Would You Take a Coffee Nap?

Hello! I read this in https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

and thought of your new morning ritual:
“Last summer, the journalist Daphne K. Lee tweeted about a Chinese expression that translates to “revenge bedtime procrastination.” She described it as staying up late at night to reclaim the freedom we’ve missed during the day. I’ve started to wonder if it’s not so much retaliation against a loss of control as an act of quiet defiance against languishing. It’s a search for bliss in a bleak day, connection in a lonely week, or purpose in a perpetual pandemic.”

Totally works. I discovered them as well in college, when I used to have 90min breaks between courses. Espresso, and then 30 minute nap works wonders!

So strange I have just read this after my coffee this morning, whil struggling Real hard on keeping eyes open and typing correctly!!
Always have my coffee 1st thing in the morning! But on sat/sun. When my body and mind knows it more restful, after my coffee I cant help to go back sleep!! Never mind nap!!!……off to pass out now…

On the rare occasion that I nap, I make sure to drink a cup of coffee beforehand! I have found the same – if I fall asleep before the caffeine kicks in, I wake up feeling so refreshed. Make sure you don’t sleep too long or you just feel groggy.

oh, this sounds so depressing to me. I don’ t know why but it does!

I went to a lecture by Daniel Pink, who researches productivity. He calls them Nappuchinos ?

I am in awe of nappers. I love the idea of it, but I very very rarely fall asleep quickly. If I tried to nap, I’d need more than 20 minutes just to wind down, let alone drift off and stay asleep. The nap would be over before it’s begun!

Daylight Savings reactions are real!! If we would only STAY on the time we have now life would be so much more sane!

I haven’t needed these kinds of naps in a long time (thanks, pandemic), but having worked in professional theatre in NYC for a long time, the combination of coffee naps + disco naps (ie, a late nap before going out) is crucial to surviving long days at the theatre. 6pm coffee+nap = ready for a 7:30pm play!

I would give this a try if my body could handle caffeine! I love coffee but can only drink decaf, otherwise I get incredibly anxious, have to pee all the time, and get the “coffee sweats”.

My brother-in-law calls these rocket naps.

My favorite term for this is the “nappuccino” :)

Works best with an espresso. A nappuccino. ?

Whenever I get exhausted enough to drink coffee in the afternoon (which somehow seems “wrong” to me), I inevitably end up lying down right after drinking it, while mentally berating myself for wasting coffee and ruining my nap (“you’ll never sleep now, you just drank coffee!”). But then I always wake up refreshed about 20 minutes later. Now I know it’s a “thing,” not just me!

I am a doctor and I have never heard of this, but will definitely try it after my next night shift.

Learned about coffee naps as a nurse And when my son was little, I really excelled at them. Why don’t toddlers want 20 minute naps? ;-)

OMG I have been doing this for years!!! I just thought falling asleep on the couch after my coffee meant I was waking up too early. Love this. Cheers to coffee naps!

I don’t want to create a habit of drinking coffee and napping – seems like an odd association!

i feel like this early wake-up thing is a pandemic pandemic. my husband, always a good sleeper, has been up at 4am every morning for weeks…

I am very, very, very, very, very, very jealous of ya’ll who can fall asleep this fast. Haven’t been able to fall asleep in under 30 minutes since I was a child!

Yes!! I’m a lover as naps as it is, but nothing is as effective as a coffee nap. The caffeine is hitting just as you wake up so you get a double dose of feeling refreshed. It’s my go to when I have lots to do (as opposed to my favourite nap, the luxurious 2 hour “sleep”).

I’ve been taking caffeine naps since college! Since starting to work from home I’ve been incorporating them into my morning routine as well! I wake up between 4:30 and 5 to take my dog on a long walk by the beach, we get back and play and train together. Then I enjoy my coffee and head back to bed to take a nap! It’s the best routine

Last summer my 6 month old was in the habit of waking up around 5 or 5:30, so we would get out and take a walk together. It was so nice to have quiet time with her before the rest of the family woke up, and often we would walk to a nearby bagel shop for fresh bagels. I am totally not a morning person, but for whatever weird biological reason I had no issues with it. I don’t know what the difference is, but since the fall I’ve been back to being totally NOT a morning person, no matter how early I go to sleep. I’m really hoping to get back to the early rising pattern this summer because it was such a pleasant way to start the day.

Coffee naps are the BEST. I work full-time and I’m in grad school, so I have been taking full advantage of working from home and taking at least two or three coffee naps a week.

Yes! Coffee naps are real and amazing when the stars align in a way that allows you to take one.