Does anybody else ever fall asleep while reading?

[Wetzelbill]

Ever since I can remember I have always fell asleep whenever I started to read. Like today at about 4 PM, I kicked back to read "Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History" by Jeremy Schaap. I'm reading along, everything is going fine, and then next thing I know I am waking up and it's past midnight. I just zonked completely out, for probably 7 hours or so, depending on how long I read before I crashed out. I'm practically like Grampa Simpson when I read.

That I still manage to finish a decent amount of books is amazing, however, were it not for this problem, I may be a genius by now.

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. All the time

I even use reading as a sleep inducer. Oddly, the more interesting the read, the quicker it's likely to put me to sleep. :shrug:

[Wetzelbill]

6. sometimes I do that too

I use it to go to sleep. I sometimes find when I am trying to sleep it doesn't work, haha. Maybe I'm just thinking to much about it or something. Yeah, definitely, if it's really interesting it'll just knock you out without warning.

[KitchenWitch]

7. I think the more interesting, the more energy your brain expends

in reading...just a theory.

[Jamastiene]

12. I believe that too. I have noticed in school when

I haven't eaten yet, or haven't had enough sleep, I have a harder time studying or learning. I will read a paragraph over and over again and find myself not even remembering the last word I read. Sometimes a cat nap or just eating some M&M's can make learning something ten times easier in that case. It's like I just run out of energy and my brain needs some maintenance.

[KitchenWitch]

14. A helpful hint

Right before an exam, eat some M&Ms (the fast glucose powers your brain).

[Jamastiene]

21. Thanks for the tip. Will do,

Especially since I have a physics class coming this winter/spring semester. I'm a little anxious about that class more than any of the others. I have always loved physics but I am slow at learning it and algebra for some reason, compared to other subjects.

[KitchenWitch]

22. If you are anxious, get signed up for a tutor as soon as you can

You can always cancel if you feel you are able to keep up, but it is better to get help at the onset, than wait until you are completely overwhelmed.

[NMMNG]

2. Sometimes

Particularly if I'm reading late at night. I'll try to read and my eyes will start crossing, then closing completely. At that point I have to give up completely and do something else unless my intent is to fall asleep.

[Wetzelbill]

3. yes, and you keep reading the same paragraph or sentence

over and over, lol.

Yes, when the eyes cross you know it's time to pack it in, I still try to fight through it, to no avail. :)

[Jamastiene]

9. Have you ever woke back up with the book

still in your hand open to the last page you were trying to read? Or snapped back awake to put the bookmark back before you lose your place?

[KitchenWitch]

10. OMG

yes!

[Wetzelbill]

13. yes, I always wake up with it open on my chest too

saved to the last page I was reading. Often my glasses are there too. It's a wonder I haven't rolled on them or something. Somehow or another I always take them off, but I rarely remember doing so.

[Jamastiene]

20. Yep, I am the same way with my bookmark.

Although I do need some reading glasses (this has only been true lately), my bookmark is the same way. If I am in bed reading, I will pull the covers at one point and the bookmark will either get lost in the bed or fall behind it. It NEVER falls where I can reach it. It's always somewhere hard to reach too. Sometimes though the bookmark is magically back in place when I wake up. I never remember putting it back.

[NMMNG]

11. Indeed

And somehow that paragraph doesn't make sense no matter how many times you read it. :banghead:

Been there many a time. One of the woes of the graveyard shift.

[Jamastiene]

4. Yes, especially late at night or when I read in bed.

I fall asleep just about anytime I read in a relaxed, comfortable position.

[KitchenWitch]

5. Me too!

It is scary.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Ever see people sleeping

in libraries?

[KitchenWitch]

15. All the time.

I never read in the library, for fear that I would drool, snore, and otherwise make an ass out of myself.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. You can drool and snore here

We won't mind. :hug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

26. Yes, but...

here they're mostly homeless people. The downtown Dallas library has TONS of homeless people all over it.

Inside, outside....you have to be very careful about going in the bathrooms sometimes.

[neweurope]

16. Every night - I usually wake up around three or four, the lamp glaring

into my eyes, laying very uncomfortably on top of the book - I should stop smoking in bed.

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[Jamastiene]

18. My aunt tells me constantly to stop that too.

I did once burn a hole into a sleeping bag in bed that way. Mattresses can catch on fire too. It's dangerous.

[neweurope]

19. I have more than one hole in my matress. It's very dangerous.

But I plan to stop smoking altogether.

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[AtomicKitten]

23. sit up in a chair

it's more difficult to fall asleep if you're aren't in the reclining position.

Ironically, for insomnia doctors recommend just that, sitting up in a chair, reading.

[lovelaureng]

24. It happens to me sometimes when I read.

It is very relaxing to read a book, before you know it you're dozing off to sleep.

[Pharlo]

25. Actually, reading has the opposite affect on me.

Watching TV, yes - I fall asleep all the time.

Reading, no. I'll sit down with the intent of reading a chapter or two, and don't come up for air until the book is done or the alarm goes off - then I have to go to work with no sleep. I try not to do that too often (I try to limit myself to articles, not books, during the week).

I will, very rarely, do a reading marathon. I'll sit down with a bunch of books, and get up only to grab a snack I can eat while reading, go to the bathroom, let the dogs out, or play with the dogs (they can be VERY insistent about this). As I've gotten older, I notice that after about 50 hours, my eyes start to sting (once upon a time, that didn't happen until I reached the 72hour mark).

I don't do that very often, but when I do, I thoroughly enjoy it - I also pay for it.

I do, however, have one book which will put me to sleep just by picking it up...my college Economics book. JEEZ! That one was a killer. I could wake up in the morning, pick up that book, and be under in a paragraph. Finally gave up trying to read it.....

[fudge stripe cookays]

27. Indeed I do.

Ever since about 11 or 12, it is my preferred method of falling asleep. Fortunately, reprehensor is good at "tucking me in."