• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    44·
    7 days ago

    I wish I could partake in nap culture, but I always wake up feeling like I’ve been ripped from the goddamn afterlife. Always worse than before. My wife and I just spent two grueling sleepless nights in the postpartum ward, and after returning home today she encouraged me to have a 1-hour nap. I obliged and woke up so fucking brain-sick out of sorts that I could barely interact with my surroundings for the first 30 minutes.

    • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      6 days ago

      After 20 minutes. It’s better to go all the way to 90 minutes.

      Because you’ll have started to enter deep sleep after 20. You probably woke up in the middle of a deep sleep cycle and that’s why you felt dead.

    • jimi_henrik@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 days ago

      One hour seems too long for a nap. Have you tried shorter ones, e. g. 20 minutes? AFAIK napping for only a few minutes doesn’t affect you much, too long of a nap causes issues you described.

    • douz0a0bouz@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      Gotta learn your sleep cycles and stick to them. I think most people go through a full sleep cycle (rem and deep sleep oversimplified) in 90 minutes. If you stick to that you won’t get that coming out of a coma feeling.

    • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
      3·
      6 days ago

      Could be a problem if you’re regularly taking stimulants in medication or drinks unfortunately.

  • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
    9·
    6 days ago

    As someone with narcolepsy, this very much sounds like narcolepsy. I also have a cpap so I use an alarm for my naps and keep them to 45 minutes.

  • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

    I’ve done this many times. My bf hates seeing me sleeping on the dirty floor, but if I get in bed, I’ll be too comfortable and sleep for much longer than I want.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    I’ve been doing this for ages. I finally just started setting an alarm on my smartwatch and ran through a bunch of time trials to see what works.

    I can nap somewhere comfy as long as I follow these rules:

    If I just can’t keep my eyes open or I have a food coma, 15m

    If I know I’m sleep deprived, and all I have is lunchtime 45m

    If I have a little more time to spare and i’m just dragging, 90m

    I’ve tried 5m increments on either side of those numbers and found I could just wake up at 15,45 and 90 with no problem. At 30m or 60m, I appear to cancel the alarm but fall back asleep.

    But I need to pass out right away. If it’s going to take me 10m to get to sleep, I need to adjust for that.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 days ago

      My Biology teacher told us multiple times that you should sleep in time divisble by 90 minutes and nothing else. Need a nap, don’t bother if you don’t have 90 minutes. Going to sleep regularly, and have to get up at 7? Well if you go to bed at 10 you should set your alarm for 7. Go to bed at 1030, set your alarm for 530.

      I can’t remember if it was related to some biological thing she tried to teach us or was just an old wives tale she stood by, but I have followed it ever since. I always feel groggy if I awake at one of the off hours.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        The idea is you want that full rem cycle. You’re mildly paralyzed during it and waking out out of sync is a bad time

        Average person’s REM cycle varies. Time to sleep varies.

        I just did a couple of months worth of nap testing and found when I could and couldn’t get up. And unless the nap was so short that I was still in the state I was in when I passed out, I counted it a success.

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      6 days ago

      interesting pattern observation. iirc, they roughly align with early sleep phase durations. Which would explain the difficulty waking up when you’re off the usual times, as you’re deeper asleep

  • HorikBrun@kbin.earth
    161·
    7 days ago

    I kind of used to do this, but it was largely due to chronic deprivation. Working 2 full time jobs and apl that