“I’LL BE NAPPING, BUT I WON’T BE ENJOYING IT.”
Sophie Moss is exhausted. She has been working non-stop and is recovering from the flu while juggling life with three kids. Today, when her partner David Son offered to get the kids out of the house so she could get some rest, she insisted that she, “Didn’t have time to rest!”
Once her family was gone, Sophie conceded that she could benefit from a nap, but not a long one.
Sophie tells, “You have to ensure that you don’t get comfortable. Blinds are open. I won’t wear my teeth-grinding mouthguard. Luxuries like blankets are a no-no, obviously.”
Sophie has her reasons for not wanting to sleep too long. While her massive to-do list was playing on her mind, more importantly, she didn’t want her family to catch her napping. She feared this could weaken her earlier argument that she “Has to do everything around here!” and that she “Never gets any time to myself!”
Sophie joins a global movement of ‘Uncomfortable Nappers’, a group of people that want to nap but also don’t want to nap. For some, uncomfortable napping is the ultimate ‘Life Hack,’ where the body and mind’s discomfort act like a natural alarm clock. For others, they can only ease their guilt about taking a nap by removing any possibility of enjoying themselves.
Sophie says, “Sometimes I deliberately sleep on my arm so it goes dead and wakes me. Usually, it takes 40 minutes to fully lose feeling – the perfect nap duration.”
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