I’d have thought that would rather excite him. Any early Victorian chick would have been well-advised not to loll back with her eyes shut when he was around.
I had obesity once. It was no big thang. A couple days on the couch resting and watching tv and some high protein meals, mostly pepperoni pizza, and I got all better.
Seriously. And showering, what a waste of time. “Yeah, I want to stand her for half an hour in the rain instead of doing fun things like watching tv and eating pizza.” NOT! That’s why I only shower every other month.
Some of my best dreams come from mid day naps.
In some parts it’s called a siesta. You should try it; you’ll have much more energy for weightlifting and jumping hills in your cool Jeep!
That must be horrible! His girlfriend joins him in his nap!?! Like sleeping together in the middle of the day?
Man, that’s fucking weird.
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I had obesity once. It was no big thang. ]/QUOTE]
Yes, one of the side effects of male obesity is thang shrinkage. Fortunately, the antidote is available from many internet sites and offers will often be sent, unsolicited, to your email. Nice folks, they are, trying to offset that shrinkage.
This wiki article seems to point to possible answers to the OP: Segmented Sleep.
It only addresses napping obliquely, but it does give a good perspective on pre-industrial sleep habits. It is not surprising to me that our currently regimented idea of 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work and 8 hours of everything else is an artifact of our modern paradigm.
I work from home on contracts that sometimes require me to be awake and available for 16 hours or more. However, most of the time, I can eat and sleep when I want to as long as I fulfill my contractual obligations. That means that today (as one example), I woke at 6:00 AM, ate a light breakfast, worked until 1:00 PM, napped until about 2:00 PM or so, and am presently waiting for an image to render on my computer. I will probably work until 7:00 PM or so, and after enjoying a nice evening with my fiancee we will get to sleep about midnight.
Sometimes, I wake at 3:00 AM and work until dawn, eat and then sleep again until midmorning. It depends on my workload and what my lovely lady wants to do.
First of all, as others have said, napping is part of a natural cycle for a lot of people. You specifically mention weight-lifting and, as that is a major hobby of mine, I can tell you that the triangle of body-building is weight-training, diet, and sleep. A lot of bodybuilders and other athletes specifically take naps as part of their training schedule, so it seems exceedingly weird to me to think that it’s a bad thing for active people.
Further you mention “catching” obesity because of napping, yet you mention other inactive pass times like reading and playing videogames. So we’ll get fat from sleeping too much, but not from sitting around gaming, reading, and watching movies?
And more, sharing a nap with a girlfriend? Sure, making love is awesome, you’ll find few who will dispute that, but napping with a girlfriend, or a perhaps another loved one (eg, parent and a child, with a pet, etc.) can also be a intimate and enjoyable experience as well.
Speaking for myself, though, I quite enjoy a good nap for a number of reasons. For one, it’s difficult to get enough sleep in long chunk each night, sometimes I’m lucky to get 4-5 hours, so having a nap when I can spare the time helps alleviate that. It can help deal with stress or recovery, anything from a difficult day at work to intense physical activity, whether it be yardwork, exercise, or something purely recreational. It can also help break up a day and busy periods to make them more manageable; the only thing worse than running on 4 hours of sleep, is having 20 hours straight of being busy without a real break. It can also work much like other forms of relaxation, like meditation. For me, just as I can meditate and work through stress or issues that are bugging me, sleep can be just as functional, having those stressors when I fall asleep and they’re worked through as I sleep. And, of course, I just plain enjoy napping, and the sensation is very much like eating when I’m really hungry, peeing when I’ve been holding it for a while, it triggers the same sort of pleasurable response.
Have you considered the fact that he’s not actually sleeping that he’s just hiding to get a break from his roommate? You sound a little… intense.
Why do people like weightlifting, or playing videogames? To me, that is a waste of time - you could be… whatever.
Not everyone is like you. And that’s a good thing.
Sleep is the best recreational drug. You have exciting visions, long bouts of comfort, warmth, inner peace, and no hangover. In fact, you feel refreshed, alert and ready to tackle the day at the end of your sleep trip. Tune in, turn on, and drop out of the square, straightedge waking world for a while and you might get a different perspective on things, OP.
Ha! That’s about what I was thinking too.
Perhaps they nap while you’re awake so later they can be awake in privacy while you’re asleep.
I’m tired just reading the OP, might take a nap.
Naps are a luxury. All day at work I have to be awake and alert, but on the weekends, oh my… I can lay down in the afternoon, get all comfy cozy, perhaps grab a dog for a snuggle, and slide off into dreamland. Sometimes I read before I nap, and I especially love that feeling of barely being able to keep my eyes open and surrendering to it. The book falls from my hands, I close my eyes and I’m asleep. Pure heaven.
Then I wake up, have a cup of tea and a piece of cinnamon toast and reflect on how great my nap was. Sure there are lots of things I could have done with that time, but squandering it on a nap feels so good.
If I’m working a morning shift, I’m up at 5:00. If I’ve worked an evening shift the day before, I wouldn’t have gone to bed until 12:30 or 1:00. I get home from my day shift about 4:30 or 5:00 and I’m knackered, quite frankly. A half hour nap gives me the energy to do the second shift at home in the evening (cooking, washing up, ironing - all that boring stuff).
Long bike ride on a weekend morning + burger and beer=wonderful afternoon nap.
Like sleeping! 
(Also, various medications can make some people sleepier than others. It’s not fun. And right now I’m sick, so I’m napping alot. Cold suck)
Richard North: How many hours do you sleep at night? Is it many? Because really, think about it: When you sleep at night, you’re just lying there like a corpse. You’re doing nothing. Creepy, isn’t it???
So how many hours is it that you do this creepy thing at night?
I have never been a nap person, and I’ve never understood why so many people love naps. On the rare occasions that I do take naps, it takes me too long to fall asleep and I wake feeling groggy and disoriented. Then it takes me hours to recover. When I go to sleep it has to be for six hours minimum, preferably seven or eight.
Poe didn’t say that. It’s a mangled quote from Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959).
Rarely are my naps planned. Break time in the middle of the afternoon, I sit, I’m out.