Originally Posted by
VivoPerLei
You managed 7 hours of sleep on a flight and that is a problem? Sounds like a miracle. I can't even manage that in business class with a lie flat.
I don't know how much sleep I managed on the flight. As since I can't just drop off, I effectively fake sleep. 7 hours would be the maximum, but I don't have the ability to tot up how long I'm conscious, and how long I'm not.
That's my issue: given what I do I'm not aware of how long I sleep. I am wondering if other people find themselves in a similar situation. Given that some people seem to not even recognise my situation, I'm guessing that means that many people don't share my issue.
Though, I think I probably slept over half of that 7 hours as they flew by suspiciously quickly.
Originally Posted by
KevinDTW
I can't, either. Yet I've seen plenty of people apparently able to sleep most of a TATL or TPAC bolt upright in a coach middle seat. I envy those people! [For the sleep, not the coach middle seat
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If you saw me, you might think that I'm sleeping, but some of that time I would be 'faking it'. I got this idea from the book "Wide Awake at 3am: By Choice or by Chance" by scientists from the Stanford Sleep Clinic. They said that pretending to sleep is about 1/3 as refreshing as actually sleeping, which is better than nothing. So, that's what I do.
I did once drop off pretty well immediately when leaving Sydney Australia, to wake up just as we were landing in Singapore. If I could do that every time, that would be a great advantage.