Napping while listening

When I was working (I retired a few months ago) at the end of a long day I would sit in my recliner, start enjoying music and frustratingly fall asleep as my enjoyment was starting to peak.  Something about removing stress that allows fatigue to emerge.  Retirement has solved that problem.  I highly recommend it.

 Retirement has solved that problem.  I highly recommend it.

My only hope is reincarnation...

@mahler123 I have 5 years and 10 months till retirement and I think about it every single day.  Can;t wait to join the ranks. 

I am 67 with no plans of retiring. 

 I don't think I've ever felt like napping when I listen. If I am that tired, I will usually refrain from listening, or keep it short.

Also, most of the music I listen to is not really conducive to falling asleep to. It tends to require a certain level of focus, and concentration. Much of it is not exactly 'easy listening'. 

Also, most of the music I listen to is not really conducive to falling asleep to. It tends to require a certain level of focus, and concentration. Much of it is not exactly ’easy listening’.

@simonmoon I certainly get that. Usually when I sit down for a real listening session it involves content that I would never have on while doing the aforementioned. Like Jazz.

I'm 66 and no plans to retire either.  

I don't go to bed without turning on some Japanese Samurai Zen ambient or pretty much any oriental ambient especially ones including flute or fiddle.

Getting asleep for me is a CHALLENGE, but certain music and certain wines (Pinot Noir is primary choice) at dinner really help to do so without any Rx drugs.

I don't see myself as retired at all and planning to stay onsite for as long as I can.

I have been retired now for 11 years and have enjoyed every minute of it, but have to say if my wife ever came home and found me on the floor a sleep while the music is going she might think the worst and start the funeral arrangements. Can only hope that I wake up before I hit the cremation process. Enjoy the music 

I enjoyed a nap even before I retired, sometimes even at home. But napping for me is a quiet-time activity; don't need or want a soundtrack for it. 

Some of my favorite sessions are when I am in my recliner listening to music with the lights off and eyes closed and the music fills my consciousness and I flit back and forth along the thin line of consciousness and unconsciousness.

I sleep/stay awake sometimes like ghdprentice between two worlds  because i am too happy by the sound/music...

When i listened @simonmoon

type of music i stay plain awake but i dont know why ... 😁😉

and sorry thecarpathian retirement could be our only reincarnation ...😁

As czarivey i need ambient specific music but only when anxiety invade my body to go relax out of the void more than to go asleep ...😐

Most of the times i am happy and dont want to go to sleep...I walk as in a trance and ideas flows like music ... I like jazz to relax, Bach to think, and Persian and Indian modes to feel better and piano as my favorite instruments.

Try yoruba speaking drums to feel your body dynamic...

@tooblue you are speaking as if your wife is young girl married you to inherit part of your wealth.

I've dated such lady in the past working as private driver of a very rich and old man...

Retired 8 months now at age 69.  I find music a potent tranquilizer for the soul and and escape from mundane pressures.  I have napping , or falling to sleep  I have been napping, been between the two worlds described by @ghdprentice, or outright falling into a dead sleep since the late 60’s and early 70’s listening to Alison Steel sultry voice discussing and playing classic rock late night on WNEW NY on a pair of Koss Pro 4AAs driven by a Pioneer SX 828.  I rarely made it through her program it hear Flying/Beatles before being in dreamland.  Fond memories of a simpler time. 

I have a custom mix CD of Elton John I play when I go to bed. If I am not asleep by the 5th song I get up and watch TV for a bit.

I retired early when I became financial free of all debt and able to make way more money retired than when working. Should have retired even earlier, you only live once, enjoy it.

if I wake up early and can’t go to sleep, I’ll turn on some tunes and there’s a good chance I fall back to sleep. Jazz and blues can do this. But listening to Dream Theater or other heavy music, I’m up for the duration. If both my wife and I are up trying to sleep, we will put on some Pink Floyd or Alan Parsons on our bedroom system to fall asleep.

Retired at 60 and love it.  Busy as ever.  How did I find the time before. Listening to every record I own and entering it into Discogs.  A multi year process. 

Freud, I believe wrote about the state between sleep and being awake. I often fall into that space and might go in and out of wake and sleep, while listening on my great rig. I have always thought it allowed me to experience things in ways that I could not while fully awake. 

I often nod off while listening in the evening after work. I nap on Saturday and usually have a great Saturday night listening session. Sunday evenings are pretty good, too.

Just under 2 years to retirement... can’t wait to ramp up my needle dropping efforts and spend more time listening!!

IME, there are two types of retirees. Type one lived to work and retired because, well, it’s what you do. Three weeks after the retirement party, (it’s never 2 weeks or four weeks), he is popping into the office to say hello, even though he lives nowhere nearby. He will mumble some excuse about being in the neighborhood. The visit is very awkward and uncomfortable for everyone, and he never returns.  This guy has no hobbies, an empty nest, and now realizes he doesn’t like his wife as much as he thought he did when he only saw her on nights and weekends.

The second type is never seen or heard from after the retirement party. He has one or more hobbies, enjoys being around his home, and is too busy to stay in touch with his work comrades. I know I will be in this category. Got the Retirement Countdown Clock app on my phone...tic, toc....

Freud, I believe wrote about the state between sleep and being awake. I often fall into that space and might go in and out of wake and sleep, while listening on my great rig. I have always thought it allowed me to experience things in ways that I could not while fully awake. 

This is totally it.  Its a strange but very cool place. I can't do it unless there are some sounds around to hang on and I am tired enough to even get there.  Otherwise you are either awake or asleep.   I sent this to another friend who listens to music and he said he hears elements/instruments that he doesn't notice as much when he is fully awake. 

I didn't mean I use this to nap.  

I retired last year and am looking for work again. I am being fussy. Needs to be 100% remote or a Hybrid/remote within 5 miles of my home. Lots of rejections. Ageism is for real.

I tend to nod off if listening to mellow Jazz or Chill Electronic. Good thing I stream about 95% of my music. That's also why I will only own a vintage auto-return turntable. Lately, however, I have seen some tempting semi-automatic or auto-stop tables that I might be able to afford in five years, when they hit the used market.

One of my favorite things to do late at night  is tune into one of my playlists on Qobuz. My lists are pretty long so I can start in different places each time I do this. I make a mental note of the starting song, try to remember the last song being awake and enjoying and then seeing how many songs I have enjoyed while sleeping by counting the number in between. Sometimes it is only a couple but there are times when I have roused myself hearing only silence. Definitely time for bed in those instances.  

Like @ghdprentice and @mahgister I frequently fall into a meditative state while listening. I feel the “spirits” of the musicians and composers. Better than sleep!

Listening to music through my system excites me, engages me, places me near the performers, places me in whatever intended environment within the recording, and makes for an escape from whatever nasties I experience daily in my life. I am all in. For me, I am " feeling the musicians " and, ingulfed in the compositions. I never get tired during a listening session. And this " meditative " state that is being spoke of.....it seems like the wrong word, at least to me....especially, if you ever really meditated. My word..." absorbed ". Enjoy ! Always, MrD.