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Can you sleep while traveling?

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dman

Diamond Member
[edit] I checked the poll, anyway, curious if you can sleep on an airplane/jet?

I've tried, so far I can't when I'm seated. If I was able to lie down, than perhaps.
 
Yep, no problem. I can also sleep on trains, buses, cars, etc. Used to have a problem, but 3 weeks on a bus across Europe cured that.
 
i can sleep on buses/trains, so deeply that i dream too.

don't take planes often enough to know. last time i was too nervous/excited to sleep.
 
Sure, no problems.

Or, are you asking if we have no anxiety when others are in control of the driving, in essence, control of our lives.

I say you can't do anything about the plane slamming into the ground even if you were awake ( well, I guess if it was a movie you could), and I think I'd rather go while I'm asleep anyway. 🙂
 
That's how I pass the time when I travel...the passengers in my car scream whenever I do it though...go figure
 
I can sleep if I can get comfortable in my seat. One time I traveled in a bus down to St Louis overnight, wasn't able to sleep at all because I was too tall for the seats.
 
I really can't. I tried but it doesn't work out well. I can close my eyes and kind of do that cat-nap thing, I am awake but settled down like I was sleeping. I have flown to Rome from DFW once (8.5 hours I think), and I tried to sleep, but I just couldn't do it. The entire airline seat things may have had something to do with it.

BTW, if anybody plans on flying at least eight hours, I think it is well worth it to upgrade your seats so you have more room.
 
I can't sleep unless I'm lying on my back flat. Can't sleep sitting up. And certainly can't sleep when moving.

It really sucks. Especially on 4+ hour plane flights.
 
I can't sleep on a bus or in a car (unless I am really really tired). On a plane it depends on a few things: Am I in Business Class or in the Monkey Cage down the back? If I am in Monkey class I tend to park my rather tall 2m framehalfway in the aisle... needless to say that the drinks trolly gets painfull after a few "accidents", sleep is not possible at all. In Business I still have difficulty sleeping, if I do fall asleep then it usually isn't a very good sleep, at least here I don't have that drinks trolley smashing into me every hour.

Also on a train I can't really sleep too well, even in a nice cosy bed in a sleeping car.
 
I can rarely recline enough on an airplane to be comfortable enough to fall asleep. Even on occasions when I can fall asleep on an airplane, it always seems like some screaming brat won't shut up the entire flight.
 
riding in a car for extended periods of time (2+ hours) always puts me to sleep, whether i want to sleep or not. the whirring of the tires makes me drowsy. (i always need to hear a sound like a fan when I'm going to sleep at home, so the tires have that effect on me.) this sleepiness causes problems when i'm the one driving on the long trip :Q, but i never keep driving to the point i am literally falling asleep. i don't ever fly or ride in a train, so i don't know how i'd be, although i think a train would put me to sleep even faster as i'm sure the whirring sounds are magnified.
 
I can't sleep on an airplane...at all. When I got to Taiwan, I can be up for 30-40 hours in a stretch...and even though I'm crap tired, I can't fall asleep on that d*mn plane.
 
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