why while sleeping during roadtrips one is able to wake up a few turns before arriving to the destination/home?
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Probably because of the change in velocity. Usually you leave the highway for surface streets, so you go from doing 70mph+ down to 35, or even a stop.
You get used to the feel of the roads near your house. Even when you are asleep, you can feel the acceleration every time you turn, and you can feel a little bit of information about the texture of the road below you. These 2 things can give you a pretty good amount of information. It is pretty common for pets that ride in the car a lot to also get excited near their destination because they also feel and remember the road.
The number of stops and starts you make. When you leave on a road trip you are going at a high rate of speed with few stop for the most part of your journey but the closer you are to either your starting point or your destination the more stops and starts and turns you make.
Say you live in Miami, you leave your front door, turn at your drive, stop and turn at the light. Another stop and another turn then you get on the interstate highway, whatever one runs up the east coast. Now you can drive without stopping unless there is traffic until you get to your destination city, say D.C.. now when you get to the city you have to exit the highway and stop and start and turn several times, culminating in the final stop at your destination.
The further you are from the middle of the trip you are, the more you are gonna slow down, turn and stop your car, and thereby disturb any sleeping passengers with the change in motion.
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