I can fall asleep almost anywhere. I routinely fall asleep in the break room at work. Once, I was helping a friend fix his car, and I fell asleep on his garage floor when he went inside to get water.
But in a hot metal tube tearing through the sky, with my neck all kinked? Get out of here, man.
neck pillow, eye mask, noise-cancelling headphones, and not comfortably
Add some alcohol to that list and you’ve got my regular routine
I use ear plugs then put on nose cancelling headphones.
Complete silence. I didn’t hear the crying baby that was screaming for the 10 hour flight until the last hour lol.
Same here, except I use ear plugs as well as headphones
I am gonna be honest with you here. Some of us born with a gift, given directly from god. They can sleep, without thinking embarrassing memories, without using any medicine, without finding comfort itself. But you and I… and many others… we are not welcomed to this dream world of easy sleepers. We are not gifted.
While many times it is a gift it is a curse if we suppose to be with someone. We go on a road trip? You barely close the door I am asleep. We ride buss I am asleep as soon as I sit down. Air plane I wake up 8 hours later. Hang out in bed I am gone.
I have to fight to stay awake but that is in vain. I will lose the fight five minutes later.
I usually have trouble falling asleep and can’t just take a nap in the afternoon - never could.
But on a plane I’ll be asleep minutes after the engines started and I’ll happily sleep for hours through an entire flight. Something about the engine noise and movement of the cabin is very soothing to me. Same for trains, busses, cars.
And yet I’ll regularly lie in my bed awake desperately trying to fall asleep…
Sounds like you might benefit from some white noise sleeping at home. Can play it through your phone or even an old radio set to some quiet static.
My partner is one of these. I have photos of him sleeping on planes, trains, boats and cars. He can be worried about something, or stressed about tomorrow, and still fall asleep within 5 minutes of laying down. I am so jealous.
LOL. I cracked up
It is impossible for me to sleep on a plane, I have tried everything. In the end, I just have flight anxiety, and there is nothing I can do.
Did you not read past the title? They literally state that he has no trouble falling asleep in situations that most would have trouble with and their only issue seems to be planes.
Someone lacks sense of humor
No, you’re just not funny.
Drugs
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Pure exhaustion from all the “hurry up and wait” of airport bullshit.
By the time I’ve gotten out of bed, gotten ready, travelled to the airport, dragged all my shit through the airport, unpacked and repacked half of it through security, boarded the plane … my body just kinda gives up on being awake.
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Like a baby. Just like a baby.
I’ve actually slept through a complete landing, disembarkation of half the plane, then taking off. Woke up completely unaware we did our stopoff already.
I may have been recovering from a hangover, but whatevs.
Like a baby. Just like a baby.
Waking up crying every 2 hours? I guarantee that whoever came up with that saying to mean sleeping well never had kids.
I struggled to sleep on planes even before I had an energetic little kid to keep under control. I don’t like sleeping while sitting up so I only ever manage to sleep lightly for a couple of hours at most.
If it’s hot in the plane, that might be blocking you from sleeping. Personally I’m always cold in planes and fall asleep relatively easily both on planes and elsewhere.
It also helps to be jet-lagged. Knocks you out right quick :P Only applies to return trips though.
Probably why they put the temperature a bit lower than expected, sleeping means people using less oxygen, using toilets less, drinking less, and moving around less. I’m sure the stewards and stewardesses prefer more people to sleep so they have a less hectic workload.
Noise cancelling headphones and the antihistamine tablets that say “will cause drowsiness do not operate machinery or drive” washed down with a pint of beer. Sleep for 6 hours no problems.
No idea but as SOON as we start to taxi I am out like a light…
I also fall asleep at the dentist so maybe it’s just me?
I’m also a dentist sleeper and fall asleep on planes as soon as the engines get going. We out here.
No way! You cannot possibly fall asleep holding your mouth agape!
on my first trip to SE Asia I stsyed up overnight and planned to sleep the whole time on the plane. This was advice I was given to help combat jet lag for 12 hour difference of time. Turns out…I can’t sleep on planes. I arrived delirious and. borderline hallucinating. I slept like 18 hours once at the hotel. I now power through the whole flight with caffeine and videogames after taking a nap at home as close to flight time as possible.
When traveling between far time zones, I do my best to arrive at my destination at night, so I can immediately go to sleep. I can’t really sleep on planes, so it’s easier to force myself to stay awake for 24-30 hours and just sleep when I get there.
I traveled to India in 2018, which was a 12.5 hour time zone difference from where I lived at the time. I had my flight all scheduled to arrive back at home at night like I like. But my flight got cancelled due to a tropical storm. I ended up having the airline find me another flight that didn’t have the layover where the tropical storm was, so I actually got home sooner… But now in the morning. I couldn’t sleep on the plane no matter how hard I tried. So I arrived back at home at 10 AM, which felt like night time to my body. And this was after essentially going a whole day without sleep already. As soon as I got home I passed out and slept all day. Worst thing I could have done. I went pretty much a whole week of sleeping all day and laying in bed all night with my eyes wide open. It wasn’t until day 7 back home that I started feeling somewhat normal again.
Worst one for me was a business trip to Asia where I worked Friday, went home for a couple hours and then headed to the airport for a 1AM flight. 13 hours on the flight where I don’t sleep at all, landed at my destination at 5AM local time. Had to then kill an entire day and pushed through till 10PM before going to bed. I think it was around 40 hours between beds.
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I also stay overnight and plan on sleeping during the flight. Except I actually sleep like a baby. I am usually having trouble staying awake for the dinner.
Last flight to Japan the plane was mostly empty, so all of my company we moved to empty rows, we each had 3 seats to ourselves and slept lying down like in a bed. Best flight ever. Also did the same in the return flight.
Yup. The only time I actually slept at all was when I laid across three seats. It’s only happened once
Only time I could ever sleep on a plane was after a business trip were I worked 18 hours days for almost 2 weeks. I was so tired I fell asleep right after boarding and buckling in. Not even takeoff and landing woke me up. Flight attendant shook me awake. LOL
Flip down the tray table and lay your arms and head on it. That’s the only way I can do it
I’m 5’8" and that doesn’t work for me, there’s not enough room between me and the seat in front of me to fold all the way over onto the table before my head hits the seat in front of me.
I’m too afraid I’ll break the table
Hot? I’m usually cold on airplanes. That would definitely make a difference for me.
Neck pillow for the neck kinks. I don’t like the horseshoe shaped ones though, I like the trtl brand style. Expensive, but it became worth it when I took a job requiring a couple flights per month minimum.
While I’m usually also freezing on the plane I noticed that Japanese Airlines cranks up the Heat during the night.
There’s such a huge difference between airlines and their post-meal temperature. BA will go into full sauna-mode. Cathay goes to freezer.
I had this conversation with some friends this week and we all swore that planes used to be freezing cold, but now they’re all hot. It’s crazy.
Trtl is the only thing that has worked for me.
Can you fall asleep in a car? You know those metal cages tearing down roads where more people get killed than in those metal tunbes tearing through the sky…
A car is far more comfortable and less noisy than a plane.
If you’re comparing the comfort of a car to the comfort of a plane, you must be riding in the rich people seats.
This is a comfort issue. I don’t care about getting killed.
Oh. Calling if a metal tube tearing through the sky made me think you objected more to the concept than the comfort, despite your kinked neck reference. Guess I misread.
I probably could have been more clear, too.
White noise. The white noise knocks me out almost immediately.
At some point, the seats stopped leaning far back enough so that gravity kept my head in decline. That way I could sleep. Now that they don’t lean back far enough, my head keeps dropping forward, so I constantly am kept in a state or awake.
Hey a neck pillow so you can tilt it to the side.
Neck pillows make it worse because it forces my head further forward.
