The government speaks of an “interministerial roadmap for promoting quality sleep”. HAS 20 Minuteswe preferred to qualify the “dodo plan” thing. Presented Tuesday by the Minister of Health, it aims to help the French improve their sleep. Because the observation is alarming. In fifty years, the average sleep duration of the French has been reduced on average by an hour and a half. You can easily incriminate screens. And we can clearly say to ourselves that by reducing the time spent ahead, we will clearly improve our sleep. But will that be enough?
To help us rest, the Minister of Health Yannick Neuder recommends taking a nap, like the youngest children. Even at work? Yes, as far as possible. And practice has followers! 20 Minutes has collected exciting testimonies of adults who sleep regularly at work. At the risk, sometimes, to be called a lazy. But with a unanimous observation: they feel so much better after!
Those who do it in front of everyone
“When I am very tired, I warn my colleagues and my boss that I take a nap and I will lie for half an hour. Edwige takes advantage of the closing of the premises to lie on the sofa in the waiting room of his business. “What is very touching is that everyone is very careful not to make noise so as not to wake up!” These are often very repairing moments, and I am much more efficient and concentrated in the afternoon, ”says our reader. Same observation for Sébastien, professional firefighter. “We know when we leave, never when we come back. These few minutes of respite if the operational activity allows it are a blessing, ”says the fire soldier.
He is not the only one to regenerate for lunch. Capucine rarely misses the opportunity to take a nap. “Whenever I can’t do it, my afternoon is catastrophic. And what does his boss think? “My chef, he has two hours of sport on his midday break. I have lunch in forty minutes then twenty minutes of nap. No one finds nothing to complain about! Claude shares his office and does not dare to go on when his colleague is present. But when he is on a teleworking, he offers himself ten minutes with his eyes closed. “It reboots the brain,” he said.
Those who don’t really have the right
Not everyone has the chance to have such understanding colleagues. Daniel says that his occasional nap is not always well seen in his box. “During the break, I sleep for about twenty minutes. I know that some colleagues have trouble with that. My boss spoke to me suddenly, ”says our reader. Daniel had to explain himself and justify that he was allowed to do so on his break time. “After I am more effective. »»
Eloïse is 52 years old and gets up at 5 a.m. to arrive at the office at 8 am. So, inevitably, at noon, she hits an ugly stroke. Without other solution, she found a corner “under the staircase in the second basement of the building”. Hidden to rest. “I take a look in secret. There is carpet. I sit my back on the wall and sleep almost instantly. A dodo from fifteen to twenty minutes. “I need to cut the day in half like that. Without that, I don’t hold. »»
Those who have their technique
Before going to sea for long crossings, skippers train for months to make microsiests. For them, the main thing is to get used to falling asleep quickly. Their secret? Find a routine. At the office, it’s the same, everyone has their technique. “After lunch, I squat an empty desk with a small video of self -hypnosis comfortably installed on an tilting chair. I come back fresh like a rose to focus better, ”says Capucine.
Alexandre has another technique. When he is alone at the office, he lies on the carpet, often with a podcast. “I have a pillow and a plaid. I usually need five to ten minutes to do so. And then fifteen to twenty minutes from a nap. It is not a real sleep. I no longer call it a ramblings, ”explains the Marseillais. Bertrand works in a company and he takes a nap at the office “almost every day” while watching the program Bring the accused. Everyone has their own Bertrand, we don’t judge.
Those who campaign to have a room
Bertrand’s problem is that he feels alone in his practice. “I tried to instill it in my team, but clearly the French mentality on this subject is not ready,” he regrets. And yet. “I am so much more effective after this rest, the company and I are winners. But then how to encourage practice if it is so beneficial? “The ideal would be to have a real nap room, but unfortunately there is not enough room,” regrets Edwige.
Alexandre also militates so that the coworking space in which he works develops a dedicated room. Without success for the moment. “I did not wait for the government to allow us to take a nap to think about it. In reality, it’s one of my best moments of the day, a real reset that cuts the day in half. And the more I grow up, the more I find it hard to do without it. “Alexandre is categorical:” Almost all my friends from Provence also take a nap in their work. In the south, they even have a word for that: the penetquet.
