to think sleeping is something done at night, in bed?

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Take children and elderly people out of it, as well as anyone who is ill or working shifts/has a baby or disturbed sleep regularly for whatever reason, I mean normal, healthy, non-sleep-deprived adults.

AIBU to think that you sleep in bed, at night, and not just randomly wherever you happen to be? Or to think that it's quite frankly bad manners to go to sleep on someone's sofa during after dinner drinks, or halfway through a conversation?

My husband and his family (including non blood relations) claim they can't help it and every one of them just randomly sleeps - you look over and BANG, they've gone, and they all just work round it and treat it like it is some kind of joke. I give my mother in law a lift home and she snores all the way back and I have to wake her when we get there. She fell asleep on the grass at DD's school fete FIL sleeps in the chair the instant he is home from work and is good for nothing. DH sleeps on the train home and ends up in the next county. I've seen him sleep in the stands at a football match in full flow.

I just don't think it is normal to have half the people you're attempting to socialise with snoring at full volume, with no apologies made. Does anyone really live like this who can explain the logic to me? I have never slept anywhere but a bed in adulthood and find their lack of control alarming. AIBU?

I fall asleep if I am on public transport for longer than 20 mins at a time! Also have been known too if I have eaten too much (Christmas) or am in a dark or warm place (cinema).

Calling it a 'power nap' makes me feel like I am not as lazy

I can't help it but if I feel I am going to fall asleep I will drink a coffee to keep awake, I wouldn't do it in front of guests or friends. I take multi vits now and eat better and I am not as bad. I have also given myself a bed time!

DH is just the same, drives me insane. I'll be chatting to him or watching telly and then suddenly get no reply and he's asleep. It is really embarrassing when friends are round. He even does it in the daytime sometimes.

I often fall asleep in the car - not when I am driving I hasten to add!

It mostly happens if we have been for a longish walk.

I have always had this tendency ever since I was a child. I still think it sounds a bit bad-mannered to do this at someone else's house or in company though.

When I was 21-22 I went through a phase of finding myself falling asleep at odd moments, mostly in the evenings.

Looking back, I was probably just adjusting to working life from student life!

However, it does seem to have made a change to my sleeping patterns as I can now take naps, whereas before I was never a napper.

I also find cars, boats, trains and cinemas real danger zones!

You're the common denominator. Perhaps you're just really really boring?

Ha ha

YAprobablyBU

I think a lot of people are, to some extent, sleep deprived which will surely mean that they can quite easily, when the situation allows (i.e. they are warm, comfortable and among friends who will mostly not think it inappropriate) fall asleep? Think of it as being more that they are constantly in a state of needing sleep but will only actually do it when the factors that would inhibit them from falling asleep are removed.

You probably just have to accept it - assuming that there actually isn't anything medically wrong. You might even choose to view it as a compliment that they feel relaxed and comfortable around you that they are able to fall asleep. You could try, anyway.