Driving 💤

Harvest

Anyone had micro-sleeps when driving? I could feel myself nodding on the way back from Watford today. At one point I just couldn't shake it, radio up, cold air blasting, slapping my face but I still kept getting these one second nods. Scary as fuck really. I pulled in twice for a coffee or a walk round.

It seems to be one part of the brain saying sleep but the other part not letting it as it knows you're driving. The worse bit was in those long 50 zones on the M1, completely hypnotic.

Djpekingman

Harvest Yeah, especially when I used to drive from Spain to Leeds and back regularly - still get 'em when driving long distances today. Pull over, a 10 minute power nap and right as rain. But they are scary.

otis

Harvest agree with the 50 limit. Your mind wanders

Cooley

Djpekingman At your age shouldn’t you limit your driving to a pootle around the block?

Cooley

Fuckin’ hell, lad, be careful. No, never nodded off. Drove pissed a few times - even took a driving lesson once after a few bevvies. A work colleague was once the passenger in a car, his mate driving. Both dozed off. Tree was hit. His mate died. On the plus side, I do like how you put those little Z’s in the subject heading. Clever that.

Travis_Bickle

I have a vivid memory of my best mate Gibbo doing press-ups by the car on the hard shoulder of the M62 trying to wake himself up driving back from a gig.

Harvest

It's probably because driving's so dull.

Cooley

I quite like driving. I like the solitude and freedom it gives me. I despair of the amount of bad drivers.

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos

Fucking hate driving. Absolute joyless chore

white_dragon

I wrote my viva off , fell asleep at the wheel. 1978 ish . Drove to Newcastle and back first game of the season. Got back to Wrexham and my mate missed his train to Shrewsbury,so a couple of lads came with me to run him home. We all fell asleep on the way back, about 8 mile from home put it up a hedge, ended up on the other side of the road facing the other way .
I've been very careful since, it's so scary, you know it's happening, but you think I'll be alright nearly home. I was only 17 or 18 so very inexperienced.
Copper let me off with a failed breathalyser as well .
Edited to say, nobody hurt.