I called the 25 minute nap alarm "laziness" right up until I fell asleep at a red light in Salinas

Miles Taylor · 2026-09-15T23:05:04.500841+00:00

For the longest time I thought people who took midday naps were just being lazy and that a real work day meant pushing straight through until dinner. My coworker at a packing house off the 101 in Salinas kept telling me she did a 25 minute nap in her car at lunch and I honestly laughed at her for it. Then last month I nodded off at a red light on Main Street around 2pm and woke up to a guy honking behind me, and that scared me straight. I started setting a timer and sleeping in my truck bed during lunch, and here is the wild part, my afternoon error rate on the sorting line dropped to almost nothing. Eight hours of solid work with one 25 minute crash beats ten hours of me zoning out and redoing tasks. I even bought a cheap sun shade for the windshield so it stays cool in there. So now I am the person preaching car naps and I feel like a hypocrite. What is the shortest nap that actually resets you for the rest of the day?

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