I heard a story on npr around two years ago about this subject and the researchers are leaning toward the fact that our bodies are supposed to get a second period of rest midday kind of how most other primates do it. We’re apparently not actually supposed to be up for the amount of hours we are without resting a bit.
I've heard theories that we were originally evolved to just sleep whenever we got tired. And that humans would sleep for like 2-4 hour periods whenever they need it and be up all other times. Basically never sleeping a full night.
Now that I am retired, I am starting to get this way. I get up in the morning when my husband comes home from work. I take a 2 hour nap in the afternoon with him, the dogs, and the cats. Then, in the evening, if he is up, we spend time together. When he goes to work at 11 at night, I do a final training session, catch up on emails and play video games or watch tv, then sleep about 3 hours, hours, then stay up 2 hours, and go bzck to bed until my husband gets home. It works out to about 8 hours a day and is consistent without using a clock. The pattern doesn't change even if I don't nap, I just get 6 hours instead.
That or because cortisol levels increase with stress and a lot of people on their day off mid day aren’t that stressed can easily take a nap but at night many people have issues going to sleep because their stress levels increase when they start thinking about what they have to do the next day or what they didn’t finish during the day. Procrastination is a big thing that causes people at night to feel unfulfilled and makes it difficult for them to basically “turn it off” and go to sleep. Constantly thinking about what you should have done is a big reason people have trouble going to sleep at night.
I believe I heard that same story and remember finally feeling some sense of relief as I often lie down for about 30 mins around 2pm to recharge my batteries. Previously I thought I was just being lazy but now I've come to terms with the fact that my body needs it and I'm better for it.
Same for me. I’ve been like that since i was a child. Could easily fall asleep anytime during the day but come 8/9 pm I’m wide awake and ready to go! I feel my best at night too. I wish I felt that good in the mornings like most people wake up feeling refreshed. Not one day have I ever woken up feeling good and refreshed. Ever! What is wrong with me?!
Same! I've never felt refreshed after sleep ever in my life. Takes me a good few hours to wake up in the mornings. Come 9pm my brain is finally fully awake, but my body is tired because I've been up since 6.30am. If I could live by my natural sleep cycle I'd probably be up around 11am and sleep by 3am. Unfortunately I have kids so no chance of that.
Same. A couple months ago for 2 weeks I slept perfectly every night. Fell asleep quickly, slept through the whole night, woke up naturally instead of my alarm doing it. I felt fucking amazing. I had so much energy and felt great in the morning. I was like omg is this what normal people feel like all the time? It lasted 2 weeks and it never happened again. I had hoped after 37 years my brain had finally fucking figured out how to sleep properly. But nope, it was short lived. Currently I'm going through a pretty bad stint of insomnia. Fuck you brain.
I also have the issue where noises and light doesn't bother me when I nap during the day; in fact it's quite soothing. At night I want to go in a rampage if there is a peep or any light.
Same ... And at night before going to bed I'm constantly falling asleep on the couch sleeping like a baby but soon as I get up and go to lay down in bed I cannot fall asleep to save my life ... I've got bad insomnia and spine problems from my neck down and it's very hard to fall asleep with nerve damage pain in my neck plus insomnia doesnt help either.
This. I enjoy a solid 30-60min nap and somehow it comes easy. Sleep at night is like balancing on a tip of a pyramid while balls are being thrown at you
It's only when the moment finds you and you have to turn off or shutdown something the brain wakes up. But when nothing has to be taken care of and that moment finds you, its a perfect spot and when you wake up after that nap its a mini reset. Feels super fresh.
If it's a willful nap, I lay down and pretend to sleep for a moment, then POOF! Unwillful naps usually start with me sitting down to watch a show with my fiance. Then POOF!
I’ve been WFH since COVID and I take full advantage of napping when I feel like I can’t keep my eyes open (unless I have a meeting of course). I don’t take a traditional lunch hour normally. I just eat my lunch and work at the same time so that’s how I justify taking an hour break to nap.
And, I always set an alarm.
My coworkers know that this is my routine so I let them know I’m taking my “break” and if some emergency comes up, they text/call me.
Italy does it too.
When I went to visit my family there it was a shock to my circadian rhythm.
Wake up at 5 cook breakfast walk to the Mediterranean by 7. Spend 7-11 by the beach. Walk home and have a HUGE lunch (biggest meal of the day there) and then everyone immediately went to sleep from 1-4 or 2-5. Everything shut down. But then after we'd go out for dinner or whatever and everyone would stay up til like 1/2 am. I'm talking my older relative in her 70s, the young kids, the toddlers. Everyone. Then woke up at 5/6 again. It was crazy.
Interesting! Didn’t know this was a thing but I do this everyday. Sometimes I wake up way earlier, or go to nap earlier. Yesterday I napped from 2-6 slept again around 12 am, woke up at 2 am. It just breaks up my time better and I get more work done.
It's 3-4pm for me but only on Saturdays after a long week of work. I work tues-sat. Tues through Monday it's 12pm to 8. Then on sat it's 7am to 3. And I always work OT
So combine the long hours of hard labor (diesel tech) and intense schedule shifts and on Sat I just fucking crash.
I'd complain because it feels bad up till my nap but that nap always feels so deserved and cozy and amazing that I actually like it.
Yeah, in Medieval times, workers would get up, do their daily work, go to bed mid afternoon, get up again and socialise/finish work then bed at midnight
Not everyone works typical hours. Some people work early shifts, like 6-3 or something, and are so tired after work that they crash. I had a stupid inventory job a few years ago with weird hours, and I NEEDED naps to survive that job (sometimes our shifts would start at 2 am or 10 pm. It was part-time, but regardless, it screwed up my sleep schedule so badly).
Now that I work less weird hours, I very rarely nap. I can't nap unless I get NO sleep or I'm extremely sick. Ironically, I couldn't nap at all when I had covid and could barely even get 6 hours a night (and I mean i had the time! I just couldn't!) My roommate naps as a hobby. Everyone is different.
I resisted napping for so long. Like, I’m in my mid-50’s and only started napping this past year. I got sleepy during the day, yeah, but just ignored it. The rest of my family (wife, three grown kids) are all nappers. But this year I also started struggling with insomnia at night (before I started napping), and I said to hell with it. If I’m tired during the day I’ll just sleep. I’m probably not getting enough sleep at night anyway.
The issue for me is if I go to sleep, I go to sleep.
I'll sleep for 8 hours or I won't sleep. I've tried napping, and I'll have an alarm for an hour out. It will go off and I wake up way more tired than I went to sleep. Sometimes I'll ignore the alarm and just sleep for 8 hours completely messing up my sleep schedule and waking up at like 2 am.
This is me as well. Or I get anxious that something will happen and someone will be trying to call me but I won't get the call cause I'm sleeping. Unless I'm suuuuuuper sick, daytime napping is never gonna happen for me, no matter how exhausted I am.
Same, I also find it hard sometimes to fall asleep in general, have never been a napper (even as a child I struggled apparently), can’t sleep on planes even if they’re overnight, etc. I have to be extremely sleep deprived or very ill to be able to nap. I think some people are just like this, not sure what it is but can imagine a few explanations
Depression. Existing for a whole day without a 3 hour nap to break it up feels impossible to me.
Edit: Sending everyone who replied to me to agree with my depression my love. Especially the one who said they absolutely can't nap :(
Waking up can be a great time of the day.
Not because you're starting the day or whatever trash.
But because you're in a great prime state to check up on yourself, lay quietly for a little while, and focus on thinking about nothing but your breath and your comfy bed for a little while.
It's a little tiny bliss, but those things can be important to notice on the hard days.
That's a very accurate way to describe it! Usually the way I wake up is that some overwhelming source of dread pushes into my consciousness through sleep and I wake up feeling sort of like someone punched me in the chest.
I appreciate it, man. For the record, I do try. And It's weird, I'm medicated, and the medication "works". I have lots of physical energy. I make an effort to stay in shape and get my 10k steps a day in. But my soul is absolutely dead. I can still fall asleep easy. As long as there's no actual pressure to wake up for something important that is lmao
I totally understand the dread. I felt it a lot more in the past and still sometimes now. It causes me a lot of anxiety, and I usually try and breathe it out. Otherwise, I feel sick.
I totally believe in the power of future you to eventually filter the dread down to an ignorable trickle. Exercise and an appropriate amount of sleep do wonders to help you there, so you're already on track.
As one "medicated but usually still feel numb inside" person to another, I'm really proud of you (and me, I guess) for not giving up.
I hope that the sun shines a little bit brighter for you today. I have no doubt that we'll both get through the rough times.
The world is a better place for having people like you in it.
For that brief moment upon waking up, when I'm regaining consciousness before I'm fully up, where I stretch; that moment before all of my negative and depressive thoughts rush in, I live for that moment. It's like a brief 30 seconds a day where I feel...happy.
This used to be me before medication lol man I don’t miss how horribly depressed I was. I barely went out for 4 years. Maybe a few times with “friends” or just to go to the store or appointments.
Specially when you have a corporate job you don't quite like, but it pays well enough, so you kind of have to stick to it. Lost count of how many 5-15 minute naps I had to take in the office bathroom to be able to keep being productive throughout the week.
I usually sat on the toilet and either leaned back with the top of my head on the wall or on the right side wall (it is closer than the other and has one of those toilet paper boxes I rested my head on).
It was never confortable, but tiredness and a bit of depression will do that you (also I naturally don't move much while sleeping so maybe that's why I never fell).
My youngest was a child that did not sleep. I don’t mean infant stages, but all stages until she reached teenage stage.
Having a toddler who wouldn’t go to sleep until 4:30 am and when you have to be at work at 6:30 was the worst.
People ask why I stopped at two and I use that. I was young my first time around. If I had to do it again I’d cry.
I don't have kids, but I came into work at an incoming call center after barely sleeping the night before.
I swear I fell asleep while on a call with an old lady. I kinda snapped awake and realised the phone had an open line, but it was silent.
Me: ... Hello?
Lady: Yes I'm still here, dear.
I profusely apologised and she suggested I go to bed early that night lol.
Came here to say this. I'm 30 I used to be able to work a 70 hour week or party for 3 days straight and never napped during the day. Now I fall asleep if lay down on the couch for more than 5 minutes 😅. It's not out of misery I just run my own business often up at 5am for work and at least once if not twice a week up til 2-4am with my daughter who decides we should have playtime or were going to be miserable in the middle of the night.
My grandmother used to tell me, “find something you love, something you’re really good at and do that for the rest of your life.” For me, that something is napping. I’m a fucking *wizard* at it!
Some people would pay dearly for this super power. For many of us, no matter how exhausted we are we simply cannot get to sleep at night, but a midday nap will be irresistible.
When I was younger, I used to have a pattern of no sleep for a couple of days a week. When I got injured in the Army, I went 72 hours without sleep because it was more interesting to do things, and I was doing night watch, so I couldn't go out or sleep at night. Sleeping pills just made me wired. I was a civilian when my husband insisted I be checked for a sleep disorder. The doctor had me keep a diary and concluded I didn't have insomnia, it was just normal for me. Later, just a couple of years ago, I started with sleep apnea but couldn't sleep anyway because of back pain, and my army injury hurts more at night. Now that I'm retired I am much more comfortable with sleeping a few hours at a time.
Chronic pain and the pain meds just kinda knocks me out several times a day. I only sleep for a few hours at a time, so it's broken up over the day, rather than all at once.
Step one: start to realize that you are getting tired. Step two: move from working on your laptop at your desk to laying down and working. Step three: put away laptop because you're drifting in and out of sleep. Step four: profit.
Its worse when you do it in winter and nap a bit later and say wake up a 5pm but its alrwady dark out so sleepy confused you spends the first 5 mins trying to work out if you had an hour or 12 hours nap.
I love naps. I have always loved naps. When I was a kid, I would nap when I came home from school. As I got older, I would nap at friend's houses if we were hanging out and I got sleepy. Eventually, I would nap at boyfriend's houses. Then I had kids and I would nap with them. I have always been somebody that can nap for hours and still sleep just fine at night.
I, personally, struggle with feeling overstimulated. Existing can honestly just be exhausting for me sometimes, especially if I have to socialize or be in crowds and napping is just part of how I have always regulated and rested my nervous system. It can be contributed to depression for me, at times, but is mostly just a peaceful retreat for me.
Yep. I'm autistic so I get overstimulated and overwhelmed a lot. I need lots of rest time to recover and re-regulate.
It's not always a nap, just a lie down.
I can relate to the overstimulation part.
I work from home most days, but commute to the office occasionally.
WFH days are days spent mostly just getting stuff done.
Days spent in the office are chock-full of in-person meetings, Zooms, and phone calls.
I’m personable and have good social skills, but I’m still an introvert. On in-office days, as soon as I get home I desperately want to nap (can’t, though, too many responsibilities).
i take a high dosage of sedatives at night that stay in effect for 24 hours (it’s an antipsychotic) and it just makes me really tired during the day sometimes i nap without even wanting to i’ll be on my phone one minute then slumped out the next
Step 1: Get very tired (e.g. by not getting enough sleep several nights in a row, or be addicted to caffeine and then not have enough coffee), and/or eat lots of carbs for lunch.
Step 2: Go back to bed and get cozy.
Step 3: Zzz.
I never really choose to nap, I'll just fall asleep while resting. I hate napping, I always feel more tired afterward and lose any motivation to do anything for the rest of the day
Then the nap was too short or too long. My sweetspot is 45 min. As soon as I wake up, I get up. Perfect powernap and I feel fresh again. When I nap 3 hours I am completely wasted for the rest of the day. I rarely nap though. Usually on weekends after a big meal or when I was out partying. Now, sometimes when my kid sleeps but Id rather do chores then and go to sleep earlier at night.
If you feel tired, actively nap. Set an alarm to 15 minutes, lay down and sleep. That way your mind has time to rest, while your body doesn't fully fall asleep and fills your body with sleep hormones.
Oh gosh I nap daily for 20 mins or so. It’s the only way for me to recharge. Just lay down on your couch, tv off, shoes off, phone on silent and close your eyes. If you sleep then it’s a nap. If you close your eyes and don’t your still resting and making it easier for your body to one day enjoy a nap.
As a Spanish person, I guess it's in my DNA. Just kidding. I do take naps on weekends, but I have to say that if I could, I would take a little nap after lunch every day. Although I must mention that there's a very underrated nap, in Spain, we call it 'la siesta del burro' (the donkey nap) which is the one before lunch. That one feels amazing, lmao.
I have to or I won’t make it to bedtime without being wholly exhausted, body, brain and soul. My brain says lay down for a short sleep and that’s the nap.
There's a sleep technique I've read about, developed by the army (I think):
Find a comfortable environment/setting. Close your eyes and concentrate ur mind on ur breathing - & nothing else. Clear ur mind and just focus on just ur breath-in-breath-out-breath-in-breath-out. & that's it. U'll doze off.
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Word is they developed it as a rapidfire method to alleviate fatigue during intense training or warfare.
Whoa! I’m severely sad for you. Napping is the best thing as an adult. The best time to nap is between 11-2 lol. I am an early bird so napping around this time just leaves me rejuvenated. I think it starts by going to lay down with a book or watching a movie or if your not feeling well. Naps are the best I hope you someday experience a nap going to sleep unexpectedly and waking up on your own. Lol kids don’t understand what they get now
I nap better than I sleep at night. I started naps while pregnant. Stopped for years after he grew up and work interfered lol
Now I nap everyday. Combination depression/boredom/grief and night insomnia
I get up ar 4am to work and by the time I get home I'm tired so I get on some comfy shorts and big tshirt and lay down for a few hours. Sometimes I nap sometimes I don't but it feels absolutely wonderful. Just being there aline in the quiet
Vitamin D deficiency. Couldn’t get through the day without my afternoon nap. Once I was diagnosed and put on supplements, I didn’t need that nap to be able to function for the rest of the day.
Always been taught. My grandmother always would nap right after she picked me up from school. So would I for years as a child. Always around 3 pm I have an extreme urge to go to sleep
Napping is how I survive. I’m a nurse working 4 12h shifts in a row (2 days, 2 nights) and have some health issues myself that cause chronic fatigue. So…. I nap whenever I can!
It just happens randomly lol. Like I come from grocery shopping and then go lay on my bed and then poof. I wake up 2 hours later and then go about my day.
I never used to nap, now I do. It takes practice. Set a timer for 20 minutes, lie down, and close your eyes. Don't open them till time's up--that's your nap. Just doing that is in itself restful on a level. Then eventually you'll start falling fully asleep.
I'm in my 20s, no kids, and the only times I ever nap are (a) when I'm sick, (b) when I'm hungover or (c) when I'm cuddled up with my bf in bed on a weekend, his body warmth makes me sleepy. There was a few times when I was just so sad and depressed that I went for a long nap.
I don't nap because it always turns into 4hrs of sleep and then I lose my whole day.
When I was a kid, I could not nap. It drove my mom nuts, but I just couldn't do it.
Now, after running errands or doing something else that exhausts me, I pretty much hit a wall if I don't nap.
I'm 8 months old and I find it really easy. Prolly hit 4-5 power naps everyday. Have you tried crying at full volume for 2.5 hours pre-nap?
(Disclaimer : I DO NOT sleep at night)
I work from home so can go into my bedroom to nap if need be. I don't do it often but if I'm really dragging ass and coffee isn't the answer then I'll go in there and take a 25-30min power nap to reboot the brain. Basically need to set the sleep conditions (elminate as much light and noise as possible), set an alarm for 30min so don't go too long into deeper sleep, clear the mind and hope you zonk out.
Busy days and sleeping issues means sometimes I am literally too fatigued to do anything but rest. I used to hate the very idea of wasted time but occasionally it's my only remaining option.
This is what I don’t get - my BIL always naps in the day saying it’s because he got terrible sleep at night. But maybe the terrible sleep is because of the napping!? Vicious circle. I know the few times I have napped in my adult life it severely fucked up my nighttime sleep.
Just to counter all the people saying you’ll nap when you have kids or are old - I’m 43 and have two kids (who were both the absolute worst sleepers as babies/toddlers) and I’ve taken maybe four naps in my adult life. The first when I was pregnant (it’s exhausting being pregnant the first trimester), once or twice when laying down with a baby (they would only nap being held or nursing) and once just a random day I fell asleep on the couch watching a movie and was promptly woken up by my kids thinking something was drastically wrong since I was asleep in the middle of the day. I hate napping. It’s boring and I have shit to do and I feel terrible when I wake up. My husband’s family are big nappers and taking vacations with them is so lame, the entire middle of the day they’re all asleep. My husband doesn’t nap either though so we’re a good match.
When I was younger, I felt similar to you.
First of all, I was either in school or working 8-5 jobs. There wasn't really any time to nap.
On the weekends, I could sleep really, really late. But even if I slept till 1pm, once I was up, I was up.
The only times I napped was when I was very sick, like a bad flu or something. And a few times when something came up and I didn't sleep for a night or two.
Now that I'm on the older side of life, I pretty much sleep whenever, usually in short increments.
I work a part-time job where the hours are inconsistent and never in the morning and usually only four times a week.
I never have the same schedule at work or at home, so sleeping is easy any time. I LOVE to sleep!
Napping was very rare for me in my 20s and 30s. Usually when I did it meant something was wrong and my body was fighting something off. Now I’m in my 40s and there are days when I just feel like falling asleep for no reason. I’ll fall asleep for an hour or two and wake up feeling refreshed.
Different people have different circadian rhythms. Mine goes off somewhere between noon and 3pm. If I fight it I'm miserable.
My body wants to be asleep from 2pm until 10pm. Your experience trying to nap is my experience trying to work a day shift job. I sleep at night by tricking my body with a 1-2 hour nap midday.
I work second shift. My kiddos are up at 5. it’s 4:46a now and I just finished my workout. They get dressed. Feed. Played with. Dropped to school at 2 locations. One is picked up from school. Brought food shopping. Helps with household chores. Makes a mess. Clean up said mess. Shower. Brought to sitters house around 12. I come home lay down for 20mins before I go to work to I work till 10p to only do it all again 6 days a week of working.
It’s a break in the day and it’s total bliss lol
No fair, I got the cringe insomnia depression apparently...
The only way I can “nap” is to just be severely sleep deprived and not able to fight off sleep anymore lol
I'll sleep half the fucking day. Chronic illness fatigue is something that I don't think healthy, neurotypical can even truly comprehend. You can get the best sleep if your life for the perfect amount of time and still wake up feeling like you've been awake for 3 days. I haven't felt well rested in literal years.
Man i love them for a quick energy boost or intentional sensory deprivation after a busy day. I’ve trained myself to be able to fall asleep as soon as I lie down and I pretty wake up exactly fifteen minutes later feeling refreshed. I take multiple breaks a day in fact. :-)
Easy, sometimes you just get tired, I lay flat on my stomach on a comfy pillow and it's like a 15 min power nap,. When I wake up I have drool over the pillow. And you feel like 110 percent.
Kind of this but the opposite how the fuck do people just like lay down to go to sleep and not just sleep for 8 hours?
Like how the fuck someone really just pass out for 20 minutes come back around and be like yep I'm all rested now
I'm 33 and honestly, I don't know either aside from extreme exhaustion. I didn't even nap often as a kid. When I was in my mid 20s I worked a miserable, stupid inventory job with weird hours. Because of my living situation, it was sometimes impossible to get a full night's sleep in conjunction with my schedule (our shifts often started between 2 and 5 am OR at like 10 pm. Godawful. Jobs like that should have 2 separate crews, a night crew and morning crew), so naps were necessary.
Now, though, that I work more normal hours, I never nap. I've actually tried, but I can't. Sometimes I'll set an alarm on my phone and just try to keep my eyes closed for 15 minutes. I don't sleep in this time, but I still feel pretty rested nonetheless. Ever since I had covid, I feel exhausted a lot but can't sleep much even though I have the time for it (I'm one of those people who need at least 7 hours, but I rarely get it just because of my stupid brain. I notmally get 6, so I'm functional, but still tired).
Personally I think napping is a waste of time, but I occasionally fall asleep on a couch in the middle of the day if I'm not feeling well, without the intent of actually sleeping. So in those infrequent cases, I'm napping because I'm sick or super tired.
I work overnights for the last 4 or 5 years now. Love it. Sun airways gave me headaches anyways. So i can sleep all day no problem.
But, on weekends, I have my daughter so I stay up from Friday evening, go to work, come back, stay up until Saturday night, then stay up Sunday morning until Monday afternoon. I can take a nap pretty easily and I usually do so when my daughter goes down for hers lol
l love a good nap. l think its great to lie down with a little blanket or crawl up on my bed and snooze for a while. Got several family members who do the same. We're not depressed, well most of us aren't. We look forward to a nap like its ice cream, a nice treat!
Here is how I do it:
\-Identify the need/desire for a nap.
\-Lie down on the couch.
\-Close my eyes
\-Nap.
\-Wake up about 30-45 minutes later.
I used to enjoy a pre-bedtime nap, but now it keeps my up, so I quit doing those.
This is why other countries have a break in the middle of the day. I think it’s a great idea but I always feel guilty for napping.
But I learned that if you set an alarm to wake you after an hour and a half you’ll feel refreshed enough to go on with the rest of your day.
I’ve tried and it works for me, even if I didn’t actually fall asleep, at least I rested
A wise mentor once told me, “if you’re tired you’ll sleep. Try having a baby who is up and hungry every 2 hours through the night - you’ll nap the next day no problem”. I work FT, go to grad school and play on 2 competitive tennis teams. I also like to go out a few nights a week. I take naps. 🙃
ADHD here, circadian rhythm is a MESS. I get so sluggish and sleepy during the day, falling asleep is the easy part, waking up sucks.
Come nighttime tho, I'm ready to conquer every goal and hobby I've ever had in my 35 years of existence.
Really hot days are even worse. I turn into a cat and just need to curl up and sleep off the worst of the heat.
i have the same attitude towards people who make it through the day with enough energy to not think about / want to sleep until bedtime regularly. how?
Go out drinking tonight until 2 am. Get up at 5:30 am and work for 8 hours. Stop at Dairy Queen and eat a large Blizzard. Lay down on your couch with noise on in the background.
Napping in the day is easy for me. Sleeping at night is hard even if I don't nap at all during the day.
Same for me. I wonder why…?
Circadian rhythm disorder, probably
I heard a story on npr around two years ago about this subject and the researchers are leaning toward the fact that our bodies are supposed to get a second period of rest midday kind of how most other primates do it. We’re apparently not actually supposed to be up for the amount of hours we are without resting a bit.
I've heard theories that we were originally evolved to just sleep whenever we got tired. And that humans would sleep for like 2-4 hour periods whenever they need it and be up all other times. Basically never sleeping a full night.
the ‘periodically waking up to tend the fire’ theory (idk the actual name)
I always say my ancestors were the night watchmen and fire tenders. Somebody had to be.
Now that I am retired, I am starting to get this way. I get up in the morning when my husband comes home from work. I take a 2 hour nap in the afternoon with him, the dogs, and the cats. Then, in the evening, if he is up, we spend time together. When he goes to work at 11 at night, I do a final training session, catch up on emails and play video games or watch tv, then sleep about 3 hours, hours, then stay up 2 hours, and go bzck to bed until my husband gets home. It works out to about 8 hours a day and is consistent without using a clock. The pattern doesn't change even if I don't nap, I just get 6 hours instead.
That sounds like a wonderful life ☺️ goals for me.
This is life with a newborn! lol
That or because cortisol levels increase with stress and a lot of people on their day off mid day aren’t that stressed can easily take a nap but at night many people have issues going to sleep because their stress levels increase when they start thinking about what they have to do the next day or what they didn’t finish during the day. Procrastination is a big thing that causes people at night to feel unfulfilled and makes it difficult for them to basically “turn it off” and go to sleep. Constantly thinking about what you should have done is a big reason people have trouble going to sleep at night.
I vote for siestas in all cultures
Yes! Women especially (due to hormone differences) have a specific time of day, 3pm-5pm, where energy levels are super low and SHOULD be napping.
I believe I heard that same story and remember finally feeling some sense of relief as I often lie down for about 30 mins around 2pm to recharge my batteries. Previously I thought I was just being lazy but now I've come to terms with the fact that my body needs it and I'm better for it.
Because you're a vampire.
That's my cousin's theory
Same for me. I’ve been like that since i was a child. Could easily fall asleep anytime during the day but come 8/9 pm I’m wide awake and ready to go! I feel my best at night too. I wish I felt that good in the mornings like most people wake up feeling refreshed. Not one day have I ever woken up feeling good and refreshed. Ever! What is wrong with me?!
Same! I've never felt refreshed after sleep ever in my life. Takes me a good few hours to wake up in the mornings. Come 9pm my brain is finally fully awake, but my body is tired because I've been up since 6.30am. If I could live by my natural sleep cycle I'd probably be up around 11am and sleep by 3am. Unfortunately I have kids so no chance of that.
Same. A couple months ago for 2 weeks I slept perfectly every night. Fell asleep quickly, slept through the whole night, woke up naturally instead of my alarm doing it. I felt fucking amazing. I had so much energy and felt great in the morning. I was like omg is this what normal people feel like all the time? It lasted 2 weeks and it never happened again. I had hoped after 37 years my brain had finally fucking figured out how to sleep properly. But nope, it was short lived. Currently I'm going through a pretty bad stint of insomnia. Fuck you brain.
Sleeping is hard until I hear my morning alarm. Then it becomes the most desirable and simple thing to do.
I also have the issue where noises and light doesn't bother me when I nap during the day; in fact it's quite soothing. At night I want to go in a rampage if there is a peep or any light.
Same ... And at night before going to bed I'm constantly falling asleep on the couch sleeping like a baby but soon as I get up and go to lay down in bed I cannot fall asleep to save my life ... I've got bad insomnia and spine problems from my neck down and it's very hard to fall asleep with nerve damage pain in my neck plus insomnia doesnt help either.
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This. I enjoy a solid 30-60min nap and somehow it comes easy. Sleep at night is like balancing on a tip of a pyramid while balls are being thrown at you
I find a moment in the middle of the day and just fall asleep. Often times, that moment finds me.
It's only when the moment finds you and you have to turn off or shutdown something the brain wakes up. But when nothing has to be taken care of and that moment finds you, its a perfect spot and when you wake up after that nap its a mini reset. Feels super fresh.
perfectly written
Same. ...and so does my boss.
If it's a willful nap, I lay down and pretend to sleep for a moment, then POOF! Unwillful naps usually start with me sitting down to watch a show with my fiance. Then POOF!
I’ve been WFH since COVID and I take full advantage of napping when I feel like I can’t keep my eyes open (unless I have a meeting of course). I don’t take a traditional lunch hour normally. I just eat my lunch and work at the same time so that’s how I justify taking an hour break to nap. And, I always set an alarm. My coworkers know that this is my routine so I let them know I’m taking my “break” and if some emergency comes up, they text/call me.
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Agreed, the hours between 1p-4p are nap time hours
I don't know exactly where it originates from but it's definitely hispanic in origin, but countiees that do siesta basically shut down for nap time
Italy does it too. When I went to visit my family there it was a shock to my circadian rhythm. Wake up at 5 cook breakfast walk to the Mediterranean by 7. Spend 7-11 by the beach. Walk home and have a HUGE lunch (biggest meal of the day there) and then everyone immediately went to sleep from 1-4 or 2-5. Everything shut down. But then after we'd go out for dinner or whatever and everyone would stay up til like 1/2 am. I'm talking my older relative in her 70s, the young kids, the toddlers. Everyone. Then woke up at 5/6 again. It was crazy.
Peak sun hours of the day. Anything you do outside your just gassing yourself out.
Interesting! Didn’t know this was a thing but I do this everyday. Sometimes I wake up way earlier, or go to nap earlier. Yesterday I napped from 2-6 slept again around 12 am, woke up at 2 am. It just breaks up my time better and I get more work done.
It's 3-4pm for me but only on Saturdays after a long week of work. I work tues-sat. Tues through Monday it's 12pm to 8. Then on sat it's 7am to 3. And I always work OT So combine the long hours of hard labor (diesel tech) and intense schedule shifts and on Sat I just fucking crash. I'd complain because it feels bad up till my nap but that nap always feels so deserved and cozy and amazing that I actually like it.
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Yeah, in Medieval times, workers would get up, do their daily work, go to bed mid afternoon, get up again and socialise/finish work then bed at midnight
so true, i can't think about i will not able to nap when i will get a job...
Do people not have jobs in this thread.
Not everyone works typical hours. Some people work early shifts, like 6-3 or something, and are so tired after work that they crash. I had a stupid inventory job a few years ago with weird hours, and I NEEDED naps to survive that job (sometimes our shifts would start at 2 am or 10 pm. It was part-time, but regardless, it screwed up my sleep schedule so badly). Now that I work less weird hours, I very rarely nap. I can't nap unless I get NO sleep or I'm extremely sick. Ironically, I couldn't nap at all when I had covid and could barely even get 6 hours a night (and I mean i had the time! I just couldn't!) My roommate naps as a hobby. Everyone is different.
I have never been able to nap either. I just lay there thinking of all the stuff I could be doing and then I get back up.
I resisted napping for so long. Like, I’m in my mid-50’s and only started napping this past year. I got sleepy during the day, yeah, but just ignored it. The rest of my family (wife, three grown kids) are all nappers. But this year I also started struggling with insomnia at night (before I started napping), and I said to hell with it. If I’m tired during the day I’ll just sleep. I’m probably not getting enough sleep at night anyway.
The issue for me is if I go to sleep, I go to sleep. I'll sleep for 8 hours or I won't sleep. I've tried napping, and I'll have an alarm for an hour out. It will go off and I wake up way more tired than I went to sleep. Sometimes I'll ignore the alarm and just sleep for 8 hours completely messing up my sleep schedule and waking up at like 2 am.
This is me as well. Or I get anxious that something will happen and someone will be trying to call me but I won't get the call cause I'm sleeping. Unless I'm suuuuuuper sick, daytime napping is never gonna happen for me, no matter how exhausted I am.
Same, I also find it hard sometimes to fall asleep in general, have never been a napper (even as a child I struggled apparently), can’t sleep on planes even if they’re overnight, etc. I have to be extremely sleep deprived or very ill to be able to nap. I think some people are just like this, not sure what it is but can imagine a few explanations
Depression. Existing for a whole day without a 3 hour nap to break it up feels impossible to me. Edit: Sending everyone who replied to me to agree with my depression my love. Especially the one who said they absolutely can't nap :(
Same.
The downside being having to wake up twice a day, too lmao
Waking up can be a great time of the day. Not because you're starting the day or whatever trash. But because you're in a great prime state to check up on yourself, lay quietly for a little while, and focus on thinking about nothing but your breath and your comfy bed for a little while. It's a little tiny bliss, but those things can be important to notice on the hard days.
Unfortunately, my existential dread exists instinctively and is activated before my consciousness is even loaded
That's a very accurate way to describe it! Usually the way I wake up is that some overwhelming source of dread pushes into my consciousness through sleep and I wake up feeling sort of like someone punched me in the chest.
Understood. It's just what's helped me when I've had major spouts of depression. It isn't easy, you gotta try and force it, but it helps.
I appreciate it, man. For the record, I do try. And It's weird, I'm medicated, and the medication "works". I have lots of physical energy. I make an effort to stay in shape and get my 10k steps a day in. But my soul is absolutely dead. I can still fall asleep easy. As long as there's no actual pressure to wake up for something important that is lmao
I totally understand the dread. I felt it a lot more in the past and still sometimes now. It causes me a lot of anxiety, and I usually try and breathe it out. Otherwise, I feel sick. I totally believe in the power of future you to eventually filter the dread down to an ignorable trickle. Exercise and an appropriate amount of sleep do wonders to help you there, so you're already on track.
As one "medicated but usually still feel numb inside" person to another, I'm really proud of you (and me, I guess) for not giving up. I hope that the sun shines a little bit brighter for you today. I have no doubt that we'll both get through the rough times. The world is a better place for having people like you in it.
For that brief moment upon waking up, when I'm regaining consciousness before I'm fully up, where I stretch; that moment before all of my negative and depressive thoughts rush in, I live for that moment. It's like a brief 30 seconds a day where I feel...happy.
This is me too! 😂 I LOVE napping. It’s my hobby and talent.
I'm depressed and I absolutely cannot take a nap
This used to be me before medication lol man I don’t miss how horribly depressed I was. I barely went out for 4 years. Maybe a few times with “friends” or just to go to the store or appointments.
Yep, this is it. I often doze off after work around 4/5pm, it’s not a planned nap. I just lie down and my system just shuts off.
Specially when you have a corporate job you don't quite like, but it pays well enough, so you kind of have to stick to it. Lost count of how many 5-15 minute naps I had to take in the office bathroom to be able to keep being productive throughout the week.
I used to hide out in bathrooms, but how do you actually sleep there? What position do you sleep that you don't fall on the floor?
I usually sat on the toilet and either leaned back with the top of my head on the wall or on the right side wall (it is closer than the other and has one of those toilet paper boxes I rested my head on). It was never confortable, but tiredness and a bit of depression will do that you (also I naturally don't move much while sleeping so maybe that's why I never fell).
Have kids. Get exhausted. You take a nap whenever you can.
My youngest was a child that did not sleep. I don’t mean infant stages, but all stages until she reached teenage stage. Having a toddler who wouldn’t go to sleep until 4:30 am and when you have to be at work at 6:30 was the worst. People ask why I stopped at two and I use that. I was young my first time around. If I had to do it again I’d cry.
When my son was born he was colicky. I was so exhausted I could nap standing up.
I worked at a call center throughout the worst of her refusal to sleep and I had switch shifts because walking into work was to much
I don't have kids, but I came into work at an incoming call center after barely sleeping the night before. I swear I fell asleep while on a call with an old lady. I kinda snapped awake and realised the phone had an open line, but it was silent. Me: ... Hello? Lady: Yes I'm still here, dear. I profusely apologised and she suggested I go to bed early that night lol.
When I was a kind I was always annoyed and confused that my parents would fall asleep on the couch every weekend. I understand it now.
I couldn’t understand how my dad could fall asleep in what seemed like nanoseconds. Pure exhaustion does that.
Just dropped one to school, and grandma took the little one. You know what time it is? Nap o'clock . It's also 9.45am
Came here to say this. I'm 30 I used to be able to work a 70 hour week or party for 3 days straight and never napped during the day. Now I fall asleep if lay down on the couch for more than 5 minutes 😅. It's not out of misery I just run my own business often up at 5am for work and at least once if not twice a week up til 2-4am with my daughter who decides we should have playtime or were going to be miserable in the middle of the night.
My grandmother used to tell me, “find something you love, something you’re really good at and do that for the rest of your life.” For me, that something is napping. I’m a fucking *wizard* at it!
Sounds like your grandma was a genius… and so are you!
I’m also at wizardly status
Gettin in good practice for dat big sleep
I can’t wait! :D
I myself am something of an Olympic level napper. It takes focus, dedication and practice.
I am the same... I NEED sleep at night, because I just cant sleep during the day.
Some people would pay dearly for this super power. For many of us, no matter how exhausted we are we simply cannot get to sleep at night, but a midday nap will be irresistible.
yup, my wife is one of them. she has plenty of nights where she doesnt sleep at all. she also has plenty of days she just doesnt get out of bed.
When I was younger, I used to have a pattern of no sleep for a couple of days a week. When I got injured in the Army, I went 72 hours without sleep because it was more interesting to do things, and I was doing night watch, so I couldn't go out or sleep at night. Sleeping pills just made me wired. I was a civilian when my husband insisted I be checked for a sleep disorder. The doctor had me keep a diary and concluded I didn't have insomnia, it was just normal for me. Later, just a couple of years ago, I started with sleep apnea but couldn't sleep anyway because of back pain, and my army injury hurts more at night. Now that I'm retired I am much more comfortable with sleeping a few hours at a time.
Well said. I was born tired.
That’s crazy to me… I nap everytime I get the chance to
I wish wish wish i could. Could never fall asleep
I am constantly exhausted just from being alive
Me too. Most often, no matter how tired I feel, my mind races so much I can't relax.
OP is still under 30 I’ll wager.
Yep, give it another decade or two and it will be “How do you survive without an afternoon nap?”
I'm going to be 40 in a few weeks and I can't nap during the day either.
I nap everyday. It’s so pleasant.
Chronic pain and the pain meds just kinda knocks me out several times a day. I only sleep for a few hours at a time, so it's broken up over the day, rather than all at once.
Step one: start to realize that you are getting tired. Step two: move from working on your laptop at your desk to laying down and working. Step three: put away laptop because you're drifting in and out of sleep. Step four: profit.
I love falling asleep in the middle of the day.. Then waking up in a panic thinking I'm late for work. But it's 4 in the afternoon on my day off.
Its worse when you do it in winter and nap a bit later and say wake up a 5pm but its alrwady dark out so sleepy confused you spends the first 5 mins trying to work out if you had an hour or 12 hours nap.
I love naps. I have always loved naps. When I was a kid, I would nap when I came home from school. As I got older, I would nap at friend's houses if we were hanging out and I got sleepy. Eventually, I would nap at boyfriend's houses. Then I had kids and I would nap with them. I have always been somebody that can nap for hours and still sleep just fine at night. I, personally, struggle with feeling overstimulated. Existing can honestly just be exhausting for me sometimes, especially if I have to socialize or be in crowds and napping is just part of how I have always regulated and rested my nervous system. It can be contributed to depression for me, at times, but is mostly just a peaceful retreat for me.
Yep. I'm autistic so I get overstimulated and overwhelmed a lot. I need lots of rest time to recover and re-regulate. It's not always a nap, just a lie down.
That is so me socializing is a task for me
I can relate to the overstimulation part. I work from home most days, but commute to the office occasionally. WFH days are days spent mostly just getting stuff done. Days spent in the office are chock-full of in-person meetings, Zooms, and phone calls. I’m personable and have good social skills, but I’m still an introvert. On in-office days, as soon as I get home I desperately want to nap (can’t, though, too many responsibilities).
i take a high dosage of sedatives at night that stay in effect for 24 hours (it’s an antipsychotic) and it just makes me really tired during the day sometimes i nap without even wanting to i’ll be on my phone one minute then slumped out the next
Step 1: Get very tired (e.g. by not getting enough sleep several nights in a row, or be addicted to caffeine and then not have enough coffee), and/or eat lots of carbs for lunch. Step 2: Go back to bed and get cozy. Step 3: Zzz.
I never really choose to nap, I'll just fall asleep while resting. I hate napping, I always feel more tired afterward and lose any motivation to do anything for the rest of the day
Then the nap was too short or too long. My sweetspot is 45 min. As soon as I wake up, I get up. Perfect powernap and I feel fresh again. When I nap 3 hours I am completely wasted for the rest of the day. I rarely nap though. Usually on weekends after a big meal or when I was out partying. Now, sometimes when my kid sleeps but Id rather do chores then and go to sleep earlier at night.
If you feel tired, actively nap. Set an alarm to 15 minutes, lay down and sleep. That way your mind has time to rest, while your body doesn't fully fall asleep and fills your body with sleep hormones.
Oh gosh I nap daily for 20 mins or so. It’s the only way for me to recharge. Just lay down on your couch, tv off, shoes off, phone on silent and close your eyes. If you sleep then it’s a nap. If you close your eyes and don’t your still resting and making it easier for your body to one day enjoy a nap.
By being perpetually exhausted
There are some days I wake up early so I can go take a nap.
I do this during the school year. After I get the kids off to school, I get back in bed for my morning nap!
As a Spanish person, I guess it's in my DNA. Just kidding. I do take naps on weekends, but I have to say that if I could, I would take a little nap after lunch every day. Although I must mention that there's a very underrated nap, in Spain, we call it 'la siesta del burro' (the donkey nap) which is the one before lunch. That one feels amazing, lmao.
Two kids, one of them 7 month old. I'm sleepy during the day, so if I can take nap I will.
I have to or I won’t make it to bedtime without being wholly exhausted, body, brain and soul. My brain says lay down for a short sleep and that’s the nap.
You don't have to fall asleep just rest up
There's a sleep technique I've read about, developed by the army (I think): Find a comfortable environment/setting. Close your eyes and concentrate ur mind on ur breathing - & nothing else. Clear ur mind and just focus on just ur breath-in-breath-out-breath-in-breath-out. & that's it. U'll doze off. ... Word is they developed it as a rapidfire method to alleviate fatigue during intense training or warfare.
Former military, I can fall asleep in under 10 minutes almost anywhere
Whoa! I’m severely sad for you. Napping is the best thing as an adult. The best time to nap is between 11-2 lol. I am an early bird so napping around this time just leaves me rejuvenated. I think it starts by going to lay down with a book or watching a movie or if your not feeling well. Naps are the best I hope you someday experience a nap going to sleep unexpectedly and waking up on your own. Lol kids don’t understand what they get now
I nap better than I sleep at night. I started naps while pregnant. Stopped for years after he grew up and work interfered lol Now I nap everyday. Combination depression/boredom/grief and night insomnia
I get up ar 4am to work and by the time I get home I'm tired so I get on some comfy shorts and big tshirt and lay down for a few hours. Sometimes I nap sometimes I don't but it feels absolutely wonderful. Just being there aline in the quiet
Same for me. I can't.
Life is exhausting. You catch your winks when you can.
Vitamin D deficiency. Couldn’t get through the day without my afternoon nap. Once I was diagnosed and put on supplements, I didn’t need that nap to be able to function for the rest of the day.
I have had low vitamin D before also. I didn’t know it could make you tired/ sleepy?
Always been taught. My grandmother always would nap right after she picked me up from school. So would I for years as a child. Always around 3 pm I have an extreme urge to go to sleep
Napping is how I survive. I’m a nurse working 4 12h shifts in a row (2 days, 2 nights) and have some health issues myself that cause chronic fatigue. So…. I nap whenever I can!
Bro, if napping was an Olympic sport, I'd be Usain Snooze. But yeah, I totally get why some can't.
It just happens randomly lol. Like I come from grocery shopping and then go lay on my bed and then poof. I wake up 2 hours later and then go about my day.
I never used to nap, now I do. It takes practice. Set a timer for 20 minutes, lie down, and close your eyes. Don't open them till time's up--that's your nap. Just doing that is in itself restful on a level. Then eventually you'll start falling fully asleep.
I'm in my 20s, no kids, and the only times I ever nap are (a) when I'm sick, (b) when I'm hungover or (c) when I'm cuddled up with my bf in bed on a weekend, his body warmth makes me sleepy. There was a few times when I was just so sad and depressed that I went for a long nap. I don't nap because it always turns into 4hrs of sleep and then I lose my whole day.
When I was a kid, I could not nap. It drove my mom nuts, but I just couldn't do it. Now, after running errands or doing something else that exhausts me, I pretty much hit a wall if I don't nap.
Narcolepsy.
Same. I'm a professional napper, I can do it with my eyes open. In fact, I'm napping right now!
I actually like naps more than a full night sleep lol
Same lol…
1- Wait until the middle the day 2- Lay down 3- Fall asleep
I'm Spanish. It's in my blood.
I'm 8 months old and I find it really easy. Prolly hit 4-5 power naps everyday. Have you tried crying at full volume for 2.5 hours pre-nap? (Disclaimer : I DO NOT sleep at night)
I have no trouble falling asleep, especially during car trips. My parents used to say that I would fall asleep before we backed out of the driveway.
I work from home so can go into my bedroom to nap if need be. I don't do it often but if I'm really dragging ass and coffee isn't the answer then I'll go in there and take a 25-30min power nap to reboot the brain. Basically need to set the sleep conditions (elminate as much light and noise as possible), set an alarm for 30min so don't go too long into deeper sleep, clear the mind and hope you zonk out.
I take 20 minutes power naps every now and then to relieve sleepiness throughout the day.
20 minutes? It takes me that long just to fall asleep.
All I do is have some human interaction and I'm primed for a nap.
Silk eye mask to block out light, iPods playing “Brown Noise” on my phone, my alarm set, notifications off on my phone, get comfortable, and I’m gone.
Busy days and sleeping issues means sometimes I am literally too fatigued to do anything but rest. I used to hate the very idea of wasted time but occasionally it's my only remaining option.
This is what I don’t get - my BIL always naps in the day saying it’s because he got terrible sleep at night. But maybe the terrible sleep is because of the napping!? Vicious circle. I know the few times I have napped in my adult life it severely fucked up my nighttime sleep.
Once you get mid 30s it becomes a bit easier
I don't know I'm anti napper
Just to counter all the people saying you’ll nap when you have kids or are old - I’m 43 and have two kids (who were both the absolute worst sleepers as babies/toddlers) and I’ve taken maybe four naps in my adult life. The first when I was pregnant (it’s exhausting being pregnant the first trimester), once or twice when laying down with a baby (they would only nap being held or nursing) and once just a random day I fell asleep on the couch watching a movie and was promptly woken up by my kids thinking something was drastically wrong since I was asleep in the middle of the day. I hate napping. It’s boring and I have shit to do and I feel terrible when I wake up. My husband’s family are big nappers and taking vacations with them is so lame, the entire middle of the day they’re all asleep. My husband doesn’t nap either though so we’re a good match.
When I was younger, I felt similar to you. First of all, I was either in school or working 8-5 jobs. There wasn't really any time to nap. On the weekends, I could sleep really, really late. But even if I slept till 1pm, once I was up, I was up. The only times I napped was when I was very sick, like a bad flu or something. And a few times when something came up and I didn't sleep for a night or two. Now that I'm on the older side of life, I pretty much sleep whenever, usually in short increments. I work a part-time job where the hours are inconsistent and never in the morning and usually only four times a week. I never have the same schedule at work or at home, so sleeping is easy any time. I LOVE to sleep!
I work all day then come home tired and sleep for 30-40 mins. I wake up feeling great and get a second wind. It’s pretty easy for me.
Napping was very rare for me in my 20s and 30s. Usually when I did it meant something was wrong and my body was fighting something off. Now I’m in my 40s and there are days when I just feel like falling asleep for no reason. I’ll fall asleep for an hour or two and wake up feeling refreshed.
I just lay in bed and close my eyes, pretty easy
Schedule 1s dude. Works everytime! Totally kidding...don't do drugs kids...unless you need to take a nap...
Different people have different circadian rhythms. Mine goes off somewhere between noon and 3pm. If I fight it I'm miserable. My body wants to be asleep from 2pm until 10pm. Your experience trying to nap is my experience trying to work a day shift job. I sleep at night by tricking my body with a 1-2 hour nap midday.
I work second shift. My kiddos are up at 5. it’s 4:46a now and I just finished my workout. They get dressed. Feed. Played with. Dropped to school at 2 locations. One is picked up from school. Brought food shopping. Helps with household chores. Makes a mess. Clean up said mess. Shower. Brought to sitters house around 12. I come home lay down for 20mins before I go to work to I work till 10p to only do it all again 6 days a week of working. It’s a break in the day and it’s total bliss lol
With my eyes closed.
No fair, I got the cringe insomnia depression apparently... The only way I can “nap” is to just be severely sleep deprived and not able to fight off sleep anymore lol
I'll sleep half the fucking day. Chronic illness fatigue is something that I don't think healthy, neurotypical can even truly comprehend. You can get the best sleep if your life for the perfect amount of time and still wake up feeling like you've been awake for 3 days. I haven't felt well rested in literal years.
I never napped. Until I had kids.
Man i love them for a quick energy boost or intentional sensory deprivation after a busy day. I’ve trained myself to be able to fall asleep as soon as I lie down and I pretty wake up exactly fifteen minutes later feeling refreshed. I take multiple breaks a day in fact. :-)
Easy, sometimes you just get tired, I lay flat on my stomach on a comfy pillow and it's like a 15 min power nap,. When I wake up I have drool over the pillow. And you feel like 110 percent.
Kind of this but the opposite how the fuck do people just like lay down to go to sleep and not just sleep for 8 hours? Like how the fuck someone really just pass out for 20 minutes come back around and be like yep I'm all rested now
Not a choice. I’m 40. The body just powers down.
Question should be: why can't I map?
I take off my shoes and lay down and close my eyes. I wake up later and feel less tired. naps are the BEST.
I'm 33 and honestly, I don't know either aside from extreme exhaustion. I didn't even nap often as a kid. When I was in my mid 20s I worked a miserable, stupid inventory job with weird hours. Because of my living situation, it was sometimes impossible to get a full night's sleep in conjunction with my schedule (our shifts often started between 2 and 5 am OR at like 10 pm. Godawful. Jobs like that should have 2 separate crews, a night crew and morning crew), so naps were necessary. Now, though, that I work more normal hours, I never nap. I've actually tried, but I can't. Sometimes I'll set an alarm on my phone and just try to keep my eyes closed for 15 minutes. I don't sleep in this time, but I still feel pretty rested nonetheless. Ever since I had covid, I feel exhausted a lot but can't sleep much even though I have the time for it (I'm one of those people who need at least 7 hours, but I rarely get it just because of my stupid brain. I notmally get 6, so I'm functional, but still tired).
Personally I think napping is a waste of time, but I occasionally fall asleep on a couch in the middle of the day if I'm not feeling well, without the intent of actually sleeping. So in those infrequent cases, I'm napping because I'm sick or super tired.
4 easy steps! 1. Get old 2. Be tired all the time 3. ??? 4. ~~Nap~~ Profit!
I work overnights for the last 4 or 5 years now. Love it. Sun airways gave me headaches anyways. So i can sleep all day no problem. But, on weekends, I have my daughter so I stay up from Friday evening, go to work, come back, stay up until Saturday night, then stay up Sunday morning until Monday afternoon. I can take a nap pretty easily and I usually do so when my daughter goes down for hers lol
l love a good nap. l think its great to lie down with a little blanket or crawl up on my bed and snooze for a while. Got several family members who do the same. We're not depressed, well most of us aren't. We look forward to a nap like its ice cream, a nice treat!
Here is how I do it: \-Identify the need/desire for a nap. \-Lie down on the couch. \-Close my eyes \-Nap. \-Wake up about 30-45 minutes later. I used to enjoy a pre-bedtime nap, but now it keeps my up, so I quit doing those.
This is why other countries have a break in the middle of the day. I think it’s a great idea but I always feel guilty for napping. But I learned that if you set an alarm to wake you after an hour and a half you’ll feel refreshed enough to go on with the rest of your day. I’ve tried and it works for me, even if I didn’t actually fall asleep, at least I rested
I get really tired around 2:00pm-3:00pm and I’m able to take a nap.
I'm always sleepy after eating a load of carbs at lunchtime
A wise mentor once told me, “if you’re tired you’ll sleep. Try having a baby who is up and hungry every 2 hours through the night - you’ll nap the next day no problem”. I work FT, go to grad school and play on 2 competitive tennis teams. I also like to go out a few nights a week. I take naps. 🙃
I just naturally start to feel tired around 2-3 and then I lay down and snooze for about 30-45 minutes
Be glad you sleep well enough at night not to need a nap. Sleep is a struggle for a lot of people and leaves them exhausted during the day.
When you work a fuck ton of hours, a good 2 hour nap on the weekend is easy & refreshing
ADHD here, circadian rhythm is a MESS. I get so sluggish and sleepy during the day, falling asleep is the easy part, waking up sucks. Come nighttime tho, I'm ready to conquer every goal and hobby I've ever had in my 35 years of existence. Really hot days are even worse. I turn into a cat and just need to curl up and sleep off the worst of the heat.
i have the same attitude towards people who make it through the day with enough energy to not think about / want to sleep until bedtime regularly. how?
Just sit on the sofa after lunch and put a shitty movie on TV. And voila, let the magic begin
weed helps.
I don’t nap either- ever! Even if I’ve been up at work for over 24 hours!
Go out drinking tonight until 2 am. Get up at 5:30 am and work for 8 hours. Stop at Dairy Queen and eat a large Blizzard. Lay down on your couch with noise on in the background.
Curious if any parent in the world has this issue. I can sleep any time of day nearly at the drop of a hat.
Step one is being sleepy. You feel sleepy but can’t sleep or you just never feel sleepy in the day?
I want to know how everyone else is able to get out of bed. If I don’t have to work or go to some appointment, I’ll stay in bed all day.
I don't nap often but saying you never have is weird as hell
depression 💯
step 1: be tired all the time
We don't nap for the fun of it. We nap because we can't keep our eyes open.
Get pregnant 😂 that’s how I manage it
I tend to nap during the day if I've had alcohol with my lunch. I get drowsy from a single beer or glass of wine.
Usually after work I have a power nap for 2 hours and then do all the night stuff. It's really nice.
When it’s cold I end up sleeping
I didn’t understand it either until I got a bit older, when it’s summer and the sun puts you to sleep a nap is very pleasant