What is the strangest or most embarrassing time you have ever fallen asleep?

[Throd]

I actually fell asleep riding a bicycle.

I was 15 and had just finished my Sunday morning paper route in the 'burbs. I was peddling my trusty beach cruiser home and was looking forward to going back to bed for a little more sleep. As the bike required minimal effort to peddle on a flat surface, my eyelids starting getting really heavy and I began nodding off. Next thing I know I'm skidding across the asphalt with my legs all wrapped up in the frame. Fortunately my shoulder was the first thing to hit the ground instead of my face.

The only thing that saved my dignity is that nobody was up at 5:30 to witness my splendor.

[Arctic Dave]

1. Women have fell asleep while having sex with me.

The only thing that saved my dignity is that nobody was at the movies to witness my splendor.

[MilesColtrane]

2. In class, at work (on a gig and at a day job), in the bathroom, etc...

Piano players often tell me that long solo piano gigs are especially ripe for just drifting off in the middle of a tune.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Flying an airplane.

Falling asleep while flying is not a good idea - you won't crash immediately, but you will eventually when you run out of fuel. I was flying a small airplane late at night, nobody else was with me, and I kept (very briefly) nodding off. Older airplanes have a navigation instrument called an ADF that picks up AM radio signals, so I finally managed to stay awake by listening to loud music.

[av8rdave]

8. Late nite/early morning in a cockpit is a recipe for that

It took me a long time to learn to plan sleep and use strategies to stay alert. Tomorrow night will be all night to Manchester, UK. It does take some planning sleep-wise.

[CTyankee]

4. I have fallen asleep at the computer (while sitting up, not falling over the keyboard).

that was strange...

[seabeyond]

5. never... lol. all conditions have to be perfect for me to fall asleep.

bed, no lights, no noise and work to get to sleep. i have never been able to just "fall asleep". hubby on other hand, can be asleep in seconds.

[Brickbat]

6. Once during an intimate moment, and once during a show at First Ave. in Minneapolis.

[av8rdave]

7. Driving eastbound on Interstate 70 in mid Kansas back in the 70's

Woke up skidding sideways across the wet grass in the median, still doing around 70. Thankfully there was nothing to hit and nothing to cause a rollover. I have since been very good about stopping when I feel sleepy.

[Lionel Mandrake]

18. I once fell asleep on a freeway.

Fortunately, it only lasted a short time. When I awoke, I got really scared thinking what could have happened. Never did it again.

[frogmarch]

9. In a fossil pit

while working on mammoth bones. It was fumes from the preservative that did it.

[krispos42]

11. Winner! n/t

[frogmarch]

12. Well, I don't know if

a chemically induced sleep really counts.

[rurallib]

10. taking the kids to movies

after long and arduous workweeks.
Slept through "E.T." twice and "Roger Rabbit" twice.

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. Ten mins into the concert at the only Dead show I've ever been to,

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Munich Olympic Stadium -- indoor bicycle track -- wrong drugs (red wiine & hash).
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I DID meet Jerry one-on-one (clueless as to who he was) at a bratwurst stand minutes before the show.
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What a long strange nap that was.
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[femmocrat]

14. I can fall asleep just about anywhere.

When I was just out of high school, I was a rec. leader and fell asleep in a corner of the playground. I have fallen asleep in the hospital emergency room (long wait). My parents used to have to wake me up when I fell asleep in the bathroom, getting ready to go to school.

I have slept through classes, movies, and dates. I always fall asleep in the car or on a plane. I stay up too late and figure I can catch a nap. Unfortunately, I sometimes nap at inopportune times!

[KamaAina]

15. During the third intermission of Game 2 of this year's Stanley Cup finals.

The OT lasted all of 11 seconds, so I woke up to some female talking head instead.

What the hell. The Canuckleheads won that game anyway, AND ended up losing the series!

[HopeHoops]

16. In geography class shortly after I moved to a new school half-way through 8th grade.

I was wiped out from moving and the only seat available was a chair pushed up against a table in the back corner. Everyone else was in those one-piece chair/desk things. He put on a film about Turkey. The clackety-clack of the projector, mostly silent film, and boring as hell narrator did me in. I had rocked the chair back and put my feet up on the edge of the desk and passed out.

When I came out of it, the lights were on, the movie was over, and ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE in the room was looking at me. Just as I blinked awake, they exploded in laughter. What a WONDERFUL way to start off at a new school - this was my first day there.

[Patiod]

17. At an meeting at AT&T, at several concerts, at my desk, on the El

For some reason, in my 20s, I could sleep anywhere and often did - on any type of transportation, and no matter what the noise level.

At the AT&T meeting, fortunately my boss saw what happened and kicked me (I don't think I was the only one asleep).
I've slept through an entire Pat Methany concert, and the end of an English Beat show. I used to crawl under my desk and nap - fortunately, the front went all the way to the floor, and I had my own office where the desk faced the door.

This stopped after my 20s. Probably because I stopped staying out until 2 on nights when I had to work the next day....

[stuntcat]

19. in class

I used to sleep in some of my classes :( :(((( because I stayed awake all night.

But now I have melatonin! I'll always wish I'd had it when I was a kid.

Ahh, just another neurotic life down the drain.....

(edit: this is not strange though! just embarrassing/dumb)

[bluedigger]

20. I was a PFC training at Ft. Campbell, KY.

Back in '83. I had been up all night on a field exercise, and hadn't slept in a day and a half. My squad sergeant and "the lt" told me to catch some z's in the back of the Gamma Goat. Middle of the day in the summer. I suddenly awoke to see a Brigadier General standing over me. :wow: :wtf:It was my first General!:rofl:

He was cool - he just came out to "check on the men".:eyes:



The next day "the lt" decided to use an outhouse at an old fire tower. About 30 seconds later, the door flew open, and he came tearing out of there with his pants around his ankles and a bunch of pissed off wasps! :rofl:



Twofer Tuesday!:hi:

[applegrove]

21. DUI. I passed out at the wheel. I know, I know. I'm more than an asshole.

[Broken_Hero]

22. Okay

it wasn't the most embarrassing really, at the time, but I didn't know folks were taking pictures of me. During a band trip my junior year of high school, I feel asleep on one of the ferry chairs, and unknown to me people took a lot of pictures of me. Now, fast forward to the end of the school year when yearbooks are being handed out...and Lo and damn me forever behold, there is a picture of me, mouth wide open, snoring/sleeping on the ferry chair....that was embarrassing to have that picture there forever, that no one will ever forget.