But I’m in a good mood today so I’m not going to be bitter about it.
It was about 30 minutes past midnight and I can feel myself slip into sleep, then I hear what sounds like a plastic bag land on the floor and it jolts me awake.
And then I don’t get to sleep for many hours and don’t have any real sleep at all last night.
It always seems to happen to me… I’ll be lucky enough to nod off and then some stupid insignificant sound will jolt me awake and that’s it I’m awake til mornining.
A garbage bag full of body parts? What sort of plastic bag kept you up all night?
Sailboat
It was a case of the nodding off simply not happening again. It was as if I missed the boat to the land of Nod.
The plastic bag made a sound for one second, but it was at the right time to jolt me awake, and I simply didn’t recieve another ‘nodding off’ all night. It was just tossing and turning.
Someone here clearly has limited experience with nightclubs.
It’s probably too quiet where you sleep, if you can hear a plastic bag, so create some whitenoise. Try getting a fan and put it on high (face it away so it doesn’t blow on you) or something else that makes constant noise. I sleep much better with it, in fact it’s hard to sleep without it now. Those airline catalogs (hammacher-schlemmer or something) sell a “sleep sound generator”.
That’s what I did to drown out a very loud snorer that moved into the aparment below mine. It’s been 7½ since I’ve been in that apartment and I’m still using a fan.
Or a mood CD. Soothing Ocean Sounds, or Summer Rain.
Yeah, I hate it when that happens. I have a basset hound who must shake her head everytime she moves, ears flapping at about 70db’s. Once, for three nights in a row, she timed it just as I was slipping off to sleep.
I banned her from the room for a week. 
Off to MPSIMS.
Sh! You’ll wake Lobsang with the racket! 
It hasn’t happened (knock on wood) in a while, but every now and then I would be lulling in that “almost asleep” mode, and a horrible “explosion” would happen in my head, as if someone hit me in the head with a baseball bat. Usually accompanied by “stars” as if getting hit as well. Scared the hell out of me a few times.
I had a look at their sleep sound generator… but while on the page my attention was drawn to the more up-to-date ambient sound generating thing they sell (I forget the name)
I couldn’t find any online UK stockists though. I’ll keep looking but if anyone here has any ideas how I can get hold of one in the UK (Well, Isle of Man, but is withink UK delivery jurisdiction)
P.s. I do have fans, which work surprisingly well as noise-maskers but on the occasion of the OP I wasn’t running the fans. And they use a lot of leccy.
Heh, this happens to me as well. I’ll be tired as hell, will drift off at night (in bed, TV on or off), but one particular sound/noise will wake me up, and then that lull-type sleepy feeling is totally gone.
Then after an hour or so I usually wander off to the couch to see if that works.
I’m the same way – or similar, anyway. I often have trouble sleeping specifically because the slightest noise just as I’m about to slip into slumber can yank me forcibly from that blissful state. I sleep with a fan going primarily for this reason; the white noise helps drown out many of those unexpected little noises and gives my brain something consistent and toneless to glom on to while I’m trying to get to sleep. More significant noises – a thump, a scamper of kitty feet, or yes, even a plastic bag rustling, will still pull me back from the edge, often with jarring force, but being that those are less frequent than the smaller noises like the house settling or brief noises outside or suchlike, it gives me better odds at actually falling asleep in one shot.
I’m usually able to get back to sleep after such a noise incident, but it usually takes me a lot longer to do so unless I’m really beat.