Men over 50 and napping on the weekends

Rarely. I know it's going to frick up my sleep so I'll only do it if I'm on vacation and know the wife won't be peppering me with "honey-do's" the next morning.

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After taking a 2 hour nap the past 2 Sundays

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a nap should be 20 min tops not 2 hours

2 hours isn’t a nap. That’s a lack of sleep at night.

Intentionally or unintentionally, if I’m sitting down on the couch between 3:30 and 5, I’m likely going to knock out a 25-30 minute power nap. It doesn’t happen that often. Maybe a few times a month.

If it’s a later nap, like after 7, I will be up until 11. Besides that, I don’t have issues falling asleep after 10.

I’m not yet 50 but I’ll nap whenever my body is asking for it. As you get older, listen to your body.

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After taking a 2 hour nap the past 2 Sundays, I found that I've had difficulty falling asleep at bedtime.

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I slept from 4-5ish yesterday and thought I had slipped into a massive depression because of how my body felt when I woke up. You gotta keep those naps to 20-30 min or you’ll scramble hour brain.

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After taking a 2 hour nap the past 2 Sundays, I found that I've had difficulty falling asleep at bedtime

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As has been stated, I think you have e found the problem. You call 2 hours A “nap”…I call a nap an “extended blink”. Should be 15-30 minutes. I don’t care your age, a nap is your friend.

45 minutes tops for a nap for me but i nap pretty much every day. No issues falling asleep at night ever. I could never nap for two hours.

Over 50 but also have a rare autoimmune disease that completely messes up everything in regard to my sleep. I rarely ever sleep more than three hours, so every sleep is just a long nap.

I'm narcoleptic... untreated now. I take about two naps a day normally. Still never enough.

Most days. Only around 30 minutes though. Maybe an hour. 2 hours is too long.