When you’re incredibly tired, anywhere is a good place to catch up on some sleep.

At some point you’re just so tired that comfort and time is much less of a factor, I mean I feel like I can fall asleep anyti

If you have the proper biological facilities and you’ve been up long enough, you can hardly stop it. Your mind slows to a crawl You’re a perception of things around you narrows to where you barely notice anything that’s not mission critical, and your consciousness just fades like someone slowly turning the dimmer down on a light bulb in a dark room.

I used to struggle to get to sleep and hated those who could do it anywhere. They’d say, “just clear your mind”, which wasn’t helpful. It could be other things, but I figured out that my mind was always busy, sometimes from stress, sometimes from excitement. For me, it’s extreme focus. Often, I’ll put my mind to work on a complicated problem I’m having at work or home. If I have nothing, my go to is to see how far I can get calculating the binary digits (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64…) or the Fibonacci sequence in my head. I don’t get very far and I’m out.

I’m always tired. I don’t go to bed at a decent hour, my joints ache all the time, so I rarely sleep more than 90 minutes without waking up. I could go to sleep right now if my 8 year old wasn’t making a ruckus.

Be sufficiently tired.

Someone else told an anecdote about being in the Army, and they have it 100% on the nose. Be forced to wake up at 4am every day; start out with an hour of cardio, then spend the rest of the day being physically active; don’t be allowed to crawl into bed until some time between 8 and 10, depending on events you don’t control. Do this every day - excluding Sundays - for two months. I guarantee that, by the end, you will be able to fall asleep almost instantly the moment you are allowed to sit or lay down and know you’ve got at least 10 minutes until you have to move again.

Best I can do is sleep sitting upright. In my office chair, road trips, on the couch. You name it.

The secret, just be tired AF and sleep deprived. I don’t sleep well at night. I’m exhausted after work. I usually need a nap midday, but can’t take one if I’m working. By the time I get home, I’ll pass out in my chair for a bit.

My wife does it with her superpower, Hypersomnia.

I also didn’t know how people did it. Then I had a baby and almost fell asleep in the shower once while standing. I’ve never been more tired in my life but man, these few months of just being able to fall asleep at meteoric speed anywhere anytime were incredible. It felt like a superpower from one of those pill memes. Now I am just tired all the time but I can’t fall asleep like that anymore.

Once I’m asleep I won’t care how comfortable I am. If you can fall asleep quickly enough, it doesn’t matter.

When I was in the army I was able to do that, but in civilian life, nope.

Not even when I’m tired to that point. I won’t fall asleep, I’ll have a seizure.

But in the army with a break of more than 5 minutes meant a nap.

There’s a saying: fake it until you make it.

So just pretend to sleep until you actually fall asleep.

They’re usually not getting enough sleep during the night

A follow-up question: can I gain this ability by identifying one of those people and eating their brain?

I think the disease is called narcolepsy