Sunday, December 31, 2006

The best thing about the holidays...

...is napping. Forty winks. Catching a few zeds. Or as the Brit pater familias always put it, with that strange human reluctance to admit that we're actually going to sleep during daylight hours: "Going upstairs to contemplate the Mysteries of the Infinite."

I am now firmly of the opinion that remaining fully awake through an entire afternoon is against human nature, all religions and the inherent mechanical laws of the Universe.

6 comments:

  1. Hmmm.

    Considering I will spend, with the exception of a span so tiny as to defy measurement, all of time in oblivion, I find sleep a waste thereof.

    4-6 hours a night works just fine. The prospect of spending an hour on my back staring at the ceiling has absolutely nothing to recommend it.

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  2. Anonymous5:22 pm

    Skipper,
    If you can see the ceiling, then there is a problem with your sleeping technique.

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  3. Peter:

    And what do you do with all that time you're not wasting? We gather music is out and I hope you aren't flying 18-20 hours a day.

    Thanks ever so much. Now I'll be doing the rug dance for Duck, attempting to excuse my paltry output.

    Duck:

    There's a technique? Who knew?

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  4. Anonymous12:59 am

    Brit: I'm with you in theory, but in practice napping leaves me all muddy headed and out-of-sorts. I, too, need to work on my technique.

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  5. Practice makes perfect.

    There does seem to be a tipping point for me: 25 minutes or less of dozing is refreshing and delicious. More than that and I go into the deep sleep that leaves me feeling like hell and with a surreal distortion of my sense of time, so that this morning feels like last month.

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  6. Some of us would love to nap but singularly fail to - even on long-haul flights - taunted by visions of waking up and finding that 100 years have passed or that the house is on fire.

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