The Art of Extreme Napping 15
When it comes to sleeping in odd places nobody can beat the Chinese, or so says Bernd Hagemann. Bernd moved to the Far East in 2002 and has spent his time taking photographs of Chinese people sleeping in any position and situation. He divides his subjects into three categories: hardsleepers, softsleepers and groupsleepers, and he has more than 600 photographs at his website. Hagemann says,"Whenever I linger through the boomtown Shanghai, I carry my snap shot camera with me. Because at every corner you can discover people that either are napping in the strangest positions and situations, or are even snoring, while sunk in a deep sleep. Noteworthy are the missing mattresses and pillows!" Lets hope Bernd keeps it on the street and doesn't start breaking into houses at night to feed his sleep picture fetish.
This is a global phenomenon (Score:2)
Nice site! I found when I first moved to the developing world that people would drop off without provocation. I figured out that most people in really poor countries lack adequate privacy and comfort at home and are often sleep deprived. If they can put their heads down anywhere during the day, they will. And who'd blame them?
I ran a small computer lab in Sierra Leone that had three shifts of data entry of electoral data. I'd frequently hear beeping as some of the operators fell asleep on their keyboards!
My friend is a an extreme napper (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm envious to my friend. He can fall asleep under 60 secs anywhere, anytime. I cannot get a quick nap even when I'm extremely tired. It always takes me atleast 10 minutes to fall asleep.
I noticed this phenomena, when he was a regular guest to my place. Often I was sitting at my computer, coding something and he would be sitting on my couch, reading stuff. Many times I would realize I was talking to the walls when I started a sentence. Sometimes we would go shopping, and he'd manage to take a nap on a bench while I was inside a store for 5 minutes.
He told me he had teached this himself this cool talent while in the army. On camps and combat training they will deprive you of sleep to see how you can handle it. During these exercises my friend got fed up of being tired all the time, so he started to try and sleep every time they stopped. He would sleep every minute he could and thus was probably the best functioning individual of his unit.
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That's a cool skill to have, how did he teach himself that?
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It's worth trying :)
Thanks
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Happened to me all the time with a mild case of sleep apnea. CPAP machine fixed me up good though....
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Your mind will make a link between these two and probably make it easy to fall asleap when you picture yourself in that specific situation. It might take some time, maybe even a month or two, for the link to sink in.
Be careful to not choose something you can run into in everyday life though; it looks a bit s
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hahaha great stuff.
I'll try that, thanks.
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The buddhists are the group of people I respect most and agree with :)I live in Schiedam, maybe I'll try the temple in Amsterdam :)
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It's kind of a joke that privates come with a sleep button installed on their ass. It's a common thing for new soldiers to develop. Some even learn to sleep with eyes cracked a bit.. looks like they are still awake.
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Heh, that one certainly brings back memories. When I was in the Army I used sleep in all sorts of places. It didn't really matter where. Now I have been out for four years and naps are out of the question, even though I am constantly staying up late and depriving myself of sleep. Maybe it has something to do with sleep deprivation + PT in the morning? ;)
wow (Score:1)
He's really crazy man :)
Standard Army Issue (Score:1)
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