Pretending to be fake sleep can be a very effective strategy to keep people away, whether you’re attempting to pull a joke, listen in on a conversation, or just avoid interaction with your housemates. Alternatively, even if it might not have been the case, you might wish to make other people think you slept well the night before. 

Here are some techniques for successfully faking sleep, in either case. The secret is to appear as natural as you can when pretending to sleep so that it still looks real and convincing. Here’s how to go about doing that.

What is Faking Sleep?

When someone pretends to be asleep when being awake, they are faking sleep. This may be done for a variety of reasons, such as avoiding conversation or being too exhausted to stay up. Since there are so many obvious indications that someone is awake, such as moving around, making noise, or having open eyes, it can be challenging to appear as fake sleep.

How to fake a sleep?

Select a natural position

Take the position you often perform when attempting to fall asleep as your first “rule” for pretending to be asleep. Keep yourself in the most natural and relaxed stance you can think to avoid drawing attention. Do you usually sleep on your stomach? Pretend to be asleep while doing it. By assuming the most at ease and comfortable position achievable when lying in bed. Basically, get into the position you’d use to try to sleep. In doing so, you lessen the chance that someone may judge your pretend sleep fake.  

Try not to move

It would be wise to keep as still as possible when pretending to be asleep to avoid being noticed because most people move very little while they sleep naturally. When you sleep alone, you won’t move around that much. If you want to appear to be asleep, you must remain still. You won’t be expected to move while you’re sleeping unless someone is paying careful attention to you.

Close your eyes slowly

Be careful not to tightly squeeze your eyes together to fake sleep. Try not to close your eyes too tightly. Your muscles, especially those in your eyelids, should be relaxed for the best expression of sleep. To prevent your eyelids from moving as you close your eyes, look down. Your eyes may not always close completely when you are sleeping. You might still be able to see through the slit if you allow your eyelids to drop and softly close. 

To simulate Sleep time, the deepest stage of sleep during which your eyes move swiftly, look quickly from side to side while keeping your eyelids closed. Your face’s muscles can move, too. 

Move your jaw and forehead muscles to create a realistic appearance. 

Pay attention to your breathing

To make your fake sleeping more realistic, attempt to relax and maintain as even a breathing technique as you can. Breathe deeply, continuously, and slowly. Try to relax your breathing as much as you can and maintain it. As you inhale deeply, count to ten in your brain. 

Next, make an effort to let out breaths that are equally long. Each breath you take should be followed by doing this.

Being responsive is important

Even as we sleep, our brain is still subtly aware of our environment. As a result, our bodies still react sensitively to any external input. To make your fake sleep appear more real, include actions that seem to be unconsciously in response to noises and movements in the room.

Take a short, shallow breath and twitch slightly if you sense a touch or hear a loud noise. After this fast reaction, let your body to settle and your breathing to return to its regular, deep rhythm. Because our brains are still cognitively aware of our environment while we sleep, our bodies react more slowly to outside signals. Include “unconscious” reactions to movement and sound in your sham sleeping so it look more realistic 

Switch on a fan and take off some of your bed’s blankets

Additionally, turning on a fan will help you concentrate on “sleeping” by drowning out some distracting noise. Your body prefers to sleep at a temperature of 60–67 °F (16–19 °C). 

Even when you have your eyes closed and are pretending to be sleeping, you may find it less interesting to fall asleep if you cool down your body and your space. If you can, open a window to let in some cool, fresh air. If you live in a hot climate, use an ice pack to keep cool while you’re under the blanket.

Calculate challenging issues as rapidly as possible in your head

Fast-paced tasks can keep you more attentive, whereas boring tasks have been shown to make you sleepier. To keep your brain active, try multiplying two and three digit numbers by random numbers or removing random numbers.

How to prevent falling asleep off

After learning how to fake sleep, let’s examine the most effective techniques for staying awake instead. Here are some ideas to help you stay awake. Of course, they could not work if you’re exhausted. It’s important to remember that it’s not encouraged to force yourself to stay awake on a regular basis. You must pay attention to your body’s messages if you want to live a healthy lifestyle.

When it’s your turn to do the dinner dishes or when you truly want to tune out the extended family that has arrived to spend the holiday, pretending to sleep can be useful in a variety of situations. 

A convincing fake snore and some drool may be all you need to avoid any number of unpleasant situations, and best of all, it can’t harm anyone.

You can avoid engaging in conversation with someone by acting like you’re asleep, and you can also observe their behavior. To help you pull off your best drowsy deception face, we’ve put up a list of easy hacks and ideas.

Some easy hacks and ideas for fake sleep

• Take up a comfortable sleeping position
• Remain still
• Lightly shut your eyes
• Take regular, rhythmic breaths
• Be responsive