Sleep in a Hostel

“The very first night I stayed in a hostel I was incredibly jetlagged and slept like a rock (which is very unlike me). I woke up and peered over the edge of the bed to find all my roommates awake, several hostel staff, and 3 EMTs in the room, loading someone onto a stretcher. I had absolutely slept through someone passing out, waking up, trying to get up again, having heart palpitations, and passing out again and then being attended by emergency services. It apparently had been 30+ minutes since everything started and I slept through it all. When my head emerged, one of the roommates was like "oh, thank god, we were about to ask them to check on you too because we were having trouble believing you were sleeping through all that!”

“In reality, I actually slept with the sleep sac pulled completely over my face for two reasons. One, I did not want to have my face come in contact with the bed. And two, (my main reason), I have a huge fear of waking up and having someone staring back at me. Since I was in a room with six other strangers, every time I closed my eyes to fall asleep, I kept picturing some random person sticking their head through my closed curtains. So I pulled my sleep sac over my entire face so that they could not see me.”