Terminalcoffee discussion

I ask because I desperately want a nap, but in point of fact I rarely indulge. If presented with the opportunity to go home right now, I would go to my pony. If forced to go home, I would end up on the computer. But my eyes keep closing.
I miss twenty minute power naps. They just aren't in the game plan anymore.

Rarely because I usually feel worse when I wake up.

Always.

I take a twenty minute powernap on weekend afternoons. It infuriates my girlfriend to no end that it only takes me a couple minutes to fall asleep.

YES!

OMG, YES!

I'm a bad napper. I wake up cranky. But I love it when my kids take naps!

I nap. Heartily. They're like my mental restart function.

Only thing is, I normally need a big piece of chocolate afterword to get myself going again. It has to be chocolate.

I take naps on the weekends, or when I am off from work-- my wife hates it when I do.

This is an excellent question. I try to nap when no one's around, sometimes, but "no one's around" is a rare opportunity and I usually want to use the time when no one's around to do things other than sleep. Plus I worry I'll be up all night if I sleep during the day.

I'm more likely to nap in the summer, on the front porch, on those long, warm, days...ceiling fan spinning overhead...love that.

I want to have a screened in porch one day so I can nap on it. Maybe by the time I get one I'll learn to nap better.

I fall asleep in my chair watching the News Hour after I've had a glass of wine in the evening. Does that count?

hardly ever, I get headaches.

Mike wrote: "I take naps on the weekends, or when I am off from work-- my wife hates it when I do."

My mom used to get so annoyed with my dad when he'd nap too. She'd make all sorts of extra noise and be generally annoying, I think because she felt like he was ignoring her.

That sounds like Thing 1 and Thing 2 causing mischief. ;)

I love naps! I am a definite nap-taker. My husband says I'm secretly a cat because I can nap almost anytime. The problem is I can't take little refresher 15 minute naps, mine are marathon 2-3 hr naps. And then I'm up all night. I don't think I have a circadian rhythm any longer, if I ever had one.

Amen, Misha!

BunWat wrote: "Sometimes I; one-nap and wake up refreshed, sometimes I; two - nap and wake up headachy and irritable. I really wish I could figure out what the difference is, because I'd really like to do nap one..."

I'd be willing to wager the difference falls under where you are into the REM cycle when the nap is interrupted/over.

I can't take a fast nap. It takes me too long to fall asleep, and then I'm out for at least three hours. And I don't really want to get up then, either.

I take naps on the weekends when I am off. Particularly so in the winter; in the summer I am more active.

NOthing beat a nice nap if you have had a stressful weekend!

Amen Misha! Siestas are just so civilized! And altho the English don't nap, at least they have high tea time. But noooooo, Americans frown on naps, it's a go go go country. Go til you drop, no rest for the weary.

And Sherrie - I'm like you, I take these 3 hour naps, up til the wee hours, gottawakeup to get the kid off, tired all day, til my power nap, and so it goes and so it goes.

I also like to nap while watching baseball on tv.

Napping while watching baseball on tv rules.

I like to "watch" baseball or golf when I need a siesta.
But the best is the sound of football on a cozy Autumn day.

That's so true Sally, the sound of a football game on a Sunday is comfort for me.

Back in the day when I still watched tv, I used to watch QVC when I couldn't fall asleep - those hosts/sales peeps/demonstrators just relaxed me... my favorite was Leslie Blodgett doing her 30 second makeovers.

I came across some pictures of my high school graduation the other day and in one of them our living room couch was in the background. It had a permanent indentation in the shape of my old man's (may God rest his soul) carcass in it from all of his after-dinner naps.

Nothing short of a sonic boom could awaken him.

Some study says naps increase performance later in the day...is that why some of my students try to sleep through my 1:10PM class?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...

No, they nap because they were up after midnight the night before, RA.
Speaking of which, I could sure use a nap right now. Or more tea...


Tea it is!

Coffee.

Nope, not a napper.

Wow, there's a blast from the past.

I take a nap so I can stay up late. If I don't get a chance to, I get tired and go to bed early, thereby wasting a good evening.

I need a nap, but they frown at that at work.

I'd like to start a new sport...marathon napping...I would be so good at this!

I have to nap at some point during the day because I am such a night owl.

I only napped when I was pregnant. I had two kids, all I planned to have, and one day I fell asleep during the afternoon. When I woke up, I said "Merciful jaybird, I napped, I'm pregnant." And I was.