Anyone find it impossible to sleep on a plane?

About to board a flight to head out east (Ontario), bored as *. Thought I'd drum up the question. I cant for the life of me ever get to sleep on a plane. No matter what I do or how hard I try, not gonna happen. Anyone else never able to sleep on a flight?

 

I feel your pain mate, I've always been the same so. I feel like slapping folk and waking them up when they're sitting comfortably sleeping and I'm not.

I find it impossible to take naps either, whereas my 2 brothers always have a power nap after work, makes me furious lol.

 

never ever can sleep right, even when i do get some sort of sleep i feel awful when i wake up.

 

I go to America a lot and I'm wide awake for the entire flight until maybe 20 or 30 minutes before landing when I always doze off, its an absolute pain in the * and happens every single time both there and back.

 

I'm sure going to try in 2 weeks when I go to Tenerife

 

Nah its *. Even coming back from Thailand. Leave at 10pm. Tired, fly 8 hours and stop in dubai for about 4. Then fly another 8. Still can't sleep even with extra leg room.

I'm 6ft 5 in the legs so feel a bit squished. Although I got the noise cancelling headphones and it atleast makes movies excellent.

 

I've tried sleeping tablets as well, I just end up awake and stoned. Cannot sleep on a plane for the life of me.

I mind coming back from Florida once and our flight was due to depart in 30 minutes so I gubbed a couple of sleeping tablets so they would be working on me just in time for take off. I didn't bargain on the flight being delayed though.

By the time we boarded an hour late I was stoating off the walls, my missus was really worried I wouldn't get allowed on the flight.

 

I can sleep if Ive got a row to myself and am able to lie down. Otherwise I just doze off every now and then for a couple of minutes, which is horrible.

 

Very rarely but I did managed to sleep from BKK to Dubai for the full duration, woke up after 6 hours with us nearly about to start descending to land.

Think it was more to do with the exhaustion of 3 weeks going at it hard every day.

 

I wish I could, I just for the life of me cannot fall asleep during the day.

Sometimes I can sit on sites waiting for up to 6 hours, I would love to just climb in my bunk and get the heed down but just can't.

Instead I sit and watch hours of footage of cats trying to sit in boxes on youtube.

 

Nah. If I'm lucky I can get about 20 mins. Actually put me off going on holiday this year, can't handle 9 hours stuck in a plane.

 

I'm the same. Dodgy back and neck, so usually get a * sleep at night but * bless naps.

 

I can never manage to sleep either. I can get to the stage where I'm genuinely shattered and just drift in and out of sleep, but never actually get any sleep.

It does feel like a psychological barrier.

 

I never get drunk before a flight to make sleepy. There's nothing worse than someone getting up and down for the toilet all the time.

The one time I did have a fair amount to drink is though my head was going to explode. It was horrible.

 

I can sleep kinda easily on a plane but it is not enjoyable, head usually leaning against seat in front or on the table, plus a lot of the stewardesses seem to go out their way to wake you up by being noisy when serving out the free peanuts etc. Always find it funny seeing older people on planes fall asleep before it has taken off, sound asleep during the take off, 4 rolls royce engines roaring away!

 

Aye, brutal. Back in May I flew from Australia to Paris and was up the top of the Eiffel Tower like 38 hours later without any sleep.

Not being able to sleep, the time difference, not sleeping the night of your early morning flight and the copious amount of complimentary Heinekens all take it's toll.

 

I bought one of those neck pillows. On long haul flights I use the eye patch and ear plugs and throw a blanket over my head. I sleep fine.

 

All of this discussion about sleeping is making me desperate to get home and back into bed.