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.
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.
The jet engine noise puts me to sleep. Those sweet delta waves.
For real. I sometimes put plane engine noise at home as background noise to fall asleep
I fly jetBlue or Southwest; no Delta for me.
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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That’s super funny. Window seat is smart if you’re having trouble falling asleep.
I usually do okay leaning back (I guess my head is small enough to not spill over the sides of the tri-fold headrest).
Drugs
I am not sure if this is a joke, but many people take something that makes them sleepy. I can’t do it.
Because your doc won’t prescribe you anything? Not sure what you mean by “can’t” do it?
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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!
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.
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.
White noise. The white noise knocks me out almost immediately.
Sensory reduction (earplugs, facemask) and some benadryl.
I used to fly a lot. I’m at the point where I board the plane, sit, close my eyes, and wake up when we start pulling into the gate at our destination.
I don’t use a neck pillow or anything. Usually just grab a water bottle before boarding, because my mouth gets crazy dry.
Headphones in, zone out, drift off, wake up with a crooked neck.
Flip down the tray table and lay your arms and head on it. That’s the only way I can do it
I’m too afraid I’ll break the table
This comment made me reflexively call my chiropractor
Tell you GP that you have anxiety when you fly. They’ll prescribe a benzo.
Enjoy your snooze.
Then you start snoring and people wake you up anyway.
My last flight had a massive snorer. It was pretty funny at first. At hour 8 it was insanely frustrating. He was woken up four times by various people. Went straight back to snoring.
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.
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.
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
