to think that having a 'power nap' in the office is plain strange?

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Suppliers visiting today at 1pm - has been arrange for ages.

Went to collect a colleague from his desk - he had his chin resting on his hand and was looking down. I thought he was deeply engrossed in reading a document on his desk or something.

His colleagues just looked at me and laughed. They said 'oh he's asleep. he has a powernap at lunchtimes. Just say his name gently and he will wake up'. My face must have been a picture and they pissed themselves.

He woke up all bleary eyed and I said 'do you need a coffee' in slightly acerbic tones.

So he went into the suppleir meeting all yawny.

I was slightly flabbergasted and mentioned it to my colleague - who got all self righteous and said 'he is perfcetly entightled to sleep in his lunch hour'. FFS it is in a great big open plan office with about 100 people in it!

Have I entered a strange parallel world?

How long should you nap for:

?THE NANO-NAP: 10 to 20 seconds. Sleep studies haven?t yet concluded whether there are benefits to these brief intervals, like when you nod off on someone?s shoulder on the train.

?THE MICRO-NAP: two to five minutes. Shown to be surprisingly effective at shedding sleepiness.

?THE MINI-NAP: five to 20 minutes. Increases alertness, stamina, motor learning, and motor performance.

?THE ORIGINAL POWER NAP: 20 minutes. Includes the benefits of the micro and the mini, but additionally improves muscle memory and clears the brain of useless built-up information, which helps with long-term memory (remembering facts, events, and names).

?THE LAZY MAN?S NAP: 50 to 90 minutes. Includes slow-wave plus REM sleep; good for improving perceptual processing; also when the system is flooded with human growth hormone, great for repairing bones and muscles.

I don't know if i'd manage to sleep in an office with 100 people around me, but as a species we're programmed to nap in the afternoons. Aparently people who do live longer and have fewer heart problems. Oh, and a better memory I think.

I do find myself exhausted around 2 or 3 in the afternoon and I try to fight it off with coffee, but if I had an office job I'd definitely try to, if nothing else, "rest my eyes".

there was a student in our office for a while who did this

i found it quite strange but was also a little envious

xposted with Hullababy, much more informative than my vague post

When I was a student I also used to go home in between lectures for a 15-20 minute power nap after being out all night

It was amazing. I miss those naps.

MAybe I should move closer to work and go home for naps during lunch? Hm.

"Of course it doesn't bother me! I don't actually car"

"I said 'do you need a coffee' in slightly acerbic tones."

Can I just interrupt here to say to the OP, 31 is bloody young!!!!!

I am young. You are young. So there.

I'm astonished that you say you're a professional but have never seen people sleeping at work before - obviously not a lawyer!!!

I have seen this and done this plenty (mostly when pregnant but sometimes when hungover).

Never bothered me in the slightest, I'd much rather see someone have a nap in their break to recharge their batteries (for whatever reason) than fuck up/be irritable for the rest of the afternoon.

OK 31 is young but it aint 21 is it!

No, am an aeronatautical engineer, perhaps we just walk round asleep.

Acerbic tones required as I thinm it is a bit daft to still be asleep when you are supposed to be a meeting. But no I don't actually care because of course I am not going to do anything about it, just started this as bored chat on MN.

'aeronatautical' is spelled aeronautical. Think you need a power nap! Tweeky chat.

Ah woops just looked it up! blush
You're still a tweeky chat though.