 time can help regulate your sleep cycle.
If you have trouble falling asleep at night, there are various things you can do for yourself. Calming your mind via relaxation techniques like deep breathing or meditation is known to do wonders for your sleep. Reading, drinking tea, or listening to soft music are also viable strategies.
Just like your physical health, your sleep health is also something that might take time to improve. With patience and practice, both sides of your health can see positive strides. Once your overall health has improved, the threat of falling asleep behind the wheel greatly decreases.
2. Consume Caffeine
It’s easy for caffeine to become someone’s best friend. Caffeine exists in coffee, teas, and various energy drinks, and works by dilating the blood vessels in the brain, which allows extra blood and oxygen to flow into the brain.
This wakes your brain up. It gets things moving in your body, gets your heart pumping, and most importantly, keeps you awake. Caffeine can be just the thing a sleep-deprived driver might need.
Caffeine might be that saving grace, especially needed for jobs that require their employees to drive long distances, over long stretches of time.
As well, caffeine might also come in handy for those whose jobs make them have to commute in the early hours of the day or the late hours of the night, or if someone has to drive far distances, every single day, to get to their job.
Planning ahead is the key here. If you know you have to drive long distances or drive incredibly early or extra late, bring a caffeinated drink of some kind with you. A to-go coffee cup, a canned energy drink, or a travel cup for tea can be just what a driver needs to avoid falling asleep behind the wheel.
3. Take a Break If You Need To
It’s easy for everyday life to transform into a non-stop hustle. Taking a break from that hustle might seem sacrilege to some, but it’s an option that everyone should know they are able to take advantage of.
Long drives should always come with time made to stop the car and take a break. Getting out of the vehicle and stretching, using the bathroom, or simply letting the mind relax after being active and focusing on the road is a must.
As well, if you find yourself feeling the overwhelming urge to sleep overcome you while you’re behind the wheel, there’s nothing wrong with pulling over your vehicle. The shoulder of the road exists for a reason. If you need to use it, don’t hesitate. Pull your vehicle over, and take as much time as necessary before you feel you are ready to continue driving.
If needed, drivers shouldn’t be afraid to stop driving, park their vehicle somewhere, and get some sleep. While this may seem like a lot to ask someone whose job it is to drive, your own life and wellbeing should always be prioritized. Taking the time to get some sleep will always be a preferable option to risking your life.
Get the California Legal Help You Deserve
Driving can be a major part of a person’s life. It can be a daily part of a job’s commute or be the job itself.
Unfortunately, life doesn’t always make time for sleep, and if you’re lacking sleep, driving can become a serious hazard. Lack of sleep can and will cause a car accident.
If you or a loved one were involved in an accident caused by someone who fell asleep behind the wheel, get in touch with the Law Offices of Tawni Takagi by calling (310) 954-7248.
With tons of experiences handling cases like yours, we can give you the legal help and guidance you are owed.Horrifying Hollywood Murders Video & RIP Ray Manzarek
Thanks to you guys for posting this video. I had not seen it in a while so I am posting it so that nobody misses it in the comments below. It’s a classic and features our bro Scott Michaels from findadeath.com and Dearly Departed Hollywood Tours. If you look closely… scary images… You have to freeze frame certain parts. Warning: Graphic.
Also, RIP Ray Manzarek! He was 74 years old. He and The Doors had 15 Top 100 hits back in the day.
Thanks all~
krislyn 9:37 am on May 21, 2013 Permalink |
im very sad about Ray. i have followed the Doors for years. i was going to a concert on August 10 i hope Robby will perform.
Bonnie Brae 12:50 pm on May 21, 2013 Permalink |
There is Wonderland Documentary that briefly mentions a book “Four on the Floor” written by the detectives that worked on the case. But you have to do a little digging to find that the book was never published. Makes you wonder why. Did they just give up? Did they just not care? Or were they possibly threatened by Eddie Nash? hmmmm
Bonnie Brae 12:50 pm on May 21, 2013 Permalink |
Ray Passing sucks big time.
John 1:24 pm on May 21, 2013 Permalink |
I don’t know if their book was that great… I think they would run out of material to fill an entire book. They could have self-published it, but yes… many questions.
localarts 3:33 pm on May 21, 2013 Permalink
Quite the contrary. From what I understand, Lange & Souza could never get the book published for political reasons that to this day, they will not give an answer. It’s my opinion that what I and everybody else knows about this crime and all the players involved is just scratching the surface. I believe Lange & Souza were ready to drop names. Eddie Nash’s ties to law enforcement and the fire department were far reaching as well as political figures. I’ve know about Four On The Floor for a long time.
If that book ever hit the shelves it would be the shit! And the shit would hit the fan..Big time!
mark strangelove 7:21 am on September 27, 2013 Permalink
I believe it was published for law enforcement training.
krislyn 1:44 pm on May 21, 2013 Permalink |
Robert Souza who does writing today i ran into him 12 years ago when i was really into the Oj simpson trial. i was trying to get to Tom Lange and got Robert instead. I didnt have a strong background in Wonderland at the time otherwise i would asked better questions. i was just looking for research books. i asked where can i fund this book he stated it wasnt published i asked why he said him snd lange and some others had differences in the rights and stuff. it was easier to pull the plug on it than deal w business matters. nasucally money was the reason it didnt hit stands. like they say…money is the root of all evil.
krislyn 4:11 pm on May 21, 2013 Permalink |
also the book was written soon after the murders.. since then new facts pictures and confessionswere brought to light. if anythung that book would be boring i think.
krislyn 4:14 pm on May 21, 2013 Permalink |
veey interesting localarts. i find it fascinating that facts are the same and perceptions are different. that was back in 2000 as well people didnt want to incriminate themselves or put themselves in danger
i wpnder what eddies thoughts were on the movie.
localarts 6:06 pm on May 21, 2013 Permalink |
Think about this for a moment: The OJ Simpson murder case was by far more high profile. Lange and Vannatter wrote a book about that case and it was published; Evidence Dismissed. Yet, they can’t get a book they wrote about four individuals beaten to death in a drug den published?? I think Four On The Floor went beyond just the core murders so to speek, It’s my opinion a lot of people higher up the ladder were going to get dirty.
scabiesoftherat 11:54 pm on May 21, 2013 Permalink |
It could be too that everyone wrote a book about the oj case. Except for Furman’s, not many did all that well. I think they were publicized well, but no one wanted to really hear all the excuses as to why Simpson got away with murder. It could be that the publishers didn’t want another book by the detective who can’t solve a case or get a conviction. It’s bad PR. (Btw, if you do get Lange and Vannater’s book, get the audiobook. It has the actual tape-recorded interview they did the day after the murders and the tape recorded phone calls of simpson in the bronco. Both are very, very telling.) The Wonderland murders scream to have someone come in and really nail the story down but, as we have seen, the principals are dying off. Or at least have someone make a cogent documentary about it,…like they did with “West Of Memphis” (Not as Indie as all that maybe, but you get my point…..and it should have nothing to do With the E! True Hollywood Story….at all!!) We only get little blurbs here and there if we only look in the right places. If Lange and Souza’s book was on par with say, “In Cold Blood” or “Helter Skelter”, it would be a damn shame to have it just sit there. But it would have to go much further than a simple police chronicle…which is probably why Lange and