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Re: Nap question

Posted by Tom-N-Texas on October 01, 2004 at 06:46:33:

In Reply to: Nap question posted by DCTom on September 30, 2004 at 19:02:06:

Yea I always thought that was silly logic, too. I mean seriously.....if insomniacs were able to successfully take naps, we'd all do it in a heartbeat because it would allow us to relieve our sleep debt and the misery that comes with it.
It's pretty obvious to me that the people giving out advice in books, magazines and the internet are not -- and never have been insomniacs. Otherwise they wouldn't waste their breath (or their paper) giving advice such as drinking warm milk or eating turkey late at night because they would KNOW this advice is absolutely worthless.

Speaking of worthless advice, it's funny because in the last 4 months I have been eating better and jogging in order to bring down some borderline cholesterol numbers I received at my last check-up. Well my work schedule lately hasn't allowed me to jog any time before 7pm. So each night between 7 and 8 pm I go for a 30-40 minute jog. Of course all the sleep experts say to NOT exercise less than 5 or 6 hours before bed. I go to bed between 10:30 and 11:00 each night and have had no problems at all. In fact it's made my sleep much deeper and more relaxing. As much as I hate doing it, I love the way running makes me feel and sleep afterwards.

So in my opinion the sleep experts are wrong yet again. This is just another piece of goofball advice made up by some doctor somewhere that thought it sounded good. The other one that really gets me is the "don't watch tv in bed" thing. Also "use your bed only for sleeping" thing. (Like I'm gonna play checkers or Monopoly on my bed all evening or something)

Yes the list of dumb pieces of advice is long but the two things I find that do help are getting up at the same time each morning and also taking a multi-vitamin -- specifically for the vitamin B.

Ok, I'm climbing down off my soapbox now. Have a good day.


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