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Because the brain process sound in two different ways, it will block out sounds that are unimportant and allow you to react to sounds that are. Here's a link that I found while asking the same question;

This is the passage from www.sciencedaily.com:

Using electrodes implanted directly on the human cortex, a Johns Hopkins University undergraduate has located the part of the brain that appears to process sounds while people sleep. This site, in the frontal lobe, may be part of a vigilance system that, for instance, rouses a mother when her baby cries but lets the woman sleep when a truck rumbles by.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/04/980430044534.htm

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