Naps.....Who Takes Them??

[Rich Riddle]

I often find my eyes getting very heavy in the afternoon. Perhaps it's being in my elderly fifties. Does anyone partake of a nap? I am beginning to consider one.

[Jesse Busenitz]

Haha, yeah over the lunch hour I normally hit the couch for 15 minutes, but I'm pretty high energy when I'm working. I find it makes my afternoon a lot better. Oh and I'm only 25:D

[Ken Fitzgerald]

In my mid 40's to mid 50's taking a 15 -20 minute power nap at noon worked wonders. These days IF I can fall asleep, my snoring often wakes me up. I struggle to take naps these days.

[Stew Hagerty]

I take naps quite often. But then, thanks to my illness, I can't really help but take them because I tire so easily.

[Garth Almgren]

I get a little drowsy in the afternoons, but I am a horrible napper so I usually just push through it. If I'm not asleep for at least 2 hours I feel worse than if I hadn't slept at all, and it takes me a long time to get moving again.
My wife on the other hand usually has to have a short nap in the afternoons when she gets home from work (teaching preschoolers can be very draining). :)

[Bruce Page]

I can nap only if I'm down with a bad cold or the flu, I never nap otherwise. I can't sleep on a plane either. One of my travel buddies would be asleep before the wheels left the ground, I was always envious of him.

[Garth Almgren]

I can nap only if I'm down with a bad cold or the flu, I never nap otherwise. I can't sleep on a plane either. One of my travel buddies would be asleep before the wheels left the ground, I was always envious of him.
I've always had a hard time sleeping on planes too. I think the only time I managed it was on the 15+ hour flight from LAX to Sidney and back again when I basically collapsed from exhaustion.

[Kevin Womer]

I will be 50 in a few months, rarely take them. If I do nap I have trouble falling asleep at night, so I avoid them when I have to get up to go to work the next day.

[David Helm]

At 73 I don't take naps during the day. Instead, I fall asleep in front of the TV, go to bed and can't get back to sleep.

[Bill McNiel]

20-30 min nap after lunch almost every day for the last 20+ years. Makes a huge difference in my afternoon productivity. Highly recommend naps.

[Roger Nair]

After lunch, I often shut down while listening to NPR, I think the NPR style is like talking someone into hypnosis. I don't mean to nap, it occurs.

[John Conklin]

An occasional nap is a perk of being retired. Don't do it all that often, but sometimes I do just because I can. ;)

[Jerome Stanek]

I don't very often take them but a 5 to 10 minute nap works wonders for me. If I nap longer than 15 minutes I feel real cr*&y

[Bruce Wrenn]

Sometimes, but not regularly. Worst part of napping is when the #@$% phone rings. Same thing at night, when the phone rings, I'm up.

[daryl moses]

An occasional nap is a perk of being retired. Don't do it all that often, but sometimes I do just because I can. ;)
I'm in the same boat John. I seldom take a nap but it sure is nice knowing I can.

[Greg R Bradley]

"elderly fifties" ??? that is young. I'm 63 and might consider something like that when I'm "older" in another 30 years or so.

[Brent Cutshall]

No matter how old you are, if you work hard, a good nap will probably follow. I'm only 17 and after a nice days work, I enjoy a nap sometimes. Both of my parents are at work for ten hours a day for five days a week, and I have an acre's worth of garden to tend to, donkeys, chickens, dogs, and fish to feed, school to do, brother to cook for(and I'll do home cooking you want believe), clothes and dishes to wash, and if that house ain't clean by the time they get home there won't be any naps to be had. In addition, I still fill and sell woodworking orders since I don't get money from the daily chores listed above. I'll tell you what, that list is greatly shortened in the winter, some stuff added, but shorter so I live for winter. There's not much better than napping in front of a fireplace that's burning wood you harvested in the summer, after you've eaten food that you harvested in the summer.

[Rich Riddle]

"elderly fifties" ??? that is young. I'm 63 and might consider something like that when I'm "older" in another 30 years or so.
Greg,

You have me by a decade. I heard one of the undergraduates describe me as an elderly professor to another student; quite humorous.

[Jerry Thompson]

Reality is the miserable moments between naps.

[Tom Stenzel]

The things I wake up and find... Good thing I read this after my nap. Might have ruined it.

-Tom

[Matt Day]

I've gotten into the habit of napping after I put my son down for his nap, while I sit on the couch with my daughter watching cartoons. Usually ends up as a 10 minute nap and after I wake and shake it off I feel much better. My 3 year old has been waking me up 1-3 times a night for about a year, and my son has been getting up at 5:30-6.

[Jason Roehl]

If I can grab 15-20 minutes of shut-eye during my lunch hour, it's glorious. Unfortunately, most evenings I also doze off in front of the TV early, then spend 2-3 hours awake in the middle of the night before grabbing a couple more hours of sleep. Seems I just can't put together more than about 5 consecutive hours of sleep, but I need about 7 per day on average (I can go a week or so on a lower average, but then I'll have to do some catch-up).

[Daniel O'Neill]

This is a great thread. I love a power nap at lunch. I tilt my chair all the way back put my ball cap on my eyes and get 10-15. Once past 10 minutes I get in the zone of too much not enough sleep to feel rested. I don't do it everyday though I wish I could. Sometimes I'll take a 10 minute at home right after work. (Usually on Thursdays b/c I'm wearing out for the week)

This does lead me to a question though. For those that take naps during lunch. Is there anything wrong with taking it at your desk during normal lunch time? One co-worker seems to think it's the absolute worst but she's a pretty dramatic person. To me the logic of not really going anywhere is worth it. I don't waste fuel sitting in my truck and running the A/C or heat and I save time by not walking through the shop to get to my car.

[Brian Tymchak]

I can nap only if I'm down with a bad cold or the flu, I never nap otherwise. I can't sleep on a plane either.

I'm the same way. Doesn't matter if I've been up for 24 hrs, I can't sleep on a plane. Flew to Tokyo once for work. 14 hr flight. Wide awake for the whole trip..

[Jay Jolliffe]

I take naps quite often. But then, thanks to my illness, I can't really help but take them because I tire so easily.

I'm the same way. Some days I'm lucky to make it to 12 noon.

[Jim Becker]

No naps for me. I feel worse afterward...and it's always been that way.

[Rich Riddle]

No naps for me. I feel worse afterward...and it's always been that way.
Jim, as you get old you sleep less at night; perhaps then you'll be able to take little naps. Strange thing is that yesterday I asked an classroom of undergraduates how many of them napped during the day. It was 25 of 27 who napped. I was envious.

[Rich Engelhardt]

Nope - no more naps for me.
I was taking one when I first retired & I attribute much of the 100 pounds I gained to my napping.

For the last month I've been getting up @ 3:45 am and hitting the swimming pool at 5:00 then back home around 7:00.
I doze off in the evening (6:00 pm-ish) and usually get up at 10:00 pm to take my medication, then back up the next morning at 3:45.

[John K Jordan]

Naps, never. A nap in the afternoon an I'm groggy the rest of the day.

I usually get 4-6 hrs sleep and if I do nap for even a short time I'll be up all night.

But we are all different.

JKJ

[Bert Kemp]

Some days in the afternoon around 4 I'll nap for 45 min to an hour. little groggy when I wake up but it pass's and then I'm good to go till 10 or 11 pm

[John K Jordan]

Jim, as you get old you sleep less at night; perhaps then you'll be able to take little naps. Strange thing is that yesterday I asked an classroom of undergraduates how many of them napped during the day. It was 25 of 27 who napped. I was envious.


How old is old? I'm 66 and still waiting. If I go to bed at 10 or 2 I still wake up at 5-5:30. Maybe it's the chickens. No, must not be, I've been that way for decades.

Are you the professor? Are some of the naps in class? A lot of people identified with this:

https://www.facebook.com/96XWROX/photos/a.136182645395.134478.102705955395/10154340853330396/?type=3&theater

JKJ

[paul cottingham]

As the side effects of my head injury get worse, I find myself falling asleep every day before dinner for about 45mins. in one of the armchairs in our living room. Does that count?

[Brian Tymchak]

... yesterday I asked an classroom of undergraduates how many of them napped during the day. It was 25 of 27 who napped. I was envious.

Understandable.. When I was an undergrad, studying ;) until 2 or 3 in the morning, I would grab a 1/2 hr anytime I could.