I fell asleep while playing the other night. I was playing for about an hour and I was pretty tired after work and I fell into kind of a trance, but I kept on playing. I can't be sure but I think it was some of the best playing I've ever accomplished. My girlfriend came in and startled me, she was like what the hell are you doing, I was playing with my eyes closed with a weird look on my face.

Anyway I thought I would share. Has this ever happened to any of you? I thought it was way cool and I was very relaxed. I don't recall ever hearing this happen to anyone, but I have heard people describe getting into a certain zone while playing, maybe this is what they meant.

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Haha, yes, I've experienced this. Too often I just fall back onto my bed when to "rest my back" when I'm playing, but I always end up dozing off. One time, however, I decided to "rest" my eyes while I was playing, and, OF COURSE, being that guitar is a sort of "sleeping pill" for me at night, I was only half-conscious as I was playing.
It was awesome.

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I do this all the time..i work long hours and i often get heavy eyed while playing on week days...your right its kinda cool being that relaxed and playing from who knows where..


Cheers
Bill

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I get a stabbing pain in my chest and wake up thinking I'm having a heart attack only to find that I was leaning my chest on the strat's horn.

I've also fallen asleep playing my amp but I realized it because I started jumping from You Really Got me to Panama and back.

Anyway, I do it all the time and plan on doing it tonight. Hopefully I'll get a couple of songs in. I'm tired.

Be warned that is exactly how Chet Atkins died.

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[quote="mustangtoo"]I get a stabbing pain in my chest and wake up thinking I'm having a heart attack only to find that I was leaning my chest on the strat's horn.quote] , thats funny.

I do it all the time, very relaxing feeling...Although, when I do do it, an I'm really tired i just fall asleep and stop playing together, and lay on the couch, with my guitar in my hands, looking like some homeless person who just drank a bottle of gin.....

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I've passed out with the guitar on my lap many a times but that had nothin to do with being tired for the most part.

CC

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Happened to me once a few years ago in early summer. I'd had some red wine and I lay on the couch strumming away.

I fell asleep at some point and it wasn't until hours later that I woke up. Still in that half awake state, I felt cold, like I had to go seriously bad, what the heck was the elephant on my chest and ... what IS that loud humming sound???

Eventually, when I was fully awake it all became clear. It was 3:30 AM and I'd left the sliding door wide open. It may have been a balmy 68 when I fell asleep but it sure wasn't now. Realizing that, I also realized my Strat was draped across me and of course the humming was the amp.

But there still was that problem of having to go real bad and not quite having the energy to get up. I must have dozed off a couple times because I didn't get up in the end until almost 4:30.

(Not sure why I bothered since I had to be back up at 6:30 again ...)

Haha, I pass out with my guitar on my lap ALL the time. Mom or my sis always laugh about it the next day, saying I was still clutching my dime or my fingers were still in the shape of a chord.

Oh, and I like to use coins as picks--I've always HATED that sound as the plastic of the pick slaps against the strings And, yes, I HAVE tried metal picks, but they seem like they're too bulky to handle for my liking. I started using coins because I was looking for a way out of the plastic-y sound of the pick, and when I heard that Brian May used a six-pence, I was all like, "Haha, hey!! I should try coins!!", and I did. I like to use dimes because they're the perfect size--not too big to hang down and strum a string by mistake, and not too short to miss the mark. I've experimented with many differnt types of coins from many different places around the world, but I always come back to a dime. I used a twenty-pence for a while when I first started using coins, though, and I sometimes still use it.

Anyway, woah.
Didn't mean to write a novel about coins. LOL
Sorry.

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I can't say I've ever fell asleep playing the guitar but the other night I fell asleep while on the forum and my wife came in and found me face and eyes into the keyboard.

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OH my God, that just made me laugh SO hard.

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You weren't playing loud enough...lol-

Happens to me about every other night man!

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Guilty

I was playing rhythm for my brother once (just a simple E C A power chord progression) while I was really exhausted, and next thing I know my brother is like "Why is your strumming all off rhythm? Are you falling asleep?"

I was. haha

Many times my wife has woken me slumped over on the floor sitting Indian style with my guitar in hand.