Rootsy pretty much summed it up.
do you mean sleep IN the stand or sleep at the bottom of the tree?? just curious, Ive heard people say theyve done that always wondered.
I've slept3 nights in the middle of a huge swail field once. It paid off with a nice 9 pointer

. I knew there were 2 nice bucks bedding in the stuff almost everynight, but there was no way I could get close enough to them in the morning. Hard to explain....just a strange deal. So I decided to sleep with them. Camo sleeping bag and pillow and lay down in the thick brush.

The 3rd morning he was creeping through the swail back to bed down right at first light and I shot him 60 yards away.
That was back when I was young and stupid and didnt' have a wife