ð     An operational lawn mower (and not the super-quiet luxury kind, either)

ð     An industrial vacuum cleaner (the kind that picks up nails and glass!)

ð     A running motorcycle (these things have no muffler, really, and you can hear them from blocks away!)

ð     A passing jet (the kind that wakes up babies, scares cats, and sets off car alarms)

ð     An operational chain saw (hopefully you haven’t actually slept while one of these things are operating…unless you were a horror movie actor)

ð     A blender, food processor, or hair dryer (not one; all three at once!)

 And remember, please: we aren’t talking simply hearing these sounds and then having them fade, such as what we’re used to when we hear a passing jet (i.e. we only have to hear it for a minute or so, and then it’s gone). 

Imagine, if you can, listening to these sounds all night long; and then you’ll have a very real and non-exaggerated sense of what a non-snorer withstands, or tries to withstand, on a nightly basis when attempting to co-exist with a full-time snorer.

So in a nutshell: if your exposure to the world of snoring is simply and innocently depicting some happy Z’s floating up from a peacefully sleeping person, possibly beside another peacefully sleeping non-snoring person, then it’s time to update the records: it’s not a laughing, innocent matter at all.  For both the snorer and the non-snorer(s), snoring is an extremely serious matter.