falling asleep while reading

[acprinter]

Reading always makes me tired, sometimes I can spend an hour or more on 1 page and not remember what that 1 page is about.

[Polyglot27]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Precisely! We suffer from a conditioned response to force sleep after just a few pages. Darned ebooks and audiobooks are altering our biochronometers! (I just coined a new word, maybe.)

Actually, chronobiology is a real subject. Just type in the word in Amazon books and you'll get a few titles such as this one.
On the French Amazon site you get even more titles when you type in "chronobiologie".

[Timoleon]

A couple of things ---

I've posted before about this strange phenomenon that has happened to me: I'll be reading in bed and sort of nod off and then suddenly snap to. But in the brief period between nodding off and snapping to, the novel has continued to "play" in my head. I then realize that what I think I've been reading has little connection with what is actually on the page!

Also, when I read in bed at night I make sure that I'm not holding my Sony directly over my head or off the edge of the bed. My Palm Tungsten got a nice ding on the display when it tumbled out of my comatose hands and into the corner of my bedside stand. Luckily, I've yet to poke my eye out with the diving edge of my Sony Reader cover!

Tim

[Fledchen]

Originally Posted by Timoleon

A couple of things ---

I've posted before about this strange phenomenon that has happened to me: I'll be reading in bed and sort of nod off and then suddenly snap to. But in the brief period between nodding off and snapping to, the novel has continued to "play" in my head. I then realize that what I think I've been reading has little connection with what is actually on the page!

I've had the same thing happen!

Also, when I read in bed at night I make sure that I'm not holding my Sony directly over my head or off the edge of the bed. My Palm Tungsten got a nice ding on the display when it tumbled out of my comatose hands and into the corner of my bedside stand. Luckily, I've yet to poke my eye out with the diving edge of my Sony Reader cover!

Tim

If I'm listening to an audiobook in bed, I make sure to secure the carrying case strap around the bed frame, in case I knock the player over the edge of the bed. My bed is lofted and I doubt that a 5-foot drop would be very good for it.

I put my Sony reader in a safe spot before I get sleepy enough that I'd be in danger of dropping it over the side.

[Maggie May]

I don't fall asleep when reading. However, when I start to feel drowsy and the auld eyes get tired. I always make sure to put my Cybook waaaaaaaaay out of reach. As the saying goes.....better to be safe than sorry.


Slan
Mag.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Timoleon

A couple of things ---

I've posted before about this strange phenomenon that has happened to me: I'll be reading in bed and sort of nod off and then suddenly snap to. But in the brief period between nodding off and snapping to, the novel has continued to "play" in my head. I then realize that what I think I've been reading has little connection with what is actually on the page!
...

Not quite the same, but...

"For a long time I would go to bed early. Sometimes, the candle barely out, my eyes closed so quickly that I did not have time to tell myself: “I’m falling asleep.” And half an hour later the thought that it was time to look for sleep would awaken me; I would make as if to put away the book which I imagined was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had gone on thinking, while I was asleep, about what I had just been reading, but these thoughts had taken a rather peculiar turn..."
(Opening words of In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust, Moncrieff Kilmartin Enright translation)



Cheers,
Marc (who stops reading at night once he has read the same paragraph three times and still doesn't remember a word of it)

[spear]

My problem is having major difficulty falling asleep, so I take Ambien on a fairly regular basis. Ambien doesn't kick in for about a half an hour to an hour. The problem is the next day I open the book/ebook I was reading to the bookmark and basically find that I don't remember reading the last ten pages or so and then have to reread to get back to that place.

After doing this several times, I have learned to put the book down once I take Ambien (back away from the book), its helped my sanity a great deal.

On Ambien Patrick Kennedy sleep drives, my husband sleep eats (the klondike bar incident was the funniest and creepiest), and I sleep read.

[MickeyC]

I tested myself last night. Made it through six pages. My wife, bless her heart, carefully put my Sony on the night stand before I could roll over on top of it.

At least I remembered what I'd read.

[untiedknot]

I guess because most of us are pleasure reading, that it isn't a bad thing to drift to sleep. If you have to stay awake to read something important, do you read in less sleep-inducing furniture or places?