Re: Not falling asleep.
My wife is always falling asleep watching TV, but only at night normally.
I don't recall ever falling asleep watching TV, or even sitting on the sofa. If I'm really tired I go to bed and depending how shattered I am, it's a full scale under the duvet for a couple of hours or sometimes just a lie down on the top of the bed for a few minutes.
With me working night shifts Sun-Thurs, it's on a Friday night that I'm most tired. My body clock tells me that it's 6.30pm, which is my normal time for a 'top-up sleep' before work and I suddenly get tired out. I hate to waste my weekend nights, so I try to keep awake. It's very strange because I am then absolutely knackered for two hours until 8.30pm (which is my normal getting up time) but then suddenly I'm wide awake again!
I then watch a DVD, have a few bottles of real ale and stay awake as late as possible, usually around 11pm.
Are you still following this?
But then after a couple of hours I'm wide awake again and I'm downstairs watching TV for another couple of hours at 1am. Then it's back to bed about 3.30 shattered once more, up again at 5am wide awake for a cuppa and some toast and I then want to sleep again until the middle of Saturday morning.
It all drives me nuts and I go through the whole process again on Saturday night! It doesn't make any difference if I've had a few beers in the afternoon either, I'm still stuck in this 'night shift' mode and haven't been able to get out of it 13 years on.
On Sunday I then have to try to get some'advance sleep' for work beginning once more on the night. Of course, I can't sleep then as my body is getting used to being awake in 'day mode', so Sunday night at work is always a killer!
Hell, I can't wait to get back to a day job, this can't be doing me any good!
So count yourself lucky you folks who fall asleep in front of the telly for a few minutes, try working nights.