{"id":871,"date":"2008-11-20T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/how-to-nap-without-feeling-exhausted-afterwards\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:50:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T15:50:48","slug":"how-to-nap-without-feeling-exhausted-afterwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/how-to-nap-without-feeling-exhausted-afterwards\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Nap (Without Feeling Exhausted Afterwards)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do you ever take a nap and wake up exhausted?\u00c2\u00a0 I recently was given two unscientific, but still useful tips for avoiding post-nap exhaustion.<\/p>\n

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  1. Don\u2019t nap for more than 20 minutes at a time.<\/li>\n
  2. Nap with a spoon in your right hand.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For the first tip, I\u2019m sure to get a bunch of comments that say the actual number should be 30 or 45, or 13 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 I don\u2019t really care.\u00c2\u00a0 Twenty has been a useful number for me, so I\u2019m offering it.<\/p>\n

    The second tip needs a little explanation.\u00c2\u00a0 If you sleep with a spoon in your hand, it\u2019s important to make sure that hand is off the bed (or couch, chair, futon or whatever your napping hideout is).\u00c2\u00a0 Then, if you slip into deeper sleep, you\u2019ll drop the spoon and wake up.\u00c2\u00a0 This helps you avoid slipping into the deeper phases of sleep which seem to contribute to post-nap fatigue if you interrupt them early.<\/p>\n

    Of course, this raises the questions of whether naps are even useful to begin with.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u2019m a fan of regular 8-hour sleep and emergency-only napping.\u00c2\u00a0 Thomas Edison, however, believed in sleeping only a few hours each night and chronic napping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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