Can you sleep while standing?

I can't sleep while standing simply because I will fall once I sleep! I don't know how others could possibly do that but I think it is better to sleep lying on a bed. I could probably sleep while standing but just for few minutes then after that I can no longer get back to my sleep once my head drops haha!

Well after reading this post I automatically thought that people with sleeping disorders probably could but it lead to me to look it up on the net and this is what I found.... The site says that people that do repetitive work while standing have often said something about falling asleep but its more of a temporary mental shutdown rather then sleep. It's virtually impossible for someone to sleep standing up for MANY hours without having some form of outside support. Humans cannot lock out their supportive joints long enough to get hours of un-interupted sleep. Cows and Horses however can lockout these supportive joints so that they can sleep the only difference in us and then is the anatomy. Sleep involves a general relaxation of the musclues like the ones that allow us to stand upright. If you could the non support of sleeping standing up would probably cause alot of pain in your back the following day. SO the website says that it is VIRTUALLY impossible but for some reason I am sure that there is someone out there that can do it. This world contains some amazing things!

No i can not its very hard for me to do it

[b]hi margarit! i don't think i can sleep in a standing position haha! that must be hard for me because i know that the muscles on my legs will lose its strength and end up hurting. all i can say is that person has a talent. hahaha! happy posting and happy mylotting![/b]

hi friend..i like to response to this nice discussion..i dont know to sleep like that..i mean in the standing position..but i sued to saw peopel sleep like that..even my mother knows to sleep..i think ..if we work hard..we can sleep like that..i am a lazy girl ..i am not working at all..so i dont have such a experiance in my life..i may get it after my marrage..surly i will come and inform you about my experiance in that..have a nice time in mylotting

why not..I many time just got slept when sitting.Sleeping is nothing but hobby for me,so I can sleep anytime in any position :)

no i can't. I may feel very tired but will not sleep standing. I am very alert as such

Well, I don't think a person can have a good sleep while standing. It is just when you are too sleepy and you are standing you can close your eyes but if you sleep like you are into another stage of sleep, like the REM I think that is very impossible to happen while you are standing.

I may feel sleepy while standing, but I coud not sleep with that position, even when sitting. I have known someone who really slept while standing. He was our choir instructor. While he was standing in front of us he closed his eyes and slept ( with mouth open ). We realized then, that he is sick.

I can't sleep while standing and even I feel uncomfortable to sleep when sitting somewhere. For me sleep is something which removes tiredness and tensions of office work so need a comfortable place to sleep. I have a neighbour who usually sleep when in front of his books and if his mother tell him to stand and read, then also he can easily sleep while standing. So it depends on people whether they are comfortable with the place and how much tired they are.

Yes, it is possible..i already experience this many times. in the Philippines where we have this so called "simbang gabi" which literally means "going to church early in the morning and attending the mass" and this is for 9 consecutive mornings(about 3am )and the mass is more than an hour. i am experiencing this during 7th or 8th day of the mass. it feels weird but i actually sleep standing for about 20 min.

That was hard. I haven't slept standing but it's very hard coz I might fall front head first. I slept while sitting on a chair but not yet while standing and I cant imagine myself doing it. Maybe I can if I'm having lack of sleep for a week or a month. But I prefer not to coz it can lead me to some accidents.

thats really hard,how can u sleep while standing how u sleep like standing,unless your vampire hehe.joke..for me impossible,but us all i know dififcult if u sleep standign so amazing.. maybe in the books is possible but for me im possible...

heheh... am never trying sleep like that. But i can sleep on chair, on my desk, on not confortable place. If am tired, place not confortable too can be confortable place for me to sleep.

It's not something I have ever done or ever will for that matter, but it's definitely possible! I have not seen people standing alone and asleep, but I have seen them many a time on public transport and the like snoring away while they are standing and leaning against a pole or the wall. I don't know how they do it! Some people can just sleep anywhere and in the strangest of positions too. I am not one of them.

Well, definitely I cannot sleep when I am standing. In fact I can hardly sleep if I am not very comfortable. Even when I am wearing a pair of jeans I cannot sleep well. I could sleep well if I am wearing a pajama and a lose shirt.

I think I have done it once while waiting on a bus stand. I could do it again Hope the situation never arises, but just in case...

I've fallen asleep while standing, but I don't stay asleep very long since I get jolted out of it by limbs or whatnots buckling under me. First two months after I had given birth, I would fall asleep anytime, anywhere, and in any position.

no way. am not a machine or animal. am a human being. so i cant sleep while standing

I've never felt so exhausted that I felt I needed to fall asleep standing up. I can't imagine you would be well rested though. I would think you'd end up losing balance at some point?