Naps or Not?

So, are you a napper or not?

I can't take um, if I go to sleep during the day first of all I wake up fealing like a zombie, and then I can't get to sleep when I should... It screws everything up :( :(

Gotta take a nap every once and awhile to make up for those days when you work too hard.

Old men need naps 3-4 times a day.:(

And how long do these naps last? Perhaps I nap for to long :(

I don't normally nap so when I do it is more like a crash than a nap.

the lie down and wake up feeling like shit 3 hours later:(

Originally posted by tazdev
I don't normally nap so when I do it is more like a crash than a nap.

the lie down and wake up feeling like shit 3 hours later:(

See thats how it works for me :(

I feel that im really lucky. I love to nap, and can almost fall asleep whenever I want.

If I have an extra 1/2 hr or so, I can just lay back and I am asleep within 5 min. I always feel refreshed after a nap as well :D

I just had graduation so we stayed up all night at the school doing drug free stuff! i got to sleep at 9 am and woke up at about 5, does this count as a nap?? it sure felt good though.

I don't nap often only b/c I usually sleep too long. If I fall asleep during the day it's usually because I'm sick or I'm completely worn out.

They say that if you are tired during the day for no reason you should set an alarm for 40mins. This gives you 10 mins to fall asleep, and 30 minutes to rest up. By taking just a short nap, you wake up sometimes just a little out-of-it, but it shakes off quickly, and you feel refreshed enough to last until the night. It doesn't usually mess up your sleep cycle either. This is what I do when I need a quick pick-me-up. :D

Originally posted by saturntangerine
I don't nap often only b/c I usually sleep too long. If I fall asleep during the day it's usually because I'm sick or I'm completely worn out.

They say that if you are tired during the day for no reason you should set an alarm for 40mins. This gives you 10 mins to fall asleep, and 30 minutes to rest up. By taking just a short nap, you wake up sometimes just a little out-of-it, but it shakes off quickly, and you feel refreshed enough to last until the night. It doesn't usually mess up your sleep cycle either. This is what I do when I need a quick pick-me-up. :D

I call it power napping! :D
I only nap occassionally, but I make sure that I limit it to 40 minutes at the absolute max. If I don't I feel like crap later and usually have a hard time going to sleep that. :(

Not much of a napper. Sucks though cuz everytime I've had a nap, I am going to bed much later.:smoker2:

I have a mixed bag response. During the work week, NEVER nap. If I do, like many of you, I won't be able to fall asleep when I need to when I go to bed later that evening.

On weekends, I love naps. Like yesterday, never really got out of nap mode. Just got up for a while, did some web surfing and other computer stuff, then back to bed for about two to three more hours. All throughout the day. Beautiful. And still slept great when I went to bed last night (but the trick here is to remain groggy all day by oversleeping - this is just not feasibly possible in the course of an eight hour work day).

As for power naps, I'm a big believer in these as well. They are the best for staying alert during long road trips. I remember this trip I took down to West Virginia for a weekend last summer. From West Hartford, CT, we're talking 1,278 miles round trip. So I packed up and left West Hartford at about 8 p.m. after a full work day. Drove something like 464 miles until I was about ready to pass out behind the wheel, had a 25-minute power nap at a gas station, and I was just fine after that for the rest of the trip (see I had to be there at 10:00 sharp - and I pulled in at 9:55 a.m.). If power naps didn't work so well, trips like this would not be possible.

Interesting, I shall have to try these "Power Naps"


Or perhaps just go to bed at a normal time like a responsible human being :D

Originally posted by tazdev
I don't normally nap so when I do it is more like a crash than a nap.

the lie down and wake up feeling like shit 3 hours later:(

Same resault. Even when I'm really tired.
It then really screws me up for sleeping later that night.

Why is it you wake up at 6am in the weekend's & can't go back to sleep but struggle to do that during the week????????

Panda's worked all week end including today which is a public holiday!!! :cry: :cry: :cry:

Here is some bad news to all you nappers. A recent test has proen that too much sleep can shorten your life. The average person sleeps 6-7 hours, making the best sleep time 6.5 hours.

So, all you bad nappers like Mr. T and the other old people that must take naps, it's been fun here harassing Moondog's avatar.

Oh yeah, I don't really nao that often, only if it's a really tring day and it does mess me up when I try to goto sleep that night.


:sleep: = :angel: or .....




YOU'LL BE LUCKY ENOUGH TO COME DOWN TO SEE ME HAHAHAHAHAHAHA :devil: :devil: :devil:

mmmm nothing like an afternoon nap in the middle of winter with the fire on, windy and raining outside and you're all snuggled up on the lounge. :D

Originally posted by Damien
Here is some bad news to all you nappers. A recent test has proen that too much sleep can shorten your life. The average person sleeps 6-7 hours, making the best sleep time 6.5 hours.So do you really buy that? I heard that same study's results, but you know that many of these study's have skewed results, where the best case scenario data to support the case is utilized, and "extraneous" data is "screened," in order to receive research grant funding? It's hard to really buy into most of this stuff.

Personally, I firmly believe that if they wanted to, doctors could "prove" that smoking (of all things) promotes good health, longevity, and favors extended life expectancy.

Originally posted by JD@af


Personally, I firmly believe that if they wanted to, doctors could "prove" that smoking (of all things) promotes good health, longevity, and favors extended life expectancy.

Indeed you are correct.In the 70's at the height of the tobbacco debate,the tobbacco companies always managed to wheel out an'expert medical opinion' that smoking was not harmful and that niccotine was a useful drug.THE saying goes...there are lies,damn lies and statistics.:cool:

and as far as statistics go, one of the easiest ways to confuse real figures is by using means/averages. That hides the outliers - in this case, those who need only 2-3 hours sleep a day, and those who do best with 9 or 10. Look at a normal distribution (which applies to most things), and you'll find that a good 5% of people (which adds up to a lot of people) are actually a loooong way from the mean.

For myself, I find if I have a few nights of 8 hour sleeps in a row, I'm really tired, and need to stay up till 2 or 3 am to get myself back on track.

Originally posted by JD@af
I have a mixed bag response. During the work week, NEVER nap. If I do, like many of you, I won't be able to fall asleep when I need to when I go to bed later that evening.Perfect example of why not to nap this evening. Was tired after work, so I had a very restful nap from 7:30 to 10:00.. now, it's almost 3:00 a.m. and I still can't sleep... serves me right, I guess :rolleyes:

Originally posted by moondog
and as far as statistics go, one of the easiest ways to confuse real figures is by using means/averages. That hides the outliers - in this case, those who need only 2-3 hours sleep a day, and those who do best with 9 or 10. Look at a normal distribution (which applies to most things), and you'll find that a good 5% of people (which adds up to a lot of people) are actually a loooong way from the mean.In further support of this, the American Medical Journal is releasing a study this week that examines the way it and similar medical research journals research and release information to the public. It concludes that many medical reasearch studies are "misleading" and "do not take into account weaknesses" that fail to support what they are trying to prove. Confirmation from the source :cool:

98.354% of statistics are made up on the spot.:D

Originally posted by taranaki
98.354% of statistics are made up on the spot.:D

I've found that 97.682% of statistics made up on the spot are far from correct:flipa:

This, meaning that your statistical statment has a chance of being made up on the spot.....right?
:silly2:

Scientists and those other peopel should keep their mouths shut. It scares people from doing
things they would normally do or from having fun.

I remember the first hearing about flesh-eating disease and how you can get it from just bumping
into a table or something. Satistics show though that your chances are low......but you only found
that out if you looked it up.

:monkeypisstatistics