What do you do to stay awake while driving?

I don't like driving too but sometimes you don't have a choice. I just had a vision of someone singing at the top of their voice and falling asleep with their mouth wide open! (just joking) I think that would happen to me.

Ohh no.. maybe you just need to sleep well at night? Why are you so sleepy?

Good question. I read, sometimes until 2am and then have to be up at 4am to go to work. I know that I should just put down the book and go to sleep but when its a good gripping story I have no will power at all. So now you know! I am a wimp when it comes to a good book!

Lucky you. I am glad that you have never had an accident. Its really nerve racking, shocking and can shake you up. I hope you can keep that up too.

Lucky you. I am glad that you have never had an accident. Its really nerve racking, shocking and can shake you up. I hope you can keep that up too.

I once fell asleep beside a huge boom box. Music doesn't keep me awake, unless I am lying in bed and them it keeps me awake! Talking keeps me awake until the person falls asleep and I am right back to keeping myself awake!

Thanks for the welcome. I no longer drive at night, I can't see a thing. The lights blind me and if there is another vehicle behind that one I'm done. Thanks for the advice.

You are saying that you fell asleep and spent a week in hospital? Wow! I am glad that you made it! I have seen the results of some really terrible accidents and if you make it through one alive you really have to thank God. Corn chips or corn flakes, they do work well don't they? Well I am glad that you found a solution and wont go through falling asleep again while driving. The best thing that we really need to do is get enough sleep! Go to bed early enough! That is what I need to learn to do. I find all kinds of things to do but then sometimes I read instead of going to bed. I need to learn is will power, how to put down the book, no matter how interesting it is.

I have heard that that helps some people but not me unfortunately. Thanks for your input.

Sorry, but music puts me to sleep. I definitely couldn't use your method. Some people say they stop and have a drink of rum, another man said that he keeps a bottle of water in the car and stops and washes his face. I wash my face before I go to bed! That definitely wouldn't work! and as to the rum! that would have me in lala land in a blink of an eye, literally.

Thanks for your responses! I know what you mean about being tense while driving. Some of the drivers are so bad you have to have eyes in the back of your head. A relative of mine was rearended and the lady said that she was driving too slow so she ran into her back to get to drive faster. can you believe it!

When I want to sleep nothing keeps me awake unless its something that I am actively doing and driving isn't active enough.

That doesn't help me at all. Talking to someone does, but most of the time that I have someone with me they fall asleep and I am right back to square one.

Thanks for the tips. Sometimes its not safe to stop when you start to feel sleepy. I tried singing but its not as effective for me as the cornflakes is. something sour is also effective.

I suppose cold would help but my country doesn't get cold. Thank God! I fall asleep because I don't get to bed early enough to get a good nights sleep. I know that's what the problem is but I still need to be able to stay awake!