AIBU to not understand falling asleep by accident?

[Aulwan]

I know IABU but I can't seem to start a thread in chat. Anyway I have never in my life just "fallen asleep" e.g. on the couch, reading in bed etc. I have to decide to go to sleep and it takes a while. It's always a decision, it never just happens. I seem to be alone though based on all the people falling asleep all over the place! Anyone else like this or am I just wierd?

I am the complete opposite. I feel my eyes get heavy, or I am watching something and suddenly I jump having realised I've dropped off.

More people seem to be like you whatsername! I'd swap in a flash.

Before DC I would have been with you all the way. Now, after 7 years of broken sleep, I’m permanently low level tired...I don’t sleep well at night if I nap but sometimes I just think ‘I’ll sit down for three minutes’ and promptly fall asleep.

I take it you’ve never been that tired? I’ve often just passed out somewhere after being awake 36+ hours.

I'm with you. I have never fallen asleep by accident. Always a conscious decision.
Nodding off in a chair or on a journey would never happen.
I wonder why some people are different?

If I've not slept well for a few nights I can easily find myself falling asleep on the sofa in an evening.

One minute I'm happily watching Line of Duty, next thing I know I'm being awoken by by husband! I sleep well, no idea why I cant stay awake after 10pm!!

Just wait till you get to my age OP

Delurking I had a terrible sleeper, didn't sleep through till he was about 6 😯, woke multiple times a night. Terrible sleep derivation. Still never just fell asleep.

It takes me seconds to fall asleep at night, I simply switch h the light off m, turn over and I'm gone. I rarely sleep anyway other than in bed but on s rare occasion I fall asleep in from of the tv it's always by accident.

I think people have widely varying levels of susceptibility to sleep. I’m borderline narcoleptic and fall asleep very easily.

Films have to be awesome to keep me awake.

I think it varies for people, doesn’t it? So sometimes I’ll nod off on the sofa (or even at work ) because I’m tired/full/warm but then if I get a thought in my head when I’m lying in bed then it’s impossible to sleep, no matter how tired I am.

Delurking I had a terrible sleeper, didn't sleep through till he was about 6 😯, woke multiple times a night. Terrible sleep derivation. Still never just fell asleep.

I have been very tired as I used to work a job with long hours, where I missed a full night's sleep each week (i.e. worked Sunday, Sunday night and Monday - slept at 10pm on Monday). I still didn't nod off.

I very rarely fall asleep uncontrollably, but I can choose to fall asleep at any time really. I could now be asleep on the sofa within 5 minutes if I wanted to. I'm not a very tired person, but I find it easy to fall asleep. In bed, I'm out almost as fast as the bedside lamp.

Goodness me, so many typos!

I’m the same OP.

Very rarely I have fallen asleep when I haven’t planned to, but it is only when a combination of definite choices have aLready been made - I have to have chosen to lay on the sofa, in comfy clothes, With a blanket on me, and the lights very dim/off, and I’ve had to have had a glass of wine or two. Then every so often I can sleep without planning it specifically.

But that and bed at night are the two only places I sleep.

I have a lot of trouble sleeping when I’m ‘supposed’ to. Going to bed at night to purposefully sleep means that I can’t, then when I’m watching tv or on a car journey etc I’ll drift off quite easily. The most common place at the moment is the cinema! 😳

I’m with you Op. To sleep is a battle for me. Always has been.

Even when dd was not sleeping and I’d had full nights of no sleep and I was so exhausted I felt like throwing up I’d still have to go to bed and work hard to get to sleep.

I can fall asleep easily!
I only really get about 4 hours at night, don’t know why. I usually fall asleep okay but never normally until around midnight. Get about 2 solid hours and then a couple more over the course of the night.
I often have a half an hour snooze when I get home from work (not always, but I’d say at least twice a week!).
I didn’t use to sleep this little or ever need or want an afternoon nap, only in the last 3/4 years or so. Strange!

I fall asleep pretty much anywhere as soon as I lie down. Usually on the sofa but have tested this skill on hard floors with much success!

If I go to a lecture/talk, I generally nod off very quickly. I gave up going to them at university.

No I'm exactly the same! But then I can never sleep (even if I wanted to) in cars, long plane journeys etc....can only sleep really well in my own bed tbh, and even then it takes me ages to fall asleep. Whereas the people I know who do just 'drop off' accidentally can sleep anywhere! So perhaps it just depends on whether you are a 'good sleeper' or not?

Sorry about the double post!

I work nights, worked last night only had an hours sleep. Ive not long woke up, fell asleep trying to watch my tv. Sat up still with my laptop on my lap.