To say napping is seriously underrated

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I love napping. If napping were an Olympic sport I would be a triple gold winner.

I can nap anywhere for as little as 10 minutes, bus trips being a favourite before Covid.

My best napping scenario is a Sunday afternoon, rain outside and I'm cuddled up in a bed with freshly laundered crisp white cotton bedding and reading a good book while I nod off. Utter bliss.

Napping. It's the new Pilates.

@Sparklesocks

Timing is everything though.

A short disco nap? I feel re-energised! Fresh! Like someone just plugged my charger in and gave it a boost!

A bit longer than that though? I feel like I've been asleep for 100 years. My eyelids weigh a stone each. Every drop of water has left my body. I'm not sure what my name is.

Love naps but agree timing is everything. It's a tricky balance to get right as if I know it's only a short nap and have set an alarm, I can't nod off. Perfect scenario is on holiday when you haven't a care in the world and no time limits, but DP and I did have an impromptu nap on the sofa on Saturday afternoon last, and it was dreamy. Naps for the win! (I wish I had more time for them....). When I was young (and often hungover at work) I used to sneak in a little disco nap in the shower room (thinking was - very few people used it during the day so wouldn't notice).

I always hated the idea of napping. Since I became pregnant and had an accidental nap one day it's been a revelation! I'll doze off and wake up naturally around 45 mins later. Amazing

I love a nap. Dangerous as to whether it'll be an hour or 6hr though
My best sleep pattern is 4.30-6.30pm then 1am - 7am

Each to their own. I usually wake up from them feeling groggy and more tired.

I think it's only acceptable to nap if you live alone, otherwise it's too anti-social.

One of the reasons I love working from home is having a 20 minute lunchtime nap. I feel revived.

One place I worked had a separate car park off a quiet street and I used to go for a lunch nap in the car. Another place I had a private office, so again had a lunch nap.

The key is 15-20 mins only, longer than that and you feel shit.

Agreed! Really, really love it. Refreshes my brain and makes me feel so happy.

Might have a nap now!

There is a version called Uberman which involves no core sleep but 20min naps every four hours

Ah, that must have been the plan my DD1 was using as a baby. I wondered what was guiding her behaviour for the first 6 months.

@sbhydrogen

I think it's only acceptable to nap if you live alone, otherwise it's too anti-social.

I disagree with this. Disappearing for a short period to have a snooze isn't anti social if only your partner/family are in the house. They don't need your presence for every moment of the day. But absolutely - it would be antisocial to disappear mid meal or if you have friends and family visiting.

Napping is my favourite hobby!

I do have several health conditions though and am on a lot of meds plus insomnia where I wake up at stupid o’clock so napping gets me through the day.

Dc are almost 10 and almost 18 and are really good kids. They do their school work ( A levels for older one ) and help me out.

One thing I do though is nap downstairs on the smaller of the two sofas. If I went back to bed it wouldn’t feel right and I would likely sleep for hours which I wouldn’t want so i have around an hour a day.

I tell my older dc that when he is older himself with responsibilities like a job, family etc he will probably yearn for naps, they’re a luxury but now when he can have them if he wants to he tends not to!

I love a nap. I prefer a lie in but if not possible a nap is great too - or both if I’m really lucky!

Can’t nap just now with everyone at home and it’s driving me a bit bonkers!

I napped a lot when I was a teenager and completely messed up my body clock. If I nap now I feel groggy and almost ill afterwards. Naps are not for me!

I love a nap. I've had one today already and would sneak in another if I could (this is unusual after a really bad night last night).

I've always said it's my best definition of adulthood. When you ask a child if they want to sleep they say no. An adult says yes.

I adore a good nap, usually Saturday and Sunday from 2:00 to about 3:00. Then I get up, have a nice coffee, and start thinking about dinner plans.

I found my people! I wake up around 5am and my favourite thing to do is to have a mid morning nap, it has to be in bed though. An afternoon nap is tricky because I go to bed so early.

I love the start of a nap, snuggling under the covers and getting comfortable but always wake up feeling horrendous.

Something I do if I go abroad and I'm a bit jet-lagged but can't go to bed yet otherwise it would ruin my body clock is have a 'half nap' - play music moderately while I lie down and try to go to sleep, the music always startles me awake whenever I nod off but I still get to chill before it's an acceptable time to go to sleep.

I find them risky, sometimes you wake up from a nap feeling great, other times I feel groggy and headachy and unsure of what day of the week or year it is. I never get to nap since I’ve had kids, once they’re older I’ll be having an afternoon sleep every weekend

I have 3 teens homeschooling at the moment and dh and I both work from home.

I recently realised that I need to nap.
I go to my bedroom and shut the door. Pure unadulterated me time for an hour.
In the middle i usually doze for 15-30 minutes.

It is totally my coping strategy for COVID!
But I can't do it too close to having to be in a work call. I need ot be awake and had a cup of tea before the next work thing.

I hate napping - even when baby DS was driving me near delusional with sleep deprivation I still felt worse if I slept during the day than I had before I went to sleep. But - as I also discovered from having a baby - I need less sleep than most people (I'm fine on six hours) but I really struggle if it's broken sleep. I'd rather have four straight hours than two lots of three hours, and I guess that's why napping doesn't work for me.

All that said, I also think snuggling up in bed with a book is a perfect Sunday afternoon, I just wouldn't fall asleep while I'm in there!

@sbhydrogen

I think it's only acceptable to nap if you live alone, otherwise it's too anti-social.

this makles me laugh.

I am not tied by the hip to my family.
Kids off pottering round, dh in his study etc.
Why is it anti-social?

My parents and grandparents all did it, especially after lunchon Sunday. As kids we just left them to it. If we wanted to earn big brownie points we gave them an hour and then made tea!