[OSList] About time and napping

[Annamarie Pluhar]

Michael,

Here's what my grandmother taught me. It never fails.

Lie flat on your back and on your stomach. Comfortable. DON'T MOVE.  You 
might or might not go to sleep. If you do, you will wake up in 20 
minutes without an alarm. If you don't, the 20 minutes will be fully 
restful.

My brother taught me that the body has different sleep rhythms - the 20 
minute cycle is the first one. Then there's 1.5 hours (?) and then 3 
hours (?). If you wake up in the middle of one of those cycles you'll be 
groggy and have a hard time recovering.

Good luck, enjoy.  And if you adopt the method you can think of it as 
"Baba's Power Nap".. : )

Peace,
Annamarie

On 9 Jul 2014, at 6:50, Martin Roell wrote:

> Michael M Pannwitz wrote:
>> Hi Artur, Harrison, Spark, Adriana and you other nappers out there,
>>
>> tell me what works for you around napping: time of day, length, 
>> space,
>> light, naked, clothed...
>
> Ah! I am an expert on napping! :)
>
> What worked for me at the beginning was to always time naps to 20 
> minutes.
>
> (This gives you 15-20 minutes of sleep depending how fast you fall
> asleep. If you time to 15 minutes, you might just get 10 minutes which
> is not enough. Or you get stressed if you realise that you are not
> falling asleep fast enough, preventing you from sleeping. ;-))
>
> With more than 20 minutes I found that I usually end up groggy.
>
> What also works is to sleep for an hour or so, without an alarm clock.
> (Depends on the circumstances of course, if this is possible. it does
> happen to me that I lie down in the middle of the day, and sleep for 3
> hours, even if I didn't feel so tired before. You never really know 
> what
> will happen.)
>
> Personally, I don't mind the time of day, the light or clothing
> situation. I was almost "trained" to be independent of these: I lived 
> in
> a monastery for two years: Up early, to bed late, much physical work
> inbetween and an abbot that would chase you around when you were lazy. 
> I
> learnt to fall asleep pretty much at *any*time on *any* floor in *any*
> situation there when there was a chance. I recommend the monastic
> training: the falling-asleep-in-any-situation skill stays with you for
> life. ;-)
>
>> In my os work, I have taken naps. Once I did it in a semi-public 
>> space
>> and was rudely attacked by a participant: How dare you take a nap 
>> when
>> things are really chaotic here!
>
> How dare you! :-)
>
>
> Good night.
>
> Martin
>
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