Sleep and Planes

Just so you know, it's impossible to sleep on a plane.
I have tried before this flight and I failed. So, to avoid that awful feeling of being awake for 10 hours doing nothing, I stayed awake all night before and didn't sleep during the 7 hour wait between planes in Houston.
When I finally got on the plane, I was content to go right to sleep. I hobbled through the aisle like a zombie and collapsed in my chair.
It netted me a grand total of 0 hours of sleep. I just stayed there on the chair. Wide awake.
I remember the name of the pilot. Captain English. He was impressive. He landed the plane without even a bump.
Of course, I was hoping primarily to avoid jetlag by sleeping on the plane since we would arrive at 8 am local time. So I felt dizzy for the rest of the day and fell asleep at 10 PM hoping to get 8 hours of sleep.
Obviously those pesky travel gods were angry with me because we slept until around 4 pm the next day. Thank god we arrived so many days early.