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.
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.
First you find a comfortable position. Sometimes a pillow helps. Then close your eyes.
Failed at step 1
Sensory reduction (earplugs, facemask) and some benadryl.
Headphones in, zone out, drift off, wake up with a crooked neck.
I used to not be able to sleep on airliners, but then I got a job that required I fly on one once a week. By far the best way to make time pass fast.
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?
The clouds are pretty. But speaking from experience, connecting flights/long flights will just let you drop in and out due to exhaustion. You will randomly wake up because of the weird positioning of your neck like 5 times. Heaphones help a lot to sleep. But I conclude, quality sleep can be found on airport floors(not joking).
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.
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.
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.
Weird, my neck pillow makes it easier to lay my head to either side.
It props it to the side, but my head drops forward anyway because I’m not leaned back far enough. Maybe I just have a heavy head?
White noise. The white noise knocks me out almost immediately.
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
I’m 6’4" (193cm). I don’t.