sleeping in public places/transport...

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i mean when you overcome with tiredness and sleep.

can you sleep in a crowded train?

are their other weird places when you fell (!) asleep?

― eriik, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to fall asleep on the subway all the time. Gentle rocking, gentle rocking. Not in a Phil Collins sense, either.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i slept on the train 2ice a day for 3 years. takes about a months to get it right - never missed my stop once.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I've passed out in doctors' waiting rooms, on the bus, in a library, in parks (sometimes benches, sometimes grass), on my feet while standing in line for various things, in my car in traffic, while spinning a piece on a pottery wheel in school, okay basically everywhere in school, all over the place. My mom is worried I'm becoming narcoleptic.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

a floor under construction in a ritzy hotel in san fran

beats the tenderloin at 4 am

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

you fell asleep standing up¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
wow - i've tried to so many times to do that, in various situation but could never pull it off. yer my new hero.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Falling asleep standing up is actually really not cool.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i sleep on trains all the time. but then again, it's while on my way somewhere -- so it isn't as if i sleep there b/c i have nowhere else to go.

the closest i came to having to do this was 8 years ago, when i pulled into paris gare du nord at 11PM and was told that there were almost no hotel rooms left anywhere for any price. luckily, i found a kinda scuzzy low-rent hotel some distance from the station.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Learned how to sleep standing up while at uni, since i could never get to bed.

Sleeping on the subway is a necessary art.

Slept in the airport during a 3 hour delay while waiting to go to CA years ago.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess it would be different if I ever intended to sleep standing up, instead of these surprise guerilla nap ambushes I keep getting hit with.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

that's kinda weird. i could see that sucking, nicka
when i was staying in montreal i used to have to sleep on the front lawn of mcgill as the apt i was suppost to be crashing at was waaayyy too hot & crampt for any sleep whatsoever.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

you were staying in the ghetto, natch?

i always wanted to fall asleep in the park on mont royal.

― peanut (peanut), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

On Monday I managed, in the space of 24 hours, to fall asleep on a bench at Gatwick, a bus between Gatwick and Heathrow , the departure lounge at Heathrow, the Heathrow-London shuttle, the Glasgow underground, and a bus between Glasgow and Renfrew. Therefore, I own this thread by a very long way (thank God for husbands who wake one up before one spends far too much time asleep in the wrong places)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

you beat me hands down, but i did something similar from blackpool to manchester to berry.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot that I fell asleep at my desk at work too, but that isn't exactly public.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone does that tho.

right¿

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh-huh, but mine was on my 24 hours of ruin on Monday, which is shit considering I had been sleeping at every possible opportunity en route to work from my holiday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i've twice woken up on planes and found that my head had lolled onto a stranger's shoulder. embarrassment, but at least i hadn't drooled.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I've fallen asleep on the Preston to Ormskirk train and woken up back in Preston.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I once had to spend the night in an airport in Long Island after I had missed my flight. I slept on the floor near baggage claim with my head on a backpack and my arm thrown across my eyes to block out light. They played awful 80s music on the inner-radio station all night. It was horrible.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

My wallet fits perfectly over my eyes like a mask for that- try it!

At school, I took my personal desk on an out of the way section of mezzanine where nobody went. Brought in barriers and blankets and made a nice little nest, napped there for an hour most every day.

Last time I went to Montreal I said "screw paying for a hotel" and slept on a riverbank. The bugs kept me awake all night- it was gross. "showered" in a gas station sink- actually I have a new found appreciation for sink showers, they can be very refreshing.

― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 23 October 2003 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I almost fell asleep at work once. My heavy eyelids were fluttering. I think the only thing stopping me was the guy opposite me (who has posted here a couple of times) saying "You look lovely when you're asleep, Mark."

I have thankfully never fallen asleep at a bus or rail station or airport - I think the ph34r of someone nicking my stuff is enough to keep me awake in such situations.

But as for transport, well...that part of the question could have been MADE for me. I always fall asleep on all forms of transport. It's a good thing I don't drive or ride a bike! Ships, planes, trains, buses. I only have to be on there for a few minutes and I'm out like a light! Which makes it quite handy for coming up to London for FAPs etc, as I can sleep on the bus on the way home. I'm generally woken up by the tannoy message when I get back to Oxford.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 23 October 2003 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a real problem sleeping in public places. Just too noisy, plus, I'm paranoid.

I did, however, get to the point where I could fall asleep in a tourvan, which takes some doing!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 23 October 2003 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i have slept on a plane & a bus. I hate falling asleep when you are on your own on public transport for fear of missing stops.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, actually, I can *sometimes* sleep on planes, if I'm tired enough. It's not like I'm going to miss my stop and hey, even if someone did try to pinch my stuff, we're sealed in a metal tube! Where they gonnna run to?

― kate (kate), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Well they can't run, but they can hide, do you see?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

and of course if you've got yr Samurai sword with you.....

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Never leave home without it!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm never going on an airplane again. (Well, what, apart from the fear of flying problem.) I'm having images of Pink chasing me down the aisles with a samuri sword screaming GIVE ME BACK MY DOUBLE CAPPUCINO, YOU BITCH!!!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had a wet dream in a public place.

No lie. My college's library had these wonderfully enormous couches that I'd read and and nap on practically every single day of my college life. And one time, I woke up and found myself spent.

There was only one other person in the room -- this weird, pretentious, socially-awkward blowhard most people I know disliked immensely. He left the room when right after I woke up, and said "hi" to me in this vaguely sinister way, leaving me to wonder if either a) he noticed me doing...uh, whatever I was doing when I was asleep, which in all likelihood was nothing at all except maybe moaning and probably not even that, or b)he caused the wet dream in some way. Yuck, yuck, YUCK.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

he blew hard?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking more along the lines of fondling EW EW EW EW EW!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's so funny coming home on the tube in the evenings, in the first carriage, most people in there are going all the way to walthamstow (end of the line), and you can only get out at one end of the seats, so about 50% of the carriage ends up dozing.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate, you have nothing to fear, unless of course you steal my in-flight magazine!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope I'm going to sleep tomorrow on the plane, but more importantly on Monday night, coming back. Last time I came back on an atlantic flight I slept so badly, and I was absolutely exhausted when we arrived at 6.25am. There wasn't even a good movie to distract me!

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh where are you going?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

New York

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahh cool, have a great time now wont you!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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