A nap can take us by surprise. We can fall asleep without realizing that we are–without intending to. Besides, all we wanted to do was close our eyes for a minute and lay on the bed. We were going to get up in a minute, right?
It’s only after a nap that we wonder why we took one in the first place. Did we not get enough sleep the night before? Had we over extended ourselves in the past several days? Did we not get in our 8 hours of sleep each night?
A nap is a natural remedy for tiredness–a tiredness that we’ve been ignoring, or maybe we weren’t even aware of. During the day, we might not feel tired, although tiredness has been slowly building up like a pressure cooker. We’ll go about day, getting things done, without realizing that our bodies are starting to shut down, telling us to take a breather and get some rest.
The tiredness is so subtle that it’s not enough to make us go to sleep. But we begin to yawn, rubbing our fatigued eyes, and soon enough, we’re laying down on the bed, falling asleep. Three or four hours later, we wake up, and it’s dark outside, and we wonder if it’s morning or evening.
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