Where is the strangest place you've fallen asleep?
It's hard to control yourself from falling asleep sometimes, your head is bobbing up and down and you literally need toothpicks to keep your eyes open. But where is the strangest place you've fallen asleep?
To celebrate the end of this year’s National Bed Month, Octaspring has commissioned a survey polling 3,000 UK residents, looking into the strangest and most wacky places people have slept.
Whilst many people know the importance of getting a good night’s sleep, over a third of those surveyed admit to sleeping in a strange and uncomfortable place – perhaps reinforcing the fact that the majority of the UK, struggle to get a good night’s sleep, thus, leaving the British notorious as a ‘nation of insomniacs’.
Of those surveyed the 10 most popular places people tend to drop off include:
- On public transport (bus’/tubes/trains)
- In night clubs
- While on the toilet
- While at work
- In the bath
- At the cinema
- While at the beach
- On the bathroom floor
- While in a meeting
- At the wheel of a car
Entertainingly, some of the stranger venues that the nation finds themselves sleeping in include:
- On a bale of hay
- In a skip
- In a coal mine
- In a brothel
- While on a bouncy castle
- On a staircase
- While in an exam
- At a bank
- In a cemetery
- While at a football match
Interestingly, a higher percentage of men admit to having slept in a strange place, when compared to woman – 40% and 31% respectively – perhaps indicating that women feel their home comforts are too nice to give up.
John Bramm, Managing Director at Dormeo Octaspring comments: "While some of the answers in the survey are obviously down to evening hi-jinks, we were really shocked at the amount of people struggling to stay awake during the day. Some of the strange places are of course very amusing, but others are actually really worrying, such as at work, or worse, while at the wheel."