power naps!!!!

@maezee (41988)
United States
January 27, 2012 6:22pm CST
I got off work early (woo hoo) this afternoon - I left at about 12:30! Whereas normally I would leave around 3:30. It kinda sucks hours-wise but I love it because it gave me an 'early start' to my weekend (since today is Friday and all). Of course as soon as I got home, even though I didn't work real hard today, I took a 4 1/2 hour nap! Is this normal? Do you ever take super power naps?
4 responses
@bounce58 (17385)
• Canada
30 Jan 12
I wish I could still do naps, never mind 'power naps'. Yesterday was a Sunday. Although I had a lot of chores planned to do. I found myself dozing off on the couch. I thought I only closes my eyes for a couple of seconds, but it turned out to be a couple of hours. I felt refreshed after waking up. It's not normal (4 1/2 hours), but I wish I could do one of those at least once a week.
• Philippines
28 Jan 12
i guess 4 and a half hours is no longer a nap for me as nap will only last for a max of 1 hto 2 ours i guess. so in that case you alrady sleep for almost half of the day. i normally have a what we called powernap in our office if we can sleep during lunch time which is 1 hour then when we returned to work we just told each that i had a power nap so can go back to work with full of energy again.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
28 Jan 12
I take naps but not 4 1/2 hours long! Maybe you needed it. Our bodies seem to have a way of knowing what we need. I certainly wouldn't worry about it, except that you may not be able to sleep tonight.
• United States
28 Jan 12
Power naps rule!But then there's always the problem of staying up too late and waking up the next day feeling a bit groggy (on weekdays, on weekends who cares?). And yes it is normal. You might have worked harder than you realized. That happens to me a lot.