For ages, I envied people who could nap – power naps, two-hour Reagan naps, any kind of nap. I simply couldn’t fall asleep during the day.
Then about a year ago my body turned 67, and it did a 180. I can now fall asleep in the afternoon faster that you can say pillow.
I can even nap after drinking half a dozen cups of coffee from break of day to lunchtime.
A little over 20 years ago, when I turned 46, I suddenly found I couldn’t get to sleep at all if I drank much coffee after 5 PM. I’d be wide awake at 5 AM!
Not now. Heck, I can drink a Red Bull and take a nap or get a night’s sleep.
Just as infants change dramatically as they grow into toddlers, then children, I’m starting to think the same think happens after we turn 65. And I’m also observing that, in my case, the deceleration is at about the same speed as was the acceleration six decades ago: fast.
Well, Time For A Nap
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