[OSList] About time and napping

[Annamarie Pluhar]

Oppss.

"Lie flat on your back **with your hands** on your stomach"

the other is a bit like a koan...


On 9 Jul 2014, at 7:19, Annamarie Pluhar wrote:

> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Martin Röll, martin at roell.net, +49 1784984743
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>>
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