Where is the strangest place you have slept?
Competition with cash prizes!
Following the huge popularity of our recent article: What and where does one sleep and recover on?, we have decided to run a little competition as a reward for our readers brilliant stories. We are giving away $200 Cash and all you have to do is tell us about the strangest, funniest, scariest or most interesting place that you have slept or tried to sleep. A little bit of detail about why it was so strange or how you felt would be highly regarded!
Entries so far (and they are flooding in) have included:
- On the back of a motorbike (travelling on the highway)
- In a shopping trolley
- Under a coffee table
- In a tree
- On a ferris wheel
- On a washing machine
- On a Ferris Wheel
- In a kitchen cupboard
- On a hay stack with a goat as a pillow
- In an empty school classroom
- In a haunted house
- On a yacht that hit a whale
- On a trampoline
- In a chicken coop
- In a jail
- On a toilet
- In a dumpster
- In a bathtub (there has been a few of them!)
- At a party where I didn’t know anyone
- In a pig pen
- Under a truck
- In an a shack in the woods with a “friend”
- At a bus stop
And people ask me why I started this blog!!!! Our competition is being independently administered by Prizes.org. COMPETITION CLOSED
If you would rather just tell everyone about your experiences in the comments below – PLEASE FEEL FREE – I really look forward to reading your story 🙂
Witchie Poo says
Interesting site! I entered the contest…..hope I win.
Shaz says
great…thank you for entering
Ann Neal says
Great contest and great info on sleep! Really good website! Thanks for the tips! Attached is my story.
The strangest place I ever slept was in a raft on a lake while camping. We had lost our paddles/oars while jumping in the lake to cool off. We made the mistake of using some old wooden oars that sank instead of the plastic ones that came with the raft. It was already getting dark and the sun was setting and we were in the middle of the lake, drifting farther and farther away from our campsite. We tried to use our arms to paddle our way back, but after a couple hours of getting nowhere, battling waves and current, we were exhausted. So, my fiance and I just laid there staring up at the stars and making jokes about how stupid and naive we were and how only we could manage this. We joked and laughed about it for a while, then just talked. To be honest, it was so soothing and peaceful, and romantic in a way. But just the whole atmosphere, the warm weather, the perfect sky filled with thousands of stars and the consistent sound of the water hitting the raft was relaxing. The rocking of the boat wasn’t that thrilling, but it was tolerable. Regardless, we both fell asleep lying on our backs and watching the stars above. It was actually the best sleep I had ever gotten. We woke up to the sound of the raft hitting the sand on the shore, we had finally drifted to shore. Granted it was clear on the other side of the lake where we needed to be, miles away from our campsite, and the fisherman that was putting his boat in was rather surprised when we popped up out of the raft, but he was nice enough to give us a ride back to our campsite on the other side of the lake. I’ve since bought a nature clock that has the waves sound on it. I sleep like a baby now! Zzzzzzzzzz……………..
Ann Neal says
And Why DID you start the blog? Let’s hear Your story! 🙂
Shaz says
Hi Ann, thank you..I added a bit more detail to the about me section…thanks for the suggestion 🙂
Alex says
The strangest place I slept was in the army, it wasn’t a strange place but more like a strange way to sleep.
While in boot camp we always wanted to sleep so we invented very creative ways to sleep.
If we were with a partner on guard duty
We had to be standing so one of us used to put the helmet on the vest in front to put the chin on it and lean against something or tie himself to something and go to sleep, we would take turns.
Or we would sleep in large pipes and the partner would wake the other one up if he had to.
Hope you enjoyed reading… 🙂
Shaz says
thank you Alex…wow I have never slept like that..I bet it would be challenging!!!
danny garcia says
My First Entry
The strangest place I’ve slept on is not at all strange or funny, (ok maybe a little) but it is special.
Perhaps the circumstance says more than the actual place itself for it is striking in its “average everydayness”.
It is from a bed cushion I laid on the floor which I salvaged from one of our ruined huts. The roofing was already leaking in the hut, so I took it upon myself to get this mattress rather than let the termites appropriate it for themselves.
I washed it, brushed it and let it dry for two days a few months ago and now it is right here behind me in all its unseemly and distraught glory.
Despite its diminutive size, my wife, children (4 of em!) and I can fit quite snugly on it. Sometimes the wayward foot gets placed on one’s face and there’s a lot of grumbling and shoving, but nevertheless, it is a fitting reminder of a chapter which I know one day, we would remember fondly and laugh at.
Oh what is so strange about all 6 of us sleeping, on this ordinary, humble, small and smelly bed cushion?
It’s about the memory, it’s about the humility of staying close to the ground, it’s about being able to snuggle uncomfortably with one’s children while you still can. One day, they’ll be old enough and (hopefully) successful enough to buy their own houses and bed cushions. They’ll give you a call, visit you on Easter or Christmas with their own families and then we’ll talk about how – once upon a time – there was this mattress…
danny garcia says
I slept in a dream.
It all started with a hazy view of the world. Familiar faces with blank expressions surrounded me as if wanting to say something.
Yet they were different in some way.
In retrospect, I find it funny how I sometimes just can’t realize that I was in a dream.
I was afraid of these people and what they wanted. Yet I do not know what it is exactly they wanted.
There were also strange faces which surrounded me. Their movements were all coordinated, as if they were controlled by one mind.
Like in most of the other “chase” dreams that I had, my movements were slow. Moreover, I was running in a strangely familiar place, which upon later realization, is really a combination of different places in real life. Like having a room in my house, the garden of my mom’s house and the garage of my sister’s house. It was a place of mongrel realities.
Floating occurred and I was aware of it. My thought then was just to relax. If I ran too hard, I stopped and fell towards the people who are chasing me. Yet it almost always ended like this. Me floating, then falling, and then hitting my head on the rocky ledge of a waterfall.
This did not wake me up. The scenery just changes. Suddenly I was laying on a field of yellow flowers dreamily contemplating about nothing. There I wished that I would sleep, there I wished that I would be in a dream and fly. So I closed my eyes and I was in a barren place of metal. A place of hazy glows in the dark with no humanity in sight.
I had the strong feeling to look for other people. To look for the familiar faces – any face. Yet there was none. I can run as fast as I can, yet it brought me to the same place of nothingness.
Then the dogs barked, my eyes opened and I was awake.
Shaz says
Wow..very intriguing….yes dreams are amazing
Stacie says
The strangest place I slept was on a beach in Fort Lauderdale. I was there with my chorus that I sing with at an international contest. My mom was a member also. At that time I was around 28 and single. Another gal and myself met 2 guys that had a yacht we partied all night with them, well it got to be around 4am and we didn’t want to wake up our roomies at the hotel so we grabbed a beach chair and slept on it….waking up to people staring at us since we were fully clothed and didn’t have our suites on. I’m sure they thought we were weirdos. But it was very memorable.
Shaz says
very original Stacie!
barbara says
I love the premise of this site—very interesting and fun…
barbara says
i entered both the banner and essay contest …!
Shaz says
thank you Barbara
Jenaye says
Thanks to have a giant and I meant Giant family and being one of the smallest because im petite I’ve slept on our pool table for a week straight and then in the summer I wad exiled to the foalty that was attached to our boat…..i almost drowned but family time is worth it right?! Ha who knows what’s in store next time we get together
nick says
I’ve posted my story at “PRIZES”, hope you liked it.
Shaz says
Thank you Nick…I love it 🙂
Patty Briant Elliott says
This is a really cool web site.
Shaz says
Thank you Patty
Shaz says
Thanks Patty
Doc says
Everything we do in life should be like an experiment. The more experiments you make the better and the more wonderful things you discover. At least you did not have to go far for your breakfast Francine.
Robyn Teunissen says
This is really interesting. I hope you have one on sleep walking too.
Francine Rothhammer says
Yes they do, I slept ed walked Right in the chicken pen and woke up sunrise sleeping next to my chickens. Lord its was the first time I have ever did anything like that, My dad told me he seen me go out there, but he did not want to disturb me, he wanted to see how long it took for me to wake up,
Shaz says
Wow Francine that is bizzare and quite funny your Dad thought of it like a bit of an experiment!!!
Bruno Wilmot says
There is certainly a thing romantic concerning the idea of starting a brand new life and walking away into the sunset, but for many individuals it is just a daydream
Francine Rothhammer says
Hello, I made it off from work and now I see if this thing works , there is a lot of weird places that people have slept at, Its all to funny , but I have posted a true story about me sleeping in the chicken coop, The moral of the story is I slept ed walked out there in the chicken coop and must had decided to stay for awhile until sunrise,Guess I never learned how to crow like a rooster.Luckily I did not get poop on either lol. Thank god.
amanda says
Very interesting contest…I will definitely send some personal experiences:-)
Mari says
Yay! I am already participating!
Stevo says
Shaz – this is the awsomist and easiest comp ever! I reckon every other night i’m sleeping somewhere strange! I travel a lot hahahaha but I will submit a few stories from my younger days when I wasn’t so precious and fussy about where I put my head down or where I woke up 🙂
Francine Rothhammer says
I can,t hardly even Imagine here of some of the places where these people has slept, I think I would half to be drunk off from my but and don,t know what I am doing to begin with. Its so funny with some of the entries are so bizarre here. Hope you all have a wonderful evening and may god bless you all.