This is what happened to me that prompted the question. I was running errands with a chipped toenail and saw an ad for a $15 pedicure, which was 10 bucks less than at the strip mall next to my apartment. It was midday. I went in. The lady who did the pedicure was wonderful - I will be back. Maybe the motions of her hands were so soothing, but I fell asleep. They didn't wake me up. I napped for an hour.

At night, I take mildly sedative Lithium, sedative Elavil, sedative pot chocolate, and, when hypomanic, Zyprexa prn. So sometimes I need four medications just to sleep. Oh, and 12 mg melatonin makes it 5.

This leads me to think that my body refuses to sleep when it knows I expect to fall asleep, but with napping (I had similar incidents earlier), there is no pressure to perform.

I wonder if there is a way to trick the body, because depending on up to 5 medications for sleep is not something I enjoy.