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I set the clock for 20 minutes and i can't fall asleep. So i set it for 40 minutes and i wake up feeling groggy for 2 hours..
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caleb 8mo ago

But if you don’t fall asleep by 40min, then you’ve already wasted 1 hr trying to get a light nap.

No solutions only groggy tradeoffs

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Jeroen Ubbink 8mo ago

I meant that i take the 20 minutes i actually need to fall asleep as extra already for the next time i try to power nap. If i do fall asleep then i probably slept too long entering deep sleep already.

I am not a sleep scientist but i heard you should avoid waking up from deep sleep when powernapping, but i seem to get there very fast.

Bottomline for me is that it's just not working. I thrive on regular schedules at night and since i'm doing that i never really felt the need to do naps during the day.