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To ask, where's the oddest place you've fallen asleep?

128 replies

Eeepsh · 09/02/2024 14:15

I just nodded off in an MRI scan - and they're noisy buggers! I am exhausted though.

I once, many years ago, fell asleep in a nightclub but there may have been cider involved that time!

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Cerealkiller4U · 09/02/2024 18:58

Eeepsh · 09/02/2024 14:15

I just nodded off in an MRI scan - and they're noisy buggers! I am exhausted though.

I once, many years ago, fell asleep in a nightclub but there may have been cider involved that time!

I used to work in the music industry. They were incredibly long hours where sometimes we’d be awake for 4 to 5 days. I once fell asleep, sat up on a beer tray thing.

I had been awake for four days at this point

Mrsjayy · 09/02/2024 19:04

seeotter · 09/02/2024 18:45

Cirque du Soleil in Vegas - I blame jet lag!

I saw CDS in Vegas it probably wasn't the jetlag 😀I've never watched anything so dull in my life what absolute garbage!

Wetweatherandmud · 09/02/2024 20:43

I went to a birthday party for a well know tv chef. I fell asleep on the bins outside the house. Copious champagne and no other booze.

AutumnBride · 09/02/2024 20:46

Giving blood, they don't like you doing that, I was just very tired.

AllCatsAreGreyRobert · 09/02/2024 21:12

On a roundabout in Rome. It was a very hot afternoon and it was a nice shady spot.

Gallowayan · 09/02/2024 21:28

Fell asleep during a job interview. Just nodded off briefly but it was obviously noticeable. I'd been on nights and the interviewer was extremely tedious.

relaxandenjoyed · 09/02/2024 21:32

My DH told me he had a nap in the toilet at work today. He just thought it would be better than nodding off at his desk.

Untethered · 09/02/2024 21:34

Not particularly odd but I have the dubious honour of having fallen asleep in every West End musical I’ve been dragged taken to. From Les Mis to The Lion King to The Book of Mormon, I’ve had a nap in all of them.

Quornflakegirl · 09/02/2024 21:38

I fell asleep sitting up on the kitchen floor at 2am warming bottle for my newborn twins. Dh came down to see what was taking me so long.

In hospital blood clinic on a chair waiting to have my bloods taken before surgery, again newborn twins are to blame here. A kind old woman gentle woke me while my name was repeatedly being called to have my bloods taken.

MotherofWomen · 09/02/2024 21:38

On the operating table having my placenta manually removed to a 90s RnB playlist 🤣

noooooooo · 09/02/2024 21:40

Toilet floor at work, mental shifts as a trainee solicitor. Corporate freebie stress balls placed under head, shoulder and hip were quite effective. Also fell asleep in court. Did a little snort and woke up 😳

lissie123 · 09/02/2024 21:44

A bench seat in an airport in Southern France. Can’t remember which one. But I Couldn’t afford a hotel to sleep anywhere overnight- literally had pennies left. Was woken by armed security. Charmed them and they left me to sleep til my flight ,which was early next morning.

MotherofWomen · 09/02/2024 21:44

In front of the Icelandic philharmonic orchestra

HRTQueen · 09/02/2024 21:46

At an Oasis concert at knebworth

in the end I was woken up as my friend was worried I would be jumped on

i can sleep anywhere it’s a great skill to have

12tog · 09/02/2024 21:53

On the floor in the Hacienda, 1990.

BigFatCat2024 · 09/02/2024 21:55

I also fell asleep in an MRI, I found the banging quite soothing 🤣

AllAboardTootToot · 09/02/2024 21:56

Standing up in the shower, head on tiles and I was gone!

I may have been rough 🙈

Nowayjose123 · 09/02/2024 21:56

On top of a snooker table, on my neighbours driveway, every single time I go to the cinema.

Greensleevevssnotnose · 09/02/2024 21:59

Boxing Day about a decade ago, front row Birmingham city Vs Chelsea it was freezing and I slept through the whole thing. Cinema regularly. My brother got locked in a pub on NYE in Dublin cos he fell asleep on the toilet and they didn't check properly before closing.

Andywarholswig · 09/02/2024 22:02

In the theatre in Seoul. I had an overnight flight and my lovely SILs dad took us to see something similar to Stomp, I kept coming too when there was a particularly vigorous bit of drumming and then dropping off again and I was trying so hard to stay awake

CantStandMeow · 09/02/2024 22:03

Standing up at a Foo Fighters show in Wembley stadium. Totally sober, just tired. Luckily DH spotted it and put his arm round me to hold me up before I fell!

Tiredforfive45 · 09/02/2024 22:10

In the dentist chair getting a filling. My twins were only 4 months old at the time and I was very sleep deprived.

I have fallen asleep at work twice too 🙈 (pretty shortly after returning from twin maternity leave).

Newyearoldhair · 09/02/2024 22:12

I nodded off whilst having my coil changed.
In my defence I had just come off a run of 6 nightshifts and had taken painkillers before the procedure as recommended.
I also found out, during an in patient sleep study to find sleep apnea, that my first stage of sleep can be extremely short so I go into deep sleep very quickly, the Dr described it as at the boundaries of normal. I also talk in my sleep and appear to be awake and recently realized that I was getting up and feeding the dog in my sleep.

plominoagain · 09/02/2024 22:14

On the last train out of Waterloo to Andover. Which is where me and a work colleague woke up . Such a pity we were supposed to get off at Woking .

JoanThursday · 09/02/2024 22:29

Thirty-odd years ago, I worked in an office in a basement. Where I sat, there were no windows, no daylight, and very hot and stuffy.

Other colleagues were on the road a lot and I was often on my own, often VERY bored, and often the eyelids would start to droop.

I must have dozed off once (briefly, I hope), and I woke with a start at the sound of the front door closing. To this day, I have no idea if it was someone coming in, going out, or whether I had been busted in my 40 winks.