Afternoon nap - not just me then

Just in from choir-one of the songs we rehearsed was "nightmare song" Gilbert and Sullivan-all about not sleeping! Ha! Ha! Have a listen on YouTube.

I have about five hours sleep a night,occasionally it catches up with me and I will have a good night.Remedies would be appreciated.

Sounds like a good system Rubylady-you have to do whatever you can that works for you. I was tossing and turning last night till nearly 3am so am tired now but have to be up for work now (only part time and for our DD1 so I can come and go pretty much as I like work permitting).
Will try to have a power nap after lunch but not for long as I'm at choir tonight.
I read somewhere about drinking coffee before you snooze in the day so you don't go into a deep sleep for a long time-that works for me. If I sleep too much in the day I definitely won't sleep at night that's for sure.

I sleep during the day, not nap, sleep, for about two hours, in bed all snuggled up. I love it. And I need it. If I don't have it then my health suffers later in the day. I know I keep late hours but I have problems to deal with normally so to be pain free at bedtime, around 11pm is very unusual. So I sit on here and enjoy your company while painkillers work and then go off happily. I am lucky just to get some sleep no matter what time of day. To be deprived of sleep is awful and can make illnesses so much worse. Enjoy your naps!

Aaaaaaah! All you lucky people who sleep so well AND after a snooze in the day too (green face)

I believe I am correct to say that Sir Winston Churchill always had an afternoon snooze to split his day in two. My DM liked an afternoon nap for 20 minutes. I can remember quietly nodding off whenever Postman Pat was on TV and my DD would watch the programme. Hearing the theme tune now makes me want to just quietly close my eyes for just a few minutes......really.

I am increasingly making a point of having a sit down and allowing myself to take a nap about 4pm. This afternoon it was about 15 to 20 mins in front of the snooker and I feel much better for it.
In praise of an afternoon nap.

I can have 40 (or more) winks in the afternoon and still have a very good night's sleep. If I happen to put my feet up on my bed, I can sleep for an hour at least which still doesn't stop me sleeping all night. I know I'm lucky.

When we were children, we were taken fairly often to visit my grandparents. There would always be other family members there too. One by one, the adults would fall asleep in their chairs. My nanna would remove her teeth and put them in her apron pocket but my grandad's top set would slip down as he snoozed with his mouth open. Once this brief entertainment was over we children had to wait for the adults to wake up. There was nothing to do but listen to the big, black mantle clock ticking away. It was so boring. I vowed that I would never have an afternoon nap but I do sometimes indulge, especially if I've had a disturbed night.

Oh yes, rosesarered the warm conservatory.... zzzzzzzzzzz

Especially in a warm conservatory.

I sleep like a log at night and now and then have a snooze in the afternoon for an hour.All depends on what we have been doing, as an energetic toddler here for the morning will make a snooze in the afternoon a certainty!

I do not suffer insomnia thank goodness but I suppose I am so used to switching off my light at midnight, up to the loo once during the night and sleeping like a log until 7.30-8am or as long as my cat will allow me, so I do not need a snooze. Good if it does not stop you sleeping during the night.

Charleygirl I can nap in the afternoon, dose off during one of H's riveting TV programs in the evening and still get 7 hrs most nights, though I have been known to be up at 5 or 5.30 am.
My sympathies to those who suffer insomnia

shysal David Attenborough always sends me to sleep, and I do find his programmes interesting.

Alea my bil lives in France and he found it annoying that they took long lunch breaks and worked late. He wanted to have a short break and get back to his family in the evenings. Now when he comes over here he thinks we work too long hours, wants to go cycling at lunch time and still finish at 5pm. He doesn't come over very often.

I am amazed that you can still have a decent night's sleep having had 40 winks.

Alea funnily enough, my DD who is a teacher said something like this to me on Sunday. How if she could just have a little nap, things would be so much easier. Sadly there is work to do, even during the short lunch break.

Oh, I so do need that snooze in the afternoon. If I am volunteering or out somewhere, I seem to be OK, but if at home that 30 mins just hits the spot.

When I was working I used to go to my car for 40 winks at lunch time, with a timer, which would charge my batteries for the rest of the day. I don't deliberately have a nap now that I am retired, but if I have eaten lunch in the sunshine I will close my eyes for a while.
There are certain TV programmes which always send me to sleep during the evening, especially Masterchef. I might have to rewind 3 or 4 times before I get to the end!

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/26/french-workers-deserve-15-minute-nap-after-lunch-says-new-study/

Missed off the link