Timeline for How to avoid sleeping in lectures?
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 8:42 | vote | accept | Manoj Kumar | ||
| Mar 14, 2015 at 7:44 | comment | added | Fomite | Voting to keep this open because I've always had a harder time staying awake in academic environments than other ones. | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 3:02 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 11, 2015 at 9:54 | answer | added | Martin - マーチン | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 4:17 | comment | added | Manoj Kumar | @SteveJessop : No, I don't fall asleep in such situations. While the possibility of the lecture environment being the cause is high, I also wonder if it is myself who am the culprit. Sometimes, I have observed myself wandering off (unintentional) in thoughts as soon as the lecture begins (again, irrespective of the content). Can something like this be a result of attitude along or the physical environment? | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 20:48 | comment | added | user3932000 | I can't answer, so I'll comment instead: Always carry a bottle of cold water with you. Maybe two. And when you start to feel drowsy, take a sip and it should keep you awake for the next couple minutes before you need another sip again. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 17:09 | history | protected | eykanal | ||
| Mar 10, 2015 at 9:52 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | You could test your "lack of interaction" hypothesis. Do you invariably fall asleep within 15-20 minutes of watching TV, or sitting quietly listening to spoken radio? Neither of those requires any more interaction than listening to a live speaker. If you don't fall asleep, then it's something more specific about the lecture environment as jakebeal suggests. And it's not the content, since you fall asleep in all lectures regardless of whether you find them interesting or boring. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 2:30 | answer | added | foobarbecue | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 18:51 | answer | added | Ed Vogel | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 18:20 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | I do not think that the latter advice works. Lectures are very tiring due to the way they request your attention and are a very passive activity. If you are sufficiently tired that you can sleep before a lecture (usually when you have just come into the room and have just actively done something), five minutes of sleep won’t make you sufficiently fit to follow it. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:34 | comment | added | jakebeal | Perhaps you could elaborate a little on why you think this is actually an effective strategy? | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 16:58 | comment | added | alimax | don't fight it. go to sleep for 5 minutes and wake refreshed or pre-empt it by going to sleep before the lecture for 5 minutes. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 12:36 | comment | added | RedSonja | My colleague Andy and I have a deal. We sit next to each other, and if one nods off in a boring meeting, the other one nudges him. This keeping watch on the other guy is also helpful, gives you a little background task to keep your CPU ticking over. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 5:13 | comment | added | Chloe | Sip 5 Hour Energy. It's like NZT. I've fallen asleep on caffeine before, but 5HE works for DSPS also. You can also consider piracetam and like someone else mentioned theobromine (dark chocolate). | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 4:27 | history | edited | Manoj Kumar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Pointed to relevance of particular answer, and hopefully explained my question better.
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| Mar 9, 2015 at 2:40 | comment | added | Paul | In one all-encompassing word: Coffee! | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 1:53 | answer | added | Andreas Blass | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 1:45 | answer | added | Former USN | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 21:44 | comment | added | Alex Reinking | @MasonWheeler -- That worked great for me until I realized how much chocolate I was eating! I've since switched to sugarfree (also without sorbitol, dear god...) gum, and since I chew quietly and I throw it away in, y'know, a garbage can, no one's ever been annoyed by it. | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 19:47 | comment | added | Count Iblis | See also the Appendix of this article | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 19:35 | answer | added | tobias47n9e | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 12:00 | answer | added | Peter Teoh | timeline score: 12 | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 11:35 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Mar 8, 2015 at 7:33 | comment | added | enthu | @jakebeal We also have non-academic lectures, workshops and seminars, mostly in industry. | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 6:11 | comment | added | Manoj Kumar | @k_g : I meant groups with 2/3 people excluding myself, in addition to interactions with only one person | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 2:02 | comment | added | k_g | "1-1 (or smaller groups)"? I assume you mean larger? Or were you just talking to yourself? | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 1:32 | comment | added | mac389 | Narcolepsy? (Periods of sleepiness or low tone brought on by stress) Have you talked to a sleep specialist? | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 1:26 | answer | added | Count Iblis | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 0:20 | comment | added | Glorious Kale | Go for a jog each morning, take a cold shower, that'll get you concentrated and jumpy. | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 23:59 | comment | added | jakebeal | @EnthusiasticStudent I think it is about academia because it is specifically focused on lectures and seminars. | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 22:57 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @EnthusiasticStudent: It does. And it tastes awesome, too! | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 22:43 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 7, 2015 at 22:27 | comment | added | enthu | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this question is more about Personal Productivity, not specifically about Academia. | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 21:37 | answer | added | spacecadet | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 21:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/574316566092890112 | ||
| Mar 7, 2015 at 21:07 | comment | added | enthu | @MasonWheeler Really? Does eating dark chocolate help to avoid sleeping? | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 21:06 | history | edited | enthu |
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| Mar 7, 2015 at 20:52 | answer | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 18:40 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | Two words: Dark Chocolate :D | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 18:35 | comment | added | CentAu | Try taking notes. Although the notes themselves may not be important, they help you stay present in the lecture. | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 18:22 | answer | added | GSat | timeline score: 26 | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 18:14 | answer | added | jakebeal | timeline score: 53 | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 18:04 | comment | added | RoboKaren | I used to always sleep in one of my undergrad CS classes. It was right after lunch. I drank coffee. I moved to the very front of the classroom in an attempt not to sleep. I then became famous as the gal who was always sleeping in the 2nd row of Microarchitecture. I never shook that appellation! So I switched majors. :-) | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | While I sympathize with the question -- a few days ago I nodded off during a (pretty) good talk by (quite) an eminent speaker -- I think that here academia is more the incidental environment rather than the essence of the question. Would the answer really be different if you were trying not to doze off in a workplace meeting, a concert or performance, in church...? This seems close to "boat programming". | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 17:46 | history | asked | Manoj Kumar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |