The Trouble With Naps
Stupid things I do January 25th, 2010
I loves me a good nap. Naps that leave me waking refreshed are the best. Naps that leave me waking fuzzy-brained are the worst.
I’ve had one such nap.
I must have had a difficult day at work and laid down for just a bit, but when I awoke, I glanced at a clock and it read 6:30.
It was one of those sleeps where I didn’t dream, didn’t move, didn’t wake up once. I thought “Holy crap! I slept through the whole night. I must have been dead tired.”
I didn’t even remember Dave climbing into bed. Hmmm. That’s strange.
I pattered downstairs to make coffee and realized he was nowhere to be found. Uh-oh. He mustn’t have come home last night. This can’t be good.
So I got on the phone with my sister Marlene and immediately started screaming “Dave never came home last night! I don’t know where he could be! I’m worried!”
Marlene’s response? “Huh?”
Me: “He never came home last night!”
Marlene: “What?”
Me. “He never came home!”
Marlene: “When?”
Me: “Last night.”
Marlene: “What night? Tonight you mean?”
Me: “No! Last night!”
Marlene: “What are you talking about? What is wrong with you?”
Me: “Huh?”
Marlene: “Are you all right?”
Me: “What?”
Marlene: “You said Dave didn’t come home last night, but what did you do all day today?”
Me: Silence.
Marlene: “Kathy? You there?”
Me: “I’m confused.”
Marlene: “Ya think?”
Me: “What time is it?”
Marlene: “It’s 6:30.”
Me: “You’re gonna tell me PM, right?”
Marlene: “Yeah, what’s your malfunction?”
Me: “Um. I took a nap and woke up thinking it was 6:30 tomorrow morning. Nevermind.”
Marlene: “Good Lord, woman. Go back to bed.”
Me: Click.
A little while later, Dave got home from work and walked through the front door, oblivious to the fact that I’d almost filed a missing person’s report on his behalf and called all the hospitals in the area.
It would have been so hilarious explaining my mistake to the cops. Hilarious.
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January 25th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Yeah, well I can go one better. I once laid down for a nap, when I wasn’t feeling well and slept for over 12 hours. I did the reverse I woke up thinking it was still the evening of the previous day.
Fever and delirium are wonderful things. Not! But my family were quite amused.
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January 25th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
I’m with you, I LOVE naps but my problem is I always wake up fuzzy headed. Sometimes it’s totally worth it though. I really, really hate falling asleep in the family room at night. Then you wake up at 2:00 all confused and with a crick in your neck!
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January 25th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Gosh, did you ever get back to sleep that night?
One of the big things my Mommeh is going to miss while being back at work is the fabulous late afternoon reading/nap times!
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January 25th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
That happened to me when I was a teenager. I woke up after a short nap after school. My father was just getting home and changing into his after work clothes. I asked him why he wasn’t getting ready for work. He looked at me confused and finally asked me if I was “on drugs”. I wasn’t but couldn’t really blame him for thinking I was. I’ve been nervous about taking naps ever since.
January 25th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Oh Kathy! That is HILARIOUS! No, I’ve never had a ‘weird’ nap. I seldom nap, but when I do it’s so very normal, and I know I’ve only been asleep for about 10 minutes. I think, maybe you should get a 24 hour clock. That should sort it.
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January 25th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
I’ve had that happen to me. I couldn’t figure out why everyone was eating hamburgers at 7 AM.
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January 25th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Oh my gosh, that is hilarious! I can imagine, though, that it was scary…after all, you really believed it was morning. Poor you! Once I showed up at work an hour early ’cause I misread the clock…and everything was a little “off.” Couldn’t understand why the people on the bus weren’t familiar, why it was unusually quite out, etc.
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January 25th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
That is hilarious! I have been there only it was my children that I was in a complete panic about because I thought it was early morning and they had been home, seen me in a coma on the couch and gone out to play.
January 25th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
An understandable mistake, after all, clocks don’t tell you PM or AM. At least mine don’t. It’s dark in the morning at 6:30 and dark at night at 6:30 so don’t feel too bad. Maybe you should get more sleep at night and forget the nap.
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January 25th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
I hate naps like that!!!!! There is nothing nice about waking up dazed and confused. Sadly I do it all too often.
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January 25th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Kathy, Kathy, Kathy.
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January 25th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
I’m not a very good napper–I almost always wake up confused, and really irritable. It’s ultra-confusing when you wake up and can’t tell whether it’s AM or PM. Glad you didn’t actually accuse Dave of being out all night.
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January 25th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
I love naps too, seriously love as in this used to be one of my main goals to get in a nap (overly ambitious I am). You must have been REALLY tired to think you slept through the night though?
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January 25th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
I used to fall asleep in bed while studying when I was in law school. I’d wake up around 9 pm, having missed the entire evening, including dinner, and now too awake to go back to sleep at a reasonable time.
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January 25th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
That is so funny! That was one heck of a good nap! It makes me think of being mad at my hubby for something he did in the dream because it seemed so real.
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January 25th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Naps make me nauseous and more sleepy. They completely screw me up. If I need one, I have to keep it to less than 30 minutes or I will be messed up.
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January 25th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
I would be laughing my butt off at that if I hadn’t had similar experiences (notice the plural).
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January 25th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Naps are GREAT! I love a good nap too.
And, that same thing happened to my friend Amy! She called me one day after a nap thinking it was The Next Day!
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January 25th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
I’ve never woken up from a nap and thought it was the next day. My husband, though, has on many ocassions.
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January 25th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
I hate it when that happens. A long time ago I took a nap and woke up thinking it was 7:30 of the next day. I’m like, “Dad! Why didn’t you wake me up for school?!” He just laughed, and told me it was the same day. I felt stupid.
January 26th, 2010 at 2:57 am
I takes only 5-6 hours of nap daily.
But feel drowzy throughout the day.
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January 26th, 2010 at 5:37 am
I love this post. This is exactly why I do not let my staff take naps.
January 26th, 2010 at 6:19 am
I don’t take naps any more simply because I wake up all stiff and sore. But naps are wonderful things. That is pretty funny that you thought it was the next morning. I bet it took a long time to live that one down. Have a great day.And watch those naps.
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January 26th, 2010 at 6:54 am
Hi, all! Just popping in with a quickie response. I think writing this post screwed me up for sleep last night. Woke up at 3AM and only caught another 20 minutes after that. I’m having that fuzzy-brained feeling again, so this comment is all I can manage.
It’s good to know I’m not the only one this happened to. I suppose the good news is that I’m rarely able to nap after work anymore. But Saturdays and Sundays? Those days were built for napping.
Have a great day everyone and thanks for dropping by!
January 26th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Hahaha. You aren’t alone! I did that, woke up at 7:00 (like you, I had a clock with hands), took a shower, and got ready for school (I was in university at the time).
When I went downstairs, I noticed that the TV was on, and my Mom was “up” already, but not getting ready for work. I asked her about it, and she gave me a look much like the expression your sister must have had on her face when speaking to you over the phone. Sigh.
January 26th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Kathy,
You reminded me of two instances i did this, one I was sick so i had an excuse. The other i woke up and called work apologizing for being late…they were like HUH? Then it all clicked.
January 26th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Goats don’t really nap. We are always vigilant. No, that is not me you see sleeping in the hay pile. No, not me at at all…
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January 26th, 2010 at 11:57 am
I hate it when that happens. Seriously. I’ve had that happen a few times and it feels like I’ve awakened in another dimension of space and time. Cue the Twilight Zone music.
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January 26th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
One cool thing about thinking it’s the next day is finding out that you’ve got a whole night’s sleep still ahead of you. It’s like a snow day-what a gift! (I know–I may like sleep a little too much.)
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January 26th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Hee! Oh, you’re so silly.
I’m not a good nap taker. The best kind of nap is the one where you’re barely asleep. If I enter actual slumberland, I’m too groggy and useless when I wake up.
But I’ve never thought it was the next day.
January 26th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
That is too funny Kathy. My mother got me up like a crazy woman one morning about 50 years ago, threw some clothes on me and sent me to school (I walked) at 6:30 am because she looked at the clock wrong and thought it was 8:30. I curled up in one of the deep brick school yard windows and went to sleep until the other kids started showing up. I was too embarrased to let any know I had been there since 6:45!
January 26th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Hey, not your fault they made 6PM and 6AM look so much alike!
Too funny!
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January 26th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
I remember my college roomate waking up at 8 AM, yelling profanity, grabbing his bookbag and running out of the room. He didn’t get dress (he was in his boxers and sneaker) and was running to his 8 AM class… on a Saturday morning (thinking it was another day of the week). I was too confused/tired to protest. He came back 10 mins later all confused and extremely embarassed.
Nothing beats a good sleep. I finally got one last night after not getting one for a week. felt so good. Hoping for another one tonight.
Is it possible to switch to military time?
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January 26th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Oh, man, that happened to me when I was about 15. I woke up at 7-ish thinking I had to get ready for school. To make it weirder, it happened to be a night my mom was making “breakfast for dinner”. I thought it was nice not to have to eat Pop Tarts before school…then I noticed it was dark outside.
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January 26th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Naps sound good to me in theory. But the reality for me is that if I take a nap it has to be for 30 minutes or less. Any longer and I wake up in a REAL grumpy state. Must be a biorhythm thing or something.
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January 26th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Naps are bad for blogging. LOL! Everytime I take a nap it takes me too long to wake up. I don’t think I can do a 15 to 30 minutes nap.
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January 26th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
I’ve done this once when I was in primary school – came home, went to sleep for half an hour and then started getting ready for school. I think I made a fuss about forgetting to do “yesterday’s homework” too.
January 26th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
I know I’m evil, but I can’t help wishing you called the police – it would have been so much funnier. As I said, I’m evil.
January 27th, 2010 at 5:15 am
Haha, thats hilarious! I once had a friend who did something similar… he went to sleep on a Sunday evening, woke up thinking it was a Monday morn and got ready for work!!
January 27th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Aw, poor you!
Naps, I realized, should not include heavy sleeping because the best rejuvenating naps entail laying down with eyes closed.
If you haven’t slept well at night, don’t make up for that sleep during the day; it will only disorient your internal clock. Instead, resist as much as you can, then crash in bed at your usual bed time.
Excellent blog, by the way!
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January 27th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Oh wow, Kathy– I can HEAR you going through this.
I think you might need a little vacation or somethin’. Some extra rest.
But, hey, at least Dave is all right!
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January 27th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
wow this is great Kathy ,you are going through this.really you need little vacation really and you should rest dear with heavy sleeping really its very hilarious i faced that situation dear that’s y i can understand that really its so important for you plz tack a proper rest and sleep.
January 27th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
It happened to me too when I woke up I thought its already morning, whats funny is I rushed into the bathroom to take a shower. Just got lucky that I notice the time before I change to my office uniform.
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January 27th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
I did something similar once. It was evening when I woke up but I thought it was morning. I started going through my morning routine. I took a shower and was halfway through shaving when I figured it out. Just glad I didn’t go to work, I would have had a long wait for them to open the doors.
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January 27th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
‘Forty winks’ as my mum and dad called it, is the best type of napping. Short and light sleep, sitting up on the sofa. You wake up refreshed. Laying down to nap is just asking for trouble
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January 27th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
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January 27th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
LMAO… That’s all I have to say.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
I have done that so many times it is scary. What’s just as bad is when you jump in the shower because you think you’re running late, get out, start putting on your business clothes, and realize sometime around the rushed makeup job that it’s nighttime or the weekend. Then all you can do is crawl back under the covers and hope no one noticed.
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January 28th, 2010 at 12:24 am
My goodness I love naps! I do have the nasty habit though, that when my fiancé would wake me, I’d sort of start and look around wildly like a goosed cat. ^-^ Not now, though, because he gently pats my head until I wake up, and so I wake up like a happy kitty. ^-^
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January 28th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
@Beamer : This is what you call a “comment” ? I will never send comments like this …LOL
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January 30th, 2010 at 6:29 am
That’s really bad, reminds me of when I came back from a trip abroad with my parents, I’d been so ill I was totally out of it, for a few months after we came back I was wondering why all the magazines in the Doctors office where printed as if they had the next year’s date on them… I realized later it was because it was the next year!
February 4th, 2010 at 5:32 am
Yup, read this and was all like “this totally reminds me of my life and stuff”, and then I was all like “I should totally comment”. <3
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February 5th, 2010 at 7:05 am
I am blind as a bat and I take my glasses off at the computer and go to bed. When I get up (because I can’t see any of the 5 clocks in my bedroom, no lie) I click my computer and squint at the time.
Then I put my glasses on and go get coffee, or don’t and stumble back to bed. My clock graciously tells me AM or PM (and it doesn’t matter anyway, I work from home and have nothing to do but work, sew or sleep) and I can wake up…or not.
Today, I have a date and I already need a nap, so it will probably make a difference then. Might not, never can tell with me.
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February 17th, 2010 at 2:33 am
The sleep rhythm is a 80-110 minutes cycle. If you sleep for the full cycle you experience all stages of sleep. If you wake up during it, you’re likely to wake up in the later parts, which is deep and confusing sleep. For a nap to be consistently effective rather than “fuzzying” you must either know the exact length of your cycle, or keep the nap to less than half an hour.
So now you know.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:07 am
I make sure i never nap and always make sure i get up early. I used to have trouble sleeping, think it was because i drank to much coffee! But i don’t drink it anymore and stick to a routine and it helps me sleep!
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