How I feel after an afternoon nap

skepnaden · 12 months

What time is it?! Am I hungry?! Should I be somewhere?!

always_creating · 12 months

I hate when the twilight / sunset through the window fucks with your head...not sure if late today or early tomorrow...

Avien · 12 months

How I feel when my roommate buys more toilet paper

Thunder_Bastard · 12 months

I don't take naps often. I once fell asleep at around 5pm thinking I would just stay asleep until morning if that was how things went.

I was awoken by the phone and it was pitch black outside. I looked over at the clock and it said 6:30. It was a girl I had been seeing and she just started up a normal conversation. I thought to myself this is really weird that she would call at 6:30 in the morning, but let her go on thinking eventually something important would come up to justify the call. About 15 minutes in I said "Thats great and all, but why are you calling me at 6:30"? She apologized and just said she wanted to talk and that she would let me go, she could tell I was sleeping when she called... I told her "Of COURSE I was sleeping and I would call her later".

I called her back about 10 minutes later and apologized after I figured out it was 6:30 at night. I did, however, spend at least a few minutes trying to determine if I had slept for only over an hour or if I had slept for 25 hours and it was really the next day.

pant444 · 12 months

This movie made the board game market boom.

cheapshot · 12 months

The worst part is the horrible post-nap taste in your mouth.

nakizo · 12 months

hahaha...I just woke from one. I love when the phone rings to wake me from a nap and I grab and wonder "what is this device?!?"

kimberkat81 · 12 months

its the year of unemployment

g4bravo · 12 months

How I feel when I finally get off Reddit. FTFY

dr_bloom · 12 months

oh yes i can relate to that. these 10 seconds of wondering what time it is and whether i'm supposed to go somewhere.

Mantisbog · 12 months

I have woken up from afternoon naps with a grip on reality so tenuous I believe that time and space no longer exist.

lessplasticplease · 12 months

No matter how long my afternoon naps are, I always feel more refreshed than regular sleep. Why is that?

ConansBeard · 12 months

Why do the amount of texts messages received exponentially increase during my naps?

TheAtomicPlayboy · 12 months

This commercial made me fall in love with crazy bearded Robin Williams all over again.

swimmer23 · 12 months

How I feel after finishing a fucking board game.

faceplain · 12 months

I usually think this, and then "FUCK I'm sweaty and I forgot to take out my contacts SHIT life sucks!"

Omegastar19 · 12 months

To the OP and the people posting similar stories, here is the simple explanation why you feel like crap after an afternoon nap:

Sleep happens in cycles. Sleep cycles take on average 90 minutes, but it often differs per individual. Each sleep cycle is a process from light sleep to deeper sleep, to deepest sleep (Rapid-eye-moment sleep), before returning to a status of light sleep, at which the sleep cycle starts again.

If you wake up from a nap and find yourself highly disoriented, very drowsy, sluggish, and generally feeling like crap, then it means that you woke up in the middle of the deep sleep part of your sleep cycle. Your body needs to complete a sleep cycle for you to feel good when you wake up. To put it bluntly: do not wake up during your REM-sleep.

So if you want to take a nap, make one of the following choices:

1: Take a short nap, and make sure you have an alarm set so you do not really fall asleep.

2: Take a nap, but include 'interfering factors', such as leaving the curtains wide open, or some irregular sounds (note that music might not work, because it is often repetitive, and repetitive noises will eventually be ignored by your body), which might be annoying but will often prevent you from falling into a deep sleep.

3: Take a longer nap so that you complete 1 sleep cycle, and then wake up. A generally good time would be 2 hours, but as i noted, the length of sleep cycles varies per person, so you might like a shorter or longer period better.

doobry · 12 months

I'd forgotten Kirstin used to be a kid.

ThatsMisterDickToYou · 12 months

What I would give if we could introduce the siesta culture into the UK...

Fuuuuu

DontCareWhatYouThink · 12 months

It was brand new.

Zuhalter2000 · 12 months

What year is it!?

SetsOnTheBeach · 12 months

Fuckin LOVE this movie

Halogen_ · 12 months

I've had a somewhat similar feeling this morning. I had a dream in which I had the ability to accelerate time in small zones, and I kept thinking I had accelerated past the alarm time on my clock. So I got up still half-asleep to check the time on the clock. Seeing I still had time to sleep, I went back to bed and had the same dream. Repeat this process two or three times and I considered myself paranoid.

KeenDreams · 12 months

I know what I'm watching after class tonight.

Pravusmentis · 12 months

It is thought this is because you slept through one whole sleep cycle and started another, which was then not finished. Try to time yourself so you only get 1 cycle in. It might help you to have your afternoon nap closer to lunch time, as this way your body does not interpret it as if night has happened sooner.

For keywords to search for for more information, try: zeitgeiber, rem sleep, circadian rhythms, perceptive night/day, and free running rhythms

BAEazy · 12 months

I just woke up from one and this is what I see. My stomach always feels empty too -_-

post22 · 12 months

I just woke up to this.. Fucking weird.

HyBReD · 12 months

A little bit of rain never hurt anybody.

HrMorgaes · 12 months

For me it's more like FUCK I'M THIRSTY

NiceGuysFinishLast · 12 months

When I was in college, we taped trash bags over the windows in our designated sleeping room, so it was pitch black all the time. I adopted a sleep schedule of roughly 35-40 hours awake, and then 10-16 asleep. It was really odd. I would go to sleep in the afternoon and sometimes wake up the next night. To make my confusion worse, I had a shitty projection alarm clock that put the time on the ceiling.. But not AM or PM. I'd often wake up and have no idea what day it was.

MaidenLane · 12 months

Clock says 6:00

MORNING OR NIGHT ?!?

diogenesbarrel · 12 months

Now tell us how you feel after an afternoon fap

Immynimmy · 12 months

From the thumbnail, I thought it was Richard Stallman

(link for the lazy[http://www.google.com/search?q=richard%20stallman&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=667]

afriendlysortofchap · 12 months

Back during a semester at college, for two consecutive days at the end of the week I only had two night classes (which isn't saying much because during winter night over there began around 1600). I started an experimental biphasic sleep cycle which meant often I would not see the sun for four days in a row. It was among the most comfortable times in my life, and this was the general effect.

fentunfont · 12 months

I need to know the name of this movie! It's been driving me nuts for months!

AgentGlaze · 12 months

It's not often something actually makes me lol, but this thing did!

360walkaway · 12 months

It WAS brand new.

blastoman334 · 12 months

afternoon naps = temporary milk of magnesia

gotogoatmeal · 12 months

Yes, absolutely. I wake up starving and disoriented like mad.

[deleted] · 12 months

This is particularly bad after a vivid dream in which I already started the next day.

[deleted] · 12 months

Best movie-to-board-game adaptation since Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which produced the endlessly entertaining Monopoly game. Thanks, Shia!

krasyva · 12 months

MY TEETH SHIFTED

RichardManhammer · 12 months

I feel like this everyday because I work third shift. I have all my windows blacked out too so it really fucks me up.

zdiggler · 12 months

Can't take nap. my 2pm nap become sleep and wake up at 7pm. :(

[deleted] · 12 months

I have friends who nap all the time and I don't know how they do it, whenever I wake up from a nap I feel like hell.

[deleted] · 12 months

I hate when I go to bed at an actual reasonable time like, 8PM or 9PM and then I wake up at the time I normally go to bed, at like 2AM.

ffoj · 12 months

In university, after going through weeks of 4-5 hours of sleep per night and taking small naps in the afternoon/evening, I've woken from these naps with the most intense confusion I've ever experienced. Waking up and not knowing what time, day, or year it is, where you are, or what you're supposed to be doing is absolutely terrifying.

brianr88 · 12 months

How I feel on rainy days

fine_young_cannibal · 12 months

Thread of the year.

SugarFreeTurkey · 12 months

couldn't help but read this in his voice.

Ironcrowned · 12 months

I actually laughed.

nuviremus · 12 months

I love this more than words can describe.

SuspiciousPamDawber · 12 months

..Wait a minute.. How can you be so sure you feel like that after an afternoon nap? During the 1978-1982 run of the hit comedy series "Mork and Mindy", I played the part of "Mindy".... and I can tell you for a FACT that I never questioned what year it was.

wolf83 · 12 months

I just woke from a deep afternoon slumber and can confirm this is what I felt like as well.

elephantx · 12 months

It's funny because its the same way I feel after a nap.

[deleted] · 12 months

This post made me realize that they should make a movie about Robin Williams' character in Jumani's time when he was stuck in the board game/in the jungle.

Stregano · 12 months

I used to have serious sleep deprivation issues and this happened alot. Basically, because of things I had no control over, Mondays through Fridays I would get at the very most 3 hours of solid sleep a night, and since my sleep schedule was totally fucked up, I only got to sleep during the weekends even though I still had to deal with some stupid shit. Basically, my old job, for 6 weeks, had me working from 8-5 (but I ended up staying until 7 or 8 at night), and then I would work again from 1am-5:15am. This lasted for about 6 weeks, and while it was happening, I had alot of times, normally during the weekends right after I got done working at 5:15am, I would go to bed and wake up at like 4 or 5pm or something since my body was exhausted, and waking up that late threw me off so much.

When I finally got off of that shift, and also walked away from that company, the first open night I had I slept for probably around 20 hours or more. I was not planning on sleeping that long, but it just kinda happened. That was freaky. When I woke up, it felt like I had just fallen asleep like 10 minutes ago, and the time is 4 hours back (from when I went to sleep) since I did not realize I was out for around 20 hours

jabb0 · 12 months

It is a strange sensation. I get why people think about an afterlife.

OdeToKillingMachine · 12 months

Funny story... One time I was really tired after studying for an exam all night, and fell asleep mid-reading my textbook. I woke up at 6:00, a little after I was supposed to get to school for the exam. This was before I had gotten my license, so I couldn't drive to school, and my parents were both mysteriously missing. I was trying every-way possible to contact them, but they wouldn't respond. I started to panic, thinking I was going to miss the exam resulting in a zero. My parents didn't arrive back home until 7:30, when the exam was almost over. I shouted at them, telling them the test was over and I was going to fail the exam. Of course they weren't even phased, they just laughed at me. My exam was at 6:00pm, and I had woken up at 6:00am. ಠ_ಠ

phrz · 12 months

I feel this way too – sometimes I fuck up my sleep cycle so much that one random weekday I just pass out in the afternoon and wake up at 7:00p then my whole schedule's worse.

jerisho · 12 months

WHAT BEAR IS THIS!

knocklessmonster · 12 months

If you wake up delirious and feeling like you've been in a jungle for twenty years, it might be time to buy a fan and drink some water.

sproton · 12 months

Fell asleep at 5 for a 2 hour power nap, wake up at 1 AM.

Airman · 12 months

I can't stand it when I fall asleep in the middle of the day. I always end up feeling groggy the rest of the day.

tsimpson1066 · 12 months

now I have to watch this movie again...

JimenezCLJ · 12 months

Been there, done that

Clayburn · 12 months

Thank you! I've been trying to remember where this quote was from. I use it all the time, as well as other Jumanji quotes. But I didn't make the connection with this one. It was too generic. I assumed it was Back to the Future or something.

unglad · 12 months

I feel a sudden urge to watch Jumanji.

noizyMonkey · 12 months

this movie was on tv the last night, man i can watch it for a 1000 times and still cancel my night out when i catch it on tv

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