Do you feel disoriented and feel like a lot of time has passed after a nap?

Welcome to your forties. One of the first things I experienced was falling asleep watching tv or even at my pc. :stuck_out_tongue:

Fortunately I always wake up within thirty minutes. It’s not that comfortable sleeping sitting up. There’s this odd feeling of disorientation for a minute. It feels like hours have passed. There’s also this disconnect like I’m starting another day. On the plus side, I am refreshed.

I’ve learned not to fight it. The best solution to getting sleepy is a nap. I occasionally fall asleep at my keyboard at work after lunch. I don’t feel guilty at all because I’m so much more focused and alert afterward. It never happens more than once a day.

How do you feel after a nap? Briefly feel a little disoriented? Does it feel like a lot of time has passed even if it’s only been 20 minutes?

Strange how it seems to hit people after hitting the big 40. I never, ever fell asleep watching tv or reading when I was younger. I might go lie down for a nap, but never just fell asleep sitting up.

I feel horrible after I nap, and always have. My husband has always been able to fall asleep watching TV and wake up without a problem, but if I fall asleep during the day I wake up and feel like a zombie the rest of the day.

It doesn’t matter if its a short nap or long nap, either.

One time years ago, I took a late afternoon nap. When I woke up and saw that it was 6:30, I panickedly assumed I’d slept till the next morning, and I freaked out at all that study time I’d missed (I was in grad school).

Then my synapses came together and I realized it was still the evening.

Yes! I rarely nap but when I do I get discombobulated and wonder what the clock is trying to tell me by the numbers it has on it.

Odd-I’ll often drift off into this nether region when I’m in bed with my music playing-not 100% unconscious, I can (barely) follow the melody/lyrics, but a lot more time will have seemed to have passed when I wake up than actually did pass.

Most of the time I feel dizzy after I take a nap

During law school, I perfected the 15 minute power nap between work and evening classes. That said, anything longer than 15 minutes and I am pretty much done for the rest of the day.

It’s so odd that I don’t have that disorientation waking up in the morning. There’s something about naps. It doesn’t help that the tv is blaring away and I missed part of my show. :wink:

Most of the time I feel pretty good after a nap.
I usually get tired around 4pm and a little nap is a good thing.

If I am really tired though, a long nap will leave me feeling woozy and disoriented. I hate when I see the clock and don’t know if it’s morning or night.

Yep, I feel dehydrated and thick-headed as well. I never feel right after a nap. Both my daughters are the same way.

When I was in elementary school I woke up at 6:00 and started getting ready for school. My mom wondered what the hell I was doing, and I told her I didn’t want to be late for school. It was then that I was informed it was 6:00 in the evening.

Groggy, nauseous, and exhausted for the rest of the day. I’m surprised to see so many others experiencing something similar. People usually don’t believe me and insist naps are refreshing.

I concur with everything in this thread. I always feel groggy, confused, and disoriented after a nap, and the zombie-like sensation persists for hours afterward. Yet all my life I’ve been surrounded by people who babble on and on about how refreshing and invigorating naps are. When I tell them I hate naps, they look at me like I’m from another planet.

It could happen even in one’s 20’s. I had substantially this same experience the night I sat up watching for Comet Kohoutek (December 1973), which of course was a famously ignoble no-show. (I wasn’t in school at the time, but I was sitting up in a 7th-floor lounge room on the Berkeley campus with a suitable-facing window.) Woke up at about 6:30 and sat for hours wondering why it wasn’t starting to get light already. Oops. Discovered it was 6:30 p.m., not a.m. (This was in December, remember.)

I seem to keep track of the time pretty well in my sleep. After I wake up from a nap, I can usually guess the time to the nearest 15 minutes.