Why is it so easy to fall asleep in a loud, shaky subway...but sometimes hard to sleep in a quiet, comfortable bed?
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Anti-Semantic - Quaerens Intellectum
ANSWERS: 4
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you're on the subway, and you just close your eyes for just a moment but drift off for a short snooze, with out meaning to. meanwhile in bed you're actually trying to sleep.
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yep and that makes me mad
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I would love to be able to answer this as well. I live in a neighborhood that is plagued with the sounds of barking dogs, police/ambulance/fire sirens, helicopters and prop planes, and car crashes. I never have much trouble sleeping through any of it. I spent the last week in a fairly quiet hotel room, and I was only able to sleep one night out of the 7 I was there. Go figure.
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I assume it is because you are used to that environment maybe to an extent. Just like people that need the sound of frogs and crickets to go to sleep. I was on a ship for 3 years and I got so used to sleeping with the hum of machinery it was also hard for me to sleep with silence.
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