Snoozy

[zoidberg]

Soldiers and shorthanded sailors alike benefit from the habit of catching some zzzzeds whenever practicable. There are large benefits from making this a habit.....


What-happens-to-your-body-when-you-take-naps-every-single-day?


I've known about this, and used it, since my mil flying years..... and these days, even a 10-minute zizz in a layby restores concentration and focus. Same on a boat.

 

[LittleSister]

I've known about this, and used it, since my mil flying years.....

Do you no longer fly your mother-in=law?

 

[GHA]

Power napping isn't really news to single handers

 

[john_morris_uk]

Soldiers and shorthanded sailors alike benefit from the habit of catching some zzzzeds whenever practicable. There are large benefits from making this a habit.....


What-happens-to-your-body-when-you-take-naps-every-single-day?


I've known about this, and used it, since my mil flying years..... and these days, even a 10-minute zizz in a layby restores concentration and focus. Same on a boat.

Completely agree. What we used to call a ‘combat nap’ or a power nap’.
One big benefit of my mil training is the ability to grab sleep.
( It annoys my wife no end that I can go to sleep anywhere and it annoys her even more that I can wake up and be on the go instantly. She insists that she has to wake up slowly.)

 

[Tomahawk]

I have to wakeup slowly is long hand for I don’t want to do whatever you are doing.

 

[john_morris_uk]

I have to wakeup slowly is long hand for I don’t want to do whatever you are doing.

Or in my case “She doesn’t want to get up and work.”

 

[zoidberg]

Completely agree. What we used to call a ‘combat nap’ or a power nap’. One big benefit of my mil training is the ability to grab sleep.

"A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away...."

I was 'talking ballast' in a Canberra towing a sleeve target at Wembury Range, just SE of Plymouth Breakwater, for the Navy's gunnery school there. This involved flying an extended racetrack pattern pulling 6000' of wire with a 'Dayglo windsock' on the end. Once established in the pattern - which overflew part of Plymouth - there was nothing for me to do, so I lay in the nose on the bombaimer's mattress, watching the sailboats. It was a warm day......

I woke up with a startled grunt "Hah!"..... to hear a very similar grunt "Huh!" from my pilot........ He'd fallen asleep, too.

 

[mainsail1]

I remember a problem called "wire creep" where the gun control system gradually moved the point of aim from the target up the wire to the aircraft. Maybe if you had known about that it would have kept you awake. I went back to Wembury a year or two ago, all trace of the gunnery range has gone.

 

[Blueboatman]

BOC era French entrant claimed to be so good at micro napping that he could fall asleep at a dinner old joke telling and wake up in time for the punchline ??