[BobbyP]

Sometimes I get drowsy when I'm driving — and then of course I either stop or get some caffeiene or stay home or whatever. HOWEVER, I wonder if anyone else finds this extremely frustrating and annoying when you think of all the times you've been lying in bed and can't fall asleep, and yet here you are in a moving vehicle with noise and distractions and sunlight and feeling like you could drop right off to sleep. Why can't that happen when I WANT to fall asleep?? 🙁

[Martin Reed]

I know that studies have stated that driving sleepy is just as dangerous as driving drunk (http://www.insomnialand.com/blog/a-sleepy-driver-might-as-well-be-a-drunk-driver/) – that being said, it's definitely an inconvenience when sleep finally decides to find you at the one time it's not convenient!

Maybe it's something to do with the monotony or relaxing nature of driving? Perhaps they need to make 'insomniac seats' in addition to child seats so insomniacs can get a good night's sleep in the back seat of their own cars?!

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[Tommy ToXen]

'Martin' wrote on '15:

I know that studies have stated that driving sleepy is just as dangerous as driving drunk (http://www.insomnialand.com/blog/a-sleepy-driver-might-as-well-be-a-drunk-driver/) – that being said, it's definitely an inconvenience when sleep finally decides to find you at the one time it's not convenient!

Maybe it's something to do with the monotony or relaxing nature of driving? Perhaps they need to make 'insomniac seats' in addition to child seats so insomniacs can get a good night's sleep in the back seat of their own cars?!

Driving while sleepy is actually the most common cause of traffic related deaths, even more so than drink driving. More people crash, or run somebody over, by falling asleep at the wheel than they do just by having a few pints.

On a lot of roads in Britain now you'll see signs, especially on the M1 up here, “Tired? Pull over and have a nap!” etc, because the amount of people that have fallen asleep at the wheel and gone crashing into the barricades is ridiculous

[MarinaFournier]

'Martin' wrote on '15:

Maybe it's something to do with the monotony or relaxing nature of driving? Perhaps they need to make 'insomniac seats' in addition to child seats so insomniacs can get a good night's sleep in the back seat of their own cars?!

That would mean someone else would have to be driving, you know.

Many parents of infants-to-toddlers do some errands right before that child's bedtime in hopes of getting them so relaxed that they'll just fall asleep and stay that way once home. Doesn't always work–darned hard to get the kid out of the safety seat without jostling. If you're on your own, and there are ambulatory pets inside, getting the child inside, and keeping the pets there, while the child is asleep is quite the challenge.

I swear, there are times I really need to be awake and doing, and that's when I can't get up from lingering sleep. Around here, we say the bed was gluing us to it, or that the dogs were creating too many “sleepyons”, which you know to be the elemental particles of sleep, right?

[Martin Reed]

'MarinaFournier' wrote on '22:

That would mean someone else would have to be driving, you know.

Many parents of infants-to-toddlers do some errands right before that child's bedtime in hopes of getting them so relaxed that they'll just fall asleep and stay that way once home. Doesn't always work–darned hard to get the kid out of the safety seat without jostling. If you're on your own, and there are ambulatory pets inside, getting the child inside, and keeping the pets there, while the child is asleep is quite the challenge.

I swear, there are times I really need to be awake and doing, and that's when I can't get up from lingering sleep. Around here, we say the bed was gluing us to it, or that the dogs were creating too many “sleepyons”, which you know to be the elemental particles of sleep, right?

Yes, I should have been more clear – I was envisioning the equivalent of a baby seat in the back, but adult sized for adult insomniacs 😉

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[Pufferpunk]

My Dr is starting to consider this is caused by Narcolepsy. I can't drive in rush hour traffic (which is a lot here in Chicago) or longer than about 30 minutes. I've totally given up driving hour or more farther away. Doing a 24 hour sleep study next month, to rule out Narcolepsy. Taking GHB really scares me!

[MarinaFournier]

'Tommy wrote:

On a lot of roads in Britain now you'll see signs, especially on the M1 up here, “Tired? Pull over and have a nap!” etc, because the amount of people that have fallen asleep at the wheel and gone crashing into the barricades is ridiculous

Whereas in the States, there are laws saying you may NOT sleep/nap on road-shoulders, or even in rest stops along highways. Thinking more about homeless vagrants more than about road safety, most like.

[Author]

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