[skrause]

> Why fight biology? Naps are great.

Maybe I'm the weird one, but my biology seems to be not to nap. A few years ago I tried for a while to take a nap during my lunch break, but I just couldn't fall asleep even after 30 minutes simply because I don't even get a little bit tired during my work hours (I usually sleep well and enough at night). If I'm actually tired because I haven't slept enough at night and I manage to take a short nap, I feel even worse after it.

I'm still not convinced that taking a nap is actually the natural thing to do.

[onion2k]

It's entirely reasonable that you've tried napping and found it doesn't work for you, but assuming everyone is the same and therefore napping won't work for anyone is somewhat irrational. Lots of things affect people in many different ways. Napping clearly works for some.

As for suggesting taking a nap isn't "the natural thing to do", what does that actually mean? Nothing modern humans do can be considered "natural" because we've radically changed our environment to the point that it's unrecognisable from anything in nature. There's no such thing as "natural" in an age of electric lighting, computers, processed food, mechanised transport, etc.

[Nursie]

Same. Once I've started I want to sleep for many hours, 20 minutes isn't refreshing for me, it's disorienting.