When I first got socked by chronic fatigue syndrome in my teens, I wondered the same thing.
I think it's that I wasn't given consent over *when* I had to take a nap in early childhood, so I just ended up lying there bored out of my mind and not actually sleeping. Ugh! (Also, I have never in my life woken up from any amount of sleep feeling better (less sleepy, less fatigued) upon waking: usually I was quite worse for a couple of hours, so it was probably a good thing that I couldn't sleep on command, as my parents would have been even less happy with the results of “nap time” than I was.)
Anyway, by my late teens, the chronic fatigue got so bad that I could sleep literally anytime during daylight hours, so it's not as if I'd be lying there not sleeping. But I'd nearly always regret taking the nap when it was over. I think napping *does* help restore some of my energy, but it doesn't *feel* like it till an hour or so after waking up from the nap.
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Date: 2016-07-07 01:17 am (UTC)I think it's that I wasn't given consent over *when* I had to take a nap in early childhood, so I just ended up lying there bored out of my mind and not actually sleeping. Ugh! (Also, I have never in my life woken up from any amount of sleep feeling better (less sleepy, less fatigued) upon waking: usually I was quite worse for a couple of hours, so it was probably a good thing that I couldn't sleep on command, as my parents would have been even less happy with the results of “nap time” than I was.)
Anyway, by my late teens, the chronic fatigue got so bad that I could sleep literally anytime during daylight hours, so it's not as if I'd be lying there not sleeping. But I'd nearly always regret taking the nap when it was over. I think napping *does* help restore some of my energy, but it doesn't *feel* like it till an hour or so after waking up from the nap.