Ok so yesterday I thought I would be sleeping for a total of an hour, tops, right after work and before going to see an acoustic band with my friends. I left my phone on silent and found myself waking up at 12:35 a.m., completely disoriented, to quickly realize that I had slept for six hours straight.
That is not a nap. That is a full REM cycle. Usually I’m pretty good and taking them, you know, for an hour or so, and then heading off to yoga, eating, out or anything else that requires some sort of energy boost.
According to a survey released by the Pew Research center, about 2/3 of Americans nap every day. How healthy it actually is I guess depends on your personal habits. When I interned at El Pais two summers ago, we did not have a lunch hour, but a lunch hour and a nap hour. This was very convenient for those who drove to the newsroom because they could head back home and hit their bed. For us interns depending on public transportation, it was just an extra hour to drink coffee, since attempts to get ahead on our articles were futile. All of our sources were also napping.
What kind of person naps? In this survey they found that poorer, black and men were the thee demographics more prone to take a nap, as well as those over 80. Is it because these particular groups have more free time? Does it have anything to do with laziness? Apparently there is also a correlation between not sleeping well at night and taking naps.
I do both… 
Hey, what can I say, sleeping makes me happy.
