Thread: Naps: sitting or lying?

I enjoy taking naps in a chair. Way better than a bed. Lying in a couch is also better than a bed for some reason. I find it easier to fall asleep, when there's people around me. In the livingroom for example

A chair is definently the easiet (in my opinion) because you useally sit in chairs for maybe 5 minutes. You are way more relaxed, when you've ben "inactive" for 5 minutes, and it's way easier to nap. When you go to your bed, you first have to calm down. It may also seem weird for some, to take a nap in a bed.

Sometimes I've found myself falling asleep when sitting in front of my computer doing nothing. Napping is funny, because you go directly into a dream and they are useally very vivid. I've tried sitting in a chair for maybe just 10 minutes, and I directly into a dream. I didn't know of lucid dreaming at the time, so I didn't really use it. Now I've got holliday, so I don't really need to nap, which is actually anoying. I didn't realise how usefull napping is for lucid dreaming

I don't have any comfortable chairs in my house, so I don't do much sitting napping, but I have found that I have better naps on a couch than in a bed. For me a nap has to be different than sleeping in bed, or it doesn't work. Because of this, if I find myself forced to nap on my bed, I sleep ontop of the blanket and with my head at the wrong end of the bed. I normally do have more vivid dreams during napping, but it is always very hard to wake up from a nap. There is a period of at least 10 minutes of waking up, during which the details of dreams are forgotten.

It depends. I do a little of both.

During the summer, I'm up for weights with the football team at 6:30. So I take a nap somewhere between about 11 am and 3 pm everyday. It just depends on the mood of the day, but really I think I'm a bigger fan of the recliner. So I guess it's only half sitting.

Hmm, some progress and two items of news.

The good item being that I've found that I can fully relax and nearly slip off to sleep within a minute or two by counting my breaths (also found that saying "I'm dreaming" after each count doesn't disrupt the relaxation so that should be useful). This I just tested while attempting to take a nap in a chair.

The not-so-good item is that I was just trying to nap and couldn't seem to actually slip into sleep.
I kept nearly drifting into a daydream with my thoughts going independant along with the current daydream storyline for no more than a second and then snapping out of it.
The odd thing is that I don't see any hypnagogic imagery. No flashes, no light, no images, nothing. It's just conceptual thought; what I was thinking one moment becomes independant of my will and goes on evolving...then I snap out.

Any thoughts? Perhaps I still need to grasp the balance of passive withdrawal? Or could it be distractions from the outside world?

Focus on your breath and nothing else. Don't say "I am dreaming". Just focus on your breath and relax.