Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone

Re:Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone by electromagnetic on Thursday August 28, 2014 @07:49PM (#8240404)

Ditto this. My wife can nap no problem. I might nap every couple months, and its basically a disrupted sleep and not a nap. I wake up feeling terrible; groggy, mild headache, irritable. I'd have been better off not napping as it inevitably comes when I've got so much to do and no energy and that "if I have a quick nap I'll feel refreshed and be ready to work!" Nope!

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Re:Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone by derekp7 on Thursday August 28, 2014 @09:32PM (#8240755)

I'm the same way -- every once in a while I'll fall asleep on a weekend around mid afternoon, and sometimes wake up 4 hours later. Then I really feel like yuck for another hour. And I can't fall asleep easily that night either (usually I don't have a problem falling asleep, just not getting interrupted in the middle by the dog wanting to get let out).

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Re:Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone by 59nadir on Saturday August 30, 2014 @04:40AM (#8245957)

4 hours of sleep is not a nap. The refreshing feeling you get after a nap is completely different from the one you get when you've gone into deep sleep.

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Re:Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone by vlunkr on Friday August 29, 2014 @01:28PM (#8243504)

I'm in the exact same situation. If I nap for more than ten minutes I feel awful. I assume my body doesn't know how to deal with naps since I rarely take one.

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Re:Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone by sciurus on Thursday August 28, 2014 @08:07PM (#8240495)

How long are you napping for?

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