It is a comon dream/nightmare to go to work naked without noticing. Is there any record of anyone actually having done this without realising? It would seem almost impossible, but maybe a sleep-walking state might make it possible.
To a lesser degree, do people sometimes forget to dress for work, and turn up in pajamas or missing pants or skirt simply due to absent mindedness.
One time my boss conducted a 90-minute meeting with his fly open. That was pretty funny.
You know the related nightmare where you show up at school naked. Well, it practically happened to me IRL. Here is the short version.
I lived in a dorm right in the middle of my university’s campus right on the main quad and across from the univeristy venter. I also had a sleep-walking problem. One night, I went to bed extremely sleep-deprived from studying late several nights before. The next thing I knew, I was standing right in the middle of the grassy quad in nothing but my bikini underware (I am a guy). I was only half-awake so my mind wasn’t functioning that well and I started to panic (hard). The only thing on my mind was to get somewhere, anywhere. I took off running for the University Center Building and made it inside. It was open 24 hours and I saw a few maintenance people around so I ran past a few of them and into the bathroom. After I was in the bathroom, I started to come to my senses and realize that I had a problem. I also didn’t know why or how I got out of my dorm room and didn’t know if I would be able to get back in. I put off the inevitable for about an hour, get up my strength, and took a mad dash out of my building, across the quad, up two flights of stairs, and back into my dorm room. It turns out that it was about 7:00 am and there were tons of staff and a few students already roaming around.
You wear a bikini, Shagnasty?
There are some people I work with that I dream of coming to work naked…does that count?
Now this is why I asked to leave my last place of employment 
I heard about a prostitute who had nightmares about going to work with her clothes on. 
I’ve known several people who’ve managed to come to work in their slippers, so that at least can happen. I’ve also known people who managed to get to work in wildly mismatching garments (button-down work shirt with sweatpants) and I’ve suspected they slept in their sweatpants.
However, I don’t think you could get all the way to work naked. The temperature difference between the inside and the outside of your house might be the final wake-up call. And the uncomfortable feeling of bus-seat on bare skin.
Gaaaah, Shagnasty–you lived out a recurrent nightmare of mine. Except for the bikini underwear and being a guy part. In my nightmare, I’m completely naked and have driven all the way to school and am walking down the hall when I realize I’m totally naked.
I’ve never gone anywhere in real life naked before, but I did rush out to get the paper early one morning wearing only the not-very-long T-shirt I sleep in. I noticed a slight increase in the breeze about halfway across the front yard. Luckily, we live in a quiet neighborhood and no one was out and about to see my impromtu peepshow performance.
What really bugs me about those dreams is that I never learn. You’d think I’d say, “Hey, wait a minute! I’m back in high school naked again?! I must be dreaming!” But no, I fall for it every time.
Now that I work from home, I actually can say that I have gone to work naked. Usually it’s when I get a suprise early morning overseas call or when the phone rings when I am getting out of the shower. I just run across the hall to get the call and just like that I am working in the nude.
Haj
I sleep naked, and I’m always naked in my dreams. This made me go hmmm, so I looked it up. Seems like many people who sleep naked dream naked.
How about you?
Peace,
mangeorge
Yep, I almost always dream I’m naked whenever I sleep naked. It seems that with practice I’ve gotten more comfortable about it in my dreams, though.
I almost went to class in my bathrobe (over my clothes, instead of a coat) in college once. Fortunately, there was a full-length mirror on the back of the door, so I caught myself on my way out of my dorm room. Does that count for something?
This isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but when I was a freshman, the Physics I tests were held at some ungodly hour (8 a.m.?). You’d inevitably see at least one or two people show up wearing bathrobes or pajamas.
Bippy:
Start wearing something under that damned kilt! It’s making you weird.(er)
The queen asked the leftenant if anything is worn under the kilt. He gave a snappy reply, “no your majesty, everything is in perfect working order.”
badum-tish
Come now, it is a reasonable question. Many people have nightmares about going to work or school naked. Yet it seems something allmost impossible to happen in real life. It is strange that we fear something that pretty much doesn’t happen. The dream isn’t that you go to work and somehow lose your clothing, which could happen in a bizarre accident I guess, but that you somehow forget to wear clothing before going to work. It seems strange to me that in a dream you forget to do something which people just don’t forget to do in real life.
The idea that it happens when you sleep naked is interesting, it would make sense that you are dreaming of work, but you are also aware that you are currntly naked, and the too combine to make the common nightmare scenario.
And b.t.w. I always wear at least socks and shoes ‘under’ my kilt
My girlfriend once showed up at work still wearing her pajama bottoms. Being that she’s a university professor, that was a bit of a problem.
I had a student go into the ladies’ room to change out of her band uniform and into her regular clothes. She came out without her jeans on. She really was in high school and walking down the hall with no pants. Not exactly, naked though, since she had a shirt and underwear.
And for your next question, no, I was in the Band Hall at the time.