Do you nap?

[xodonniedarko]

I wondered how many people here actually take naps. Either daily, weekly, just on sundays or saturdays? I think I'm going to go take a nap RIGHT NOW.

[Jaffa Cake]

I do – in fact, I pride myself on my napping, it's one of my main skills. :)

[bartelby]

Here's my usual weekday schedule:
6am - Get up walk the dogs
7am - Arrive at work
4:30pm - Get home and walk dogs
5:30 - Nap time!
7:30 - Wake and eat food
9pm - Bed time!


Now a typical weekend:
9am - Wake up and walk dogs
11am - Nap
1pm - wake up have lunch
3pm - Nap
6pm - Wakes up for food
9pm - bedtime

[skunk]

Is falling asleep the same as napping?

[robbieduncan]

So wait: you're going to bed in 20 minutes time? Wow!

I only nap on holidays, or occasionally at the weekends.

[tersono]

*snore*

... wha..?

*snore*

:p

[bartelby]

So wait: you're going to bed in 20 minutes time? Wow!



Me?

Yeah, bed time needs to coincide with meds time now.:o

[biturbomunkie]

i try not to, but i tend to catch some zzzZZ after an intense workout. :o

[::Lisa::]

I don't. Although I probably should haven't slept properly for over 2 weeks now.. ugh!
When I'm on holiday (vacation) I do though. I have an hour or so in the afternoon, get up and go out for the night.

[X5-452]

naps are the only things that get me through the day.
sometimes, the knowledge that i'll have a nap at some point during the day is the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning.

[psychofreak]

Nope...I always feel like sleeping though...

[119576]

No. I only sleep a few hours a night, too. I feel at my best when I've just woken up, though. So maybe I should nap throughout the day, then I can have little bursts of feeling amazing.

It's got to be better than drugs, right?

[Markleshark]

I do. From about 10pm one night, right through to 7am the following morning. ;)

[rat19]

As much as possible. I love naps.

[Big-TDI-Guy]

I just bought a chair today - and Napping comfort was half of my consideration.

Does that announce me as old / pathetic? :p

[nicque]

i only do when i have 10 o'clock hockey games cause then i cant fall asleep until 12 anyways and when i do nap it would be from 6ish - to 9.

[Big-TDI-Guy]

Here's my usual weekday schedule:
6am - Get up walk the dogs
7am - Arrive at work
4:30pm - Get home and walk dogs
5:30 - Nap time!
7:30 - Wake and eat food
9pm - Bed time!


Now a typical weekend:
9am - Wake up and walk dogs
11am - Nap
1pm - wake up have lunch
3pm - Nap
6pm - Wakes up for food
9pm - bedtime

God, I envy you. And not because of your post-status. ;)

[bartelby]

God, I envy you. And not because of your post-status. ;)

I, fairly, regularly sleep 20 hours each day on a weekend. I'll only be awake to eat and walk the dogs!
If it wasn't for them, I could manage 22 hours a day. :)

[iDAG]

I take a nap at the end of the week like of all days on a Friday because I get tired from going to bed late and waking up really early for school for 5 days plus all the running I do for school not to mention homework.

[119576]

I, fairly, regularly sleep 20 hours each day on a weekend. I'll only be awake to eat and walk the dogs!
If it wasn't for them, I could manage 22 hours a day. :)

How on earth do you manage that in between getting drunk?! I bet you have an IV drip, don't you.

[Big-TDI-Guy]

Even more confusing - with all the Napping Bartelby does - how on earth are they kicking @$$ with the post counts??

[da2005pizimp]

i used to take naps during the day, however i found that when i did i would sleep like crap at night, so i cut them out.

[saxman]

I love a nap on a Sunday afternoon. I rarely get one now a-days, but when I do, I really enjoy them

[xodonniedarko]

The second I posted this, I went to sleep and now I'm just waking up.

That was glorious, absolutely glorious.

Anyways, I found that I cannot, CANNOT nap well in my bed unless I have music. At NIGHT time, it has to be soft, but nap time, it has to be regular rock/pop/.whatever music!


I was told a normal nap is only 30 minutes but I slept for an hour. I hope this doesn't effect my sleeping tonight because I work tomorrow morning.

[eric55lv]

Yes I always take 6 naps a week I like when you wake up you feel totally refreshed thats why I take naps

[MLeepson]

Whenever I get a migraine I take a 2-4 hour nap. It only sometimes helps, but I can always use the extra sleep.

[Ish]

I tend not to nap because it takes me ages to get to sleep anyway. Just occasionally, if I've had a really bad night or two I'll inadvertently nod off for a while and then feel better.

If I'm going on a longish journey I tend to nod off in the car if someone else is driving.

[Dagless]

My current sleep pattern is-

Bed at 4am
Wake up at 10-11am
Don't eat till around 2pm
Work until tea at 6pm
Usually nap around 7-8pm for an hour
Work and play until bed at 4am!

Throw in random dog walks depending on when she wants to go out and random friend visits.

During the middle of Winter and Summer I usually have a nap. Haven't had one today though!

[viccles]

I take a nap a few times a week...depends on how well I sleep through the night. Sometimes if I'm watching TV my eyes will just close for about 20 minutes and then I feel great after.

[cornopaez]

I can't take a nap during the day because I won't sleep at night... I definitively need to be tired to sleep. I dropped naps such a long time ago that I can't remember the last day I took a nap.

Even during those long days at school... no nap for me. :o

[iSaint]

I love weekend naps, but avoid them if I sleep until 8 or so. During school I get up at 5 a.m., go to work at 6:15, get home at 4ish. I sometimes take a short nap in the afternoon. It's a long day on your feet!

[ghall]

Nope. I've tried, totally screws me up. If I'm tired then I read or listen to music for a bit. But I never actually nap, unless I'm sick.

According to my mom, I never took naps, even when I was a baby.

[PlaceofDis]

i nap occasionally and when/if needed. no set schedule or anything but they can certainly be a good thing :)

[pjarvi]

I only tend to take naps when i'm exhausted which more often than not is only when i'm home sick. On the rare weekend when I go out and exercise than i'll usually take a quick nap (30-45 minutes). Sometimes I try to take a nap at work, but my car isn't very comfortable and there's a lot of foot traffic near our building.

[kflook]

Nope. I've tried, totally screws me up. If I'm tired then I read or listen to music for a bit. But I never actually nap, unless I'm sick...

I'm the same way...it actually makes me more tired if I take a nap, cause I feel like I need to keep sleeping...

[juanster]

only when i' m at work

[ghall]

only when i' m at work

I hope you're not a safety inspector. LOL :D

[aspro]

I nap when I've had a poor sleep or have been working harder than normal, only really in the window 3pm-5pm normally for 2 minutes. Feel great afterwards.

[Dagless]

If I'm going on a longish journey I tend to nod off in the car if someone else is driving.

I always sleep in cars. Ever since I was a baby we always went on long car rides into Europe, I only stopped going when I was 16 or so so I've built up a little technique to make the journey shorter - if I lie back and put my knees up against the seat in front so they're about level with my head then I'll drop off to sleep in about 10-15 minutes. Sleep for hours doing that. YMMV :D

[takao]

I always sleep in cars. Ever since I was a baby we always went on long car rides into Europe, I only stopped going when I was 16 or so so I've built up a little technique to make the journey shorter - if I lie back and put my knees up against the seat in front so they're about level with my head then I'll drop off to sleep in about 10-15 minutes. Sleep for hours doing that. YMMV :D

man i wished i could have done that

personally i first learned sleeping in a car during my army where the benches in the trucks were installed length wise ... combined with little light, vibrating engine and generally not a talkative mood i could doze of within minutes ... my record was sleeping before leaving the gate

too bad i learned that too good and always doze away in public buses and miss my station ;)

[toolbox]

Only nap if i haven't slept well the night before

[twoodcc]

i do nap when i can

[Dagless]

too bad i learned that too good and always doze away in public buses and miss my station ;)

Haha! I only started falling asleep on buses recently compared to how long I've been doing it in cars. Just put a nice Tangerine Dream album on my iPod and have a little doze, thankfully my bus rides are terminal to terminal so I don't miss the stop.

Can't sleep on trains mind. Only just started using them and they feel so "new" to me :D , well, cross country trains.

[Zwhaler]

I never nap. I've tried, but when I wake up I always feel very out of it and crappy until I go to sleep later that night. I guess my body doesn't like sleeping for short amounts of time.

[siurpeeman]

i try very hard not to nap. napping almost always guarantees me a late night, and i don't need any more of those than i already have.

[xodonniedarko]

I tend not to nap because it takes me ages to get to sleep anyway. Just occasionally, if I've had a really bad night or two I'll inadvertently nod off for a while and then feel better.

If I'm going on a longish journey I tend to nod off in the car if someone else is driving.

I barely even need a pillow to fall asleep in the car! (although without a pillow, car-sleeping is not enjoyable.) Ever since I was a baby, we'd drive from NC to Wisconsin (which is a "16 hour trip" by car, but we made it in about 13 or 14) and I usually just slept the whole way there. I find it very relaxing to sleep in a car.

But the best naps are taken (a) at a beach villa with my best friend during the day (b) on the couch with my boyfriend at his dad's house

:) nothing like sleeping when you know you have nothing else to do, or when you're with your love :)

[tobefirst]

It took me forever to fall asleep last night, so as I was trying, I was thinking, "Tomorrow is definitely going to be a nap day." I awake to find this thread. That solidifies it. Today is DEFINITELY going to be a nap day.

[Ish]

Must be something about the motion, rocking us off to sleep. I'll just skip along on the surface of sleep, have a look at where we are, doze, find we're a bit further, more dozing etc.

I quite regularly drive for three hours in one direction, stop for a couple of hours and then drive home again and that during that second stint I'm sometimes a bit sleepy and have to stop for a while and have a coffee or a coke or something. Won't drive when I feel like that.

[devilot]

I'm sort of perma-sleep deprived and one major symptom is being able to fall asleep just about anywhere or any time. :o

But I <3 the car nappage.

And I <3 naps. Used to nap a lot more, but lately I haven't at all. Still doesn't stop me from waking up silly early. :(

[siurpeeman]

Still doesn't stop me from waking up silly early. :(

it is silly early. but we all have our waking times. :)

[Cassie]

I've been awake for 22 hours so far (16 hour car drive, got home at 3 AM) so I'm probably gonna crash flat on my keyboard take a nice, relaxing nap soon.

[palmerized]

I am a designer and am always working on something. I also have two kids and a dog -- so when the kids go down for a nap on the weekends, I make sure I sleep too. Otherwise I'd get no sleep!

With the newborn, I find it essential to nap when I can. I don't think I could function without sleep.

[Stampyhead]

I wish I could, but I can't sleep when it's light outside. Good thing I don't have a nighttime job or I'd be all kind of screwed. I also can't sleep on the floor or the car or hunched over in a chair or really anywhere else except in a bed and sometimes on a couch, but it depends on the couch...

[Big-TDI-Guy]

Wear a dark hat, and cover your eyes. That's what I do, and I could sleep under an afternoon sun. Just can't use the hat when it's warmer. (but for winter - is perfect)

[heehee]

I could use a power nap right now. :p

I don't have time for naps. I don't even have enough time to sleep. :(

[emw]

I very rarely nap, which is too bad because I could generally use them. Sometimes on the weekends, if I'm the one to get up early with the kids, I'll go back to sleep for an hour or so after my wife gets up. But that's about it.

[Big-TDI-Guy]

While I love naps - I can't take them if I intend to stay productive. On the weekend with nothing to do (or nothing I want to be doing) - I can doze off, and it's great.

But I'm ALWAYS super groggy afterwards - and often, my naps will turn into early bedtime.

Then I wake up at 2am, and fidget around, you know - to completely disrupt my circadian cycle.

-sigh-

[itsallinurhead]

I do as much as possible on a daily basis.

[RoadieJodie]

Weekdays:

Up at 5:30 - 6:00 a.m.
Work at 7:00a.m. - 4:00p.m.
Home at 5:00p.m
Bed at 2:00a.m. anywhere from 4:00a.m.

I'm lucky if I get fours hours, and sometimes I really need to take a nap after work.

I don't sleep heavy.

If I'm sharing a bed, all you have to do is move and I'm awake, lightly say my name outside my door and I'm awake.

I'm lucky to sleep until 9.a.m on the weekends.

I wen't through alot growing up, I'm ready for something to happen at a moments notice.