Are You Comfortable Sleeping in Public?

**MULTIVERSE** · 03-10-2012, 02:29 PM

I do it all the time. I wonder how it would be if I woke up.

Cooper · 03-10-2012, 03:18 PM

Oh, Hell, no!

...people actually do that?

**ppu6502** · 03-10-2012, 03:22 PM

In college, I would regularly sleep in my classes and at the library.

I am not exaggerating when I say this happened almost every day. I don't recall anything ever getting stolen, and AFAIK nobody raped me in the butt while sleeping.

**Magda** · 03-10-2012, 06:51 PM

I've never been able to do more than very lightly doze in the car on long trips, and never feel like I've actually gotten any rest, even if I lose time. Apparently even as a baby I wouldn't sleep in the car. When sharing a hotel room, I sleep only very lightly and intermittently, and generally wake up very early. I've never been inclined to sleep in public, since I have snored since I was a child, and I now have sleep apnea, so I can't get quality sleep without my CPAP anyway.

I also don't nap well. Sleeping less than 2 hours leaves me feeling more sleepy than I was beforehand.

Midhiel · 03-10-2012, 07:17 PM

In general, I can't stand sleeping around other people (other than my parents, Idrc about them). It's not necessarily that I'm uncomfortable or can't fall asleep, but I'm always afraid that I'm going to talk in my sleep. I only know of it happening a few times in my life, and always when I was very young, but still - you never know. People I know tend to be in my dreams in completely random contexts, and I'm afraid that I'll say their names.

There was a point, though, when I slept in classes. For part of my freshman year and part of my junior year of high school, I had bullshit second period classes, and I'd fall asleep in them almost every day. (This created a problem when I later had a legit class that period, and I had to force myself to stay awake.) I think I was only comfortable doing this because I knew the rest of the class would be goofing off and not paying attention to me.

I'm not the kind of person who grew up sleeping over at friends' houses often, so that's always been a bit awkward for me. There's only one friend I'm completely comfortable sleeping around, but I still fall asleep later than she does, and wake up earlier. But it isn't a problem.

**Warrior** · 03-10-2012, 07:22 PM

I might doze off on an airplane (and that isn't a very deep sleep at all), but otherwise I can't think of a time I have really slept in public. I've shared rooms witha couple other people at camp and things like that, but never slept in class or a library or anywhere like that. I've never really felt to comfortable sleeping in those types of places.

**CaelestisPeste** · 03-10-2012, 08:42 PM

Depends where in public. I have a fear that someone's going to steal my stuff if I sleep in a crowded place, like an airport for instance. I've slept at my friend's house often. I enjoy my naps.

**mllebrie** · 03-10-2012, 08:57 PM

Sometimes I sleep on my lunch break. Not in the office, because that would probably send the wrong message, you know? I park my car in the public lot down the street, lock the doors, and arrange a book on my lap so it just looks like I dozed off... but it's all planned. I always lock the car, though. For obvious reasons.

I stopped though, for the most part, because the quality of sleep sucks.

**Eye on Earth** · 03-10-2012, 09:01 PM

I have no problem with sleeping in a variety of places: airplanes, trains, automobiles, back of trucks, on the beach, in a hotel room, on a friends couch, in bed with another person, pretty much anywhere except on a sidewalk.

I guess I trust people and I'm ok with that. I've never felt frightened or have had any anxiety about people taking my stuff. I also don't flaunt the fact that I have stuff for people to take and I don't make myself into a "mark" for a thief by encouraging them to approach me.

*EoE falls asleep*
*Dreams about writing things on the forum*

**idoj** · 03-10-2012, 09:02 PM

Yes, after the first 30-40 sec
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**eagleseven** · 03-10-2012, 09:57 PM

If I secure my valuables in a way that wakes me if someone grabs them, I'm fine sleeping in public. Hell, I remember falling asleep in the heart of Union Station, around 4AM, all my clothes, money, papers, and laptop in a small bag wrapped around my leg.

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Woke up to the rush of morning commuters, including a very noisy marine sitting next to me, before boarding and falling asleep again on my train. This was after a night of unsuccessfully attempting to sleep in a LAX terminal (darned Chinese kids kept wanting to play with me at 1AM).

**MissionPossible** · 03-10-2012, 10:05 PM

No, I would be uncomfortable sleeping in public. Sleeping in a hotel room, hostel, or cozied up in my sleeping bag out under the mountain stars is as "public" as my sleeping gets.

**Marcus Septim** · 03-10-2012, 11:41 PM

In the army we where so exhausted that when we got a 9 to 6,we would doze of anywhere

Trains,sidewalks...literally anywhere

**phoboser** · 03-10-2012, 11:51 PM

Never done it. Never been able.

**INTJane** · 03-10-2012, 11:54 PM

Once all night in a car in front of a castle (not alone), once on the TGV (not alone), and on planes plenty of times (alone). I prefer to remain awake in public, though.

**zibber** · 03-11-2012, 12:24 AM

That's the wrong question.

If I'm comfortable, I will fall asleep anyway
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**MissionPossible** · 03-11-2012, 12:26 AM

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	In the army we where so exhausted that when we got a 9 to 6,we would doze of anywhere Trains,sidewalks...literally anywhere

I agree. You can sleep when you need to sleep and when in the military or situations with similar demands, it is easy enough to change your sleeping habits to fit.

**silicon212** · 03-11-2012, 12:41 AM

I fell asleep once in a hospital emergency room, while I was waiting for my girlfriend's son to be seen (1 year old / sick) ... was there for 10 hours and somehow I was able to fall asleep, in a chair, with all the bright fluorescent lighting and high ambient noise levels. Didn't want to, but couldn't avoid it.

**Distance** · 03-11-2012, 12:48 AM

Sometimes I nap on the beach if someone's with me and usually try to sleep on a plane or pretend to, if only to avoid conversation with strangers.

**vampyroteuthis** · 03-11-2012, 01:11 AM

Yes, possibly too much so.

**masterpeach** · 03-11-2012, 03:21 AM

Taking the night train in a cabin with 5 other people made me very uncomfortable. I once slept in a park (in a foreign country) because my friend and I didn't have enough money left for a hotel... never would I do that again.

Just the other day I watched a documentary about homeless people. One of them didn't want to sleep at a homeless shelter because of the lack of privacy everywhere (he likes to read philosophy books). I couldn't sleep that night thinking about the situation of these people all the time.

Note: There's a difference between dozing off/falling asleep somewhere (train, desk, ...) and going to sleep in a public place intentionally.

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I remember a contest at a sleeping center somewhere - people who were able to sleep in the beds displayed in the show rooms for 7 days in a row could win the beds (incl. mattresses, frames etc.) ... I hope I'll never be that desperate.

**sircockburn** · 03-11-2012, 03:21 AM

NO.

I like to intently watch strangers when they are sleeping, sometimes I'll tiptoe up close to pick up every detail of their surrender to slumber. AH, vulnerability! Exhibition of primal instincts! The shameless rejection of dignity! I love it! So real!

I watch them drool.
I watch them scratch involuntarily in inappropriate body parts.
I watch their bodies hanging embarrassingly off the desk.
I listen to their snores.
I listen to their farts.
I listen to them mumbling in their sleep.
I watch them twitch and squirm.

oooo nature !!

**holdyourhead** · 03-11-2012, 03:26 AM

Me and my missus unintentionally fell asleep at Mombasa airport in Kenya. We would have missed the flight if it wasn't for one of the staff waking us! Very lucky...

Generally I have trouble getting to sleep, but once I'm there, I don't wake up easily. So, it's not the public that stops me, it's myself. My mind keeps me awake all of the time.

When I have crazy dreams, I tend to talk in my sleep. Those particular dreams are pretty warped, and my ramblings make my other half crack up...

**stealthfighter** · 03-11-2012, 04:29 AM

Never. I tend to sleep in awkward positions and move a lot. Don't want to be an object of entertainment while taking some time off.

**Oros Ull** · 03-11-2012, 04:52 AM

I will sleep anywhere if I feel like it.

Trains, airports, parks, roller-coasters, whatever I don’t give a fuck…

I never have anything valuable on me anyway.

03-10-2012, 02:29 PM	#1
MULTIVERSE Member [03%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 146	I do it all the time. I wonder how it would be if I woke up.
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03-10-2012, 03:18 PM	#2
Cooper Core Member [1336%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 53,446	Oh, Hell, no! ...people actually do that?
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03-10-2012, 03:22 PM	#3
ppu6502 Special Snowflake MBTI: INTj Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 11,481	In college, I would regularly sleep in my classes and at the library. I am not exaggerating when I say this happened almost every day. I don't recall anything ever getting stolen, and AFAIK nobody raped me in the butt while sleeping.
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03-10-2012, 06:51 PM	#4
Magda Member [24%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 981	I've never been able to do more than very lightly doze in the car on long trips, and never feel like I've actually gotten any rest, even if I lose time. Apparently even as a baby I wouldn't sleep in the car. When sharing a hotel room, I sleep only very lightly and intermittently, and generally wake up very early. I've never been inclined to sleep in public, since I have snored since I was a child, and I now have sleep apnea, so I can't get quality sleep without my CPAP anyway. I also don't nap well. Sleeping less than 2 hours leaves me feeling more sleepy than I was beforehand.
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03-10-2012, 07:17 PM	#5
Midhiel Veteran Member [85%] MBTI: IxTJ Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 3,438	In general, I can't stand sleeping around other people (other than my parents, Idrc about them). It's not necessarily that I'm uncomfortable or can't fall asleep, but I'm always afraid that I'm going to talk in my sleep. I only know of it happening a few times in my life, and always when I was very young, but still - you never know. People I know tend to be in my dreams in completely random contexts, and I'm afraid that I'll say their names. There was a point, though, when I slept in classes. For part of my freshman year and part of my junior year of high school, I had bullshit second period classes, and I'd fall asleep in them almost every day. (This created a problem when I later had a legit class that period, and I had to force myself to stay awake.) I think I was only comfortable doing this because I knew the rest of the class would be goofing off and not paying attention to me. I'm not the kind of person who grew up sleeping over at friends' houses often, so that's always been a bit awkward for me. There's only one friend I'm completely comfortable sleeping around, but I still fall asleep later than she does, and wake up earlier. But it isn't a problem.
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03-10-2012, 07:22 PM	#6
Warrior Core Member [227%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 9,083	I might doze off on an airplane (and that isn't a very deep sleep at all), but otherwise I can't think of a time I have really slept in public. I've shared rooms witha couple other people at camp and things like that, but never slept in class or a library or anywhere like that. I've never really felt to comfortable sleeping in those types of places.
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03-10-2012, 08:42 PM	#7
CaelestisPeste Core Member [143%] MBTI: INXP Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 5,735	Depends where in public. I have a fear that someone's going to steal my stuff if I sleep in a crowded place, like an airport for instance. I've slept at my friend's house often. I enjoy my naps.
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03-10-2012, 08:57 PM	#8
mllebrie Member [37%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,510	Sometimes I sleep on my lunch break. Not in the office, because that would probably send the wrong message, you know? I park my car in the public lot down the street, lock the doors, and arrange a book on my lap so it just looks like I dozed off... but it's all planned. I always lock the car, though. For obvious reasons. I stopped though, for the most part, because the quality of sleep sucks.
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03-10-2012, 09:01 PM	#9
Eye on Earth Core Member [334%] MBTI: XNTX Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 13,363	I have no problem with sleeping in a variety of places: airplanes, trains, automobiles, back of trucks, on the beach, in a hotel room, on a friends couch, in bed with another person, pretty much anywhere except on a sidewalk. I guess I trust people and I'm ok with that. I've never felt frightened or have had any anxiety about people taking my stuff. I also don't flaunt the fact that I have stuff for people to take and I don't make myself into a "mark" for a thief by encouraging them to approach me. EoE falls asleep Dreams about writing things on the forum
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03-10-2012, 09:02 PM	#10
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03-10-2012, 09:57 PM	#11
eagleseven Core Member [154%] MBTI: XNTJ Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 6,197	If I secure my valuables in a way that wakes me if someone grabs them, I'm fine sleeping in public. Hell, I remember falling asleep in the heart of Union Station, around 4AM, all my clothes, money, papers, and laptop in a small bag wrapped around my leg. [hide=pic] To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. [/hide] Woke up to the rush of morning commuters, including a very noisy marine sitting next to me, before boarding and falling asleep again on my train. This was after a night of unsuccessfully attempting to sleep in a LAX terminal (darned Chinese kids kept wanting to play with me at 1AM). Last edited by JTG; 03-17-2012 at 10:59 AM. Reason: wrapped image in hide tags
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03-10-2012, 10:05 PM	#12
MissionPossible Member [10%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 408	No, I would be uncomfortable sleeping in public. Sleeping in a hotel room, hostel, or cozied up in my sleeping bag out under the mountain stars is as "public" as my sleeping gets.
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03-10-2012, 11:41 PM	#13
Marcus Septim Suspended MBTI: ISTJ Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 4,354	In the army we where so exhausted that when we got a 9 to 6,we would doze of anywhere Trains,sidewalks...literally anywhere
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03-10-2012, 11:51 PM	#14
phoboser Veteran Member [60%] MBTI: ISTJ Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 2,434	Never done it. Never been able.
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03-10-2012, 11:54 PM	#15
INTJane Core Member [1042%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 41,682	Once all night in a car in front of a castle (not alone), once on the TGV (not alone), and on planes plenty of times (alone). I prefer to remain awake in public, though.
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03-11-2012, 12:24 AM	#16
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03-11-2012, 12:41 AM	#18
silicon212 Member [23%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 938	I fell asleep once in a hospital emergency room, while I was waiting for my girlfriend's son to be seen (1 year old / sick) ... was there for 10 hours and somehow I was able to fall asleep, in a chair, with all the bright fluorescent lighting and high ambient noise levels. Didn't want to, but couldn't avoid it.
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03-11-2012, 12:48 AM	#19
Distance Core Member [410%] MBTI: eNTj Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 16,408	Sometimes I nap on the beach if someone's with me and usually try to sleep on a plane or pretend to, if only to avoid conversation with strangers.
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03-11-2012, 01:11 AM	#20
vampyroteuthis Core Member [179%] MBTI: INTP Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 7,176	Yes, possibly too much so.
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03-11-2012, 03:21 AM	#21
masterpeach Core Member [209%] MBTI: xxxx Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 8,397	Taking the night train in a cabin with 5 other people made me very uncomfortable. I once slept in a park (in a foreign country) because my friend and I didn't have enough money left for a hotel... never would I do that again. Just the other day I watched a documentary about homeless people. One of them didn't want to sleep at a homeless shelter because of the lack of privacy everywhere (he likes to read philosophy books). I couldn't sleep that night thinking about the situation of these people all the time. Note: There's a difference between dozing off/falling asleep somewhere (train, desk, ...) and going to sleep in a public place intentionally. [hide=pic] To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. [/hide] I remember a contest at a sleeping center somewhere - people who were able to sleep in the beds displayed in the show rooms for 7 days in a row could win the beds (incl. mattresses, frames etc.) ... I hope I'll never be that desperate. Last edited by JTG; 03-17-2012 at 10:59 AM. Reason: wrapped image in hide tags
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03-11-2012, 03:21 AM	#22
sircockburn Veteran Member [79%] MBTI: ENTP Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 3,170	NO. I like to intently watch strangers when they are sleeping, sometimes I'll tiptoe up close to pick up every detail of their surrender to slumber. AH, vulnerability! Exhibition of primal instincts! The shameless rejection of dignity! I love it! So real! I watch them drool. I watch them scratch involuntarily in inappropriate body parts. I watch their bodies hanging embarrassingly off the desk. I listen to their snores. I listen to their farts. I listen to them mumbling in their sleep. I watch them twitch and squirm. oooo nature !!
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03-11-2012, 03:26 AM	#23
holdyourhead Member [26%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 1,062	Me and my missus unintentionally fell asleep at Mombasa airport in Kenya. We would have missed the flight if it wasn't for one of the staff waking us! Very lucky... Generally I have trouble getting to sleep, but once I'm there, I don't wake up easily. So, it's not the public that stops me, it's myself. My mind keeps me awake all of the time. When I have crazy dreams, I tend to talk in my sleep. Those particular dreams are pretty warped, and my ramblings make my other half crack up...
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03-11-2012, 04:29 AM	#24
stealthfighter Veteran Member [84%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 3,370	Never. I tend to sleep in awkward positions and move a lot. Don't want to be an object of entertainment while taking some time off.
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03-11-2012, 04:52 AM	#25
Oros Ull Veteran Member [76%] MBTI: INFJ Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 3,073	I will sleep anywhere if I feel like it. Trains, airports, parks, roller-coasters, whatever I don’t give a fuck… I never have anything valuable on me anyway.
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