously if someone sets it off in the middle of the day I don't suddenly jump up and find my dressing gown
This reaction only occurs if I've been
in a deep sleep (or semi-deep otherwise I wouldn't hear the alarm at all
). I don't react well to loud noises in general so am wondering if my body reacting to the fire alarm is actually me being scared of the noise? It's possible I react like I do because I desperately want to get downstairs and turn it off
Am I just reading too much into it? Does everyone else have this reaction? Am I just weird?....ok don't answer that, I know it already
