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.
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.
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?
I miss the whole flight every time… Miss the beverages, snacks, the announcements… They wake me to put my seat in upright position, I’m asleep again before we hit the ground,… When the wheels touch the ground it shocks me back awake cause I think we are still flying. All my life it’s been like this. I can’t understand how someone can’t sleep on plane. NOTE : I always get a window seat so I can lean my head on the side of the plane
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.
Trtl is the only thing that has worked for me.
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.
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!
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.
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.
So I actually have a lot of trouble sleeping, and have restless legs and periodic limb movement disorder. I also have pretty bad diagnosed ADHD and brown noise absolutely helps calm me down… So that engine noise? Puts me right to sleep I don’t know what it is about it.
Also I usually smoke a bunch of weed before going to the airport so that helps.
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?
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
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
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.
This comment made me reflexively call my chiropractor
Idk its pretty easy I’m usually tired and bored as shit
