Naps

[SheepDog]

In 20 minutes of meditation I can get through a night of driving without getting tired at all. After a fast day of having the last day with family I drove from San Francisco to Seattle stopping only for gas while everyone else was sleeping. It was a lot like self hypnosis and when we got home it hit. I went to sleep as quickly as I hit the bed.
To get good rest I sleep about 8 hours and feel great about getting out of bed. I can do with less sleep for a short time but I need eight hours to be right.

 

[Supervisor42]

To get good rest I sleep about 8 hours and feel great about getting out of bed. I can do with less sleep for a short time but I need eight hours to be right.

Even taking a 'controlled-substance' (Ambien) I get 4, maybe 6, hours of sleep a night.
After the first 4 hrs I have to take the mid-night pee break. Then I take the 1/3rd I broke off the Ambien tablet and hope I can get 2 more hours sleep.
Sometimes it works.
I am tired all the time, but not sleepy.
Over years, it degrades your brain. (Which is non-repairable).
The good news is, I found out where senile comes from!

 

[Pearl]

All this sleep talk has me sleepy!! Going for an on and off 5 hours!

 

[Zuma]

And to think; as kids we all thought having to take a nap was the worst form of child abuse! Now we know our naps were necessary for our parents' sanity.

 

[Zuma]

Having lived in Japan for several years, I was always amazed that commuters on the trains would nod off, and "miraculously" wake up when their stop was announced. I eventually was able to do that, too. Nod off while sitting down, and part of my brain was awake enough to recognize my stop as it was announced.

 

[backlash]

I woke up on a train in Japan. I was 3 stops past my stop in a residential area.
I spent the rest of the night sitting on a bench freezing.

 

[Neb]

Having lived in Japan for several years, I was always amazed that commuters on the trains would nod off, and "miraculously" wake up when their stop was announced. I eventually was able to do that, too. Nod off while sitting down, and part of my brain was awake enough to recognize my stop as it was announced.

When I was going to college I could go to sleep and the street car operator would wake me up when it was time to off. There is an advantage to living beyond the end of the line.

Ben

 

[Frodo]

I have a magic chair, I pull the handle my feet come up my back goes down and my eyes close

 

[Weedygarden]

 

[Pearl]

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I don't see my 6-10 minute nap?

 

[FarmOR]

Or napping peacefully at the wheel? Instead of screaming in terror like the other car occupants.

 

[UrbanHunter]

Or napping peacefully at the wheel? Instead of screaming in terror like the other car occupants.

OH Yes! got to love it, asleep at the wheel and everyone else in pure panic!

 

[Weedygarden]

I don't see my 6-10 minute nap?

No, I didn't either. For me, sometimes a 10-15 minute nap is all that I need.

 

[Dani]

I wake up at 2:10 am now to take our new pups out to do their business before I need to leave for work at 3:23 am. I do NEED MY 10 minutes of coffee before I take them out. Just give me a little bit to wake up and deal with your hyper active selves. . Yes there is 2. Some days I do end up taking a nap, but most days I do not. Will say the month of December I would come home from work to start crocheting and just dose. December it was about an hour.

 

[backlash]

I got up at 3AM today. Around noon I needed a nap really bad so I went back to bed and slept for an hour and a half.
I felt much better.
I cannot sleep on my back so napping in my chair is out of the question.

 

[Pearl]

Bear (11months old now) needed to pee at 2am this morning, so I was up for a bit! Got 8min nap today. Glad he lets me know!! I'm always up weird times and I am a light sleeper....naps are important!!

 

[theheathen13]

Not a napper! I had a buddy I called napping bob because every time I called him he was taking a nap! Loved that guy!

 

[joel]

I think naps are less than two hours.
If I am right then NO, not a napper.
The reason is if I fall a sleep it will be at east four or five hours.