naps

Yes, but unlike when I was young, I never wake up feeling refreshed. I wake up groggy and with a headache.

I take a lie down from 12-2 p.m. every day. I rarely fall asleep, I just rest. I'm not even that old.

I love naps. Take naps often. Have throughout my adult life.

Some naps can be as short as 5 minutes. Other times, it ends up being a two hour nap. Most average about 30 minutes or so.

Even if I don't end up falling asleep, the act of lying down and slowing down is good to calm my nerves and my mind.

63 yo and can't nap. It's hard to fall asleep during the day and I don't want it to affect my night's sleep.

I try not to since if I nap, I'm up until all hours. I'm retired so that would be fine with me if I didn't have a dog who wakes me early to go out.

I'm a longtime napper.

1P to 2:30P or so.

Always wanted to but had to push through my whole life working and rabbiting away at school etc. Now old I feel like I’m a looser wasting my life if I do. Such is the utilitarian fascism training that fucks us up for much of our working class American lives.

[quote]I’m a looser wasting my life if I do.

In more ways than one.

I've found I don't like napping in/on a bed because I fall too deeply asleep and wake up super-cranky and stupid. So I nap on the sofa. Always in the same position -- on my right side with the same small pillow under my head and my feet under a different pillow. Because I always nap in this position, my body knows to nap, and I drift off. It's a very light sleep/doze and I invariably wake up after 20 or 25 minutes and feel refreshed. (Of course, sometimes I don't sleep at all, but a rest is still nice.) It has never kept me from going to sleep at night.

I had a friend who said she couldn't nap. I said she had to practice and told her about my Always On The Sofa In The Same Position method. She said she didn't want to practice, just to nap, like someone who wants to play Chopin at Carnegie Hall but doesn't want to waste time learning scales.

I hate naps, although I am sometimes tempted to take them. I nearly always wake up groggy, which always lasts the rest of the day.

The only time it's partially worked for me is if I am on the floor (eg, of my office) or outside on a hard surface, like a bench. I can doze off, but I can't enter REM sleep.

A twenty minute nap can make a huge difference in your energy level. Set your alarm or use a timer on your phone. I WFH and this can be a godsend mid-afternoon (I don't bill the time for the nap).

At 71, a 30 min. nap is not just a pleasure - it is a fact of life.

Deciding when to take my mid day nap is probably the most important daily decision I have to make most days.

R9 Oh dear, it’s past time to change your tampon.

I’m napping as I type!

The English detest a siesta (the toughest Burmese bandit can never understand it).

I’m taking Gabapentin and boy, all I have to do is sit down and I fall fast asleep. I’m switching to something else.

I've been an unsuccessful napper the majority of my life (I'm sure I did fine as a toddler, but I digress), so I don't even try anymore.

However, the few times in my life that I've fallen asleep accidentally on the couch during a weekend day while listening to the dulcet tones of Bob Ross while he was painting a bucolic Alaskan landscape that was supposedly some portal to Hell I count as some of the most relaxing and happiest in my life.

Ah, to be young and exhausted and in the prime of life again!

Yes, I love them about and hour after lunch. I take them more in the winter than any other time of year. A 15-minute cat nap is heaven on a cold and/or dreary day.

Ancestry DNA tests suggest there is a genetic component to nap takers vs abstainers.

I often take to my bed when the world feels angry and cold. Usually I don’t sleep.

Only when I drink

I'll take one whenever I can. My sleep is fucked.

r21 interesting. Is it related to Neanderthal/Denisovan DNA?

I take them all the time in my early 30s. I got used to waking up at 4am out of necessity for a number of years and ever since then, I can't help but wake up super early. It doesn't matter if I stay up late or what I do, I'm waking up no later than 6. More likely around 4 or 5. I sleep for a few extra hours around noon or 1pm most days.

^^^^ my grandma was like that. She was a school nurse and got up at 5 or 6 every morning for years, and hated it. She swore once she retired she was going to sleep until noon. Well, she retired and woke up at 5 or 6 a.m. She took a 2 hour nap every day between 1 and 3 pm.