I was so tired that I fell asleep...

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Thought this might be amusing especially from some of the folks that served.

In college I needed to be home one Sat morning, but wanted the spend Fri nite with the girlfriend. It’s only a 3 hour drive so hung out until midnight and then hit the road. In a small town in northern IN I stopped at the only light in town, there was no other traffic, and I promptly fell asleep. Officer woke me up, said he’d been watching me for 5 or 6 light cycles, determined that I wasn’t drunk, and let me go on.

Incident yesterday is really why I started this thread. Came home after work, made a cup of coffee and sat down to chat with the wife. Exchanged a few words, took a slug of coffee and fell sound asleep. Woke up to a barely warm cup of coffee still in my hand, and a mouthful of coffee. Let me tell you, waking up with a drink in your mouth is disorienting! Apparently I dozed off before swallowing. Wife was amused, said that it kept me from snoring.

So, where have you spontaneously napped?
 
Running training drills on securing an ammo depot/QRF from remote location. Was a 45 min ride. Not sure how many days we had been running, better part of a week. We get the call and SP about 2AM. There I were, on a bench in the back of a humvee bouncing along. Full battle rattle and Kpot. Felt fine, didn’t think I was sleepy. BOOM, my chin slams into my chest and I pop right back up. My mind starts freaking out. BOOM, it happens again but this time I can’t open my eyes or pick my head up. It felt like an eternity, but I’m sure was only a couple seconds, that I fought an intense battle to get it together. I knew the pain in my neck would be epic with that Kpot hanging of my dome. Some one woke me up when we got there. My neck hurt like a SOB.

Drove a Bradley for a while, fell asleep on the gunnery range, paid for that one too. I was driving for the platoon Sargent.

Pulling security on a relay station in Diyala, fell asleep on the TOW box and rolled off, on to the reactive armor bolted to the hull, and on to the ground. Still feel that one in the shoulder from time to time

Thankful that God looks out for Fools and 19-20 y/o 11Bs! Especially when both of those boxes are checked.
 
It is not that unusual to fall asleep in a movie theater, but let me set the stage for the movie. It was U571 and bombs were going off, people aboard a submarine screaming loudly, and explosion after explosion, I slept quietly in my chair completely oblivious to what was going on. I only know what I missed because @Chdamn teased me about it after I woke up.
 
Thankful that God looks out for Fools and 19-20 y/o 11Bs! Especially when both of those boxes are checked.

Also 11Cs in that age range. I did some DUMB shit as a Private. :D

A Foreigner concert.

I fell asleep during a Judas Priest show. In my defense, I was working 3rds at the Honda plant & hadn't slept that day.
 
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In a meeting about my unprofessional conduct. In my defence I was half cut from lunch and my direct boss used to drone on.

Fortunately my bosses boss (one of the owners) thought my boss was a twat and told him to leave me be as I produced without much supervision.
 
Too many to list. In the suck you learned to fall asleep anywhere and any time if only for a few minutes.

Dude, I've slept in the gunner's seat of a M551 Sheridan, hauling ass across the Mojave many times. Often slept beside a gun track during fire missions, 'n C130s put me out in minutes. On QRF type events, I'd be asleep 'fore we were wheels up & not wake up till we touched down.
 
Dude, I've slept in the gunner's seat of a M551 Sheridan, hauling ass across the Mojave many times. Often slept beside a gun track during fire missions, 'n C130s put me out in minutes. On QRF type events, I'd be asleep 'fore we were wheels up & not wake up till we touched down.

I’ve fallen asleep in the seats of 5 tons fording rivers, on the roof of soft top HMMWV’s (like the best hammock ever) in LCAC’s on the way to shore in rough seas, I’ve even fallen asleep Standing up.

I fell asleep one time driving an LAV at the start of a curve and woke up on the other side. No clue how I managed that.

I fell asleep in a CH-53 in a thunderstorm. We were gaining and losing 200 ft of elevation at the drop of a hat. I said effe it. If we go down I want to be asleep when I die.
 
Recently while rocking my infant son to sleep. Apparently I’m better at rocking myself to sleep than him. LOL
This is sweet sleep,
because that little effer will be a teenager in about three months and ain’t nobody getting sleep in your house then.

I’m sorry. Did I say that out loud?
 
This is sweet sleep,
because that little effer will be a teenager in about three months and ain’t nobody getting sleep in your house then.

I’m sorry. Did I say that out loud?
Lol... I really can’t complain, he’s an excellent baby, usually sleeps really well, and my wife is awesome. It was just really funny that I rocked myself to sleep, I woke up almost laughing.
 
Lol... I really can’t complain, he’s an excellent baby, usually sleeps really well, and my wife is awesome. It was just really funny that I rocked myself to sleep, I woke up almost laughing.
I loved my kids so much when they were small.

Now, I just let them live.
 
Recently while rocking my infant son to sleep. Apparently I’m better at rocking myself to sleep than him. LOL
I often talk about the things you learn as a parent, like how to fall asleep while holding a child and rocking in a rocking chair. Then waking up in a start only to realize you're still holding the child securely and you're still rocking.
 
Recently while rocking my infant son to sleep. Apparently I’m better at rocking myself to sleep than him. LOL
Wait til you’re reading him books in bed. My daughters would sometimes get up and ask mom to finish their book because I’d fallen asleep.
 
Before using a CPAP, I could and would fall asleep anywhere, anytime! I have fallen asleep standing up, and my knees falling out and jarring me woke me up. My worst time was driving. Now I religiously wear my CPAP, and not only do I no longer fall asleep, I only need 4-6 hours of sleep to feel fully rested. It also cured my chronic heartburn and acid reflux, which I would wake up choking on. This was a nightly thing. I also got up 3-5 times a night to use the restroom. No longer an issue. I go before bed, and have uninterrupted sleep till morning.

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... also, I no longer snore, and my wife and I sleep together again.

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Before using a CPAP, I could and would fall asleep anywhere, anytime! I have fallen asleep standing up, and my knees falling out and jarring me woke me up. My worst time was driving. Now I religiously wear my CPAP, and not only do I no longer fall asleep, I only need 4-6 hours of sleep to feel fully rested. It also cured my chronic heartburn and acid reflux, which I would wake up choking on. This was a nightly thing. I also got up 3-5 times a night to use the restroom. No longer an issue. I go before bed, and have uninterrupted sleep till morning.

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... also, I no longer snore, and my wife and I sleep together again.

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Yeah, I gotta get a sleep study done and give the CPAP a try.
 
For a while, I worked three jobs to put myself through school. Day jobs were at an automotive parts house, afternoons in a racing machine shop, and as a night stocker at the local Safeway grocery store.

When I work up on Friday morning, I would not go back to bed until around 6 pm on Sunday. Friday I had classes, then work at the machine shop. Friday night was Safeway, Saturday all day was the parts house, Saturday night back at Safeway, and the Sunday from 8 - 5 at the parts house.

One Sunday afternoon a friend of mine stopped by the parts house to visit. While standing, I told him to wake me up if someone walked in, and then put my head down into the catalog rack and promptly fell asleep for around 20 minutes.

Never would have believed that someone could fall asleep standing up until it happened to me.

Came out of school with no debt but those were some tiring years.
 
It is not that unusual to fall asleep in a movie theater, but let me set the stage for the movie.
I fell asleep during a live performance of phantom of the opera. Drove to Toronto to see it too. I was tired and in pain and I found the show boring, so I went to sleep.
 
When I was about 16, a famous evangelist visited for a big event in Charlotte at Ovens Auditorium. There was a 2 hour service in the morning. We broke for lunch and I ate a huge meal at the Mexican restaurant that used to be across Independence from Ovens. Then we walked back for the main event.

He preached for at least 3.5 hours. I don’t know exactly how long, because I fell asleep after 2.5 hours or so. My friends told me I didn’t snore. My sister told on me to my parents, who were sitting elsewhere in the auditorium. I thought I was going to be in trouble. My mom simply said, “ We understand.” And that was the end of it.
 
When I was about 16, a famous evangelist visited for a big event in Charlotte at Ovens Auditorium. There was a 2 hour service in the morning. We broke for lunch and I ate a huge meal at the Mexican restaurant that used to be across Independence from Ovens. Then we walked back for the main event.

He preached for at least 3.5 hours. I don’t know exactly how long, because I fell asleep after 2.5 hours or so. My friends told me I didn’t snore. My sister told on me to my parents, who were sitting elsewhere in the auditorium. I thought I was going to be in trouble. My mom simply said, “ We understand.” And that was the end of it.


Falling asleep in church is tradition going back hundreds of years.
 
Wait til you’re reading him books in bed. My daughters would sometimes get up and ask mom to finish their book because I’d fallen asleep.


I fall asleep sitting in the chair in my son's room reading to him. He wakes me up by yelling "Say it Daddy!"

It's dim, there's a noise machine playing soothing music, I'm reading quietly to help him calm down. Out like a light.
 
When my 17 year old twins were babies through toddlers I was travelling a ton. We had a bunch of work in Raleigh and I typically spent Monday-Thursday or Friday up there. Many weeks I'd travel up early monday morning and come home to see them Tuesday night in time for bedtime. I'd leave again by 4:30am Wednesday and repeat. Most nights I'd fall asleep while reading or rocking. Many a good memory from those times.
 
Fell asleep on top of a open knife I had sharpened a few hours before. Slight papercut when I woke up, scared the crap out of me. Never play with knives when tired.
 
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I used to drool in class when I slept, but didn’t snore.
Now if I fall asleep sitting up somewhere I don’t drool, but I snore, usually so loud that the first snort wakes me up, and anyone around me gets to watch, point, and laugh.
 
High school American History class is where I learned to sleep sitting up.
HS?? Forget sitting up, sleeping in class were some of the best naps. I used to regularly sleep or read magazines in one of my basic science classes. One kid openly complained that the teacher never said anything, he replied “if you can sleep every day and get A’s & B’s, I’ll let you sleep too” :D it was hilarious (to me and 1/3 of the class).
 
Last night.
I was at the computer until I started nodding off. I cuold have locked my chair in a reclined position, but it was easier to just slide out and fall asleep on the floor. I grabbed a pillow from the futon though, so it was pretty nice.
See, wife is out of town, and i have clean clothes folded up on the couch, so I can't sleep there. and the bedroom is just too far of a walk when I'm ready to fall asleep RIGHT NOW. futon is also covered with junk...

This is the sort of thing I do frequently. scares the crap out of my wife when she finds me because I don't wake up easily. There have been a few times I woke because she had been shaking and yelling at me for 30+ seconds and ready to call 911 for an ambyoolance. Sometimes she prefers when I snore...
 
40 east coming home from a bachelor party in asheville... We were going pretty hard from friday night to sunday morning. I had to work monday so i figured id drive back then sleep in my own bed....My brain had different plans though. I woke up doing about 49 and heading straight for one of those off ramps that curves very sharply. I veered last minute and managed to stay on highway. Scary stuff. I made it to rest stop and well, i rested. Lesson learned
 
I worked third before and was doing some polishing on a cavity for a mold. It was an ultrasonic polisher. Ahh the nice steady hmm of that will put anyone asleep. Well needless to say I woke up when my head hit the cavity. Left a nice little bruise. No coffee needed the rest of the night.
 
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