Can you sleep in transit? (Paris, airplane, Rome, price)
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I am grateful for the job I had with the Navy in Hawaii which required several tips a year to DC. I learned to fall asleep within five minutes of takeoff and that skill has translated to buses, trains, car trips etc. I've never taken a sleeping pill in my life. Theft can be foiled by checking your bags or by artful placement.
I hate you ! I have to take something to help me sleep, wear an eye mask AND earplugs to get any sleep on a flight at all.
I always shove my bag under the seat in front and then use it as a footrest while I'm (hopefully) snoozing.
I can sleep on a plane. Like a rock in one of those 180 degree lay flat seats, decently in a regular seat. I can snooze on a bus or train or in a car. A lot depends on who I'm traveling with and how tired I am. I missed a few hours of scenery in Europe this summer as it seemed every time I got on a bus to go someplace I fell asleep. When I used to commute to NYC I used to loop my arms through the straps on my bag and hold it against my chest so it would have been difficult for someone to take anything out of it without me waking up. I never slept on the subway.
I can sleep anywhere. Cars, buses, trains, planes...hard part sometimes is staying awake! It helps that I'm a natural night owl so my rhythms don't object to day-time rest.
Take ear plugs and a sleep mask. Take your own pillow. Movie stars do it; why not you?
I can only sleep when I'm really tired on the plane. My last flights that were 10+ hours I got a grand total of maybe 3 hours each time. I had an ordeal 1.5 months ago coming back from Honolulu where I was up for 28 straight hours. I did sleep very, very, very easily on the flight to San Fran. There have been a few other times where I slept fairly well but usually I have to be real tired, otherwise it's not happening. I think for my next big trip in March, I'm going to buy one of those neck pillows. I think it will work better. That's my main thing...my neck gets hurt when I sleep on planes and wakes me up.
The funny thing is that I can sleep almost anywhere. I can sleep on the ground without a pillow. I could probably fall asleep on a boulder if I were tired enough, but for some reason, it's hard for me to sleep sitting up unless I am real tired. Guess I'm not cut out to be an astronaut huh?
I fly internationally a lot. I could never sleep on a plane until I got noise cancelling headphones. They’re expensive, but really make a difference, even when I’m not in business class.
35,000 feet above the ocean there isn't a whole lot to see but the insides of your eyelids or a movie that came out three years ago.
The ocean can be interesting, at least for a bit. I wouldn't know about prolonged flight over an ocean, I've never made a transatlantic or transpacific flight. I have flown over an ocean, but it was up the Eastern Seaboard and time over the ocean was <30 minutes.
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! I have to take something to help me sleep, wear an eye mask AND earplugs to get any sleep on a flight at all. 
