I don't know how many people slept through fire alarms (low % but still quite a #...), but I devastatingly realized I was one around MID September 2008.
I don't know if anyone mentioned this in the thread you started about this awhile back, but waking and then not remembering waking is a distinct possibility. I once knew a young man who worked as a computer programmer and who would sometimes have to wake to answer support calls in the middle of the night. He would sometimes have entire conversations with no recollection the next day. This would happen without any supps or drugs at all.
If I really need the sleep when I sleep alone I will wake-up when the alarm goes, shut it down, and go back to sleep without remembering. After I finally wake up, I realise the alarm has been shut off and wonder why that did happen. This also happens if I check if the doors and windows are securely locked before going to sleep. 
Buying a new alarm clock didn't help either.
I don't take massive amounts supplements either, so it's quite normal I think.
btw sorry for h-jacking the OP, but i feel this could be an illuminating situation as i wouldn't want to sleep away seemingly forever. I don't think OP needs to worry about sedative effects, you wont die in ur sleep, though that's a nice way to go if you must go
You don't realize the res building I'm in and my habit. I'm a careful person in this case. I always lock room's door inside out and I place keys away. The door slams shut even if I don't have the habit of keep closing it because my room's messy , the mechanism of room door works that way which would leave me keyless, not to mention the fire-doors, stairwell doors, building door slams shut too, not to mention I'd have to climb down stairs etc, not to mention all the doors self-lock and I'd be trapped. I literally woke up in the exact same cloth, same position, ~100% positive and I know I've no sleepwalking history due to " 'partner' monitoring" /other monitoring device if you catch my drift.. knw what i mean? besides, I've had many roommates too and they're all light sleeping and say I never even snore, yeah i know I don't snore fact, i've monitored it, tho i know my parents are big snorers
Another quirky thing about me is that I have a strong sense of responsibility most of the time and have in fact never fallen asleep in class no matter how hard I try, and in the past, before my conditions totally hit me around Mid to Late September, my longest time staying awake was about 36-38 range, though it happened very occasionally but it's enough for me to know that in such a case, I'd still be unable to fall asleep in class despite sitting in the back rows in a corner with the professor talking distantly in front of a lecture hall. if sleep, then it's ~seconds of microsleep very occassionally and I'm sensitive of these thigns
Something changed. I don't know if it's a physical thing or mental or both , but now I'm starting to feel the effects, especially clearly delineated since mid to late september and I could easily fall asleep and not waking up for up to 20 hrs easily.
I've talked to people bi biorhythm , circadian rhythm dept etc and a student said he could sleep for 36 hours straight, then seemingly be awake for a long time (didnt tell me how long despite I pressed him), and then sleep another weekend away. I thought this was ludicrous and he's a circadian student, but it really happens.
I never take sedatives , not even alcohol, if any supp, I only take the stimulating category but something happened along the way. I don't feel like in clinical depression even though the gloomy overcast weather puts me in SAD sit., but I guess that happens to most.
Edited by HYP86, 19 December 2008 - 11:18 PM.
