Let’s see, why do I nap? (Wish I got more opportunities to do so. But with an energetic 6 year old in the house…)
Because sometimes I get tired during the day, and it feels good to give in to the tired, rather than fight it.
Really complicated, huh?
Win.
This would have been an odd quote for Poe, seeing as how he was not just into little slices of death, but the entire Death Cake.
So much to do, there’s plenty on the farm
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Saturday night I like to raise a little harm
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
“His was a great sin that first invented consciousness.”
This is really my reason for napping. I love my nap dreams and often nap just to see what kind of a dream I’ll have.
But also, it’s a luxurious, nice thing to do for yourself. Sometimes I even take a bath because it feels good, even if I’m not filthy dirty. I go for a walk to listen to the birds and smell the flowers even if I’m not going anywhere in particular.
I think there is a temperamental component to this. Some people just do not nap and don’t want to. Some of us enjoy napping.
My mother never made me take a nap as a kid, so I don’t have a built-in resistance to it. It doesn’t feel like wasting time or taking time from other things. Napping is a destination activity in itself.
Has anyone had “The Talk” with the OP? They’re probably not sleeping. Or if they are, there’s a very specific reason why they’re tired.
As a 50yo working parent, my advice is: Never pass up a chance for a nap. You never know when there will be another chance.
OK, from looking around I see you are right. It seems to have been attributed to Poe in one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
I have to take a nap in the middle of the day because I tend to get exhausted and overstimulated. I know, those two should not go together, but they do for me.
When I have a bad day, I actually take two naps - one about mid-afternoon, the other in the evening (waking up by 8pm). Then I stay up until midnight. (Since I am disabled this does not upset my work schedule.)
However, I have psychiatric issues, chronic fatigue, sleep apnea, and asthma. So I may not be the best example of a regular, “healthy” person.
A Nap refreshes me and I’m able to concentrate better on my work afterward.
I’ve started getting sleepy in the afternoons as I get older. I wouldn’t get anything done in the evening without a nap.
I don’t take naps during the middle of the day, but you might be able to consider sleeping in a “nap”. I’ll wake up normally in the morning, but then I’m happy to lie in bed drifting between sleep and consciousness for hours.
Also, it’s fun to remember your dreams, which seems to happen a lot more this way.
For fans of napping, here is a site that might help 
Because napping feels GREAT!!!
I’m not so much a fan of naps, as a fan of how I feel having taken one, as opposed to walking around, barely able to put two words together and with my eyes feeling like they’ve been in a sandstorm.
Yes, it seems like a very poorly-written comedy routine.
And if the OP is serious, my guess is that he’s relatively young.
To avoid wasting time I prefer to eat all my meals, and take all my naps while sitting on the toilet. Eating and shitting make me drowsy anyway.
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How very organised of you. A time-and-motion expert would be proud!
I don’t like naps particularly, but the desire to nap, when I have it, almost always occurs during a time when I can’t actually take a nap. Two key times: about an hour after lunch, when I am just falling asleep at the computer. Can’t nap, at work. And then about six in the evening, when I’m cooking dinner. Can’t nap, nobody would get fed.
But then, when I actually could take a nap, I’ve almost always got something better to do. And I think almost anything is better because first of all, I have a hard time falling asleep (well, not at the computer, at work, then it’s easy). And then I have a hard time waking up. So two more rounds of two things I don’t like to do? No thanks.
No naps.
Oddly enough I think I would do well on the following cycle: Go to bed around 10, drift into a light doze for a couple of hours, wake up at midnight, get up, do stuff until 2 or 3 am, then back to bed until the <expletive deleted> alarm goes off.
I believe the OP’s roommate is only pretending to nap to avoid the tedium of litening to the OP’s opinions.
You mean a time-and-movement expert. 