Napless

I’ve been tracking my sleep score since 2020. Five years!

But more and more, I find that the most accurate indicator of my sleep is not the sleep score, not the raw number of hours in bed, not how fresh I feel when I wake (it never happens).

It’s when I don’t need a post-lunch afternoon power nap.

Yes that’s right. A nap. When I go napless.

Usually I take coffee naps after lunch. I eat lunch. I take a coffee. And within 30min or so, I would feel the slump for a quick 15min power nap.

But there’s days when I don’t feel the slump, I still force myself to go lay down a bit, and can’t fall asleep for the nap. Those days, I simply don’t need it. Usually it means the night before, I slept well, slept enough.

So if you’re doing your nighttime sleep right, napless is the effect.

Nap if you have to.
But napless is best.