Like do you literally mean you fall asleep like when watching a movie or do you consciously put away the book before falling asleep?
Because when I read my focus is on the book and when I get tired I loose that focus and that’s where I put away the book to sleep. – I can’t imagine still being able to read whilst being tired and loosing focus and then just naturally falling asleep – is that what you do?
If that’s true, I’m gonna try that now tonight just to see if it works for me cuz I still don’t understand it but want to cuz it feels like a awesome feeling theoretically to just fall asleep to a story like that
by foxstroll
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I start to doze and have a hard time getting through paragraphs. Then it’s time to put it down and turn off the light.
Can’t say I ever have fallen asleep while reading. I assume it just happens when you’re naturally very tired and just drift off without putting the book down. You’d probably lay it down on your lap as you fall asleep.
What do you mean putting the book away before falling asleep? Don’t you mean waking up hours later with the lights on and the book sprawled across your face with your glasses barely hanging onto an ear?
Because if that’s what you mean, the secret is exhaustion 😉
I read until I’ve had a few minutes of just skimming lines and nodding off, then when I’m obviously done I put the book to one side and turn the light off. I’m out a few minutes later.
In younger days I would be woken up by dropping the book on the floor though, because in your 20s even reading books is more hardcore.
I’ll doze and the book will slide out of my grasp and that wakes me back up to then put it aside but I have fallen asleep, and woke up book on the floor.
The book will literally fall on my face, then I know its time to sleep.
It hasn’t happened to me in years but I do remember falling asleep reading as a kid. I’d get all mad because the book would close and I’d lose my place lol
Some books are boring
It takes mental energy to read at times. I just feel my eyes pulling closed after a while and put it down. It’s actually a great way to get to sleep.
Q: how does one fall asleep while reading
A: exhaustion
I have woken up hours later facedown in my book more than once.
I’ve fallen asleep with a book literally in my hands when I was reading before bed while laying down, yes. It’s a good way to wind down…just don’t expect to remember everything in the morning, so maybe better done with something you’ve read before.
I’ll definitely lose focus. When a page would normally take a minute to read and its been 5, I know its time to stop. Or I’ll read the same page a couple times not even realizing it until after.
But I have got to the point that my eyes just up and say “Nope, I’m done” and the book will hit me in the face (Reading in bed). I’ve had my wife wake me up and the book is on my chest, on the floor… LOL.
I have ADHD so most things that require complete undivided focus puts me to sleep lol. That’s why I have to play some type of music when I read…
Usually when I catch myself dozing off it’s because I’ve told myself I need to give my eyes/mind a few minutes of a break before I can return back to reading.
Try reading The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann. If that doesn’t help, then Ambien.
Page 400ish and struggling. Have never DNF and don’t want to….
When I get sleepy and lose focus I just bookmark where I currently am and continue to read until I fall asleep. The problem is I sometimes wake up to a creased and mangled book that I’ve slept on.
When I’m just trying to read in bed, I’ll just read as far as I want, until I’m too tired or otherwise am ready to go to sleep, and then I put the book down and sleep.
If the book I’m reading is particularly challenging to read, or I’m particularly tired, I might close my eyes halfway through a sentence “just to blink” and then doze off instantly. A vicious cycle of reading a paragraph, falling asleep, and repeating often ensues.
If you want to fall asleep in the middle of reading, I would recommend audiobooks. Most audiobook apps should have a playback timer so you don’t end up hours ahead in the book. Just remember to bookmark when you’re getting fall-asleep tired so you know where you might have to reread from.
I gotta get off reddit. Is this what I’m wasting my time reading? Questions like this? JFC
Whenever you wanna stop reading just don’t and eventually it’ll happen, easy
i read before bed every night and if im really sleepy but wanting to read more sometimes i fall asleep, but its always short lived because i use a kindle and its hard to stay asleep when you hit yourself in the face with a hunk of plastic
Sometimes I wake up when the kindle hits the floor, then I know I am really tired.
I think the question for me is, “how do I not fall asleep reading?”
Yeah – “reading until I fall asleep” is usually shorthand for “read until I know I’ll be able to sleep.”
I’ve straight up just fallen asleep with the book in my hand. Somehow I keep the right page and just stay like that the whole night unless someone checks on me and closes the book and turns off my light lol.
I never understood this turn of phrase either, because when I was young I would literally read all night if I couldn’t put the book down – there was no such thing as falling asleep reading. Then something happened in my late 20s where suddenly I understood the true meaning of exhaustion, and it has never really left me. Now “falling asleep reading” literally means my brain checked out mid-sentence and commanded my body to shut down for the evening, with no care for the wellbeing of my book or my face.
I pass out as im reading. Even if it’s a good part that I’m into.
Lay on stomach, read with chin on pillow, eyes start to blur while reading, close eyes to think how tired you are…. wake up at 3 AM.
Yep. Pass out mid sentence. Wake up when I start to drop the book then try to read the page again. Repeat a few times then give up and turn out the lights.
I think a general drowsiness leads to long blinking, which gets progressively longer until the book drops