Someone in the chat group I'm in was like, “I don't know whether I need a coffee or a nap”.
I just had a nap.
Take the nap.
@tariqk apparently some research said coffee and a nap is better than coffee or a nap.
@Sweet_Tango_Chill Wait, coffee before a nap, or after?
@tariqk if I remember rightly that wasn't clear from the article but probably after right?
@Sweet_Tango_Chill I remember reading somewhere that it might be before. That's why I wondered. You drink that coffee, take that (power) nap, and when you wake up the caffeine kicks in.
@tariqk that makes sense. I'm very sensitive to caffeine (like most mind altering substances) though and it works very quickly on me. I wouldn't get far before bouncing off the walls
@Sweet_Tango_Chill Oh! Caffeine does the opposite to me. It knocks me out, and then I wake up feeling jittery, paranoid, and can no longer focus.
@tariqk the jittery, paranoia happens to me when I'm particularly tired I think I need the willpower to channel it in to useful energy. It wasn't that long ago
They took my advice! Now they want chocolate.
@tariqk yummmmmm, chocolate.
@tariqk I tend to do the reverse: have a coffee, powernap, and get woken up by the caffeine kicking in. Doesn't mean it's the right thing for your body, but it works pretty great on mine.
@kellerfuchs Exactly this. @Sweet_Tango_Chill
@victriviaqueen work ought to mandate nap spaces.
@tariqk Totally agree! Nap pods would be welcome.
@victriviaqueen I tell you this, come Ramadan, the armchairs in our rec-room will become a battleground as hordes of sleep-deprived Muslims stagger their way for their (futile) attempts to get back some sleep.
@tariqk I work on a University campus. I'm quite surprised there are no nap spaces. The students sleep as-is where-is on desks, chairs, and even in the library stacks...
@victriviaqueen Well, students, tho.
I remember the days when they'd have blood donation drives in the old college I went to. You know what that meant? CAMP BEDS TO FALL ASLEEP IN AS THEY SUCK THE BLOOD OUT OF YOU AWW YISS.
After that, free chocolate drinks and biscuits. YES.
@tariqk Here we do blood drives in chairs. No sleeping! They hustle people through. (They have a couple of cots in case someone passes out though).
Like, honestly, this is a pretty universal advice:
You may love coffee, but if you *need* a coffee, what you're needing isn't the caffeine boost, it's the thing that's making you need a caffeine boost.
If you can nap, that means you have the time, the ability, and the opportunity to take the nap. That happens far less than your opportunity to get or make a coffee, which takes less time.
Ergo, just take that fucking nap.
And if you still feel like shit after, THEN you can take that coffee.