Byron Bay toddler Cruze Johnston sleeps anywhere but his bed

A toddler has become famous online for falling asleep anywhere but in his crib, including shelves and on top of the family dog.

Two-year-old Cruze Johnston proved he will sleep anywhere and everywhere in his family’s Bryon Bay home with mum Kate Johnston, 22, sharing his strange napping spots on TikTok .

Cô nói: “Một đêm nọ, tôi đến kiểm tra Cruze trong cũi và thấy anh ấy đang ngủ dưới bàn thay đồ.

‘Tôi đánh thức anh ấy dậy và hỏi ‘anh đang làm gì vậy?’ và anh ấy nhìn tôi và cười.

‘The next night he did the same thing and then from then on, every single nap and bedtime he got more and more creative and found weird places to sleep.’

Mrs Johnston said little Cruze has fallen asleep ‘in his wardrobe, behind a chair, on shelves and on a swing’.

‘The craziest place I found him was in a cupboard,’ she said. ‘He’d taken all of his shoes and things out of the bottom shelf and then closed the door and went to sleep. He even falls asleep on our pet dog, Hercules.

‘It can sometimes take me a few minutes to find him.’

Mrs Johnston started posting daily updates documenting the funniest places Cruze had chosen to sleep on her Instagram page to the delight of friends and family.

In January she decided to take Cruze’s unusual sleeping habits to TikTok where her first video gained over 4.5million views.

‘People love seeing where Cruze ends up sleeping,’ she said.

‘I even had responses from people saying that they did the same as a child and others were commenting telling me Cruze must have been a cat in a previous life.

‘People just thought it was hilarious.’

Cruze has since watched the video several times and is particularly entertained by his own antics. 

‘He watches the videos and laughs at himself,’ Mrs Johnston said. ‘He thinks he’s quite funny.’

Mrs Johnston revealed that Cruze is a good sleeper and can conk out anywhere because he is so active during the day.

She said: ‘He’s so busy and just doesn’t stop running and climbing which is why he’s so worn out by the end of the day.

‘He loves any game with a ball and is just on the go 24/7.’

Cruze’s mum also puts his good sleeping habits down to his time at the Tresillian Sleep School where he received training to learn how to fall asleep.

She explained: ‘As a baby, Cruze was a bad sleeper as I would be up with him throughout the night.

‘So, when he was eight months old, I took him to a sleep training school for a week which taught him to sleep in a cot.

‘It was fantastic and ever since, he’s been a fabulous sleeper – he’s just anywhere but his cot.’

During the boy’s irregular sleep patterns, Mrs. Johnston and her husband, Bryce Johnston, 22, bought their son a bed to encourage him to sleep through the night and nap in it. This has so far proven effective.

“We decided to buy Cruze a suitable bed to see if he would sleep better in it and it seems to have worked,” Ms Johnston said.

‘He initially slept on the rug next to him when we first put it in his room but now, he will happily sleep on it.

‘However, we enjoyed his fun phase while it lasted, it became as much a game for us as it was for him – every time I napped I thought “I wonder tonight Where will he choose to sleep?