I am turning into quite a napper.

I am a morning person. So, I wake up relatively early. The rest of the household are night people. The kids sleep in, specially now that school is out, and then they keep late hours. To try and keep up with them, I take naps during the day. Usually when I get home from work which is about 4 or 5 in the afternoon. Sometimes, I'd get sleepy even at work, that I take 5-minute power naps!

One of my jobs really screwed up my sleep patterns in the last few years. My scheduled starting hour was 8:00 am Monday through Thursday, and most days we worked until 4:00 PM. It wasn't so bad, but when I had a two-hour commute each way, I was out of the house for 12 hours and I'd come home exhausted. Normally it never bothered me, but the longer since my diagnosis (with multiple sclerosis), I found that I'd go to bed almost immediately when I got home. Of course this screwed up my sleeping patterns because Jim works nights and would leave without waking me up! And my last job had me working in the middle of the day-one PM to five PM two days, one day from 12 NOON to six PM and one day one PM to two or two-thirty PM. Made it difficult to get in a doctor's appointment, except on my days off.

I've been doing some late-night work for awhile now and I have to admit that it does affect me at times. I get up later, of course, so my days may begin at 10 or 11AM. I then feel like I have no time to accomplish everything I want in the day because, in what seems like the blink of an eye, I'm thinking I need to start dinner! I like what I'm doing but I end up being sleepy because I try to avoid napping. If I nap, I feel like I lose even more time to be productive lol It's a vicious circle, I guess. I do think I'm a bit sleep-deprived and am striving for a better routine... it's just hard to make it work with my daughters' schedules and all, when I'm the only one that's up and working "off hours."

I know my 3 year old son affects my sleep. I have insomnia too. So I am usually sleep deprived. I have tried napping. But I end up laying there wishing I could go to sleep instead of actually sleeping.

I have heard these naps called power naps. It really does the body good. I think my lack of work does affect my sleep habits. If I exercised or did something I would probably do better. I dont do much of anything except work on here. Such an exciting life I live, huh?

I no longer work but for the 32 years that I did, many a times I would take a nap. During my lunch break I would go into a private office and eat my lunch then take a 15 to 20 minute nap. It would give me a boost to get me through the afternoon hours. There were many times to that I would work through my lunch break and not take a nap and then that night on my trip home I would nap on the train or bus. When you are working long hours you need to do whatever you can to get through the day. Especially if you are going home to your second job of being a mom and wife.

I find I sleep a lot more now because I am on anti-depressants which tire me out, great for depression however LOL! I also find that going to the gym 3 times a week I need extra naps throughout the day. Usually 90 minutes. My pattern is that I come home from the gym have something to eat then nap. I have heard it is good for your muscles to rest them after a workout. The weather also tires me out, I hate the heat, its so draining, especially the humidity.

I have developed a napping habit that I cannot seem to overcome. Every day about 2pm I get so sleep/fatigued that I have to lie down. I may sleep for five minutes, never more than fifteen minutes, but when it's over all the sleepiness is gone. And at night I have a horribly hard time getting to sleep. I don't know that the nap makes a difference, but when I'm that overcome with fatigue, I have to try to get rid of it.

I had spent a couple of months taking naps, but that was because of my medical problem. When I was working I would take a nap during the day. It was a great way to recharge my batteries and to be able to have the energy to do things around the house. Needing to take a nap is our body's way of telling us to slow down a bit. Also with working the hours you do, it does your body good to take a nap during the day.

Naps are so good for productivity that many big companies are even providing "nap rooms" for their employees. I'd love to be able to nap but if I nap when I get sleepy I'll sleep for hours, whereas a healthy nap is only about 30 minutes. Then I can't sleep at night! I tried experimenting with my sleep a few years ago and ended up sleeping at very odd times with no consistency. So now I don't nap. I have trouble falling asleep most nights, too, whether I nap or not. I fell asleep after dinner last night as I watched the news and slept for about 20 minutes. I usually go to bed around 11 and asleep by midnight. But last night I wasn't sleepy at all and ended up falling asleep about 2AM and sleeping way past when I like to wake up. That little nap cost me sleep and work time! But I'm glad you can nap and benefit from it. I guess I'm just weird.

i do the same because i think the kids have caused me to get in the pattern of staying up to late and wakeing early to get things done even tho they stopped with all the noise for a while at least so ive been ending up taking short naps if its quiet here in the day. even if i dont want to get sleepy. there are times it makes me feel worse.

Hi GG! I don't work and it's a good thing. I have Chronic Insomnia. I have had it since I was a kid. I've always had trouble falling asleep. I remember when I was working that there were nights when I watched the clock and never slept and had to make it through a day of work. And then I still didn't sleep or slept only briefly. I now stay up until the early morning hours and sleep until the afternoon. Unless I have doctors appointments or something else to do I can barely function. I have Fibromyalgia and Sacarilitus which makes things even more difficult.

I am an insomniac so I guess I am always sleep deprived, but I am used to it and function just fine. I wish I could take naps, though! I have never been a napper. I think a nap would help take the edge off but I just can't fall asleep for a nap. I take a nap maybe two or three times a year. And then, I end up sleeping for 4 hours or so and wake up tired and useless, ha!

I am currently on a shift work, which totally disrupts my sleep patterns. Sometimes i go more than a day without sleep as my rest day falls on a weekend and i do not like to waste my weekend away on sleeping. Its best if you have a job that allows you to maintain a consistent sleep patter eg 8 - 5 job There has been much debated on which sleep patten is beneficial to the human body. Some researchers argue that an afternoon nap is vital to the body as it restores your energy midday. Some others however say that only 7 hours of sleep, neither less nor more, is needed for the body in a day. I think it is best for you to have a good sleep during the night so that you wake up fresh and ready for work the next day

I think it is wonderful to be able to take a nap. I am not in the habit of doing it, but if I were feeling tired and had time I would certainly nap. If I were tired and had nothing necessary to do later, I might even sleep until the next day, but that does not happen very often.

When I used to work I would get up at about 5:30 and shower and get ready to be at work at 8. I would be so tired that I would be in bed by 9pm. I hated it because it didnt give me time to do anything. I take two medicines to treat my depression and both of them make me drowsy so I take a lot of naps. It bothers me because its time I could spend with my kids or getting things done. I have to struggle so much to stay awake.

Hi GG, Naps are suppose to be really good for you so go for it! I remember when I worked a couple of years ago and they were 12 hour days..pretty tiring. I wish I could have taken a small nap in the afternoon to keep me more productive. I have trouble sleeping though so I don't know if I could even take a nap in the afternoons, but sometimes I do lay down and just relax for a while if I'm up really early.

I won't ever let work decide my sleep schedule again. I used to work for hotels and I would literally get maybe two or three hours of sleep sometimes, sometimes even less then that. Partially the "less then that" was because my bf (now ex husband) at the time would stay up and when I got in I'd get online and he would IM me. We'd chat for an hour or three, and then I'd have an hour to sleep. Though a lot of times I'd only have three or four hours inbetween having to wake up and get ready for another day anyway. Now I only work twice a week and I can pretty much make my own sleep schedule. I like to slepe until noon and go to bed anywhere from midnight to three am. I don't nap anymore, though when I had a regular schedule sometimes I'd come home and nap after work.

The irregular working hours may upset your biological clock so that you can't have enough sleep.I think you surely feel absent-minded in the daytime.Getting a nap does your health good, which can catch up on your lost sleep.

Hi Gerty, I have a sleeping pattern, however I do wish it would include a nap during the day, becuse I stay up so late til the wee wee hours of the morning on this darn computer, emailing, games or/and mylotting.. It seems that once I am up in the mornings I can not go back to sleep during the day, but it just will not happen unless I am sick...but other than that I can't go back to sleep. I've had my blinds closed, TV off, computer off, still not happening...