Successful People Take Naps And You Should Too
Okay so I’m a little bit sad the best nap is a super short nap (ten minutes only), but the reminder that naps are great and we should all be taking them is a welcome one. NAPS. Three ideas for where to sneak them in if you work in a fascist environment:
1. Car nap (“I have to get something out of my car.”)
2. Under the desk nap (“Oops I dropped my pen.”)
3. Bathroom nap (No one is going to ask you why you were in the bathroom for ten minutes, really.)
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Subway commute home nap!
I have done the car nap before though. Hey if I have to drive somewhere I need to be alert!
Bus commute home nap! Also, library nap (I have to go get a book…didn’t have it).
I can’t nap. I mean, I CAN, physically, but I can’t nap in the sense that they are supposed to make you more alert and awesome but instead they just make me groggy and heavy and give me a headache.
I wish I could, naps as they should be sound great.
@moreteawesley I can do this, but not in 10 minutes. Give me a 2-hour snooze on a Sunday afternoon; it’s bliss.
@moreteawesley Same, with the groggy headache. Feels like I must only nap on my face?
@sorry your heinous Maybe we are accidentally face-planting during our naps.
I totally take bathroom naps.
I miss working from home. :(
Totally not nap-related, but 1st 3 comments:
Picture of Ron Weasley
Weasley
Wesley that looks like Weasley
@bgprincipessa he’s taking overrrrrr
My husband takes ten-minute floor naps in his office prior to giving lectures. Lying on the gross hard floor, he claims, keeps him from oversleeping. His stepdad is a strong believer in naps too, and is almost 92, so they must do something good for you!
I take a nap in our underused conference room appx every three hours. My suit jacket for a pillow, spread out like a starfish, the whole nine…zzz
(No one is going to ask you why you were in the bathroom for ten minutes, really.)
The people you know are far less nosy than the people I know :(
I’m pretty sure I’ve taken a nap on the floor of my office – but that was when I had a door. I no longer have a door – such a shame.
How does one nap in a bathroom exactly? Because I need to be lying down to nap…and ugh
The dudes at my current job sleep sitting up in the desks. Bold. A bit too bold for a temp like me, so I take my naps in the bathroom when I just can’t hack it any longer.
I read some advice in a zine or something about bathroom naps – it recommended sitting backward on the toilet (seat down!), with your forearms on the tank and your head on your forearms. The writer claimed that the tingling of your arms falling asleep would wake you up after ten minutes. Also if you’re skeezed out by that you could throw one of those toilet seat protecter things down.
My workplace doesn’t have toilet tanks, so I just have to hope that I don’t pass out for too long.
I feel like floor naps only work in enclosed spaces. We still talk about the intern who napped under her desk.
Some folks have been known to go down to the morgue at the paper to take naps.