You also don’t want to wear clothes that make noise. DO NOT wear anything that has buttons or anything that jangles around. Also, don’t bring your keys with you! If you must bring your keys with you, remove all extras and wrap remaining keys in a cloth and separate them.
Walk as close to the edge of each wall for creaking floors or stairs. Worn floor boards generally have more support near walls.
When moving through leaves, or trying to remain absolutely silent, keep your weight on your back foot, extend your leading foot, and to set it down and slowly shift forward, absorbing the movement in your knees and ankles. You should only have the ball of your foot, which will work as a cushion, make contact with the ground during this type of movement. If you’re maneuvering in an environment that provides “Noise Cover”[2] X Research source or if there is a medium risk of being heard, lower your heel to the ground to touch when switching weight to the lead foot. To stay silent indoors, breathe and walk to the rhythm of the room clock. If someone is asleep, they are used to the sound of the clock, and thus it will help obscure your footfalls. Use the flat foot when walking across gravel or across anything in which many small objects can be disturbed and make noise. Absorb the step as you normally would, but you let your entire foot make contact with the gravel at the same time to let the weight distribute evenly. Slow to very slow movement should be used.
Standing in the darkness behind a light source (like a fire or floodlight) is a good way to hide, because the person’s eyes will be adjusted to see the light, but not the darkness behind it. The eye is extra sensitive at nighttime, so make sure that when you move around in the dark, don’t make sudden or abrupt movements.
Always act as if someone is actively looking for you, even if they aren’t. This will subconsciously force you to be more careful.
If you are wearing camouflage or a dark colour, this will help conceal you in the darkness. Just slip into a shadow and breathe softly. Once they come in audible range of you, movement should not continue, and you must maintain absolute stillness. If you are within arm’s reach of the person walking towards you, freeze. If you aren’t perfectly hidden, holding still will normally take care of the dilemma, but if you can manage, curl up into a ball and try to cover your shoulder features and your head; this will hide the human outline.
Monitor a sleeping person’s breathing: Regular breathing means that the person is awake or is nearly awake! Shallow breathing means that person is lightly sleeping but you should still be careful! Snoring means deeper sleep but you should still take precautions. Distract them if you need to get past. For example, if someone is looking a way you don’t want them to, then roll or throw a small object (like a coin) to create a noise in another area and make your move. Don’t use a distraction if they are suspecting somebody is near. If you are getting something from a container right by someone, take the container as far away from them as possible, open it slowly, and take what you need carefully. If it snaps shut, close it under a blanket or pillow, then return it to its original location. When sneaking up on someone, try to match your steps with theirs and avoid breathing heavily. Also, if your target is talking with a friend next to them, be sure to be on the opposite side, for the target might look at the friend and see you. For example, if your target is on the left and friend on the right, stay slightly to the left.
If you hear someone coming and you are caught and inside the house, make a sleepy face and yawn then say, “I just came out to get a glass of water. " This usually works, but don’t do it a lot because people will get suspicious. If you’re sneaking into a friends room and you accidentally go in through the wrong window and end up in their dad/mom’s room (or worse get the wrong house) have a code name ready for you and your friend. For example if you get the wrong house and the owner wakes up or moves like they woke up you can shout: “Crap, Mitch! This isn’t Fred’s house!” And bolt. This way the owners think that you were trying to prank a friend and don’t know your identity. Do the same thing for the wrong room.
