Pro tip I learned from the world of ultra-cycling (riding a bikes for days at a time):
- Drink coffee as you prepare to nap
- Take 20 minute power nap as caffeine gets in your system
- Win
How to nap
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Re: How to nap
#122Here is a way to generate simple, wonderful pink noise (with a slight tremolo) from the commandline, if you have sox installed. It somewhat mimics the sounds of waves on a beach - I find it very relaxing. A nice side affect (and the reason I played around with it originally) is that it helps mask tinnitus when it gets too annoying (I find that if tinnitus flares up too loud, it can make it more difficult to fall asle…
I packaged this stuff into a small shell script: https://gist.github.com/1594482
Re: How to nap
#123For those wondering how to nap at the office and not get hauled into the managers office for sleeping on the job, I paraphrase a tip from Scott Adams (Dilbert): "Grab a handful of paperclips and find an office/meeting room. Shut the door and lie down on the ground with your feet against the door. Sprinkle the paperclips in front of you. Now have a nap. If someone tries to enter the room, the door will hit your feet.…
What about sleeping under your enclosed desk? and maybe building a small shelf to hold an alarm clock... /end lame joke
s/lame joke/Seinfeld reference :)
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#124Glad to see others power nap also, I thought I was just weird.
My routine is at about 1:30 slouch in my chair leaning back with my hands atop my head with fingers inter locked.
Whats strange is that I don't really goto sleep. I can hear everything going on around me but my mind is just totally blank and not focused on anything.
I stay like this for around 15-20 min then snap out of it fully refreshed!
Re: How to nap
#125Re: How to nap
#126Here is a way to generate simple, wonderful pink noise (with a slight tremolo) from the commandline, if you have sox installed. It somewhat mimics the sounds of waves on a beach - I find it very relaxing. A nice side affect (and the reason I played around with it originally) is that it helps mask tinnitus when it gets too annoying (I find that if tinnitus flares up too loud, it can make it more difficult to fall asle…
Here is one for Star Trek fans: play -c2 -n synth whitenoise band -n 100 24 band -n 300 100 gain +20
Halfway down the page on http://www.reallifecomics.com , there's an hour long loop of this, complete with the random computer blip noises.
Re: How to nap
#127Here is a way to generate simple, wonderful pink noise (with a slight tremolo) from the commandline, if you have sox installed. It somewhat mimics the sounds of waves on a beach - I find it very relaxing. A nice side affect (and the reason I played around with it originally) is that it helps mask tinnitus when it gets too annoying (I find that if tinnitus flares up too loud, it can make it more difficult to fall asle…
Here is another site with sounds from the beach.
http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/
Re: How to nap
#128I've tried this so many times but I just can't fall asleep in the middle of the day unless I'm seriously exhausted. Anyone out there able to beat the "can't fall asleep unless conditions are perfect" curse?
I can fall asleep at pretty much any given hour of the day... unless it is the actual time in the evening at which I should go to bed. I had a terrible case of getting a "second wind" rush at night around midnight and even worse after 3 or 4 am.
Re: How to nap
#129There's been so much well-publicized research on the positive impact of sleep on performance, and hugely detrimental effect of not getting enough sleep. Why do so many companies still force their employees to work with so little sleep? Why do they still frown at sleeping on the job? And why don't more of them provide cots, sofas and showers, when they can easily afford them? For decades, some of the more enlightened…
There is so much research available on how to make your employees work better, more efficient, how to make them happier, healthier, more productive, how to provide a positive team environment etc but still the majority of companies treat employees more like machines and by the rules of lowest-level production-line workers building Ford T model parts back in the beginning of the 20th century...
Re: How to nap
#130For those wondering how to nap at the office and not get hauled into the managers office for sleeping on the job, I paraphrase a tip from Scott Adams (Dilbert): "Grab a handful of paperclips and find an office/meeting room. Shut the door and lie down on the ground with your feet against the door. Sprinkle the paperclips in front of you. Now have a nap. If someone tries to enter the room, the door will hit your feet.…
Paperclips? I'd use actual papers, make it look like they spilled on the floor and you are picking them up.