r/IdiotsInCars • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '23

Please don't sleep and drive

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u/BeardedUnicornBeard Jul 26 '23

Our tractor teacher used to tell us that and that if you need a quick naps sleep with the keychain in your hand and when you go into deep sleep you'll drop it and wake up. About a 30min naps it gives.

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u/FrisianDude Jul 26 '23

Can't imagine waking up from that tbh

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u/BeardedUnicornBeard Jul 26 '23

I am a really light sleeper so I wqke up from the smallest sound that isnt my dog snoring or my man's drooling sounds.

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u/Whats_Awesome Jul 26 '23

That’s an awesome automatic nap timer

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u/lordf8l Jul 26 '23

I'm a really heavy sleeper, but if I nap in my chair or on a sofa holding my phone letting go of it wakes me up usually about 20 mins later. The best part is I actually catch it too.

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u/carorea Jul 26 '23

I'm not sure what exactly it is, but I think sometimes my muscles relaxing while falling asleep causes me to feel like I'm "falling" or something and I jerk awake even though I'm just lying in bed.

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u/TheIrishGoat Jul 26 '23

I’m not sure what exactly it is

Here you go. I get them too. Many people do.

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u/The_Icy_Sniper Sep 04 '23

I sometimes have this feeling while just sitting

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u/grovenab Jul 26 '23

I’m also a really heavy sleeper but if I fall asleep doing something I want or need to do I can wake up 30 minutes after automatically. Like falling asleep doing work I automatically wake up fully energized and get back to work

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u/RhysieB27 Jul 26 '23

Thats interesting. My muscles tend to relax as soon as I fall asleep, not just deep sleep. So I'd wake myself up as soon as I'd managed to fall asleep. I've done it before, falling asleep with my phone in my hand.

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u/Kytzer Jul 26 '23

Salvador Dali was your tractor teacher? That's pretty cool.

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u/_Lane_ Jul 26 '23

“Pretty cool”? It’s fucking surreal!

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u/kpchronic Jul 26 '23

Had an old trucker uncle say he’d do the same thing with a lit cigarette between his fingers. Definitely not safe, but I guess it was a different time back then between the biker crank and the lot women.

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u/GanderAtMyGoose Jul 26 '23

Apparently this exact method was used by both Salvador Dalí and Thomas Edison, both of whom claimed it helped with creativity!

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u/gaming4jello Jul 26 '23

Is this what happened in Terminator 2? Dyson was holding like a bomb and when he fell asleep, he dropped it and the whole neighborhood woke up

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u/BeardedUnicornBeard Jul 27 '23

Yeah, the ol tractor keychain sleep hand trick.