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Sleep

If I am not driving myself. I will get car sick. Some Gravol or something and sleep for that drive for sure

I have the same problem…

but if you're driving yourself its easier to sleep? lol

Nah for some reason when I am driving I don't get sleepy to fall asleep at the wheel. Never did 10 hrs heh but I have clocked a lot of hours driving and no issues thus far.

Lucky. I've done 10 Summers of driving 13+ hours and it gets very exhausting looking at green trees all the time. I think the last independent trip I took, I napped a lot every two hours.

I am generally the same. If I am driving, I'm good. If I am the passenger, I'm out like a light.

Regardless of how tiring road trips are, if you’re finding it easier to sleep while driving then you probably shouldn’t be driving🤣

being asleep makes it go faster, its like time traveling

While I'm driving, I like to put on some summer music, close my eyes and imaging in job a beach somewhere

Back seat is car sick every time for me 😭

I am use to take 1/4 doses travel sick medicine before onboard.Once 10hrs long trip up down hill. I didn’t wake up.

If I try to read while sitting up in the back seat, I get really car-sick. However, if I have the option of lying down, I can read a whole book. I bring towels or small pillows to cushion against the seatbelt fasteners.

Yup! Give me some Dramamine and nudge me awake in a few hours

Sleeping in a car is like quicktravel!

Yes! I cannot get in a car that I am not driving and not fall asleep almost immediately. 10 minute ride. Nap. Hour? Nap. Doesn’t matter.

As a teen, when I wasn't needed on the trip. F.e. as an extra driver or to read the map, I would just sleep through most of the trip. I would even tire me on purpose by not sleeping the night before the trip. I would then sleep a solid 9 hours and wake up again when we were almost at the destination. The last time I did this was in my early twenties. But my father was a little disappointed because he actually expected me to be his replacement driver after half of the trip.

Never stand when you could be sitting, never sit when you could be sleeping

…and never sleep when you could be dead.

was coming here to say the same damn thing lol

This is the way. Car sickness is awful.

I only get car sick if I’m in the backseat. Idk why. The mountain roads in Costa Rica in the back of a van was hell.

Only answer !!

Amen brother.

I almost fall asleep instantly. But, when I got To lay down for bedtime I cannot fall sleep for hrs. Car rides put me right out…just like the plane.

Number 1 answer. I remember my dad getting mad at me for sleeping on our yearly trips to a small town in Tennessee to visit family. We would literally go about 4 or 5 times during the summer. He would get pissed saying I was missing all the sights, which I said we make the same trip multiple times in the summer. I'm sure the mountains from Colorado haven't suddenly popped up in the last 43 days since we last drove through. No argument from him after that

God, I wish I could sleep in a car or on a plane. I'm so jealous.

Trying to sleep on a plane is a nightmare.  If there’s any turbulence in my mind the plane is doing barrel rolls and loops, and I can’t fall asleep.  I’m also a sleep jerker so I tend to kick seats or throw my hands around.

We think time travel is not possible. Oh, but it is my friend, if only but into the future. We all posess the ability to time travel and do it daily. We call such magic sleep.

Eye mask is a game changer imo

Clean up my gmail account

I did that a couple of weeks ago and unsubscribed from everything. I felt clean as fuck.

I need a road trip I guess. 14,257 unopened emails.

It's a painful amount of time. I am all over mine now. It was like fresh snow and it is staying like that.. nearly like that.

I need a trip to the Moon: 39,737

I’m an elder millennial: 55,921

Those are rookie numbers

I opened a new email account. I now have 2, one for the important stuff, the other is basically newsletters.

Use the desktop view. Then use the search function to mass delete newsletters and stuff from companies, ex Amazon shipping notifications.

Omg thats so smart Ill save that for my next roadtrip

Playing into the caveat of airplane mode, your photo album is a good spot to purge, as well. Took me about three daysto do mine, I worked on that in my idle time instead of scrolling shorts or reddit or whatever

Look out the window at the scenery

This man brought no inventory on this trip. Just raw-dogging the journey. Gotta love it.

This is what I did when I was a kid. Cross country trips with nothing to do but zone out out the window

Me too. I would read also, but liked looking out the window and would make up stories inspired by the landscape in my head.

Nah I just blanked out my mind

for 10 hours? damn

Clearly never driven across the Midwest

Sarcasm. Went to Nebraska in november

I've only driven through about two-thirds of the 50 states, but Nebraska is by FAR the most boring state I've driven through.

[удалено]

And many died (including of boredom I imagine)

And the earth is so beautiful, isn't it?

Same. As a busy adult, 10 hours of nothing is already fine with me. Show me that scenery.

That's my favorite thing to do every time I'm in a car.

There was an 8 hour road trip, when I still used cannabis, where I took an edible, listened to the halo soundtracks, and imagined the mountains were giants sleeping.

Bring a book

Lol just asking for motion sickness 

Sometimes I need to look up and around but it’s not a major problem for me. I know it’s bad for some.

I'm wild with it ....shoot a text and 2 mins later vomiting on the highway  😂

Oh same. Even when looking straight ahead, i often feel sick.

Oh no that’s horrible. I’m sorry for you!

Same 😭

Oh man I don’t vomit but I get the worst most disgusting gross sick feeling ever that doesn’t go away until I stop and time passes OR I get sick..

Same, being in any sort of moving vehicle for longer than 30 minutes gives me that gross empty feeling that grows worse and worse

I was a fanatical reader as a child (pre-internet) , and I read books constantly in the car because my parents dragged me everywhere. I never got motion sickness.

Same here, a nice little pile of dog eared books in back of the car. Even better when the family grew and I could sit in the boot seats facing out of the rear window. Or long dark rainy nights using a flashlight to keep reading.  Stopped for a decade or so, but now I have a long commute on a train into the city. People ask how I do it. Fuck, I don't know how I did without it. Snacks and a steaming coffee watching the sun rise over woods and fields with my kindle, nodding to the regulars as they join me in the first cab and reading merrily away. 

Audio book 

Never was an issue for me

I have thankfully never struggled with this.

I've always been prone to nausea from spinning, some rides, so forth. But reading in a bus or car has always been fine for me.

Im one of the lucky people who just dont have this problem I guess.

My family drove from Myrtle Beach to Ohio and I read the entirety of Breaking Dawn (literally the day it came out too)

No car sickness?

Create a story in your head

What I did as a kid was I imagined a dude doing insane skateboarding or parkour tricks on whatever I see

I did the same but imagined I was riding a horse alongside the car and had to dodge / jump things like a video game

I did the same. Like some super-powered athlete doing crazy obstacle course runs with flips, somersaults, etc.

When i was a kid i used to recreate cartoon episodes or movies in my mind. Tried my best to remember every detail.

Point out every horse and cow along the way or complain that there aren't any.

Not just point out, count them. Every single one.

Nintendo switch

I'm bringing this, I have a couple games but not sure which will pass the time the fastest, I have Zelda BOTW, maria kart 8, Pokémon shining pearl, ACNH, Mario tennis aces, Pokémon lets go eevee, ssbu, super Mario Odyssey, and pokemon shield. ​ I'm thinking of playing Zelda on a fresh game and just seeing how far I can get, and since I haven't played in years it will be like starting over entirely

Zelda is very easy to sink hours into, not only is there so much to explore but you can change your gaming experience depending on what you feel like doing. Just wander and explore, find shrines and solve their puzzles, focus on upgrading armor, ingredient hunt then make meals / potions, go fight some lynels or raid enemy camps, do side quests, find and watch memories, or just go straight for the main quest. Though in a fresh game you will be limited in what you can do with a lot of those. I’d also recommend Inside, an awesome and beautiful platform puzzle game which you can probably finish during the journey (and I think it’s on sale right now).

Grab pomemon s/v and watch ~ 100 hours disappear. That's before the dlc and shiny charm :)

I started a fresh ocarina on my last flight , was an excellent time killer.

Get slay the Spire. Its realativly light but super addicting and great for long trips. I find deeper games like Zelda get a little more dificult to get into an hendheld mode, but StS just fits that role perfectly.

My ACNH island awaits!

My brother does this every road trip .. so annoying cause he doesn't ever let me play with him so I just sit there bored

Sleep. Laugh a little. Cry some. If we are nearing a Stuckeys “oh please pull over!!”

This person does 1970s travel.

What’s a Stuckeys?

A shuttered Southern American restaurant chain. You could get cheese logs.

the place near the Howard Johnsons :-)

I’m from the home of Stuckeys! So happy that someone remembers it 🤩

"Hey Dad can we stop at Flickeys?!" "No." (next Flickeys 25,000 miles)

My parents did not want to go there! My dad's expression was "get stuck at Stuckeys"

Spotify and maladaptive daydreaming. Can't do anything cause I get motion sickness/car sick really easily or I don't care and play my switch until I get sick, which is about 30 min to an hour.

Intense masturbation.

What are you gonna do the rest of the 9h:59m::30s?


One of the best and most underrated movies ever.

Wrote a 15 page term paper in my Cold War history class that centered around this game. What a beautiful moment in history for several different reasons. I get chills when Eruzione drops the Team USA line. Also the Herb line where he says “the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.” It’s in my top 5 for sure.

Yep I try to hit the driver with my load

This is the way.

Whilst looking directly at the rear view mirror.

[Reminds me of a story from Steve-o...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyjND0PUjGc) The preamble sets a little context, but story itself starts at 2:00

I want to like this post but you got 69 likes now

pre downloaded content onto a tablet, small art project like knitting or crochet, a reading book/puzzle book/coloring book and good pillow for sleeping. Oh and Snacks!

snacks are the best, I'll actually stop playing games just to eat because it still helps time pass

Millennials are the charcuterie board generation! It’s so fun to mix and match flavors like Remi tried to get Emile to do in Ratatouille. A grape and a cracker, white cheese and salami, yellow cheese and pepperoni, pepperoni and a grape, etc DELICIOUS!!!

Just sit back close my eyes listening to a audiobook and imagine the book in my head like a movie

This sounds awesome Gonna try this tonight in bed

very good to develop psychic skills and complex fabulous levels of dreams

You could also try graphic audios. Like audiobooks but with music, voice actors for every character and sound effects

Yep. Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy. Discworld. Artemis Fowl. The Dark Tower series. So many great ways to burn a few hours/months.

Edibles

Low dose mushrooms would be great too

It’s 10 hours, gonna need 7 grams for that.

or ketamine and good music

99 bottles of beer on the wall. The wheels on the bus go round and round.

start from a million, I'll get kicked out of the car quickly

My poor parents. One trip for the last hour I sang "show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I wanna go to bed, had a drink about an hour ago, and it's gone right to my head" on repeat. How they managed not to pull over and kill me I have no idea.

99 wheels on the bus go round. 99 wheels on the bus. One falls off and rolls down the street. 98 wheels on the bus go round.

A few long movies and noise cancelling headphones. And gravol.

Head cancelling headphones, eh? Sounds painful.

I want one so I can die

Lol, fixed.

I been thinking about the movie tennet, honestly

Leaning slightly into the middle so I can see out of the windscreen and spending 10 hours staring straight ahead and trying not to hurl.

I don't have motion sickness but I do the same. I can't really use my phone or read anything while someone drives. I just stare ahead and around me, with major anxiety for an accident. If my friend is driving and texting or insta scrolling I tell them to put the fucking thing down. Back seat driver me will tell them to stop tailgating, or don't drive 95 mph in a 70. Like seriously, if we wreck we will die. I do this thing reactively, when I see brake lights ahead as a passenger I stomp a invisible brake pedal. "Slow down the cars right in front of us are stopped"

Ask the driver to switch places constantly until they agree

Annoying other people can be very entertaining

yeah, its my dad, and were towing a trailer, not only do I not have experience with that, he has experience being an OTR trucker, he is carrying a lot of weight and were in a vehicle that I'm not insured to drive, and were going across borders

Steam deck

This should be higher

This generation's Gameboy

Still have my original with pokemon blue

Talking to the other people in the car, looking out the window, playing the license plate game, eating snacks.

what is the license plate game, I've heard of it but never learnt the rules

I just enjoy the trip. The scenery, conversation etc. I find we tend to try and just fill so much of our lives with distraction we tend to miss the beauty and conversations right in front of us.

The only way I'll ever spend 10 hours in the back of somebody's car is if I'm being extradited or something. Ain't gonna happen. If I'm not driving, I'll probably stay home.

Sleep.

Sleep/anime/video games etc etc

I first read that as "how are you going to kill me?" in that case I'd probably strangle you with my shoelace. For your actual question, I guess I'd dream about how I might kill you from the back seat...or sleep.

Puking probably. I get really bad motion sickness in the back seat.

A good long audiobook

Shoot, I'd say a 10 hour audiobook is probably right around average length to tell the truth. But yeah, this is what I'd do.

Trying like hell not to barf all over the place…. I get mad motion sickness

I'll be knitting and listening to a podcast or an audiobook.

10 hour nap.

Watch the man running along the stuff outside the window

Mushrooms

I'm joining you on your next road trip

Probably analogue pocket/some type of gameboy, audiobook or a reading device/book.

Thinking about all my depression and cringe moments in my life

Ask “Are we there yet!” at every mile marker.

Kindle, until I get motion sickness

Same. Or some physical books.

Drugs lots and lots of drugs

This one knows what’s up

Back seat? Probably vomiting. Or passed out from the dramamine

Kicking the seat, saying "Are we there yet?" A million times. Until my wife pulls the car off the side of the road and threatens to whip my ass...KinkyTime!!!

Since I'll get car sick, the answer is : suffering and puking.

Bring grandad and ask him about the war.

Reddit

my phone will be on airplane mode sadly :(

Sleep, handheld gaming devices, listening to music, crosswords, and more sleep.

Sleep, edibles, Steamdeck

Downloading from Netflix or/ and YouTube before hand. And why would i need to put my phone on flight mode? My internet is for all of the EU

I'm in Canada and going to the States so I immediatly incur extra costs if it stays on

Download episodes or movies to the netflix app.

Listening to music, audio book or sleep. Sadly as soon as I start using anything concerning visuals I get nauseous.

Jailbroken PSvita, charger and earbuds.

I’d have roughly 40 hours worth of critical role podcast on my phone along with a number of games. The usual.

Read a good book

Sleeping my ass off! Or just dozing off. My honest answer.

- Sleep the first 2-3 hours because I made sure I only slept like 3 hours the night before - Watch podcasts and a bunch of 30 minute youtube videos downloaded before the road trip - Sleep again for an hour or so - Watch vids - Last hour I just chill and look outside my window with some music or something

actually that's not a horrible idea, if I get little sleep going in

Long stretches od sleep with rage infused wake ups, when my head slip bangs against the window.

I'm holding two fingers up to the window to make it look like a guy is running really fast over the landscape that we're passing.

Kicking the back of the driver’s seat relentlessly, asking “are we there yet?” every 48 seconds and singing pop songs off key at the top of my lungs.

I am going to give my wife advice on driving for the first four hours followed by a two hour nap and then four hours of looking for a target to stop at.

Sleep, talking to passengers, some media to read on the phone, some media to play and some to listen to. Ideally the media has something to do with the location you are driving through or going to.

If I don't have any books I'm about to be meditating my ass off. ​ edit: I can't type, fixed it

By Listening to “i don't wanna do this anymore”

Absolute gem of a song, that beat is crazy

Melatonin

Chatting with the driver to keep her/him awake!

You know that you can download movies and shows on apps like Netflix and Prime and watch them later, right? on flight mode.

I would recommend to download audio books, movies and/or music (Spotify and Netflix allow this). A Nintendo Switch could be another option

Download all my Spotify playlists and Netflix shows. And then go sleep

bluetooth earbuds and hotspot with metaquest netflix

Download Netflix shows to view offline. Can watch in airplane mode. Or read a book.

download netflix movies or play roblox

Tablet and download things from Netflix before the trip, same for an audio book.

Sleeping.