世論 What Japan Thinks

This little bit of fun from goo Ranking looks at the moment people realise they must be exhausted.

Demographics

Between the 18th and 20th of October 2011 1,092 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.3% of the sample were male, 11.2% in their teens, 16.2% in their twenties, 25.7% in their thirties, 25.8% in their forties, 11.5% in their fifties, and 9.5% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

I’m surprised that there’s only one train-related answer here – I’d have thought that “when I sleep past my stop” would have been well up in the rankings! And talking of sleeping on the train:

Ranking result

Q: When do you realise that you must be completely exhausted? (Sample size=1,092)

Rank		Score
1	When my body gets a craving for something sweet	100
2	When I get a twitching beneath my eyes	97.3
3	When I start talking to myself too much	84.5
4	When I suddenly burst into tears for no apparent reason	81.4
5	When I get dizzy when I stand up	77.7
6	When I doze off in the bath	72.2
7	When I fall asleep in the train with my mouth wide open	66.0
8	When I forget to push the lift buttons	56.7
9	When I’m lonely but just don’t want to meet people	55.7
10	When I blurt out negative thoughts	48.8
11	When I have a fixed grin on my face	40.5
12	When I cannot remember anything between returning home and waking up the next morning	35.1
13	When I cannot read my own handwriting	31.6
14	When I mutter “I want to go home” when at home	30.6
15	When I search for my glasses even though I’m already wearing them	28.2
16	When I want to hear my mother’s voice	27.5
17=	When I forget my change at a vending machine	26.8
17=	When I mix up shampoo and conditioner	26.8
19	When I get paralysis	26.5
20	When I succumb to an urge to hook up with someone	25.4
21	When I cannot write katakana properly	25.1
22	When I start seeing things	22.3
23	When I return home then fall alseep at the entrance	21.3
24	When I laugh at even the most stupid things	21.0
25	When I fall asleep in the nude	19.9
26	When my negative tweets increase	17.2
27	When I see shadows on the floor as insects	14.1
28	When I get heartburn from drinking coffee	13.7
29	When I mistake the washing machine for the bin	10.0
30	When I go to a pet shop and start talking to the animals in the cages	6.2