With holiday dinner leftovers still stocked up in your fridge, undoubtedly many of you are lying prostrate on the couch trying to recover from the feasting. While it has long been held that eating copious amounts of turkey tends to make one sleepy, it seems this urban legend is not quite as accurate as I thought. [1]
Regardless, there is bound to be plenty of napping this weekend. Something about lots of good food, wine, a warm fire, and quiet music just seems to knock me out. It’s certainly nothing to feel guilty about, as napping is a perfectly normal and healthy activity, and is something we should all probably do more of.
Check out this infographic by PatioProductions.com, sharing some interesting factoids on napping. (Click to view full size.)
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I found the bit about mammals napping periodically throughout the day especially interesting. Does this mean we’re doing it all wrong!?
It could. I think the compressed nature of a solid 8 hours of sleep in one go is more of a result of the modern lifestyle (work, work, work, pass out) rather than intrinsic behaviors.
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Interesting. I have spent the last few weeks experimenting with hourly rests (50-minute work, 10-minute rest) in order to better manage my 12 hour long study periods. It has been extremely successful. I used to go to bed with back and shoulder pain every night. Nowadays, I no longer have any pain and, in fact, I can concentrate much better and get much more work done than before. I should add that my rests don’t involve napping, just lying down.
Did you have a habit of hunching over your desk while reading and such? I’ve always had that problem, but my long sessions are spent at computers coding or writing. I need one of those treadmill desks!
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… i don’t know the english name for it but by half sitting and half kneeling helps keep your spine errect … although i can imagine myself being hunched even on such a “chair”
My office manager in one of my high school jobs used a chair like that. They called it an ergonomic chair or something like that. It seemed weird, but it worked, I suppose.
Yes, bad posture is one of the problems. The other two are holding the same posture (correct or not) for long periods of time and tension, especially when writing or typing.
T.S. Wiley says napping means that you did not get enough sleep at night. i love to nap and seem to have a more productive day after napping. (i will nap most days at work in my vehicle using my phone as an alarm clock) so i agree with the article above
Great info here. I do tend to gravitate towards the Lazy Man’s Nap. For some reason anything shorter than 45 minutes doesn’t seem to make me feel refreshed. i liked your blog because it confronted the social “stigmas” of napping. I think people would do it more often if society didn’t view napping as being lazy.
I suppose you just have to live in the right country! Some places value health and happiness more than productivity.