When you’re asleep, your brain is still receiving input from your senses. You fall asleep wanting to wake up for your stop, and your brain is still receiving cues about where you are. Time travelled, street noise, things like that. Your brain is triggering on something that it’s picking up, and wakes you.
We don’t lol everyone I know in Chicago has a story about accidentally falling asleep on the L and missing their stop. The soothing motion of the brown line on a warm afternoon after work has the same effect as a bottle of melatonin on my body
You’re likely waking up just a little bit whenever they make a station stop announcement, but when you don’t hear what you need to you are not letting it jar you into consciousness.
Our brains are still functioning while we sleep. That’s why we don’t fall out of bed in the night. You do have an idea of where you are / how long it takes to get to your stop even if you are not completely awake.
But for real, I’ve been sleeping on the metro during my morning commute for fifteen years, and I think the answer is that the brain understands timing and can pick up on audio cues even while we’re sleeping.
I was heading back to my home in Berlin by train. Incidentally I had not realized the train did not go to Berlin. Woke up at the polish border. Man, I had partied all weekend in Münster, not slept much and was zonked.
What are you talking about? I’ve woken up at random cities in Japan while I was stationed there. Cities where there is absolutely no English and nobody that speaks it lol. Japanese trains are fun!
I drove city transit for 20 years. If you can do it that’s great. In my experience most sleepers have to be magically wokened by the cops or paramedics.
If they make announcements, you’re probably wired to wake up once you hear a certain station. My buddy used to on the last train home from NYC. They’re announce a certain stop was next, and he’d wake up since it was 2 stops before his.
Once, I was supposed to meet my girl at poughkeepsie. However, I ended up napping in the train and ended up all the way at Montreal. I did meet another cute girl, though.
It happened to me as well (I was a train driver and slept on my way home everytime I worked at night). For me, I think it was a combination of the movement I felt through the curve right before I enter my home station and also some timing/biological clock as the travel length/hour of arrival is always the same.
Magically? No. When I road the train to and from work, other people on the ride knew when others got on or off. If you see a person 5 days a week for months, you notice things even if you don’t think you do. I fell asleep after leaving work one night after a very stressful day. A guy nudged me as we came into the station where we both got off. He didn’t say a word and we never spoke before or after, but he knew I was asleep and that I got off at the same station as he did.
Sometimes, however, no one notices. I fell asleep on the way into town and was on the way out when I woke up. I had to get off at the next station and back on the inbound.
Do you take the bus a lot? If so, your body is attuned to the trip. There are bumps, turns, etc, and when your body feels those, it registers the journey’s various legs.
I rely on my friends. I have never fallen asleep when alone on transportation, but often do when with friends on a night out. One always makes sure to wake me up when we get to our stop
I’ve lived in Tokyo. You see many sleep on the train/metro. You set the alarm on your phone – the train arrives at your station at exactly the scheduled time. Off you go.
I may doze off, however I never sleep. To fall asleep in a bus or a train would be to leave myself vulnerable and the probability for missing my stop would be high.
I once fell asleep in the train but I was going to the end station. I had to be woken up by someone and I was so disoriented with drool on my face. I did not wake up on my own lol
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We … do?
You’re probably used to how long it takes and your body acts accordingly
It’s like when you wake up at your normal work hour on a holiday because your just used to it
When you’re asleep, your brain is still receiving input from your senses. You fall asleep wanting to wake up for your stop, and your brain is still receiving cues about where you are. Time travelled, street noise, things like that. Your brain is triggering on something that it’s picking up, and wakes you.
Your body has an internal clock. Like how many people can wake up for work without an alarm.
Not everyone does, by a longshot
Your body knows the score. Internally, your body intuitively knows the schedule, and is prompting you to wake up @appropriate time.
We don’t lol everyone I know in Chicago has a story about accidentally falling asleep on the L and missing their stop. The soothing motion of the brown line on a warm afternoon after work has the same effect as a bottle of melatonin on my body
I’ve definitely woken up after leaving my stop on regional rail. But that was a liquid lunch day.
I don’t:(
Lucky you
More than once I have woken up as the train leaves the station I was supposed to get off.
I genuinely can’t u derstand feeling safe enough to fall asleep on a bus.
Years ago I would fall asleep as my subway train left one station, dream, and then wake right as it entered my stop— the very next station.
You’re likely waking up just a little bit whenever they make a station stop announcement, but when you don’t hear what you need to you are not letting it jar you into consciousness.
Do we?
Our brains are still functioning while we sleep. That’s why we don’t fall out of bed in the night. You do have an idea of where you are / how long it takes to get to your stop even if you are not completely awake.
We don’t.. my mate woke up in penzance 😂
You wake up at every stop and check if it’s yours.
The person that is playing your avatar is going for a coffee
We don’t.
But for real, I’ve been sleeping on the metro during my morning commute for fifteen years, and I think the answer is that the brain understands timing and can pick up on audio cues even while we’re sleeping.
My nephew didn’t and woke up in a different neighborhood 😆
I don’t fall asleep on public transit. Wayy too dangerous
I was heading back to my home in Berlin by train. Incidentally I had not realized the train did not go to Berlin. Woke up at the polish border. Man, I had partied all weekend in Münster, not slept much and was zonked.
What are you talking about? I’ve woken up at random cities in Japan while I was stationed there. Cities where there is absolutely no English and nobody that speaks it lol. Japanese trains are fun!
I drove city transit for 20 years. If you can do it that’s great. In my experience most sleepers have to be magically wokened by the cops or paramedics.
Last time I fell asleep in public transportation I woke up in another city 😅
If they make announcements, you’re probably wired to wake up once you hear a certain station. My buddy used to on the last train home from NYC. They’re announce a certain stop was next, and he’d wake up since it was 2 stops before his.
Once, I was supposed to meet my girl at poughkeepsie. However, I ended up napping in the train and ended up all the way at Montreal. I did meet another cute girl, though.
It happened to me as well (I was a train driver and slept on my way home everytime I worked at night). For me, I think it was a combination of the movement I felt through the curve right before I enter my home station and also some timing/biological clock as the travel length/hour of arrival is always the same.
I snored myself awake once
The magic is alarm in phone
Lack of appeal to dangerous sexual predators.
Magically? No. When I road the train to and from work, other people on the ride knew when others got on or off. If you see a person 5 days a week for months, you notice things even if you don’t think you do. I fell asleep after leaving work one night after a very stressful day. A guy nudged me as we came into the station where we both got off. He didn’t say a word and we never spoke before or after, but he knew I was asleep and that I got off at the same station as he did.
Sometimes, however, no one notices. I fell asleep on the way into town and was on the way out when I woke up. I had to get off at the next station and back on the inbound.
If I’m sleepy enough, I don’t. Woke up once to find the bus was in Skid Row
Do you take the bus a lot? If so, your body is attuned to the trip. There are bumps, turns, etc, and when your body feels those, it registers the journey’s various legs.
I do this all the time with busses and trains.
why are people in these comments acting like this is rare, i’ve fallen sleep on the bus like over 20 times on the bus and never missed my stop
I rely on my friends. I have never fallen asleep when alone on transportation, but often do when with friends on a night out. One always makes sure to wake me up when we get to our stop
I’ve lived in Tokyo. You see many sleep on the train/metro. You set the alarm on your phone – the train arrives at your station at exactly the scheduled time. Off you go.
Me at the end of route at 2am: zzzzzz
Bus driver: yo pal last stop.
I have never been so lucky.
We don’t! I least I don’t
I’ve thrown up on the cta but never fell asleep and woke up at my station.
I have my doubts that’s a universal experience. I certainly have gone past my station tons of times.
I may doze off, however I never sleep. To fall asleep in a bus or a train would be to leave myself vulnerable and the probability for missing my stop would be high.
I don’t know how to answer your question.
You are constantly waking up for a few seconds and falling back asleep.
Only when it’s relavent do you stay awake.
I once fell asleep in the train but I was going to the end station. I had to be woken up by someone and I was so disoriented with drool on my face. I did not wake up on my own lol