Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35065776-20180816043457/@comment-35284508-20180816144421

PS I'm an RN and grew up in a family of Occupational Therapists. The instant sleep thing is a habit or reflex that your body developed to fulfill a need for the extra rest, which is good but may have become excessive. You can train the reflex. Choose a comfy chair that will be your sleep chair and use it regularly to sleep - thus making sure that you fulfill the actual need. Choose another chair that will be your "wake" chair initially. Also use it regularly but do whatever it takes to stay awake while in it. You might have to keep the time short at first but keep increasing the time and the intensity of wakeful concentration with each use of the wake chair. Once you can stay awake in that chair use the same technique to bring wakefulness to other seated positions. As you know falling asleep where you need to stay awake is dangerous. So train yourself to sleep where it's safe and stay awake where you need or want to. You sleep will be better and you will have more effective wakefulness.