Friday, April 18, 2008

Sleep: Quantity vs Quality


How is it you get to sleep 9 hours and wake up feeling the most tired man on this earth?

And yet when you catch a cat nap, you wake up feeling so energised and ready to go?


Case in proof...


1. New mattress arrives Tues, I slept 4 hours on Wed morning, 3.5 hours on Thurs morn (i stupidly got the flight time wrong!), woke up fresh cos it's a 1K+ Simmon's mattress vs. my holey ten-year old 4 Star

2. Caught a cat nap just when plane was taking off.. felt like i've been asleep for a day

3. Slept 9 hours (to catch up on the missing hours of the past few) and woke up this morning feeling like Gulliver in Lilliput this morning


YAWN!




1 comment:

Rambling Alcoholic said...

Its called "power-napping", and i think it is relative.

When you power-nap, it may be because you are already feeling so burnt out, and hence a 10 mins shut eye recharges u well. But there is no longevity in that boost.

But a 9 hour sleep may make you start your day groggy, but has the staying power to keep u awake the rest of the day.

How's HCM?