It probably depends on how you sleep, too. I'm rather missing the squeaking and rustling from my gerbils- one of the reasons I was rather wanting another rodent. I've had little rodents (mice, gerbils, hammies) in my room most of my life, so I'm pretty used to it. Chins are a lot bigger than gerbils/mice/hamsters, though, so I assume their noise level would be proportionately more.