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Limit it to sub 15 minutes. If you fall asleep it is to long and you'll might feel awful, since you'll you have a 66.6% to come out of REM or deep sleep.

• mock-possum 3y ago
  how? I mean, practically speaking, how do you control how long you spend asleep? Let's say I decide to take a nap - I lay down, I set my alarm for 15 minutes, then spend the next 10 minutes waiting to fall asleep. Just as I've finally drifted off, I'm jolted back awake by my alarm going off 5 minutes later. Is that supposed to make me feel better? Because for me, that awful wrenching feeling of being forced awake when you haven't had enough sleep, you can feel it in your eyes, in your chest, the fuzziness in your head and sluggishness in your movement - it's all simply worse than just feeling tired. Because you're still tired - you barely slept for five minutes - and now it's worse, because you tasted sleep, then had it snatched back away from you. How is it possible to make yourself only sleep fifteen minutes or less, and wake up feeling better than when you went to sleep? how is that supposed to work?
  • scns 3y ago
    > I mean, practically speaking, how do you control how long you spend asleep? No idea. I rarely if ever "sleep" when napping. That is totally fine though, because lying down with eyes closed, sleepmask and headphones with something soothing on, is enough to make me feel better. > then spend the next 10 minutes waiting to fall asleep Stop doing that. You are stressing yourself trying to reach a (the wrong?) goal. > that awful wrenching feeling of being forced awake when you haven't had enough sleep On days like this i take several naps. Hope this helps.