# Da Vinci: 15 Hour Naps Every 4 Hours?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 31, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/da-vinci-15-hour-naps-every-4-hours/165569 "2003-03-31T22:46:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/da-vinci-15-hour-naps-every-4-hours/165569/21 "2003-04-01T12:53:36Z")

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Apparently Edison did indeed go for the power naps thing, whereas it seems that Brunel would just work solidly until exhausted, then sleep wherever he happened to be.

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**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/da-vinci-15-hour-naps-every-4-hours/165569/22 "2003-04-01T14:36:33Z")

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For what it’s worth…  
[http://www.mysleepcenter.com/FamousSleepers.html](http://www.mysleepcenter.com/FamousSleepers.html)  
By the way, Google has also produced a number of links:

[http://www.google.ca/search?q="Da+Vinci"+"15+minutes"+naps&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=lr%3Dlang\_en|lang\_fr](http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Da+Vinci%22+%2215+minutes%22+naps&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=lr%3Dlang_en%7Clang_fr)

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**Author:** ![prisoner6655321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@prisoner6655321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prisoner6655321)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/da-vinci-15-hour-naps-every-4-hours/165569/23 "2003-04-01T18:49:02Z")

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> [size=1]originally posted by **Mangetout**  
> Apparently Edison did indeed go for the power naps thing

Ah yes. Edison! I knew it was one of the great inventors.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/da-vinci-15-hour-naps-every-4-hours/165569/24 "2003-04-01T19:41:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Dignan \*  
> \*\*Kramer? 😛 \*\*

If I recall correctly, those 15 minute power naps got Kramer put in a sack and tossed in the East River.

YMMV

Happy

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**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/da-vinci-15-hour-naps-every-4-hours/165569/25 "2003-04-02T11:45:31Z")

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In _Never Cry Wolf_ Farley Mowatt talks about adopting the wolves sleeping habits. As I recall, it’s a bunch of short naps for a few hours. Every 15 or so minutes, he’d wake up and readjust, then go back to sleep. Worked OK in the field, but played Hell with his love life.

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