It’s 5:30, and I’m up. I’m waiting for the coffee to be done, so I can sip myself wide awake. Morning is my time. The A.M. is when I AM most productive. But as the day rolls on, I start to yawn. I get a little droopy. And that’s when I pull out my secret weapon. The Nap. Yup, if you ask me, they have it right in pre-school, get out your blanky, and close your eyes for a while. I can’t always do it, (but I’d like to) but if I have the time, I’ll take a 30 minute siesta, and check that box, I’m a better person.
Apparently, yesterday was National Napping Day (which I can’t believe I wasn’t contacted about). I should be the poster child for this thing. Boston University professor William Anthony, Ph.D. and his wife Camille created this special day devoted to the nap back in 1999. Anthony said in a statement, “It’s a day when nappers all over the country need to lied down and be counted.” Amen Professor!
My friends laugh at me, when I say I’m going to hit the hay in the middle of the day, but I don’t care. I know it’s good for me in a million ways, and I know my body, it does better when it’s rested and that includes, if possible, a nap. I remember when I was pregnant with my kids. I would take a nap and it was so heavy, so intense, I felt like I was in a medically induced coma. I would sleep so deeply, fall so fast, it was like an out of body experience. All those hormones made me tired like the dead. But it was heaven, the feeling of laying down and drifting off into a deep, deep place, and then waking up and feeling really great. I loved those naps. They were other worldly. Today, it’s just lay down, fall asleep, and like a clock, my body wakes up 30 minutes later. And ba-da-bing, I’m good to go. Even though, it’s just a half hour, you don’t want to wake me up during that time. No. YOU. DEFINITELY. DON’T. WANT. TO. WAKE. ME. UP. WHILE. I’M. NAPPING. Just saying.
Anyway, read this article on why napping is good for you. And today, if you can, try and grab 40 winks in the middle of the day, and see what happens. Sleep tight.
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I’m with you on the benefits of a good nap! My naps are even shorter than yours though – I fall into REM sleep and wake back up in about 20 minutes (THE benefit of working from home). And like you I’m an early riser. Are we related?
keen eye for design, lovers of a good laugh, writers, morning folk, nappers? yup, i think i might be your long lost sister!
Toni, this is funny because in the afternoon about 3:00 I’ll sit to read my book or relax And I am off for about 20 minutes!!!! Not every day ,but today definitely seems like that kind of a day………rainy!!!
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that’s peter! he is the accidental napper. it’s also ally. if she is tired and in front of the tube, or in the car at just the right time, she is snoozing!