Have You Ever Fallen Asleep On TheToilet--And/Or In Any Other Strange Place?

Anderson, Indiana
January 16, 2009 4:30am CST
I've gone into the bathroom before to do my business--and it doesn't matter whether it's liquid business or solid business--during a time when I really should be going to bed but have been messing around doing other things instead. So, I'm seated there and finished with whatever business I'm doing, but a puzzle or magazine article catches my eye, so I do/read it. Of start to--but, then, get sleepy and close my eyes for a moment to rest them. The next thing I know, I'm coming close to falling off of the toilet! Has this ever happened to you? Have you fallen asleep in any other non-bed places? When this happens, do you ever dream or do you just nod off and wake up?
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25 responses
16 Jan 09
It is not uncommon for me to fall asleep on the sofa whilst watching some rubbish black and white movie. Not such a strange place, but it's not my bed. I hate it when I wake up with a krick in my neck. The bathroom floor is sometimes a good sleeping place. Especially after a night out when you need to be near the loo, but not actually on it (or in it) yet. The bathroom floor suddenly becomes very comfortable when the bedroom is spinning and your tummy feels queezy. :)
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• Anderson, Indiana
16 Jan 09
You probably sleep better at a time like this due to knowing that you're close to a place to drop everything should the need arise.
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@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
17 Jan 09
I have a bad habit of falling asleep in the bath tub, especially if I am sitting in there to relax and help relieve my aching back. I don't know how mant times my husband has walked into the bathroom to wake me up from my aqua-slumber.
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• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
Uncle Don (not to be mixed up with Uncle Donald. Uncle Donald was one of my mom's brothers who ended up succumbing to Bright's Disease 68 years ago this February 19, while Uncle Don, who passed away in December of 2002, was married to my mom's baby sister) was always bringing a book or magazine in with him to bathe and then drifting off to sleep. The rudest awakening he ever had was when this major thunderstorm was going on outside. Aunt Kate heard a huge boom that about made her jump out of her skin. She's blind, but she could smell this burning odor coming from the space heater in the living room. She figured out later that lightning must have struck their chimney. Uncle Don came awake in a hurry--but it wasn't the boom that brought him to so much as feeling this big shock all over his body. The lightning had not only struck the chimney but had sent a charge of electricity into Uncle Don's bathwater. Although he continued to enjoy sleeping in the bathtub, I believe that he was a little more mindful of the weather after that. Meanwhile, I had gone with my dad to a favorite swimming hole just northwest of Anderson called Ryan's lake. We hadn't been in the water for too long when I saw lightning in the distance. This took place either between my second and third grade year or else my third and fourth grade year, and we had taken health and safety class that year. I told my dad that it was time to get out of the lake because I saw lightning. He replied that this was off in the distance and that we still had time to enjoy ourselves swimming and would get out if or when the weather got closer. I argued back that my teacher had said that we were to leave a lake or swimming pool if we saw lightning because, if we could see it, it might strike us. He gave up and told me okay but reminded me that we were going to be missing out on a lot of good swimming and, likely, for nothing. We packed up our things and headed for the car. It was only minutes after we exited the Ryan's Lake property that a huge storm arrived with some of the widest and tallest sky-to-ground lightning bolts we'd ever seen! So, Daddy told me that I was right. When we heard about Uncle Don later, he told me that I was REALLY right!
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• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
We were all lucky that Uncle Don wasn't killed and we got to have him around for many more years. He was always a delight to have around--very sweet, caring, and funny. When I think about it, it doesn't seem as if my cousin, Denise, were born at this time, so that would mean that this took place between second and third grade (1961). And, seeing as how she wasn't even conceived until later that year, we wouldn't have had Denise, either.
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@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
17 Jan 09
Wow, he was lucky that he was not killed. A shock like that could have stopped his heart! Thanks for this story, I think I will be a bit more mindful, myself!
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@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
16 Jan 09
Hi AJ1952Chats! I am glad that you didn't fell off the toilet my friend! haha...I have one incident of falling asleep and that was when I was invited to dinner with the family of my husband before we got married. I was so exhausted that time because of my hectic business schedule and before I knew it, I dozed off while having dinner with the family. Yikes, twas so embarrassing. haha..My husband woke me up by kicking my feet under the table. haha... Take care and have a nice day! lovelots..faith210
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• Anderson, Indiana
16 Jan 09
That's funny! What your husband did reminds me of the joke about the man and his wife sitting in church and how the man kept dozing off, so the minister asked him a question, and his wife would stick him with her hat pin. The results were hilarious because the responses the guy made to getting stuck with the hatpin turned out to be fitting answers for what the minister was asking.
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@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
16 Jan 09
haha..That is hilarious!
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@kezabelle (2974)
16 Jan 09
I have fallen asleep on the toilet yes it was the middle of the night though I was pregnant and had gotten up for one of my many trips to the toilet and I just fell asleep! When I was working two jobs so working up to 10 hours every day 7 days a week I fell asleep on the bus on the way home once that was embarrassing I woke up just before my stop. My youngest daught though falls asleep in the silliest of places and usually very uncomfortable like the arm of the chair ok its wide but its solid flat with no padding she slept for over an hour when she did that!
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• Anderson, Indiana
16 Jan 09
Uncle Donald used to ride the interurban back to Greencastle each weekend where he would return to Cunot (village where his family's home was) and would return to Anderson on Sunday night in time to go back to work at Guide Lamp on Monday morning while staying with his cousin and her family. One time, he ended up going to sleep and riding the interurban clear up to Ft. Wayne (which was the end of the line), so he had to catch the next one back to Anderson in order to make it to work.
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• United States
16 Jan 09
Do you think you woke up because you sensed you were close to your stop? I know Japanese office workers are famous for being able to sleep on trains and yet still get off at the right stop, maybe its an instinct and other people can too?
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@rainmark (4302)
16 Jan 09
No that's never happened to me ever and i have no plan to sleep on the strange place im not yet drunk to do that lolz. But my sister she fell asleep inside the toilet coz she got drunk, i kept knocking the toilet door she still sleeping haha so i just guarded the toilet so that no one will going to use it. Happy posting
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• Anderson, Indiana
16 Jan 09
I wasn't even drunk, but I still did it! If I were drunk, I probably WOULD have ended up on the floor--and (in the spirit of being under the table) under the toilet (except that I wouldn't fit)!
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• United States
16 Jan 09
Awwww come on rainmark tell the truth you've never even done it once (not the drinking part the falling asleep in an weird place thing)I know one time I fell asleep in my bed and then woke up the next morning to everyone screaming my name cause they couldn't find me I WAS UNDER THE BED!Ha Ha Ha I have no idea how that happened.
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@nzalheart (2338)
• India
16 Jan 09
Well I have not personally experience such things. But I had written a job about such thing about few years ago which I remember and using in my blog. The joke goes like this. A guy was explaining his last night to his friend,"The sleeping I couldn't sleep yesterday till midnight. So I just woke up, went around and sat at a place for a while. Few moments later I saw a tiger coming towards me as if it was trying to eat me up. This annoyed me very much so I bravely stood up at once to get that tiger down but I found my both underwear and pants below my knees."
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• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
I've heard of having a tiger in your tank, but this is the first I've heard about having a tiger in your toilet room! It was probably just the cat coming in to use the litter box--or, if trained to do so, the toilet, itself!
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@nzalheart (2338)
• India
18 Jan 09
Well you didn't understand the joke I mentioned above. First of all this is a joke, and secondly about tiger in the toilet, you didn't understand. What I meant to make funny is that, the guy in toiled gets asleep and in the dream he sees a tiger lol....got it.
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
27 Feb 09
Never on the toilet but I have fallen asleep on the keyboard and on the phone. I can't count the number of times I've woke up with the keyboard buttons pressed into my forehead. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]
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• Anderson, Indiana
1 Mar 09
Ah yes!!! That sensation of forehead making contact with keyboard! I know it well!!! I felt like Wyle E. Coyote going in a tunnel after the roadrunner and making contact with a train!!! OUCH!!!
@jeanniemay (1798)
• Philippines
16 Jan 09
Wow! I have to be honest, haha, yes, I slept on my own comfort room when I got sooo drunk. I just figured out how I came home when I woke up. Sigh! It was a funny experience but I never drunk so hard after that incident.
• Anderson, Indiana
16 Jan 09
That's interesting how you just seemed to come home by instinct even when you were totally-drunk and half-asleep. I remember being at the drive-in theater when I was a kid and the next thing I knew sleeping in my own bed at home. No, I wasn't drunk! LOL
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@tjades (3591)
• Jamaica
17 Jan 09
Oh yes I have. Like you I have fallen asleep on the toilet seat. It has happened more than once when I was for one reason or the other sick and had to be visitig the bathroom several times. I ended up falling asleep and I was annoyed.
• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
I wasn't sick--just tired in the first place to the degree that I actually should have been in bed. So, here I am on the toilet, and feeling too tired to even get up. Then, I see a puzzle in a newspaper that I haven't yet worked or an article that I want to read. I work a little bit of the puzzle or read a paragraph or two of the article--and I'm too tired to go on, so I close my eyes for a second, and the next thing I know is that I'm coming too-close-for-comfort to tumbling from my throne to the floor!
@tjades (3591)
• Jamaica
17 Jan 09
Oh no... I did not mean that you got sick. I was sharing how I happened to fall asleep in the bathhroom.
@Margarit (3676)
• Philippines
16 Jan 09
I cant sleep anywhere, i am a person that cannot sleep if i am not comfortable. I can be awake for a week sleepless. I think it would not happen to me sleeping in strangest places. I can only close my eyes but not sleep. But i know that some can do things in strange way like they can sleep while standing or sitting position.
• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
I thought that the standing position was mainly reserved for horses--but, after almost falling asleep in a standing position a couple of times here lately (due to burning my candle at both ends and in the middle), I can see that it isn't. One difference, however...the horse continues to stand, but, had I gone completely asleep, I would end up in a heap on the floor with the likelihood of a few broken bones as well!
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@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
16 Jan 09
I work at a computer desk in a office. I was real tired one day doing my work. I kept wanting to lay my head down. Next thing i know i lean my head back so i am facing the ceiling and i dose off. Someone must of walked by my office because the noise startled me awake and i rushed back to work.
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• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
I believe that this is the position in which Mr. Dithers generally finds Dagwood right before he fires him--again!
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@UK_Shree (3603)
16 Jan 09
Well I have defnintely never fallen asleep on the toilet I imagine that it could be quite messy!! Never fallen asleep anywhere that strange, I often fall asleep on the train if I've had a hard day and missed my stop a couple of times. Other than that I have felt very sleepy when studying and often used to feel really heavy-headed when sitting in lectures - but then so did my friends!
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• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
Ask Dr. William Bishop about me! Freshman orientation weekend at what was then Indiana Central College (Now, University of Indianapolis or UINDY)... I had been up nearly all night being a total social butterfly at Krannert Hall (now Cravens Hall as the Krannert family name now graces our library), which is the freshman dorm (or was then, anyway). I spent some time sitting around a long table with other teacher wannabees while listening to a lecture from Dr. Bishop who was one of the department heads at the time. It wasn't because I found him to be boring that I ended up falling asleep. Quite the opposite. I found him inspiring. However, I also was starting to notice that my eyeballs were feeling as if somebody had rubbed them with sandpaper, so I closed them and put my head down on the table so that I could be more comfortable while listening to him. Next thing I knew, the person next to me was poking me on the arm. As it turned out, I'd not only ended up falling asleep, but I was also SNORING!!! Dr. Bishop teased me about that each time we ran into each other for at least the next week or so!
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@twinklee (894)
• India
17 Jan 09
[b][i]hahaha, very funny to hear my friend, i have fallen asleep many times when i was preparing for my semester exams in sitting posture, with book in my hand. And also while travelling in bus. Not experienced in other places. Thank God, you did not fall off... Take care, Happy mylotting [/i][/b]
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• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
Sometimes, I think we keep ourselves so busy that, given any kind of position that is even halfway restful, we might be inclined to nod off. One thing that I always do is not to ignore drowsiness while out driving around. If I feel the least bit drowsy, I pull off into a safe area and take a refreshing nap.
@twinklee (894)
• India
17 Jan 09
Ya , it is better to give priority to sleep when it is needed..
• United States
16 Jan 09
Sometimes if I'm really tired I'll drift off for a few seconds either in a class or on the bus. I don't really ever dream, but usually have an image of a scary face or something like that pop into my head, so I end up startled back awake after a couple seconds. At least until it happens again, since once I start nodding off like that it usually keeps happening.
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• Anderson, Indiana
16 Jan 09
That's usually how I do it, too. Either I feel myself falling and jerk awake in a hurry or else I have a mini dream that involves falling, and that will wake me up--at which point I jump like a cat!
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@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
17 Jan 09
My funny toilet story happens the first semester of grad school during finals. I, of course, was the typical overtired grad student. I needed to pee, so my personal assistant and I went to the bathroom to take care of that. As you know, standing requires some effort for me, as I am in a wheelchair. But I made it to the loo, sat down, and peed. I was so exhausted I feel asleep on the john and fell on my face. I was unharmed (two guy friends needed to invade the ladies room to pick me back up), but after that I decided to get some sleep instead of nonstop studying.
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• Anderson, Indiana
18 Jan 09
That must have been interesting! Since everybody that might have been in the restroom at the same time was probably expecting male visitors, I guess there were no hysterical shrieks when the two guys came in. Of course, if you were to make this into a sitcom for TV, there probably would be. Speaking of male invasions, we were riding a ferry between Bar Harbor, ME and Halifax, Nova Scotia back in 1974, and my mom had to use the restroom. From her stall, she could hear a manly voice that seemed to be close-by that was being responded to by two or three women in the other stalls. When she exited her stall to wash her hands, she--sure enough!--found this old guy in there just chattering away as if they had all been in some kind of social activity room or something. The little, old ladies soon finished their business, and they all walked out together still chattering away. Glad you didn't break your nose or something.
@AmbiePam (93882)
• United States
17 Jan 09
I fell asleep in the bathtub once when I was a teenager. I had come home from school, done some chores, and was going to take a bath because it was Wednesday and I always went to church on Wednesday nights. I seem to have fallen asleep, and only woke up because my sister starting banging on the bathroom door after an hour had gone by. I guess the warmth of the water lulled me to sleep.
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• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
Back when my legs still worked well enough to get me in and out of the bathtub, I would often take in some great reading material and one or more oversized towels and first relax in a nice, very warm tub of water. When it cooled down, I would let it out and fill the tub with new water. By the time it had cooled down again, I was starting to get a little sleepy, so I would let the water out, fill it up again with very warm water, and, this time, open the drain so that it would all drain out so that I wouldn't drown in my sleep. When the water level was low enough, I would cover myself with the towel(s) and would be ready to just drift off to sleep. Once I was awake, I would refill the tub and read for awhile while I was soaking. I might also have my latest poetry journal in there and be writing poems during this time. The important thing to remember was that, if starting to get sleepy, drain the tub.
@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
17 Jan 09
Dear friend, I had been fallen asleep while travelling and other strange place is my college days in the class. Sometime at office table if I had a late night sleep or did not have a good night sleep. Usually I do nod and wake up. While sleeping in travel I may just have dreams too.
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• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
I have the same kind of pattern. Around my neck of the woods, these mini-sleeps are known as catnaps. Sometimes, I dream. Sometimes, I don't. And there are even times when I'm awakened by this loud noise--and realize right away that I've been awakened by my own snoring! LOL
@rymebristol (1808)
• Philippines
17 Jan 09
yes i have fallen asleep in a bench once but not because i was way to sleepy to even go to my room and lie on my bed. i was drunk that time, way to drunk that the moment i feel my world is rotating over my head, there i saw a bench and walla fallen asleep in just a matter of seconds...
• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
I've never been drunk in my entire life! I wonder what would result from being drunk and just simply drowsy at the same time--perhaps, I'd melt or turn into a noodle!?!
@lellyp (245)
• Indonesia
17 Jan 09
Hehehe.. yes i have experience about sleep like that. When am still study at university i must study so hard, sometime until night. So sometime am not good enough time for sleep,one day am feel want pup at night but am feel sleepy too. But i think going to pup no need 1 hour, right? so i always can back to sleep. But i don't know how... am sleep on the toilet, am wake up cos my mother want use toilet when am check the time ohh my God am already sleep almost 1 hour. hehehe really silly every time am remember about that i always smile.
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• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jan 09
For sure! You might as well be as comfortable as possible when you go to bed, and there's no reason to ignore urges from your bladder and/or intestines because the urges aren't going to go away. However, if you go in there when you're half-asleep already, you just might end up nodding off there--especially, if you have reading material around and you get involved in looking at that.
• Philippines
19 Jan 09
uhmm i do not sleep at any other place than on our room. i think its kinda hard to sleep at any other places. eventhough i'm to sleepy, i still can't sleep at any other places.. .hhaahhha
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• Anderson, Indiana
19 Jan 09
I'm to the place where I can sleep just about anywhere. I did get a nice, long, stretched-out nap in today, so I'm not too sleepy at the moment--which is good because I have so much to do before rewarding myself with more sleep. The twilight zone is coming on in a little bit, so I'm going to be watching that--and will still have plenty of work to do after that. My sweetie is having some health issues at this time, so several of us who know and love him are up talking about him. I bet his ears are burning!