In honor of falling asleep while trying to write today’s NOT.
Naps, yay or nay?
For me, naps yay. Except two hours before bedtime which means I won’t be sleeping well that night.
Feel free to discuss this or any other topic that jumps into your mind.
I did not know that naps were optional? I lay on the couch or recliner, I’m asleep. Sometimes it is 10 minutes & sometimes an hour. Although, I may be confusing naps & narcolepsy.
i just woke up with my keyboard embedded into my forehead….
so yeah….nah
dont do naps me.
I love to nap but lately I drift off and snap back awake. I have not been sleeping well at night either. ☹️
That sucks. Do you have an idea why? When I’m stressed I don’t sleep. Like the other night I laid awake worrying about HZ1’s hand that got caught in a door earlier that night. They could move their fingers just fine and there was minimal swelling and bruising. But of course my anxieties hit at 1am and I feared the worse (circulation being cut off and requiring amputation). They were totally fine in the morning but I took them to the Dr to confirm there wasn’t a hairline fracture or anything. All this to say, I hope you get better sleep soon.
Naps work best for me as a late November thing. Something about the cold and shrinking days. June, not so much.
Lately I’ve been napping with HZ3. Getting all the snuggles with my last baby 🤗
Before having kids, I didn’t nap unless I was hungover but that was more like passing out than napping. Thinking about those two day long hangovers makes me shudder.
100% yes. The trick for me is I set a 25 minute timer so I can’t get into deep sleep and wind up staying asleep for hours. It’s just long enough to clear the cobwebs and I can get through the rest of the day. I haven’t been sleeping well for the past couple of years so the naps have been a lifesaver.
Not sleeping well seems to be the national past time of DeadSplintervania. Me too. Naps maybe on weekends, I am pro nap.
I like them but usually wake up feeling worse.
Sometimes on weekends, but never during the workweek. If I doze off after 5pm, not a chance I’m getting decent sleep that night.
I used to have a normal routine. Awake during the day, then asleep at night. Then, I went freelance, so things became a little more fluid. Then, when I went into my decline, which coincided with the pandemic, but had nothing to do with COVID, I went into the hospital for three weeks and then rehab for two (physical, not alcohol misuse, luckily, although it’s not like they rolled the drinks cart around at Happy Hour) all bets were off. These places are the least restful places you can imagine. Maybe an active war zone is worse. You’re in this dormitory like setting, which is bad enough, but for the convenience of the staff who, to be fair, sometimes have to check on you or your roommate every couple of hours, the lights are left on and the doors are open.
Then there are the fellow internees. People who require hospital care and physical rehab in a place affiliated with a nursing home/hospice do not make for the best travel companions as you move toward recuperation. Elderly New Yorkers are a feisty bunch to begin with, but if the mind starts to go, especially if they’re not native English speakers and they lose their memory of English, that becomes its own fascinating journey. For about three days and nights I had a roommate who was a very elderly guy who wasn’t quite sure where he was, and he would entertain himself by reciting his own life story in Spanish. Not loudly, I could have tuned him out if I wanted to, but aloud. It was fascinating. He was from the DR, his first wife died in childbirth, all kinds of details.
BUT. But but but. My point is, once you go through something like that, you realize that sleep is precious and the minute the ward quiets down and the nurses and techs might leave you alone, that is the time to catch some shuteye. I still do that now. I don’t take naps, per se. I try to get a certain amount of sleep in every 24 hours, and that that can come in the form of many short episodes. It must be kind of like what new mothers/parents go through.