# Fever Naps?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fever-naps/360460>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 12, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fever-naps/360460 "2006-06-12T18:59:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackechambers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jackechambers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackechambers)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fever-naps/360460/1 "2006-06-12T18:59:52Z")

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OK, so here’s a dumb question which I should probably already know the answer to…

I went down for a lovely Saturday afternoon nap on the couch, and woke up an hour or so later drenched in sweat and feeling almost feverish. Which seems to happen 100% of the time with daytime sleep. It’s not that warm in the apartment, and it seems to happen to other folks – what is it that’s happening during that short sleep that makes it feel like I was napping next to the oven, and not in a perfectly comfortable room on a perfectly comfortable couch?

Just wondering…

jack in nashville