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Re: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone

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Post by slyall »

mmanfrin wrote: post #47

After a couple months of protracted late nights at a startup I worked for, I came up with an idea for a place which would offer by-the-hour nap+shower+coffee pods. You'd go in, pay $20 or whatever, have access to a shower and a bed, and at the end (or beginning) you'd get a coffee of your choice (if after, it would be ready for you when your nap was over). I think this could do really well in Soma or the Financial Di…

There is a company called "Breather" offering this sort of service. You get a small meeting/lounge room for %15-25 per hour. See HN discussion and article from a few months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7618818

Re: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone

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Post by sleazebreeze »

crb3 wrote: post #71
twobits wrote: post #35

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Could you please expand on the "walk back" thing? Also, any links, books? Thanks.

Like I said, it's a visualization technique, and it works better if you have some experience with pushing your mental energies around. Practice in Wiccan grounding, centering and shielding helps (Google that or start with http://www.witchvox.com and start probing, I guess; I don't know of any instruction materials currently in print or online). This is my experience, so I describe it here in first-person... When I cl…

I knew exactly what you meant when you said "walk back". I've never been able to describe that effect, but you've nailed it on the head. It took some practice to develop after I discovered on accident, but it is very effective.

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Post by tambourine_man »

ArcticCelt wrote: post #39

I wish I was able to take naps. Do people can really fall asleep on command just like that when they have some spare minutes in their day? Shit, even when I am sleep deprived, I can barely fall asleep in my own bed, sometimes it literally take me hours. When I manage to take a nap it's usually involuntary by falling asleep in front of the TV.

Mildly interesting podcasts and audiobooks help me a lot.

Too interesting and you get wired. Too dull and your mind begins to wonder. Some work so well that it takes me several runs to listen completely.

Re: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone

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Post by adricnet »

staunch wrote: post #72
crb3 wrote: post #29

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How do you drink your coffee? If you sugar it, you're not dealing with just the caffeine.

I don't but how would sugar beat caffeine into the blood stream?

Absorption of some nutrients happens in the mouth and gums. Perhaps the poster is speculating that sugar (simple carbs?) molecules might be quickly absorbed into the bloodstream through the mouth and esophagus while caffeine has to be digested in the stomach?

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Post by vijucat »

Afforess wrote: post #62
Swizec wrote: post #50

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Yes. If you lay still with your eyes closed and make sure your phone and internet stay quiet, you will fall asleep in 10 minutes or so. That then leaves enough to get 10 minutes or so of sleep and get back up 20 minutes after starting your nap. Much longer than that and you risk not getting up for another few hours. Much less than that and you won't get any rest. And yes, this works perfectly well even without fallin…

Just lay still for 20 minutes and let your mind wander without distractions Just. I've never been able to do that. I'm always thinking, even when I am exhausted. (Usually then, about how exhausted I am.)

This could be due to the momentum of thinking anxiously, or in a forced way in general, throughout the day. If you are able to think at a natural pace throughout the day, your thoughts will be calm, or at least, come to you at a natural pace, at bedtime / nap-time, too.

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Post by peteretep »

murrayh wrote: post #74
matwood wrote: post #43

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I can't nap, but just laying down for 20 minutes with my eyes closed in a quiet room gives me a huge energy boost.

Isn't that exactly what a nap is? Does your awareness reduce? It's hard to notice a change in awareness. Sometimes I notice a transition from haziness to attention when a sound draws my attention. My understanding is that the haziness is a form of sleeping and is exactly what a nap is meant to be. If you fall into a deeper sleep you will get some of the side effects others talk about -- grogginess etc. The length and…

When I nap, even for 20m, I dream. Grogginess comes if I take longer than 20 minutes or so - although if I time it right, I can hit a non grogginess event again after 1.5 hiurs. Sleep cycles, I guess

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Post by yoklov »

victormg wrote: post #63
matwood wrote: post #43

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I can't nap, but just laying down for 20 minutes with my eyes closed in a quiet room gives me a huge energy boost.

Same here,somebody have an explanation?

You actually fell asleep, but didn't enter a deep enough sleep for you to actually notice it. You can't tell if you're in NREM1 sleep.

Re: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone

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Post by Swizec »

Afforess wrote: post #62
Swizec wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. If you lay still with your eyes closed and make sure your phone and internet stay quiet, you will fall asleep in 10 minutes or so. That then leaves enough to get 10 minutes or so of sleep and get back up 20 minutes after starting your nap. Much longer than that and you risk not getting up for another few hours. Much less than that and you won't get any rest. And yes, this works perfectly well even without fallin…

Just lay still for 20 minutes and let your mind wander without distractions Just. I've never been able to do that. I'm always thinking, even when I am exhausted. (Usually then, about how exhausted I am.)

> I'm always thinking

Otherwise known as "lettings your mind wander". Just go with it, you don't have to not-think. It is perfectly fine to spend 20 minutes laying down and thinking.

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