ever start out to take a short nap

[orleans]

and wake up four hours later with the curtains open, and it's dark outside, and your dog is scratching the door to be let outside and then fed because you've overslept dinner time by about two hours?

and the crap you intended to work on or get done, preferably before it got dark out, is still there waiting for you to do/finish?

this is the second time in a week i've done this

oops

i hate it when that happens

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I haven't actually done that, my dear orleans...

But I do understand it.

Maybe you should just plan for those, so you won't feel so guilty.

You obviously needed it!

[csziggy]

2. Yes! Usually when I'm sick or recovering from surgery

But it's happened even when I don't have those excuses.

[Kali]

3. oh hell yes

[cwydro]

4. Never been a napper.

So it's never happened to me.

You must have needed the sleep.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. All the time...

except I don't have a dog. The cat doesn't seem to care.

But I have to get up to pee, and then realize slept through the evening.

[antiquie]

6. Another abduction report.

[orleans]

7. LOL! thanks for the good laugh. n/t

[shenmue]

8. I call that a nap attack

You're just sitting there, watching a tee vee show, and then boom! Your glasses fell off and the credits are rolling.

[mythology]

9. Yes, it's one of the reasons I try to not take naps

Because then I'm up half the night and it throws my sleep schedule and my mood off for several days.

[underahedgerow]

10. Quite often, I take a nap before I go to bed....

It seems to work out all right most of the time!!!!

[Populist_Prole]

11. All the time on my first day off when I worked 3rd shift

I got into the habit of getting home and hitting the ground running ( so to speak ) and going through the day to set myself up for a good nights sleep later. As the day wore on though I was dragging. Lots of times I've more or less "bonked" ( collapsed due to total energy loss ) without setting an alarm and woke up so late it put me well rested exactly when I wanted it to be my intended bed time. I remember once I was watering a newly established lawn one early evening and just bonked. I woke up hours later to find a one quarter scale Lake Okeechobee in my yard....and a horrifically high water bill the next month.

Even now, when I'm on second shift, on my days off, I still find myself taking a 30-45 minute nap after dinner. I feel greatly refeshed.

[RushIsRot]

12. It happens to me a lot. I just go with the flow.

I often have entertaining dreams. I chalk it up to age and being retired. The dogs put up with the occasional late meal.

[Skittles]

13. you want I should kick your overnapping ass, orleans?

LEMME AT YOU!!!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. Some people need more than eight hours a night.

Some people need nine or ten, or even eleven or twelve.


If you fell asleep, you probably aren't getting enough at night. I've been known to take two or three hour naps if I am really tired.


It seems like doctors promote the idea that seven to eight hours is some kind of ironclad rule. It isn't.

I used to sleep twelve hours a night of inefficient, interrupted sleep due to bad sleep apnea. Now that I am fully oxygenated because I have a CPAP machine, I am getting more REM (deep sleep) and sleeping nine to ten of much higher quality sleep. CPAP has changed my life incredibly, for the better!!! I am more alert, I can think faster, and even my piano playing is better!

I don't have morning brain fog like I used to. I was a zombie who couldn't see, because I could barely open my eyes. And I thought I just wasn't a morning person. It was not that.

I have come to the conclusion just about everyone that snores, or has sinus trouble, needs a CPAP machine and before you can get that, you need a referral from your PCP to a sleep doctor.

[vanlassie]

15. Thumbs Up for C-Paps.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

16. And question: is it 7PM or 7AM? nt