There can be no doubt that the after lunch sleep is the best sleep of the day.
While a good few hours at night are beneficial the 20–30 minutes set aside from the world feel more refreshing and possibly better for you. In fact the actual sleep time here is often less than 5 minutes, but overall when you wake the troubles have lessened, the mind is clearer, the world a better place.
Of course, you need to sleep at night, God gave us this few hours coma to remind us that we are but mortal, and not the God like creature we consider ourselves to be, but also it is meant to rebuild us from within. When under stress, pain, overwork, travelling or the blessing of children of course, we lack sleep and gain irritability. The world becomes our enemy instead of a friend.
Winston Churchill, a man you may have heard off, was adept at cat-napping. Of course, he was at one point leading a war effort, and that is a 24 hour a day job, so such sleep is required. Soldiers in the field will also understand this. Talking of battles brings us back to children again, mothers, especially of toddlers and below, also suffer sleep deprivation, and blame the man for this!
A third of our short lives are spent in sleep. Roughly eight hours a day are in a temporary coma. Sometimes hospitals will put a patient in a coma to help speed up healing, sleep works wonders sometimes.
For me, the bright morning wake me early at 5 am or shortly after, deep sleep is slight after this. In the dark days approaching us I will no doubt struggle to rise before 8 am! But at the moment I require the nap after lunch, and I recommend it to all, especially the retired, as we can enjoy the time without the awful thought that we must return to employment like the rest! Happy days.
