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I don't know about others, everyone seems to like naps, but I feel completely wasted after midday sleep.

by Yizahi 7y ago

sshagent 7y ago
I've tended to find with experimentation that adjusting your nap duration can stop that wasted effect. I tend to take a 90 minute lunch break, where i nap. It takes me ages to get to sleep, but I'm rarely wasted (even more tired when i wake up ). I suspect i get somewhere between 20 and 60 minutes sleep in total, but 9 times out of 10 I'm refreshed. The other 1/10 its generally my work brain won't stop considering ways to resolve work issues.
abdullahkhalids 7y ago
Are you sleeping for exactly 1 sleep cycle, which for most people is roughly 1.5 hours, of which only the middle half hour is deep sleep. If you set your alarm for an hour, you will probably be woken in your deep sleep and be "wasted". Similarly, if you extend your nap to 2 hours and fall into the second deep sleep.
- lowercased 7y ago
  90 mins? Most of the afternoon naps I do tend to be short - like 15-25 minutes, and that generally refreshes me enough to feel "restarted" for another few hours. I can get through the rest of the day pretty good on that. "Rest of the day" being doing "thinking work" for another few hours - I'm not trying to get another full day or work (or even socializing) after that.
  - abdullahkhalids 7y ago
    That's the other kind of nap, where you don't actually sleep. That's fine too. The point is that a lot of people will sleep, but set their alarm to wake them up in the middle of their deep sleep and then be surprised that they are so groggy.
    - lowercased 7y ago
      thanks. I guess it's usually felt like 'quick sleep' but that's my layman's view from the easy chair. :)
- kingkawn 7y ago
  I’ve never yet been able to find the standard deviation data on the research that established that the average sleep cycle lasts 90 minutes. Presumably there’s as much variation across individuals as everything else about individuals
- Yizahi 7y ago
  I know the concept of deep sleep and cycles but how the hell could you plan this? Like ok, I'm sleepy due to lack of sleep, now I have a certain stretch of time with no time constraints - how do you know when you will fall asleep, when will enter deep sleep phase and whe will it end? I have no idea about any of those numbers.
  - abdullahkhalids 7y ago
    There are mobile apps or fitness watches/bands that apparently can tell your sleep state based on your movement etc. I don't know how accurate they are because my phone is cheap with cheap sensors. You tell these apps what time you want to wake up at the latest, and they will ring the alarm before that time when you are not in deep sleep.

I don't know about others, everyone seems to like naps, but I feel completely wasted after midday sleep.

by Yizahi 7y ago

I don't know about others, everyone seems to like naps, but I feel completely wasted after midday sleep.

I've tended to find with experimentation that adjusting your nap duration can stop that wasted effect. I tend to take a 90 minute lunch break, where i nap. It takes me ages to get to sleep, but I'm rarely wasted (even more tired when i wake up ). I suspect i get somewhere between 20 and 60 minutes sleep in total, but 9 times out of 10 I'm refreshed. The other 1/10 its generally my work brain won't stop considering ways to resolve work issues.

abdullahkhalids 7y ago

Are you sleeping for exactly 1 sleep cycle, which for most people is roughly 1.5 hours, of which only the middle half hour is deep sleep. If you set your alarm for an hour, you will probably be woken in your deep sleep and be "wasted". Similarly, if you extend your nap to 2 hours and fall into the second deep sleep.

lowercased 7y ago
90 mins? Most of the afternoon naps I do tend to be short - like 15-25 minutes, and that generally refreshes me enough to feel "restarted" for another few hours. I can get through the rest of the day pretty good on that. "Rest of the day" being doing "thinking work" for another few hours - I'm not trying to get another full day or work (or even socializing) after that.
- abdullahkhalids 7y ago
  That's the other kind of nap, where you don't actually sleep. That's fine too. The point is that a lot of people will sleep, but set their alarm to wake them up in the middle of their deep sleep and then be surprised that they are so groggy.
  - lowercased 7y ago
    thanks. I guess it's usually felt like 'quick sleep' but that's my layman's view from the easy chair. :)
kingkawn 7y ago
I’ve never yet been able to find the standard deviation data on the research that established that the average sleep cycle lasts 90 minutes. Presumably there’s as much variation across individuals as everything else about individuals
Yizahi 7y ago
I know the concept of deep sleep and cycles but how the hell could you plan this? Like ok, I'm sleepy due to lack of sleep, now I have a certain stretch of time with no time constraints - how do you know when you will fall asleep, when will enter deep sleep phase and whe will it end? I have no idea about any of those numbers.
- abdullahkhalids 7y ago
  There are mobile apps or fitness watches/bands that apparently can tell your sleep state based on your movement etc. I don't know how accurate they are because my phone is cheap with cheap sensors. You tell these apps what time you want to wake up at the latest, and they will ring the alarm before that time when you are not in deep sleep.