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Boring meetings have the same effect on me. The main challenge is, not to snore.
by ddsea 7y ago
Boring meetings have the same effect on me. The main challenge is, not to snore.
- awesomepeter 7y agoI think the sleepiness in meetings is mostly related to lack of fresh air. I remember reading some articles that the air during meetings (talking about physical meetings in rooms here) has a very high CO2 count.
- WalterBright 7y agoIn my senior year at Caltech, I flew out with some others to interview at HP. HP made a group presentation to us. I fell asleep halfway through the presentation and woke up halfway to the floor, and hit the floor with quite a crash. I inspired quite a bit of laughter with that. I didn't get the job offer :-)
- Roark66 7y agoThis is why you always bring a coffee to presentations/meetings. Even if caffeine is not strong enough to stop you from falling asleep the activity of picking up a cup and taking a sip every few minutes will do.
- WalterBright 7y agoI didn't get hooked on coffee until I started at Boeing. There's nothing like Boeing MIL-STD coffee. It was years before I realized that my Sunday morning headaches were caffeine withdrawal (I'm really not very smart). I still like my coffee black and tasting like industrial waste.
- duderific 7y agoHa, that's funny. I drink an extra cup of coffee when I get to the office, to add to the one I have with breakfast at home. I would get the worst headache on the weekends until I realized my body was expecting that second cup.
- xvector 7y agoThis is actually a serious problem to me. Regardless of how interesting I find them, meetings at work trigger something deep inside me that cause me to sleep. It’s like a biological switch has been flipped. Cavemen talking around a fire into the night, getting ready for the long rest for the day ahead... Sometimes I fall into a fugue in which I am semi-aware and a dream fills in part of the speech of meetings. I hear the most bizarre things when that happens, and worst of all, it makes sense! I don’t have any sleep issues aside from this. Standing up sometimes helps but cannot always be done.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoWhat convinces you that you don't have sleep issues? You can appear to get enough sleep but he lacking in REM sleep, for example.
- mFixman 7y agoI have the same problem as your parent, and I'm convinced I don't have the usual sleep issues for several reasons. 1) I'm very sensitive of lack of sleep, and so I take having 8-hours or more of good sleep extremely seriously. 2) Most days I don't have any sudden sleep syndrome. 3) I've had cases of sudden extreme sleepiness for no particular reason since I was a child. The only thing in common I can think of in this cases is being indoors. I never thought about it before, but I might have a case of narcolepsy or something similar.
- mFixman 7y agoI thought I was the only person with a serious case of useless-meeting narcolepsy. Keeping relatively active helps, just like taking walks roughly every hour at minimum during work. If I'm absolutely going to sleep I'll stop paying attention and focus on my work, but then I'll miss opportunities to talk when needed. I'll owe my career to anyone who can find a solution.
- ddsea 7y agoMaybe an airliner-grade seat?