Where's the weirdest place you have nodded off?

Trinity69 · 09/04/2024 00:51

Inside an MRI scanner.

Beingboredisgoodforyou · 09/04/2024 00:59

At work. Wasn't feeling very well so lay down in an empty office for 10 minutes. Woke up three hours later. It was dark and everyone had gone home.

TextureSeeker · 09/04/2024 01:05

I can barely sleep in my own bed. I have never just fallen asleep in public. When I had sepsis a few years ago I caught myself falling asleep in A&E and that was when I thought shit, this is serious, I'm really ill. I really wish I wasn't so neurotic about sleep, I can't even sleep when travelling long journeys. I admire people who can just close their eyes and sleep anywhere.

LyricalGangster · 09/04/2024 01:05

I once fell asleep on a plane before takeoff. Woke up after the plane landed. It was that really deep deep sleep, no dreams, no half waking up at any time.

It felt like i just closed my eyes for about 4 seconds. It was very disorientating to realise the entire flight was already done.

crumblingschools · 09/04/2024 01:10

Not me but sharing a bedroom with a work colleague after a work’s party, colleague was taking out her contact lenses and fell asleep standing up with her head on the mirror!

AtrociousCircumstance · 09/04/2024 01:10

Wow @LyricalGangster had you taken any sleep aids? That’s optimal!

babyhiding · 09/04/2024 01:11

At the dentist chair whilst having a root canal. Obviously I was high on pain relief and didn't feel a thing but nodded off and the dentist woke me up. I was working around the clock back then at a media job and was so tired and hadn't slept for more than 5 hours for days and needed urgent root canal when I managed to squeeze in between running around like a headless chicken at work and finally my body gave up during my appointment.

Beingboredisgoodforyou · 09/04/2024 01:11

Cinema. In my defence it was a midnight showing of the full 3hr version of Apocalypse Now.

shereebobbins · 09/04/2024 01:12

At a David Grey concert. I wouldn't mind but he was really good.

dirtyblond · 09/04/2024 01:12

Under a zebra

Topseyt123 · 09/04/2024 01:15

I do find myself starting to nod off on a long train journey. I think it is the rhythmic motion of the train and the fact that I can't get up and move around very much.

Northernsouloldies · 09/04/2024 01:17

Getting a haircut,it was that head going down nodding off.

pinkhorsesarentunicorns · 09/04/2024 01:31

I have CFS/ME. Its completely normal for me to fall 'asleep' anywhere and everywhere, at any time of the day. As long as I am comfortable.....

Conferences, cinemas, trains, buses, car journeys, at the beach with the kids are just a few of the places.

However my weirdest one pre-CFS was probably my bosses sofa. He (and the rest of the office tbf) had noticed my performance had dipped and I wasn't my usual self. So he called me in for a chat, popped out to get some water and by the time he was back I was spark out.

What no-one knew was that I was still living at home but things were far, far from OK. It was a domestic violence household and I was pretty much scared to sleep for various reasons.

Giggorata · 09/04/2024 01:39

dirtyblond · 09/04/2024 01:12

Under a zebra

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CulturalNomad · 09/04/2024 01:42

I had to do the 3 Hour glucose tolerance test when I was pregnant and I fell asleep on an exam table in between blood draws. Apparently I was snoring quite energetically as well😳

Eminybob · 09/04/2024 01:53

TextureSeeker · 09/04/2024 01:05

I can barely sleep in my own bed. I have never just fallen asleep in public. When I had sepsis a few years ago I caught myself falling asleep in A&E and that was when I thought shit, this is serious, I'm really ill. I really wish I wasn't so neurotic about sleep, I can't even sleep when travelling long journeys. I admire people who can just close their eyes and sleep anywhere.

This. (Apart from the sepsis bit)
Hence being awake now

dirtyblond · 09/04/2024 01:53

Giggorata · 09/04/2024 01:39

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It wandered into our camp. I wasn't in a tent, just on the ground under a mozzie net. I was absolutely frozen in terror as it ambled over to me, thinking it was a lion. But when I realised it was a zebra I was so relieved. I just lay watching it towering above me, and suddenly it was morning. I'd just nodded off. It had gone, but left hoof prints in my mat and had chewed my net.

Giggorata · 09/04/2024 02:05

Wowser!

CordeliaNaismithVorkosigan · 09/04/2024 02:09

Train up a mountain in Japan. DD is still winding me up about it - I came to and said ‘I’m not going to the shop unless there are tigers’. Presumably made sense in the context of whatever dream I was having!

echt · 09/04/2024 02:10

During a lesson. I was reading a play with students, all of us taking parts. I micro slept through one student's very short speech!

Also nodded off in an MRI.

Hariborocks · 09/04/2024 04:50

On a chairlift in china, we'd been travelling all day and I was just tired. I think I only napped a few minutes.

PuttingDownRoots · 09/04/2024 05:35

I got concussion when I was 20. I spent the following week nodding off randomly... lectures, TV etc.

But the strangest was... while bell ringing. And those bells are loud up close!

itoldyouyouwouldntlikeit · 09/04/2024 06:00

At Glastonbury, whilst stood up watching a band. .

VenetiaHallisWellPosh · 09/04/2024 06:01

In a club in Amsterdam in the late 90s.

Tbf, I had been travelling for days, then my friends invited me out. Big mistake! 😴

Usernamesarenoteasy · 09/04/2024 06:41

While being tattooed. I find it really relaxing, despite the pain!