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Naps save me every time. Just when my work starts flagging and quality starts dropping, a 20min nap makes me feel almost as fresh as I am coming into the office

by blrgeek 12y ago

Naps save me every time. Just when my work starts flagging and quality starts dropping, a 20min nap makes me feel almost as fresh as I am coming into the office in the morning. Most others at work feel awkward about taking naps - even with me evangelising naps :o)

nacnud 12y ago
Where do you nap? Does your office provide a suitable place?
- CmonDev 12y ago
  Most under-appreciated killer hiring feature.
  - tdoggette 12y ago
    I usually nap under the pool table that no one uses.
- mrexroad 12y ago
  i used to nap under my cubicle desk... w/ the geometry of my cube, no one could see me even if they poked their head in. doesn't work w/ standing desks in open layouts :( now i often go to car.
- blrgeek 12y ago
  On my chair/desk. I reduce the chair's height so I'm not bending over too much, and put my head on my arms on the table.
bentcorner 12y ago
I have to admit, I'd feel awkward taking naps in my office. What I usually do is go to my car in the parking garage and nap there. It works wonders; I recognize that the 15 min that I lose to the nap would have been lost to my brain being a foggy mess, so the nap is a net gain.
- blrgeek 12y ago
  My desk/cube is on the main corridor with low cube walls, and everyone walking past me sees me napping - I don't give a damn :) My wife has done the napping in the car bit earlier in her career.
mercnet 12y ago
When I was at my company's office in China, I envied my coworkers that took naps after lunch. They would just tilt their head back and relax/nap. I tried it but my head always falls forward waking me up.
- bryanlarsen 12y ago
  Many people see that as an advantage of sleeping in chairs. The point of a nap is to get to a state where you're totally relaxed, not to spend a significant amount of time in it. You don't want to get into the deep sleep state which takes ~1 hour to wake up from. The apocryphal example is Salvador Dali: he held a spoon above a metal pan to wake him up as soon as he dropped the sppon.
  - RBerenguel 12y ago
    I wrote a bash script for this. Press a key on the keyboard and keep it pressed. When you fall asleep you'll release the key. But instead of waking you up instantly, it let you sleep for N minutes after the loss of keypress (also limited the total time given to the "time to fall asleep"+"sleeping time," so if you had 20 minutes for the nap, you could limit it as "sleep 10 with max 20")
    - qmr 12y ago
      Interesting -- source?

by blrgeek 12y ago

nacnud 12y ago

Where do you nap? Does your office provide a suitable place?

CmonDev 12y ago
Most under-appreciated killer hiring feature.
- tdoggette 12y ago
  I usually nap under the pool table that no one uses.
mrexroad 12y ago
i used to nap under my cubicle desk... w/ the geometry of my cube, no one could see me even if they poked their head in. doesn't work w/ standing desks in open layouts :( now i often go to car.
blrgeek 12y ago
On my chair/desk. I reduce the chair's height so I'm not bending over too much, and put my head on my arms on the table.

bentcorner 12y ago

I have to admit, I'd feel awkward taking naps in my office. What I usually do is go to my car in the parking garage and nap there. It works wonders; I recognize that the 15 min that I lose to the nap would have been lost to my brain being a foggy mess, so the nap is a net gain.

blrgeek 12y ago
My desk/cube is on the main corridor with low cube walls, and everyone walking past me sees me napping - I don't give a damn :) My wife has done the napping in the car bit earlier in her career.

mercnet 12y ago

When I was at my company's office in China, I envied my coworkers that took naps after lunch. They would just tilt their head back and relax/nap. I tried it but my head always falls forward waking me up.

bryanlarsen 12y ago
Many people see that as an advantage of sleeping in chairs. The point of a nap is to get to a state where you're totally relaxed, not to spend a significant amount of time in it. You don't want to get into the deep sleep state which takes ~1 hour to wake up from. The apocryphal example is Salvador Dali: he held a spoon above a metal pan to wake him up as soon as he dropped the sppon.
- RBerenguel 12y ago
  I wrote a bash script for this. Press a key on the keyboard and keep it pressed. When you fall asleep you'll release the key. But instead of waking you up instantly, it let you sleep for N minutes after the loss of keypress (also limited the total time given to the "time to fall asleep"+"sleeping time," so if you had 20 minutes for the nap, you could limit it as "sleep 10 with max 20")
  - qmr 12y ago
    Interesting -- source?