NAPOLOGY KNOW YOUR NAPS

The refresher nap

A 40-minute wonder that actually leaves you refreshed; the nap that leaves your face looking pillowyfresh, not imprinted with pillow-lines. (This nap is a rarity. Never give up hope though.)

The sofa nap

You’ve managed to find a use for your grocery box vegetables and cooked some kind of casserole thing. You are on the sofa and in the blink of an eye it is 3am and there is dribble and you are cold.

The fear nap

“Maybe a nap will help,” you say, throbbing with anxiety about a meeting/ finances/death. And you lie there, your eyes scrunched together while every single particle in your system is tense. Forty-three terrible minutes pass and you get up and have a shower. This is no way relaxing, but hey, you closed your eyes for 43 minutes.

The ‘been hit by a brick’ nap

You are eating the soup/having a chat/doing the admin when you suddenly realise you have no option but to lie down. No option at all. You just have to lie down, on top of the bed with all your clothes on. The last thing you think before you pass out is ‘oh no! I’ve got my contacts in’ but you’ve been hit by the brick and it’s game over.

The hangover nap

Ooh, the relief of slipping into cool sheets when you’ve got a raging hangover. Yes, everything is spinning. Yes, you will feel worse when you wake up and will have to eat your body weight in carbs. But right now it’s just you and the bed. And the shame spiral that leads you straight into a fear nap (see above).