Do you take naps?

Because I do a lot of exercise i.e. 5km runs every day, as well as rowing, cross trainer and pumping iron my body needs extra sleep to recover and so I can be fit and ready for my next training session the next day. I am always having a snooze, but it's not easy sometimes when my housemate is around. I also find I need at least 9 hours sleep each night any less and I feel totally drained and sluggish which is not good. I do like my sleep as well as my regular naps, its my body's way of recouperating and re-energizing.

Yeah, I like to take naps. I feel more energized when I wake up. And fortunately I work at home, so I can take a nap whenever I want.

I do take naps but I think my naps are too long and it prevents me from sleeping well at night. I heard that naps should not be more than a half hour to an hour at most. I take quick naps on the weekends when I am not working. I do not do naps during the working week since I have so much stuff to get done at home as well as my bowling league. Naps do me a lot of good when I am able to take them.

Occasionally I will take a nap in the afternoon. I get up at 4am to get hubby off to work at 5. Sometimes I will go back to bed for a couple hours, but if I stay up and work (I am self-employed) then I usually try to get an afternoon nap, when Bonanza comes on! I don't usually fall asleep though, I might just doze a little while I watch TV. I never took naps much when I was younger but I think my age is catching up with me!

I think that is all I really take. I go to bed around 3 in the morning (or later) and I get up at 7. Then I usually take a nap sometime in the afternoon for a couple of hours. I don't always get to, like today it doesn't look like I will but I do try. I love my naps, I always did. Even as a kid I wanted to take naps. Drove my mother nuts :)

I never used to take naps but now I will when I can. I'm pregnant and I seem to always be exhausted! The first trimester was the worst, I'd get home from work and fall asleep...and I'd fall asleep in the bathroom at work! I'm glad thats over, but I'm still really tired a lot, especially in the evenings.

I'm a big fan of the nap. I work shift work, so, when I'm switching from days to nights, or vice versa, I find I'm so tired some days. I lie down for an hour (or 2), and I feel revived, and ready to go for the rest of the day.

I admire people who can "power nap", lol! For some reason, I've always been the type of person who takes awhile to relax and fall asleep. I really don't relax easily. (It would probably be very hard to hypnotize me, lol!) Therefore, I've never really bothered to try to nap, because I know that I don't feel sleepy enough in the day to do it. In fact, I have trouble sleeping sometimes even if I can see a little bit of light coming in through the curtains on my bedroom window. As soon as my body thinks that it is daylight, it doesn't want to sleep as much, lol! But I do think that, as I become older, I will be able to nap. My parents seem to be able to sleep anytime, anywhere, with the TV blaring, sitting up in a chair, anything. I figure that if they can do it, one day I'll be able to, too! *Laugh*

I take my naps every day after lunch to coincide with my 21 month old son's naptime. I need my 'powernap' because I tend to sleep after 12 midnight and I wake up the next morning at 7.30am :) Not enough sleep because my son still wakes up in the night.

yes i do take naps and i call them power naps because after having a nap, you feel you are energized...so i love to take naps and some times the nap becomes a sound sleep too.but i can't help it....

I have a crazy schedule anyway. I usually sleep from 7am to about 2pm. I usually take an hour nap from 6pm to 7pm at night. Then it's off to the computer for games and mylot. . your friend

I have noticed a little afternoon cat nap - when possible - does give me the energy to make it through the evenings. Oh hockeygal, we are geting old, hahaha.

You gotta nap. I nap. A lot . Really . Yeah, I do. Not always because I want to, but I just have to, really. And then I wake up really late, and slap myself. And tell myself what a lazy idiot I am.

I used to take naps regularly....now I dont have any time for them. I do, however, love taking naps. There is something so refreshing about a mid-afternoon nap. Sometimes when I dont really have anything planned for the day, the only thing I look forward to is making time to take a nap. hahahaha

I do take naps quite frequently. I am up till after midnight and then up at 6. I usually take a little nap before the kids get home from school.

i must be getting old lol ive found myself napping for a hour in the afternoon when im at home and the kids are at school. Lol however mylot acts to keep me awake blessed be, keep on posting

There are very rare days when I can nap and still manage to gt to sleep at night but usually I'm having an "off" day health wise....normally I cant though even if I wanted to cause then I wont sleep at night even with my meds :-(

I've never been able to sleep during the day. I go to bed late, then when I hit the pillow, that's it until morning. I would have trouble getting to sleep, but if I managed to drop off in the afternoon I would be out until like 3am, then be raring to go and not be able to sleep anymore.

I love to have a nap around 3 in the afternoon. I usually lie on the sofa and switch on the tv and before long, I am snoozing. I don't think I go into a deep sleep, as I can still hear the tv and if something interesting comes on I will quickly sit up and watch it. Still, it is very restful.

I think my sleeping pattern is completely screwed up. I'm a student, so I sleep whenever I can! And on Friday or Saturday nights, it's so loud on campus that it's much easier to sleep during the day. I took a refreshing break to Amsterdam last weekend, and we walked all day long for two days, sleeping at 4 in a small car. When I came back on Monday morning, I fell asleep at noon and didn't get up until 9PM, only to eat a little bit and do some work before getting a good night's sleep to tackle my classes the following day! Naps are incredibly refreshing, and I do like to have one now and then :)