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Never. That seems entirely impossible for me so far in my life.

People talk about a TV show or whatever being "good to fall asleep to." I can't relate at all. I basically could never fall asleep to a TV show. Let alone at a speech, lecture, concert, play, movie, class, service, poetry recitation, meditation circle, hoedown, etc. Doesn't matter how boring a speech it is or how sleep deprived I am. It's just never going to happen. (Hell. I've never neglected to turn the light off before falling asleep. Like, literally never.)

To be fair, I suppose I am excluding times from before my first memories, so I guess as a toddler things might have been different. Also, maybe as I get older, that'll eventually change? Who knows.

I think I'm unusual in the extent to which I'm unlikely to fall asleep in such a situation. It's my lame superpower. Lol.

Giving one or listening to one? The answer is yes to at least one of those.

Never had the opportunity as I've never given a speech. I'm not the sort to be giving speeches. I'm quiet and terse.

I have fallen asleep in other circumstances like the cinema, watching tv with my wife, etc.

I haven't completely fallen asleep on a speech but I have been close, when I was in college there was some talks/speeches and I had to battle to keep my eyes open, and I couldn't stop yawning, but won the battle and didn't fall.

my girlfriend-now-wife wasn't amused with my victory and said something like I was yawning too much and I should have showed more respect to this special invited speaker from somewhere I don't remember...