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I work in Academia. I sleep after lunch every day. I have lunch in 30 minutes and then I sleep 20 minutes. I have an sleeping mat and a pillow in my office and
by pqs 8y ago
I work in Academia. I sleep after lunch every day. I have lunch in 30 minutes and then I sleep 20 minutes. I have an sleeping mat and a pillow in my office and I sleep on the floor. It really boosts my afternoon productivity, specially now that I have a baby and wake up several times during the night. During the weekends I sleep a little longer. I've been doing this for many years and I struggle a little bit when in meetings and conferences, where I can't sleep. But I'm learning to nap anywhere. ;-)
- r_singh 8y agoThis is so cool, love the pillow, mat + floor idea to nap anywhere. It might be perceived as a little weird by some colleagues at first, but once they get the utility, I guess they'll get used to it. I nap on my chair (it reclines upto 75-80 degrees) for about 18-22 minutes every day after lunch and it refreshes me like nothing else!
- pqs 8y agoI close the door. Fortunately I have my own office. They don't need to know. I live in a country where this is accepted behaviour, even though it is not common anymore in this context.
- easytiger 8y agoHas to be France
- seszett 8y agoNobody sleeps at the office in France, and his colleagues would find it very weird (weird but appealing, probably). Few people nap after lunch even at home, even in the south it's not a common practice anymore. It's a also quite uncommon these days to have your own office. Seems to me like it's more likely to be Spain.
- pqs 8y agoIt is Spain. ;-) By the way, I used to live in France. There I didn't nap often, but sometimes I needed to. What I did is to park my car in a quiet place and sleep there after lunch.
- easytiger 8y agoI worked for a French Bank once. They slept openly in an atrium in the office. Eventually a sign went up forbidding it.
- Markoff 8y agoin China you are weirdo if you don't sleep through lunch and don't have pillow in office, people nap on desks even in open space, in some companies they even automatically switch if lights and put some resting music and at the end of nap they slowly wake up people with lightning and music though foreigners working in China don't practice it usually, you have to live there for some time to get used to it and I would say most foreigners still other e socializing during lunch break
- pqs 8y agoYes, 20 minutes is the sweet spot.
- meerita 8y agoSame here. I need to sleep after lunch and after that I feel like I am 100% operative. Otherwise the attention diminishes over the day.
- klausjensen 8y agoI wonder why it is, that some people can take a nap and feel refreshed. If I do it, I wake up WAY more tired than before going to sleep and will be groggy for a while. I am guessing it must have something to do with how fast you can fall asleep and enter deep sleep.
- dest 8y agoThe nap should be short, e.g. 30 min max.
- thecatspaw 8y agois that after falling asleep or including that time? Im asking because I cant fall asleep in 30minutes
- fouc 8y agoGenerally 25 minutes of actual sleep. If it takes you longer than 15 minutes to fall asleep, you might need to look at cutting caffeine or other stimulants out of your diet completely. Exercise will also help. Usually helps if you're feeling a strong sleep inertia signal (i.e. desire to sleep) compared to just feeling fatigued.
- thecatspaw 8y ago> look at cutting [] other stimulants That wont work unfortunately, I am prescribed some. However I had issues falling asleep before the prescription as well
- seba_dos1 8y agoI don't need caffeine or other stimulants for it to take me way more than 15 minutes...
- r_singh 8y agoI can wake up refreshed or more tired depending on how long I napped for. If I decide to take a 45min nap, I usually can't get myself to wake up before 90mins, and if I have to, I'm super tired like you said. A refreshing short nap that works, is 20 min max, I usually set the timer at 18mins.
- agumonkey 8y agoHow come these 10-20min naps are so effective when you consider that people say sleep cycles are ~90min
- shshhdhs 8y agoDo you drink caffeine at all?