Tips for nodding off and spacing out at work.

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Anyone else kinda nod off, or daze off at work? This seems to happen randomly and can last for hours. It's like my eyes can't focus, I'm exhusted, slur my words and have 0 productivity?

Anyone else do this? Have tips for dealing with it?

I limit my sugar and caffeine intake, and make me a cup of caffinated green tea with 3 teaspoons of real sugar at 10 AM at 2 PM and at 4 PM. It keeps me focused.
Otherwise, I stare off in the middle distance, stim or fritter my time away on the internet at work, a definate no-no!

Merle

This tends to happen to me during meetings. I've learned that taking notes keeps me alert and stops me spacing out.

It sounds to me like maybe you're not taking enough breaks. If you feel sleepy, take a five minute break to walk outside and get some fresh air. Just sitting there only makes it worse.

I wish I could get up for 5 mins and walk outside... however it's not allowed.

Keep the ideas coming please

I go and do about 50 push ups every hour... It keeps me pretty alert you might get made fun of but you get to do your work out on company time.

If you're actually nodding off, you might have narcolepsy.

If I wake up early, this always happens to me the first two hours or so of working. Once I get going it rarely shows up again... but it's tricky when my head keeps bobbing up and down and I can't focus on anything.

My favourite things to do when I'm having those days:

1.) Wash my face with cold water.
2.) Yoga in my tiny little cube. It is difficult, but relaxing and rejuvenating if I can do just a few stretches.
3.) Stair running. On any day that I can escape for a few more moments, I like to run up and down the stairs a few times.
4.) Listening to books on tape is a new thing for me, and sometimes it works, some times it doesn't.
5.) Going outside for a walk on my lunch break.
6.) Drinking tea all day long. It gives me a reason to run to the bathroom every hour or so, which helps me wake up.


Good luck!

Yuck.

My last job was like that.

I was falling asleep as many as 10 times in a workday, and the management went ballistic on me if they noticed. I also wasn't allowed to take breaks.


The fatigue just got worse and worse until my productivity was zero all the time.


Looking at 6 months unemployed now...


I have hypersomina, which is a mild form of narcolepsy. With as bad as it is for me, I can't even imagine what real narcolepsy is like.

crack if you're into illegal substances.

Even though that's probably frowned upon in most workplaces.