{"id":36419,"date":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/i-fall-asleep-driving-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:58:14","slug":"i-fall-asleep-driving-2","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/i-fall-asleep-driving-2\/","title":{"rendered":"i fall asleep driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Hi Ken\u2014 <\/p>\n<p>Odds are about 90 to 1 that you have a fairly severe case of <strong>obstructive sleep apnea<\/strong>\u2014which is the medical phrase that describes a condition of difficulty breathing during sleep. For more information about sleep apnea, continue to read the sleep tips located here in the <strong>Sleep Apnea<\/strong> section. <\/p>\n<p>You are falling asleep during the day because your sleep is not restorative at night. When you experience difficulty breathing during sleep, your brain awakens you frequently in order to \u201cjump start\u201d the breathing process. These frequent arousals\u2014often as many as 60 in one hour\u2014or one per minute\u2014cause you to not get as much deep (DELTA), and dreaming (REM) sleep as your body needs. Even though you may be sleeping eight hours per night or more in order to compensate\u2014your body is still experiencing a chronic sleep deficit. <\/p>\n<p>You are tired behind the wheel because driving is a sedentary, mildly hypnotic activity that, nevertheless, demands our constant vigilance. Unfortunately, you are absolutely right to be frightened of driving off the road during one of these \u201csleep attacks.\u201d On the other hand, I am glad you have chosen to seek information for your condition before you actually do have an accident. <\/p>\n<p>I have worked with th<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">ousands of patients suc<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">cesssfully treating sleep<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">apnea. The great news is that it\u2019s so easy to treat. And your<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"> first <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">words, after receiving treatment, I promise you, will be: \u201cI wish I\u2019d done this five years ago.\u201d So don\u2019t put it off another day. Contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepapnea.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">American Academy of Sleep Medicine<\/span><\/a> to locate a sleep disorders center near you. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/i-fall-asleep-driving\/\" id=\"1430\" option=\"com_content\">original question<\/a><br \/>Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/snoring-sleep-apnea\/\" id=\"81\" option=\"com_content\">Snoring &amp; Sleep Apnea page<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[3226,3233],"class_list":["post-36419","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","category-better-sleep-answer","category-sleep-apnea-better-sleep-answer"],"acf":{"article_id":"1442"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/36419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}