Olympic Napping
 

I come from a lineage of champion nappers. Yesterday I performed a difficult 30-15-15 flawlessly. At the first bell (standard egg timer set for full ring) I sat up, put on and removed my glasses, reset the timer for fifteen minutes, and got my heart rate down to napping parameters within a minute.
At the second bell I didn't even need to slow down my heart and reset the clock in five seconds.

At the final bell I was up and out on bed before the bell finished ringing.

Even those tight fisted East European judges couldn't hold back from full marks.

Share your napping challenges here.

I'm a complete failure, hopeless, :dunce: not a chance in hell of sleeping for less than two hours and not spending the rest of the day in a groggy stupor.

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I had a quick nap while reading your post.

Technique is everything in napping. You have to lie on your back on top of the covers. This prevents you from falling into deep sleep and the resultant grogginess.

You're a funny man, Jim.

I can only nap well at night.
Which is self-defeating as I am supposed to be getting relaxing, life-affirming deep sleep.
I find the best way to relax myself when I do want to sleep is to imagine I have just called into work sick (or sometimes even that Mum has agreed I don't have to go to school). The feeling of calm and peace I feel then allows me to drift off weightlessly.

Still not a power nap though.
I give myself a D- on that. No natural aptitude but could apply herself more.

Couldn't nap to save my life. have enough difficulty with the regular sleep. speaking of which....... nope, still can't bring myself to go to bed...


(Beest, on the other hand, has LITERALLY -in the literal sense of the word- been caught napping standing up.)

I cannot nap. This was a detriment during clerkship and internship/residency, when napping was the only form of sleep allowed.

What if you fall face forward on top of the covers? That was my default during residency. Maybe I was doing it wrong.

Lie flat, bosh! I'm out.

I'm not much good at napping, but I do get very tired in the arvos. Specially when I'm up from 4am, which is not good for me, cause I hate getting up early. I maintain that if i liked getting up early I'd be thin. All the thin people get up early.

I can go down for 20 pretty much anytime anywhere.

::tries to bite tongue:: :::no, wait::: ...........

I have to say I was confused by the OP's reference to lying down and beds concerning napping.

I was teaching picture taking on the SEM yesterday and said "with the settings I typically use it takes 57 seconds to capture the image, plenty of time for a nap", they laughed as if i were joking, noobs.

No napping. Just can't pull it off. Never could. Sleep, in any form, is just a foreign thing to me.