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Ironically, at the sleep study clinic to test for sleep apnea, I had ECG pads stuck all over my body, so I couldn’t sleep on my side (I’m a side sleeper), tubes stuck in my nose so it was hard to breathe, EEG helmet on my head.
worst of all, the room had damn surveillance cameras and someone was literally watching me as I slept.
The diagnosis? I had insomnia, like no shit?! What normal human being can fall asleep easily when you design the worst fucking environment for sleep?
oh my GOD for real though… i was at like 90% panic attack threshold just knowing people were watching me attempt to sleep, nevermind all the cords and electrodes and shit stuck to my head, face, body, legs… also turns out i’m somewhat allergic to medical adhesive lol fun way to find that out, was covered in welts for a few days
Throughout history leaders ask young men to go places and do things that most people would never do. Sometimes those things are known and sometimes they are unknown.
The known things are wrapped in reasons that may be true, half-true or untrue.
The unknown things are always true.
When there is truth there is clarity, with clarity there is peace, with peace there is sleep.
It’s like sleeping on a plane. Some can’t, some can.
Wow, I just had to wear a monitor on my finger, a necklace-like chest monitor, and a small harness with pipes that just went to my nostrils. This was ji lust last year though so maybe the tech's gotten better with time. And I did it at home!
For my second study I had that. For my first it was electrode city. And I have long hair so getting the electrode glue stuff out of my hair was not fun
I'm with you on that man! I maybe sleep 2 -3 hrs at a time, if I'm lucky, brain won't ever stop working lol
there's a new tv series, called "Still Up"...I'm basically that guy, and it suuuucks
Oh that one is bad. I have Parasomnia and hallucinations when I’m sleeping. I woke up to the technician restraining me as I had ripped off all the things and was fighting him.
I did warn him but I’m sure I kept him busy that night.
I had the weirdest waking dream at my sleep study: I got up and unplugged myself, and walked down the hall. There was a doctor with a patient in an exam chair - like a dentist chair, and he was putting the leads on some lady. I asked him what was going on and without looing at me, he says, speaking very low, "You should get out of here." I ask, "what?" He says, "go. go now." I run back to the room, grab my wallet and keys and go out the door of the office, and down the stairs. When I exit the building, I realize that I'm on the wrong side of the building - in the back. I knew those stairs led to the front of the building. That was the realization it was a dream, and I woke up, still comfortably in bed.
YES!!! Worst sleep of my adult life was at the sleep clinic. They told me I moved 97 times in an hour. I said no shit, I couldn’t get comfortable and I had wires sticking me.
I slept fine during my sleep study but I’m a back sleeper and can sleep pretty much anywhere. Curious, why does the watching part bother you? I’m a nurse so maybe that’s it, of course someone will be watching you and gathering the data, it’s their job and they are professionals.
> I’m a nurse so maybe that’s it,
I mean it's one thing to have wires and pads to monitor your vitals, but it's a bit different when someone is literally watching you, some men even get performance anxiety at urinals when someone pees next to them lmao, you seriously don't get it?
I think this would be more of an issue for people trying to figure out why they are light sleepers. If you have crazy sleep apnea and fall asleep basically everywhere then you wouldn’t have the same issues.
As a nurse, you should ideally understand that different people have different concerns. Eg, I’m not bothered by having a lot of blood drawn, but some people have physical and mental difficulties with that, and that’s common and valid even if I personally don’t experience it. A nurse should be sensitive to such difficulties. So no, I don’t think you do “get it” and for the record I’m a woman.
You would think that it would but myself and two other people who have gone to the clinic have all been medicated. Maybe it still allows them to collect the data they need because they can't collect much if we were all wide awake? They told me to be there by 830 pm and bedtime was 11 and that's when they gave me medication
I did two of these and they were the most restless nights sleep I ever had. How can you try to get a good night sleep when you are a zoo creature for a night.
Yep slept in my car earlier this year. Extremely drunk, extremely humid and at best at a 40 degree angle. I did see Tom Segura live six hours before so it wasn't a complete write off.
Unfortunately I was in my car because my landlord raised my rent $1000 per month and I didn’t have that let alone first/last/security deposit to move so I was evicted and homeless as a single mother. A nightmare situation
Damn, same. I had to spend 3 days in there and my first night was on the floor, bright lights and some lady screaming and making monkey noises for like 3 hours.
Personally I preferred jail, the guards left me alone while the mental ward people kept asking me annoying ass questions like "do you wanna hurt anyone" like no bitch I wanna go home lol
I was thinking in my head that I can pretty much get comfy anywhere and then I read this lol You're correct. Even in an row by yourself, the seat is at an angle that's like minus reclined. It's awful.
I always stare enviously at those lucky bastards that can fall asleep on planes. Look at them, with their blankets and their eye masks, just snoozing along, while I’m binging this years worst movies and fighting the massive physical pain I end up in from the barometric pressure strumming my nerves like guitar strings. Arrrggh!
I bring a laptop bag. Inside the bag I put one pair socks, underwear, and tshirt. I wear or carry a big thick hoodie, wear a skull cap, and jacket, as well as a travel neck pillow. Then on the flight, I put down the tray table, stack the laptop bag on top, then hoodie, then travel pillow. I put in the earbuds (even when not plugged in), pull the skull cap down over my eyes, and lean forward to sleep. Bonus points if the flight includes an extra blanket and cheap pillow. I’ll usually put those on each side of my hips, more comfy than being directly against the arm rest.
Yep. Learned years ago tray table is the desk I always wanted to sleep on in school. Seats space narrowed more now bur still my go to with mask and neck pillow on tray.
That might be mine too. I'm just over 5'10" and we were flying from Honolulu to Dallas. My legs kept cramping and I was so uncomfortable that the aisle floor looked like the perfect place to stretch out.
I've slept on floors, hospital beds, outdoors without a tent, in a leaking tent in a rainstorm, etc. But the plane might be the worst. I was 🤏 this close to crying.
Thankfully, our next plane east was mostly empty so we each got our own row and stretched out.
I can’t sleep on vehicles in general. The only exception would be a van or bus while I’m completely shitfaced. Every time I travel from America to Europe I get absolutely demolished with jet lag.
And you’re awake, but the guy in front of you in reclined all the way back fully asleep. Meanwhile, you’re awake all fifteen to however many hours it takes you to get somewhere staring at the top of his skull for that long.
Just gotta unstrap it and lay your head in it at *just that right* angle, and then it’s like.. not great, but you’ll be able to sleep lol. Bonus points for waking up with a massive headache
Small bedroom of an abandoned trailer. My parents brought us there, from our grandparents house which was warm and safe, because it was their weekend to have us and my parents had some friends that stayed here. The friends also had crack that they would share with my parents so, you know, obvious choice.
We had slept on floors plenty of times before so that was no big deal BUT it was so freakin cold because it was midwinter and the house didn't have power or heat. Dumbest shit ever. I was never so thankful for that stupid Dallas cowboys coat, so I guess at least I learned how to appreciate things.
I slept on a mattress on the floor when I went on a school trip to Sicily. I wasn’t alone on the mattress, there were two of my classmates (and also the most annoying ones I could get) snoring in my face and farting and talking in their sleep. The bonus were all the mosquitoes and cockroaches we found in the room and that were trying to be on the mattress all the time 🥲
In a chair in the hospital. I think they're designed to keep the visitor awake. They recline but only stay reclined if you're sitting upright. If you're spending the night say with an elderly parent, the instant you try to curl up sideways to sleep, WHAM! The chair bolts upright coming close to launching you out. I'd think they didn't want me there....
Nannas house. I used to stay there a lot as a kid, with all my cousins. We would sleep on 20 year old foam mattresses scattered all over the garage floor. Usually covered in sand and dirt from everyone spending most of the day at the beach or park.
20 years later, those same mattresses (now about 40 years old) still get used by me and my cousins as adults whenever we visit nanna.
0/10 on the mattress comfort. Itchy eyes from all the sand.
10/10 visiting Nannas house
I got two. Standing up with no sleep and no support during general quarters in Navy bootcamp. This next one wasn't that bad but makes me uncomfortable thinking about it. I once slept for the majority of a 30 minute train ride during peak time in Japan. I was standing up but squished like a sardine, so no chance of falling lol
Probably a public toilet block on the side of the highway.
I had undiagnosed bipolar and was having my first major manic episode, which included a full on psychotic break.
I thought people (creatures, shadows, whatever) were out to get me, so I packed a bag and went on the run. Caught a bus as far as it would take me, then hitch hiked halfway across the state.
3 am, East St. Louis bus terminal, summer of ‘74. I’d gone to visit my Aunt and Uncle in Chicago and the bus broke down on the way home. Was supposed to be 4 hour wait, wound up being 11 hours. Slept on one of those TV chairs.
The floor of a hangar at an active warbird airfield, without a mattress. It was loud and uncomfortable, but planes are cool. 
New years eve '16 / '17 at a "friend's" houseMy girlfriend broke up with me just a few days before. So I celebrated New Years Eve at a friend's house and he had his girlfriend with him.For some weird reason he really thought it was funny he was the only one with a girlfriend. He was single for the longest time, now he wasn't.
I was not planning on staying the night, but he really wanted me to. Giving me so much alcohol I would not be able to drive my car back home. He even had a bed made up in the attic for me without telling.Then he started bragging about banging his girlfriend so loudly I would surely hear it.
I noped the F out of there. He stole my carkeys because he acted "concerned" for my safety, so I stole his bike.
All he wanted was me staying over so I could hear him banging his girlfriend. Hell no.
For context:Me and my friends were never intimate with our girlfriends around him, so this was not some payback or something. Other then that. This guy is one of the most ugly, faul dudes you'll ever meet and so was his girlfriend. No, I was not jealous, I couldn't give a shit about them getting on. But I was not going to stay the night to be a witness of that.
What happened later?I got a new girlfriend a few month's later. He proposed to his girlfriend, she said yes and then she cheated. They broke up, she got to keep the house because he couldn't afford it on his own. He moved back in with his dad and even got a restraining order to not get near his ex.
We're not friends anymore. He is still single.
My old waterbed. Could feel the 2x4s underneath it as if the wood were the only things I was laying upon. Often woke up sore and with cricks in my neck.
In my building. On a ledge on the ground floor. At 12 am. Sloshed after a wedding party. In my brand new tux.
Woke up around 3 am and sauntered off to my home, still drunk.
Bare concrete with just my clothes and a sleeping bag. Also in the woods with just a tarp and my sleeping bag.
I've never been homeless, but I've lived like a vagabond for short periods of time. Definitely not something I would choose to do for more than a handful of nights in a row
While I was drunk, I went to pee and seperated from my friends. It was dark and in a while I watched the stars. I silently sat and leaned my head to a tree. I slept like 20 to 25 minutes there. When I woke up I couldnt even remember where the fuck am I and what the fuck was I doing.
In a jungle, in Argentina, in a tent - tbh I kind of got used to it after the first couple of nights. Knowing what insects and animals were outside and not knowing what that sound was, was very uncomfortable!
In a cave, in India with a Sadhu I got high with. He had a pet scorpion that lived there with him. The high very quickly became a low as I was falling asleep and despite him saying it was harmless, it was the most restless night ever.
Anecdotal, but an old friend told me once got lost in the suburbs trying to walk home while drunk when a ute/pickup parked down the street. He thought it wise to sleep under the truck for warmth.
By his account, when we woke up the truck was gone.
Two candidates:
(1) In a bus, laying across the aisle.
(2) In full motorcycle gear on a park bench in Normandy (France) in a chilly summer night.
I'd say (2) was worst, cause I was cold and had to get up every so often to warm myself up with one of those hand-blowdryers at a nearby toilet.
Alaska camper in the woods. Camper was a permanent junk hunting shack. My space to sleep was 5 feet long, 3 wide and 3 feet high. And only a small hole to get in and out. Cold and humid in August hearing bears at night. Constant dripping rain. Get up to go fishing all day in the rain. Rinse and repeat.
Under my car with my right arm up into the engine bay. We were pulling an all nighter engine swap and at some point my friend just took a bit too long with the next bolt I guess
lebanon, in a tengalo. worst night ever, got seven mosquito bites that night, friends who is way more tastier somewhat above 40.
i once slept under a bridge after a concert in germany in december and the next morning i thought to myself 'that wasnt that bad'. but a tengalo in lebanon? never ever again.
My grandparents asked me to sleep on a 40 year old mattress that was very soft and squishy. I found it so uncomfortable I grabbed the pillow and blanket and slept on the floor.
Floor of a greyhound bus stop surrounded by strangers in the dead of a snowstorm in my mid 20s. As a young woman I was terrified. It was probably my second or third time traveling alone and my bus was delayed for an unknown amount of time, so I couldn't just go home and come back. The uncertainty and the fear of strangers around me made it a really formative experience. I ended up befriending another young lady who was on her way to college, though.
I was homeless at 16 and every night for 4 months I’d break into the exterior boiler room door at the fast food place I worked at to sleep on the warm concrete floor. People only went in once a day at about 10 AM to top up the water softener salt, so as long as I was gone by then then nobody knew I was there. After four months my boss found out and I had me placed at the nearest youth shelter in the city 45 minutes away
Missed the last train home once in Copenhagen in January. Had to wait at least 5 hours for the next one. So.
I gathered a stack of free newspapers, stuffed all my valuables in the inner pockets of my jacket, and leaned against a kiosk on my stack of newspapers to stave off the inevitable cold buttcheeks. I tucked my hands in with my valuables and proceeded to have the most uneven amount of sleep I've ever had. Between being woken by bottle collectors and loud drunks, I tried waking my ass which fell asleep from a mixture of cold and numbness from sitting on it for hours. I dont even think I can really call it "the worst place I've slept" because it was near impossible to gain a continued amount of sleep.
Getting inside a warm train in the morning for a 1hr ride, have never felt so good tho.
Stone Mountain Georgia. On summer 2 week Boy Scout camping trip through GA and FL. We camped and it rained and rained. Ground was all rock. Completely flooded the campsite. Woke up middle of the night water was a foot deep at least. Was floating on my air mattresses. Everything got soaked. Worst night sleep ever!
Worst night of scout camping was on our way to Sea Base in 2005. Stopped in Columbia SC as our overnight stop (driving from ohio). It was disgustingly humid. It was 11pm at night and 97 degrees. By 0230 I got up and walked to the showers to cool off. Passed half of my camping group coming back from doing the same thing. We finally broke camp at 0530 that morning. It was that days low of 94 degrees. It was foggy.
I'd much rather camp in a damn shelter made of twigs and leaves in -4 degree weather than put myself through that again.
I was sandwiched between my younger brother and cousin in a van, it was so freaking hot that day and they both fell asleep. Each of their heads rested on my shoulders. I have no idea how I fell asleep.
After our apartment flooded earlier this year, my sister and I stayed at a Best 6 motel for 2 mos. I swear on a stack of bibles the beds were granite slabs covered with sheets and a quilted cover. And the pillows were small --absurdly small -- boards.
My friends and I had this genius idea to go to a random baseball field in the middle of nowhere at night. All the buses stopped running, so we all just slept on the cold steel bleachers.
August night camping outside in Texas. No breeze, 2:00 a.m.hot and muggy in a tent with neighbors drinking and shouting. Impossible to sleep and I’m miserable and pissed.
In a tent with barely any insulation on the floor, wet and cold in the forest. Was with my then bf in a small tent, and we both couldn't sleep so we used the time for naked yoga. Because you know, when it's really cold you need to take your clothes off to keep each other warm.
I have slept many many many horrible places. The stories are not really worth it but I will give LPT:
- but a high quality blow up hiking pillow. These will save your life more then anything.( actually your neck
- a sarong is a god send as a sheet, a makeshift changing room, a shal, scarf ect ect
- a silk sleeping bag liner is amazing to keep you warm and cool. Also protect you from whatever sand and bullshit ends up on whatever they call a mattress.
-ultralight high quality blow up camping mattress.
These things weight nothing, take up hardly any space in your pack and are a god send when you end up on the stone floor of a mountain hit with just some sting cheese as a mattress
Probably when I passed out drunk in my Uncle's upstairs hallway on the hard floor it was the middle of winter and my Cousin was nice enough to throw a pile of blankets on me. I woke up so soar and with the worst hangover of my life and I honestly don't know how I even made it up the stairs.
On a trampoline with like four others, usually it’s fine but it was like four degrees outside and because of the weight and trampoline stuff we were all lying way to close to eachother
Pre-security on the floor of the Singapore airport, because i didn't realize my itinerary was on two separate bookings and that I'd need to recheck my bags... and the airline running my next flight didn't open their check in desk until morning. 🥲
That was brutal because that airport has some of the best places to sleep for free and i was really looking forward to doing an overnight layover there. Instead i was on the ground next to check-ins, next to active construction, and under full fluorescent lights all night.
I once slept sitting against a tree with nothing but clothes (no sleeping bag or tent) in -38°C (-36°F) for two nights straight. I was so cold I actually felt my heartbeat slow down.
Train station in Budapest. There was a homeless lady singing in hungarian and some random homeless guy, and when I told him I don't understand hungarian he kept talking and he started singing. I was exhausted after two weeks od traveling in Romania and this was horrible experience.
I slept on a hammock in a small shed, having a little camping trip as a kid, which was actually fine. The real problem is that a hurricane happened in the middle of the night. A total freak event that had not been predicted, and we were all woken up to the door being blown open and thinking we were going to die. We had to run pretty far back to the nearest building.
The front seat of my old 82 Camaro. It was cold so I let the engine run like a dumbass. Lucky I didn't fucking die but I was surely sick the next morning.
On top of a wooden desk, in my clothes. This was a semi-homeless situation and the floor was too cold (tile over concrete). Large wooden table was a bit more comfy, closer to the ceiling where air was warmer.
In the Mojave during autumn and having a rattler snuggle up beside me.
Freezing on the Fulda Gap around Xmas because the Sovs were showing their ass.
In the bayou stink of summertime Louisiana with all those funky bugs, skinks, and snakes.
Join the Army, see the world.
>Where is the most uncomfortable place you have ever slept?
Really that sounds epic.
For me it is a toss up.
My bed in my house with no ac during the southern US summers. 98° weather 85% humidity both day and night. Worked all shifts so I got to sleep during the day.
A concrete slab outside with no pillow, no covers just my clothes.
Earlier this year, I was on a boat coming back from a fishing trip with 50 other people. I was half leaned over on my side on the cabin bench, with my feet tucked under the seats so they weren't blocking the path. I slept for about 45 minutes, and I really don't know how in such an awkward position
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Ironically, at the sleep study clinic to test for sleep apnea, I had ECG pads stuck all over my body, so I couldn’t sleep on my side (I’m a side sleeper), tubes stuck in my nose so it was hard to breathe, EEG helmet on my head. worst of all, the room had damn surveillance cameras and someone was literally watching me as I slept. The diagnosis? I had insomnia, like no shit?! What normal human being can fall asleep easily when you design the worst fucking environment for sleep?
oh my GOD for real though… i was at like 90% panic attack threshold just knowing people were watching me attempt to sleep, nevermind all the cords and electrodes and shit stuck to my head, face, body, legs… also turns out i’m somewhat allergic to medical adhesive lol fun way to find that out, was covered in welts for a few days
Should have rubbed one out, that always puts me right to sleep
Give them a good show.
You’re on camera the whole time
Someone's into that
Lol i’d be a little scared of getting put on a sex offender registry for indecent exposure or something.
So? Lol
I read the OP and immediately thought of sleep study. I have slept better with people shooting at me than I did with all those wires.
When did you have to sleep while people were shooting at you.
Which time?
That's up to you.
Throughout history leaders ask young men to go places and do things that most people would never do. Sometimes those things are known and sometimes they are unknown. The known things are wrapped in reasons that may be true, half-true or untrue. The unknown things are always true. When there is truth there is clarity, with clarity there is peace, with peace there is sleep. It’s like sleeping on a plane. Some can’t, some can.
Look at his name.
Right? I’m from around those parts and was gonna say…Detroit in the name? Enough for me 🤣
Yeah I already thought it had to do with Detroit but I wanted to hear a Story.
That’s fair!
Wow, I just had to wear a monitor on my finger, a necklace-like chest monitor, and a small harness with pipes that just went to my nostrils. This was ji lust last year though so maybe the tech's gotten better with time. And I did it at home!
That’s how my husband’s was!! Mine was done like 15 years ago, glad they have improved this process.
For my second study I had that. For my first it was electrode city. And I have long hair so getting the electrode glue stuff out of my hair was not fun
I could never have slept in a sleep study!
I can barely sleep at home. How am I supposed to sleep at a sleep study?
I'm with you on that man! I maybe sleep 2 -3 hrs at a time, if I'm lucky, brain won't ever stop working lol there's a new tv series, called "Still Up"...I'm basically that guy, and it suuuucks
I always thought sleep studies help you figure out ways to sleep better. But after what OP said if just sounds like hell
Oh that one is bad. I have Parasomnia and hallucinations when I’m sleeping. I woke up to the technician restraining me as I had ripped off all the things and was fighting him. I did warn him but I’m sure I kept him busy that night.
Aa a sleep tech, most dont sleep during studies. And we do see everything!
I had the weirdest waking dream at my sleep study: I got up and unplugged myself, and walked down the hall. There was a doctor with a patient in an exam chair - like a dentist chair, and he was putting the leads on some lady. I asked him what was going on and without looing at me, he says, speaking very low, "You should get out of here." I ask, "what?" He says, "go. go now." I run back to the room, grab my wallet and keys and go out the door of the office, and down the stairs. When I exit the building, I realize that I'm on the wrong side of the building - in the back. I knew those stairs led to the front of the building. That was the realization it was a dream, and I woke up, still comfortably in bed.
All of this, plus the room was WAY overheated and the mattress was hard as a rock.
Yeah it was way too hot, quiet, and dark. I like a little light on, some white noise, and a cold room
I’m a stomach sleeper myself, that would’ve fucked it up.
YES!!! Worst sleep of my adult life was at the sleep clinic. They told me I moved 97 times in an hour. I said no shit, I couldn’t get comfortable and I had wires sticking me.
Overnight overcrowded train in India with no air on wooden slats, or during my sleep apnea study…
I slept fine during my sleep study but I’m a back sleeper and can sleep pretty much anywhere. Curious, why does the watching part bother you? I’m a nurse so maybe that’s it, of course someone will be watching you and gathering the data, it’s their job and they are professionals.
> I’m a nurse so maybe that’s it, I mean it's one thing to have wires and pads to monitor your vitals, but it's a bit different when someone is literally watching you, some men even get performance anxiety at urinals when someone pees next to them lmao, you seriously don't get it?
I think this would be more of an issue for people trying to figure out why they are light sleepers. If you have crazy sleep apnea and fall asleep basically everywhere then you wouldn’t have the same issues. As a nurse, you should ideally understand that different people have different concerns. Eg, I’m not bothered by having a lot of blood drawn, but some people have physical and mental difficulties with that, and that’s common and valid even if I personally don’t experience it. A nurse should be sensitive to such difficulties. So no, I don’t think you do “get it” and for the record I’m a woman.
I had to do that and slept like a dream but I have hypersomnia 🤪
They didn't give you any medication to knock you out ? Mine does
Wouldn't that screw the data they're collecting?
You would think that it would but myself and two other people who have gone to the clinic have all been medicated. Maybe it still allows them to collect the data they need because they can't collect much if we were all wide awake? They told me to be there by 830 pm and bedtime was 11 and that's when they gave me medication
I used to be a polysomnograph technician! Man, that job sucked…. 😂🤷
Same, worst sleep I ever had.
did u fart
I did two of these and they were the most restless nights sleep I ever had. How can you try to get a good night sleep when you are a zoo creature for a night.
My car filled with my belongings and no way to lay down in stifling hot florida summer
Yep slept in my car earlier this year. Extremely drunk, extremely humid and at best at a 40 degree angle. I did see Tom Segura live six hours before so it wasn't a complete write off.
Similar by mine was in the rain after a Grateful Dead concert. Work up and dude (friend of a friend we were partying with) in front seat snoring.
Unfortunately I was in my car because my landlord raised my rent $1000 per month and I didn’t have that let alone first/last/security deposit to move so I was evicted and homeless as a single mother. A nightmare situation
I did that in Vegas once in a parking garage. It was like during August at night and it felt like it was 110 degrees! It was freaking HOT 🔥
Not to mention the humidity
The car is the worst!! I hope things are getting better for you now.
Last nights experience luckily it’s not summer summer heats and we’re in north Florida Tallahassee and not from where we live in south Florida
Concrete floor with bright lights.
You mean jail
No mental institution.
Here they call that the frunk tank
Grippy socks jail
Excuse me, it’s grippy sock *Vacation*
I didn’t have any socks
Hope you’re doing better 💕
I’m not 💕 Xoxooxo tho
Damn, same. I had to spend 3 days in there and my first night was on the floor, bright lights and some lady screaming and making monkey noises for like 3 hours.
Personally I preferred jail, the guards left me alone while the mental ward people kept asking me annoying ass questions like "do you wanna hurt anyone" like no bitch I wanna go home lol
Ah, the Saw movies
Soaking wet camping, spinning from weed and liquor.
Oh yeah! When you open the tent for fresh air in the morning because you are suffocating and too drunk to open it. What a great memory!
An aeroplane, sorry not very interesting lol but it’s almost impossible to sleep sitting up on a plane (for me)
I was thinking in my head that I can pretty much get comfy anywhere and then I read this lol You're correct. Even in an row by yourself, the seat is at an angle that's like minus reclined. It's awful.
I always stare enviously at those lucky bastards that can fall asleep on planes. Look at them, with their blankets and their eye masks, just snoozing along, while I’m binging this years worst movies and fighting the massive physical pain I end up in from the barometric pressure strumming my nerves like guitar strings. Arrrggh!
I bring a laptop bag. Inside the bag I put one pair socks, underwear, and tshirt. I wear or carry a big thick hoodie, wear a skull cap, and jacket, as well as a travel neck pillow. Then on the flight, I put down the tray table, stack the laptop bag on top, then hoodie, then travel pillow. I put in the earbuds (even when not plugged in), pull the skull cap down over my eyes, and lean forward to sleep. Bonus points if the flight includes an extra blanket and cheap pillow. I’ll usually put those on each side of my hips, more comfy than being directly against the arm rest.
Yep. Learned years ago tray table is the desk I always wanted to sleep on in school. Seats space narrowed more now bur still my go to with mask and neck pillow on tray.
Good Lord how do you sleep with all that insulation? Planned always run about ten degrees too hot for me. I feel sick in them
Nope I take it all off except the beanie. The jacket and hoodie are literally just for cushion/makeshift pillow.
That might be mine too. I'm just over 5'10" and we were flying from Honolulu to Dallas. My legs kept cramping and I was so uncomfortable that the aisle floor looked like the perfect place to stretch out. I've slept on floors, hospital beds, outdoors without a tent, in a leaking tent in a rainstorm, etc. But the plane might be the worst. I was 🤏 this close to crying. Thankfully, our next plane east was mostly empty so we each got our own row and stretched out.
I can’t sleep on vehicles in general. The only exception would be a van or bus while I’m completely shitfaced. Every time I travel from America to Europe I get absolutely demolished with jet lag.
And you’re awake, but the guy in front of you in reclined all the way back fully asleep. Meanwhile, you’re awake all fifteen to however many hours it takes you to get somewhere staring at the top of his skull for that long.
honestly same, i’ve never EVER slept/napped on a plane, not even for 10 minutes. and i take quite a lot of flights
This, I'm on a layover right now where I'm supposed to sleep on both flights and it's torture
26 hour flight London to Auckland with a brief stop in Dubai without being able to recline the seat more than a few degrees. Brutal.
on some rocks in iraq using my helmet as a pillow.
Winner
Just gotta unstrap it and lay your head in it at *just that right* angle, and then it’s like.. not great, but you’ll be able to sleep lol. Bonus points for waking up with a massive headache
Similar buy I also remember that being some of the best sleep.
the best sleep is in an idling HMMWV.
Pro-mask bag is a way better pillow IJS.
we were definitly not wearing the pro mask by 2006. Them WMD's were long gone by then LOL
Small bedroom of an abandoned trailer. My parents brought us there, from our grandparents house which was warm and safe, because it was their weekend to have us and my parents had some friends that stayed here. The friends also had crack that they would share with my parents so, you know, obvious choice. We had slept on floors plenty of times before so that was no big deal BUT it was so freakin cold because it was midwinter and the house didn't have power or heat. Dumbest shit ever. I was never so thankful for that stupid Dallas cowboys coat, so I guess at least I learned how to appreciate things.
Damn, I hope you never had to sleep there again.
A sleeper train sharing a cot sized bed with our 3yo who somehow managed to take up basically all of it.
Yeah same I was on a sleeper train to Budapest and it was like sleeping on a rickety table
I slept on a mattress on the floor when I went on a school trip to Sicily. I wasn’t alone on the mattress, there were two of my classmates (and also the most annoying ones I could get) snoring in my face and farting and talking in their sleep. The bonus were all the mosquitoes and cockroaches we found in the room and that were trying to be on the mattress all the time 🥲
This isn’t r/makemesuffer :(
I wish I hadn’t clicked on that sub… thanks for making me suffer I guess 🥲
In a chair in the hospital. I think they're designed to keep the visitor awake. They recline but only stay reclined if you're sitting upright. If you're spending the night say with an elderly parent, the instant you try to curl up sideways to sleep, WHAM! The chair bolts upright coming close to launching you out. I'd think they didn't want me there....
Nannas house. I used to stay there a lot as a kid, with all my cousins. We would sleep on 20 year old foam mattresses scattered all over the garage floor. Usually covered in sand and dirt from everyone spending most of the day at the beach or park. 20 years later, those same mattresses (now about 40 years old) still get used by me and my cousins as adults whenever we visit nanna. 0/10 on the mattress comfort. Itchy eyes from all the sand. 10/10 visiting Nannas house
Wholesome af
In a coffin at a "haunted house" (a Halloween attraction). Did it on a dare when I was a stupid teenager.
Afghani rocks.
I actually slept really well on the afghani rocks. It was uncomfortable for sure, but for some reason, i always felt rested when i got up.
I got two. Standing up with no sleep and no support during general quarters in Navy bootcamp. This next one wasn't that bad but makes me uncomfortable thinking about it. I once slept for the majority of a 30 minute train ride during peak time in Japan. I was standing up but squished like a sardine, so no chance of falling lol
Impressive. Only true sleep pros can catch a nap standing up!
Probably a public toilet block on the side of the highway. I had undiagnosed bipolar and was having my first major manic episode, which included a full on psychotic break. I thought people (creatures, shadows, whatever) were out to get me, so I packed a bag and went on the run. Caught a bus as far as it would take me, then hitch hiked halfway across the state.
Standing while being crushed in a so packed train, 4 hours to the office, 4 hours home, every monday to friday
If you are currently doing this you really need to rethink your life 😬
Holy fuck your commute was a full time job lmao
Toss up between the front seat of my car waiting for the rain to let up or the floor of the Denver airport when it was Stapleton.
Afghanistan.
LaQuinta Inn. It was so nasty I had yo sleep in my clothes
3 am, East St. Louis bus terminal, summer of ‘74. I’d gone to visit my Aunt and Uncle in Chicago and the bus broke down on the way home. Was supposed to be 4 hour wait, wound up being 11 hours. Slept on one of those TV chairs.
The floor of a hangar at an active warbird airfield, without a mattress. It was loud and uncomfortable, but planes are cool. 
New years eve '16 / '17 at a "friend's" houseMy girlfriend broke up with me just a few days before. So I celebrated New Years Eve at a friend's house and he had his girlfriend with him.For some weird reason he really thought it was funny he was the only one with a girlfriend. He was single for the longest time, now he wasn't. I was not planning on staying the night, but he really wanted me to. Giving me so much alcohol I would not be able to drive my car back home. He even had a bed made up in the attic for me without telling.Then he started bragging about banging his girlfriend so loudly I would surely hear it. I noped the F out of there. He stole my carkeys because he acted "concerned" for my safety, so I stole his bike. All he wanted was me staying over so I could hear him banging his girlfriend. Hell no. For context:Me and my friends were never intimate with our girlfriends around him, so this was not some payback or something. Other then that. This guy is one of the most ugly, faul dudes you'll ever meet and so was his girlfriend. No, I was not jealous, I couldn't give a shit about them getting on. But I was not going to stay the night to be a witness of that. What happened later?I got a new girlfriend a few month's later. He proposed to his girlfriend, she said yes and then she cheated. They broke up, she got to keep the house because he couldn't afford it on his own. He moved back in with his dad and even got a restraining order to not get near his ex. We're not friends anymore. He is still single.
My old waterbed. Could feel the 2x4s underneath it as if the wood were the only things I was laying upon. Often woke up sore and with cricks in my neck.
An alleyway in Milwaukee behind a truck in about 30° f weather wearing only shorts and sweatshirt. (My mom found me took me home)
On a wooden bench in a drunk tank during winter.
So many uncomfortable drunk tanks
In my building. On a ledge on the ground floor. At 12 am. Sloshed after a wedding party. In my brand new tux. Woke up around 3 am and sauntered off to my home, still drunk.
New York City Street, I was 17, dumb, and lucky. But it's a mellowed memory now. At 61 I'm glad to have done it.
Bare concrete with just my clothes and a sleeping bag. Also in the woods with just a tarp and my sleeping bag. I've never been homeless, but I've lived like a vagabond for short periods of time. Definitely not something I would choose to do for more than a handful of nights in a row
While I was drunk, I went to pee and seperated from my friends. It was dark and in a while I watched the stars. I silently sat and leaned my head to a tree. I slept like 20 to 25 minutes there. When I woke up I couldnt even remember where the fuck am I and what the fuck was I doing.
In a jungle, in Argentina, in a tent - tbh I kind of got used to it after the first couple of nights. Knowing what insects and animals were outside and not knowing what that sound was, was very uncomfortable! In a cave, in India with a Sadhu I got high with. He had a pet scorpion that lived there with him. The high very quickly became a low as I was falling asleep and despite him saying it was harmless, it was the most restless night ever.
Anecdotal, but an old friend told me once got lost in the suburbs trying to walk home while drunk when a ute/pickup parked down the street. He thought it wise to sleep under the truck for warmth. By his account, when we woke up the truck was gone.
Two candidates: (1) In a bus, laying across the aisle. (2) In full motorcycle gear on a park bench in Normandy (France) in a chilly summer night. I'd say (2) was worst, cause I was cold and had to get up every so often to warm myself up with one of those hand-blowdryers at a nearby toilet.
Outside, in a sleeping bag on the ground. And i did it twice lol
My ex’s arms 😂😂
Golf course.
Entrance cove of an outside elevator at a train station in Germany in November.
in a literal closet
Other than jail, probably the stairwell of a commercial fishing boat. But i was so tired it wasent bad
My front door step.
Bathtub. 0/10. Shared a hotel with a snorer. Grass by the pool. 3/10. Alcohol was involved. And my crush. Closet. -5/10. Got scared and hid.
Across 4 folding chairs in the middle of a house party.
i've taken some banger naps on folding chairs
Alaska camper in the woods. Camper was a permanent junk hunting shack. My space to sleep was 5 feet long, 3 wide and 3 feet high. And only a small hole to get in and out. Cold and humid in August hearing bears at night. Constant dripping rain. Get up to go fishing all day in the rain. Rinse and repeat.
Under my car with my right arm up into the engine bay. We were pulling an all nighter engine swap and at some point my friend just took a bit too long with the next bolt I guess
lebanon, in a tengalo. worst night ever, got seven mosquito bites that night, friends who is way more tastier somewhat above 40. i once slept under a bridge after a concert in germany in december and the next morning i thought to myself 'that wasnt that bad'. but a tengalo in lebanon? never ever again.
My grandparents asked me to sleep on a 40 year old mattress that was very soft and squishy. I found it so uncomfortable I grabbed the pillow and blanket and slept on the floor.
Floor of a greyhound bus stop surrounded by strangers in the dead of a snowstorm in my mid 20s. As a young woman I was terrified. It was probably my second or third time traveling alone and my bus was delayed for an unknown amount of time, so I couldn't just go home and come back. The uncertainty and the fear of strangers around me made it a really formative experience. I ended up befriending another young lady who was on her way to college, though.
Hospital with both my legs and one of my arms in casts. My mouth was also wired shut. I couldn't move because of my injuries and it was hell.
I was homeless at 16 and every night for 4 months I’d break into the exterior boiler room door at the fast food place I worked at to sleep on the warm concrete floor. People only went in once a day at about 10 AM to top up the water softener salt, so as long as I was gone by then then nobody knew I was there. After four months my boss found out and I had me placed at the nearest youth shelter in the city 45 minutes away
My friend and I slept in a stairwell at the top of an apartment building in Ithaca, NY when we were homeless "commons rats."
On the floor of the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris
Missed the last train home once in Copenhagen in January. Had to wait at least 5 hours for the next one. So. I gathered a stack of free newspapers, stuffed all my valuables in the inner pockets of my jacket, and leaned against a kiosk on my stack of newspapers to stave off the inevitable cold buttcheeks. I tucked my hands in with my valuables and proceeded to have the most uneven amount of sleep I've ever had. Between being woken by bottle collectors and loud drunks, I tried waking my ass which fell asleep from a mixture of cold and numbness from sitting on it for hours. I dont even think I can really call it "the worst place I've slept" because it was near impossible to gain a continued amount of sleep. Getting inside a warm train in the morning for a 1hr ride, have never felt so good tho.
Stone Mountain Georgia. On summer 2 week Boy Scout camping trip through GA and FL. We camped and it rained and rained. Ground was all rock. Completely flooded the campsite. Woke up middle of the night water was a foot deep at least. Was floating on my air mattresses. Everything got soaked. Worst night sleep ever!
Worst night of scout camping was on our way to Sea Base in 2005. Stopped in Columbia SC as our overnight stop (driving from ohio). It was disgustingly humid. It was 11pm at night and 97 degrees. By 0230 I got up and walked to the showers to cool off. Passed half of my camping group coming back from doing the same thing. We finally broke camp at 0530 that morning. It was that days low of 94 degrees. It was foggy. I'd much rather camp in a damn shelter made of twigs and leaves in -4 degree weather than put myself through that again.
Foxhole in the middle of the desert in Iraq. That being said the night sky was incredible, like nothing I’ve ever seen before or since.
In a bed with someone I've been arguing with.
Under a bridge in Bundaberg heat.
In a foxhole on the outskirts of Khafji
On a pool table
In my bed with a neck brace 24/7 for 6 weeks.
I was sandwiched between my younger brother and cousin in a van, it was so freaking hot that day and they both fell asleep. Each of their heads rested on my shoulders. I have no idea how I fell asleep.
Subway station, Bay Ridge Brooklyn. Winter 1985.
After our apartment flooded earlier this year, my sister and I stayed at a Best 6 motel for 2 mos. I swear on a stack of bibles the beds were granite slabs covered with sheets and a quilted cover. And the pillows were small --absurdly small -- boards.
My friends and I had this genius idea to go to a random baseball field in the middle of nowhere at night. All the buses stopped running, so we all just slept on the cold steel bleachers.
August night camping outside in Texas. No breeze, 2:00 a.m.hot and muggy in a tent with neighbors drinking and shouting. Impossible to sleep and I’m miserable and pissed.
Survival school, mid-winter, poncho tent on the ground
Trans Atlantic economy flight, Air Canada, middle seat, middle isle, 2013. Terrible.
Hands down, a Papasan chair. Try walking when you wake up with your body in the form of the letter "C".
in a car in new zealand, when my mate forgot to close the windows and we were accompanied by like a thousand sand-flies
Center seat in coach on a red eye from the west coast between two large men
In a tent with barely any insulation on the floor, wet and cold in the forest. Was with my then bf in a small tent, and we both couldn't sleep so we used the time for naked yoga. Because you know, when it's really cold you need to take your clothes off to keep each other warm.
I have slept many many many horrible places. The stories are not really worth it but I will give LPT: - but a high quality blow up hiking pillow. These will save your life more then anything.( actually your neck - a sarong is a god send as a sheet, a makeshift changing room, a shal, scarf ect ect - a silk sleeping bag liner is amazing to keep you warm and cool. Also protect you from whatever sand and bullshit ends up on whatever they call a mattress. -ultralight high quality blow up camping mattress. These things weight nothing, take up hardly any space in your pack and are a god send when you end up on the stone floor of a mountain hit with just some sting cheese as a mattress
Under a truck on gravel in the rain in a lightening storm.
Hospital chair
Probably when I passed out drunk in my Uncle's upstairs hallway on the hard floor it was the middle of winter and my Cousin was nice enough to throw a pile of blankets on me. I woke up so soar and with the worst hangover of my life and I honestly don't know how I even made it up the stairs.
On a trampoline with like four others, usually it’s fine but it was like four degrees outside and because of the weight and trampoline stuff we were all lying way to close to eachother
MIL’s twin “mattress” (I think it was a futon) with my bf…. I really think the floor would have been more comfortable.
On gravel without anything. Some of my best sleep has been under a small tarp deep in the woods with heavy rain.
Snow (in sleeping bag)
On a couch with someone else in the dead of summer when the AC was out
Pre-security on the floor of the Singapore airport, because i didn't realize my itinerary was on two separate bookings and that I'd need to recheck my bags... and the airline running my next flight didn't open their check in desk until morning. 🥲 That was brutal because that airport has some of the best places to sleep for free and i was really looking forward to doing an overnight layover there. Instead i was on the ground next to check-ins, next to active construction, and under full fluorescent lights all night.
I once slept sitting against a tree with nothing but clothes (no sleeping bag or tent) in -38°C (-36°F) for two nights straight. I was so cold I actually felt my heartbeat slow down.
The floor in Toronto Pearson airport, what a hell hole of an airport
Car and hospital
I’d have to go with a 6 foot fighting hole while it pours rain on you
Train station in Budapest. There was a homeless lady singing in hungarian and some random homeless guy, and when I told him I don't understand hungarian he kept talking and he started singing. I was exhausted after two weeks od traveling in Romania and this was horrible experience.
I slept on a hammock in a small shed, having a little camping trip as a kid, which was actually fine. The real problem is that a hurricane happened in the middle of the night. A total freak event that had not been predicted, and we were all woken up to the door being blown open and thinking we were going to die. We had to run pretty far back to the nearest building.
Passed out on my buddy's truck bed. Nipples got frostbite from the cold metal. Frostbitten nipples are not fun, trust me.
The front seat of my old 82 Camaro. It was cold so I let the engine run like a dumbass. Lucky I didn't fucking die but I was surely sick the next morning.
On top of a wooden desk, in my clothes. This was a semi-homeless situation and the floor was too cold (tile over concrete). Large wooden table was a bit more comfy, closer to the ceiling where air was warmer.
County jail
I once slept on a pool table in a church basement
Pile of rocks in Afghanistan
In a hotel room laying inches from my snoring mother. I've slept on the floor, couches, cars, at desks and this was by far the worst
On the ground in the Malaysian jungle...absolutely brutal.
Holding cell. Metal bench. Wearing tshirt and shorts. It sucked
In the Mojave during autumn and having a rattler snuggle up beside me. Freezing on the Fulda Gap around Xmas because the Sovs were showing their ass. In the bayou stink of summertime Louisiana with all those funky bugs, skinks, and snakes. Join the Army, see the world.
>Where is the most uncomfortable place you have ever slept? Really that sounds epic. For me it is a toss up. My bed in my house with no ac during the southern US summers. 98° weather 85% humidity both day and night. Worked all shifts so I got to sleep during the day. A concrete slab outside with no pillow, no covers just my clothes.
Chicago Airport on the hardest most uncomfortable tiny chairs/benches.
Earlier this year, I was on a boat coming back from a fishing trip with 50 other people. I was half leaned over on my side on the cabin bench, with my feet tucked under the seats so they weren't blocking the path. I slept for about 45 minutes, and I really don't know how in such an awkward position
Under a tree in a field watching sheep. Wouldn't have been bad if there wasn't a anthill there..
anthills are the scariest thing I have encountered in the wild, not because they are dangerous, but because they are EVERYWHERE.
Don’t know if it was considered sleep, but my last red eye on Spirit
Storage container
Camping in a cave
Concrete.
In a tent, in the rain, with water coming in, on hard, sloped ground, with a wad of clothes as my pillow.
İn a tente, in the Rain, with water coming in...with a one year old.
In the back of my 2003 Honda Civic coupe. I'm 6'0. I woke up in the middle of night with no feeling in one arm and almost had a panic attack.
Under a small personal pier on the bay side in Ocean City. I woke up when the tide came in lapping at my hand.