101 ideas for not consecutive sleep

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101 ideas for not consecutive sleep
By CreativeLab

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1. homeowners can make use of their garages while they are at work by using their empty garage space as
sleeping stations.
2. work with the city to allow for "nap parks" where they can use the unused space under bridges and
overpasses for people to park their cars and sleep uninterrupted in their cars and their would be security
patrolling these areas.
3. Partner with ESPN to make a sport out of napping. Where they'll feature athletes taking naps in various
places and how good they are about learning to relax and taking naps as part of their training regimen.
4. create video games where gamers get napping points that they can use for cool avatars and virtual weapons
5. explain how napping helps people save money by not having to buy coffee or red bull
6. get celebrities like Oprah, Dr. Phil, Dr Oz to do public announcements on the importance of fitting a nap into
your schedules to help you physically and mentally.
7. Support individualized power nap research. Different people must have different ways to get into power nap
mode easily. If it is easy, more people will do it.
8. cosmetics companies could add an ingredient into their face and body creams that help people relax or
sleep deeper while they are sleeping.
9. there should be a "Sleeping Channel" that broadcasts how people are creating their own napping/relaxation
areas in their homes. Or, ask shows like HGTV or Extreme Makeover to teach people how to optimize their
homes for napping.
10. governments can subsidize small businesses or give tax credit that allow others' to use their facilities for
napping e.g. yoga studios, dance studios, daycare,..etc.
11. Buy a more confortable pillow
12. Take a relaxation class

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13. again, use the church pews to sleep when there is no church service. The Church can raise some money
this way too.
14. educate people that while they are waiting at the doctors, dentists or even for a friend that this is a
good time to take a nap
15. Almost all companies offer free coffee, almost no company offer sleeping pod. We should start a
movement to have company replace the coffee machines with sleeping pod, or at least offer both!
16. Do aerobic activity instead of sleeping. It helps going down.
17. find a co-worker where you can cover for each other while the other one takes a nap
18. Create an extremely portable "sleeping bag" to be used everywhere. Focus on noise reduction and
darkness.
19. partner with car manufacturers to design seats that can be converted to mini beds (e.g. remove the
armrests) so that people can nap in their cars in their companies' parking lots
20. partner up with mattress stores, furniture stores or Lazy Boy stores or yoga studios and have other
companies' employees nap on the beds (and at the same time they are modeling how comfortable the
beds are)
21. Work chairs to have nap mode
22. Work with unions to negotiate with companies to support napping
23. caltrain/bart or any public transportation should provide lockers where people can store their blankets
and headphones to use to take naps and again they will let you know when your stop is coming up so
you don't miss it
24. Make sure napping continues through K12 education and college
25. Buildings offer a special section for people to take nap (with sleep pod) (google does this!)

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26. Take a nap of 10 min at lunch time
27. Adding a criteria in the "best company to work for" competition to include companies that encourage
people to take a nap
28. Create a nap/sleep study club where we talk nap related issue/ideas
29. Husband and wife schedule power nap at the same time, via social media.
30. Buy a Jawbone up to help you to monitor your sleep
31. Government should sponsor a research to understand why power nap is not taking off even though its
benefits are clear and many companies/people are trying. Once we understood the top reasons, we can
find a targeted solution to spread power nap adoption.
32. Create shows like "Napping Idol", "The Zzzzz Factor", "Napping with the Stars" :)
33. Keep brainstorming on an assignment about sleeping and you will eventually fell asleep =)
34. cruise ships when not in service would make good sleeping facilities
35. retail stores and restaurants should just close for a couple of hours during the day so that their
employees can take naps and customers don't get distracted by going to these places since they are
closed (similar to what they do in Spain)
36. during the afternoons, have buses, trains just run back and forth ('nap routes) to just have people sleep
in them. some people like to sleep in a moving vehicle
37. Support movement like http://startsomegood.com/Venture/napnow

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38. Most people drink coffee or tea during lunch. Invent some drink that can help sleeping afterwards (that
is not alcohol :).
39. Sleeping during the workday, for the most part, remains a taboo. Reverse it! Put together a group of
people so large that not taking a nap become make those that do not feel weird.
40. Create a loud speaker that wake up all the neighbors at night so they break they continuos 8h hours
sleep believes =)
41. Start a competition to see who can get into nap mode the quickest. The participant can pick whatever
methods they prefer, they wear a hand band to monitor their sleep pattern.
42. Start a "nap day" like earth day, or nap week, nap month...
43. show studies that indicate that lack of sleep can actually contribute to obesity. Get insurance companies
to give premium discounts to those that follow preventative sleep deprivation practices
44. Use brainwave application on your phone to quickly move from awake to sleep. Program the app to take
you out of sleep after the amount of sleep of your nap
45. Sleep 2h45m/3h15m with 3 20m naps
46. Develop some special eye shades that can help people to nap quickly
47. Who should we target first in order to expand the culture of napping? Government? Schools? Moms?
48. There are iphone/android apps for power nap, and power nap kits. How do we get more people to use
them?
49. Start a volunteer based organization to have volunteers to teach people about power nap
50. there could be a watch that you wear that monitors your activity rate and will alert you of when it's time
to take a nap. The watch will also beep to wake you up during nap

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51. Create a special back seat accessories that allow people to nap in the car easily
52. create a portable pop up tent to bring with you to the office
53. Teach kids from early days about the coolest of power naps. Take power naps together (or digitally).
54. work with Vogue and other fashion designers on creating fashionable pyjamas that people can wear to
work and take naps.
55. Make sure that you include power napping in your schedule
56. When in doubt, take a nap.
57. Company should offer subsides for employee to use outside nap service (use it or lose it). Government
could offer tax incentive for it much like commuter benefit, etc.
58. meditation is a good alternative to power nap. It can be done sitting.
59. Companies should hire power nap trainers for their employees, once a quarter or half year at least.
60. companies should purchase garden sheds to use as napping cabins for their employees
61. create glasses that have your eyes painted on them to look like you are awake when you are actually
sleeping
62. just like plastic surgery to make people look younger, there is napping surgery that can alter your brain
to think that you've gotten enough sleep. Therefore, you can sleep only 4 hours but your body and brain
thinks it got 8 hours!
63. use the rooftops of buildings to create napping sanctuaries
64. Work with leading media companies to highlight the benefit of napping during the day.
65. there could be a chain of sleeping centers or again partnering up with hotels that have unreserved
rooms and renting them out by 20 minute increments for napping.

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66. Create a website so people can share their nap ideas and stories.
67. partner up with businesses that have excess capacity or are slow during a particular time of day and use
their premises to sleep. Empty or unused office spaces would be the best or empty trucks.
68. Start a challenge/competition for best ideas to enable work place napping
69. Organize napping meetups, once a week? Once people start to experience the benefit of napping, they
may do more of them on their own
70. Biphasic sleep: 6h and 1/2 + 20 min sleep
71. Can we convince Google and/or Facebook to start a power nap movement?
72. Companies/Institutions provide a library area (with books, comfortable chairs) people can read or nap.
Government can encourage this by providing funding or tax break
73. Companies offer special places to allow people to nap
74. Form "nap group" in companies so people encourage each other to take naps and share ideas
75. Start a movement to change US culture about supporting nap during the day
76. use the belt system in martial arts and apply it to napping levels. You can become a napmaster with a
black belt
77. Instead of port-a-potties, create port-a-beds where these things can be transported between events.
78. sleep vacation packages where they don't charge you for the 1st and last day of your vacation because
they want you to catch up on your sleep and to take care of jet lag.
79. conduct a lot of research studies that correlate how napping helps people become more productive,
healthy, sexier, creative and how it helps with the GNP.

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80. computer screens can sense when you are tired and will shut down so that you don't continue to work
since you'll make mistakes anyways.
81. Keep working on finding ideas on an assignment about nap, and you will follow asleep =)
82. Company should explicitly state in their policy that power nap is encouraged and make suggestions on
how and where to do it.
83. Target power nap movement to college students. Offer power nap training to college students. Make it a
mandatory class. Work with student unions to advocate power nap. Make libraries nap places.
Encourage student take a nap in their doom room.
84. Companies need to give their employees 1/2 hour lunch breaks for every 5 hours worked, therefore,
make it mandatory that companies need to give nap breaks too.
85. Encourage people to wear "power napper" in their badge, as a sign of accomplishment.
86. create a smart phone app that actually turns itself off when it senses that it's time for you to take nap.
Therefore, you cannot get distracted by incoming messages.
87. most office desks are long enough to allow people to either nap on top of their desks or underneath it.
Partner up with office desk designers to incorporate a foldout cot from people's cubicles
88. Create a device that can take brain waves and give feedback if you need to take a nap and at the same
time can monitor your sleep and wake you up when you are "done" with sleeping time.
89. create a website very similar to airbnb where people can exchange their houses during the day for
people to take naps. For example: if I have a condo in the city and you have a home in Sunnyvale; I can
go to your home in Sunnyvale and take a nap and you can use my condo to take a nap since you work in
the city and I work in Sunnyvale

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90. Penalize business buildings that have their lights too bright at night, reward companies that install
dimmer type switches so that their office building lights and business signs are not so bright at night
91. Offer noise cancellation headphones to every employee
92. Buy a self-driving Google car and sleep while it drives you to work.
93. create a sort of hat that may look like a beekeeper's hat that you pull down to block out sun while you
are napping and to let others know not to disturb you
94. Organize napping shift at work? 30 minutes per shift
95. Start a research group to understand why most people don't do power nap? Also research people who
do power nap and then figure out a best strategy to get more people to do power nap
96. Restaurants can offer a separate dark room for guests to take a nap right after lunch or later in the
afternoon
97. Develop some natural products that can help people to take a nap quickly
98. Create a special shields/shades in the cubicles that allow people to nap in their cubes easily. Shades are
also good for other privacy activities
99. just like companies have a "mother's room" they should have a "nap room”
100. Hire a sleep trainer to offer suggestions on how to sleep more effectively
101. partner with clothing manufacturers to incorporate a small down pillow into hooded sweatshirts/jackets
so that people always have a pillow to use while on the subway, in a carpool with others,..etc.