Photos That Will Make You Take Nap: Celebrating Public Sleeping Day
Photos That Will Make You Take Nap: Celebrating Public Sleeping Day
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Didn't get enough sleep? Feel free to take a nap anywhere, even in a public place, because there is a special holiday dedicated to this — Public Sleeping Day ... 28.02.2024, Sputnik Africa
It is believed that the holiday is an attempt to draw an analogy with the Japanese tradition of “inemuri” (lit. "present while sleeping"). The essence of inemuri is that a person dozing or sleeping outside the house is a sign that they are tired from hard work. The holiday, which is growing in popularity, is primarily intended to draw public attention to the importance of sleep in human life. It draws attention to the fact that the spread of the tendency to sleep outside home is a clear indicator of the level of psycho-emotional and physical stress that people experience in today's world.The best thing about this day is that it is easy and healthy to celebrate — you just need to take a nap.Take a look a Sputnik Africa's gallery and then go and get a little shut-eye today!
Didn't get enough sleep? Feel free to take a nap anywhere, even in a public place, because there is a special holiday dedicated to this — Public Sleeping Day — celebrated every year on February 28.
It is believed that the holiday is an attempt to draw an analogy with the Japanese tradition of “inemuri” (lit. "present while sleeping"). The essence of inemuri is that a person dozing or sleeping outside the house is a sign that they are tired from hard work.
The holiday, which is growing in popularity, is primarily intended to draw public attention to the importance of sleep in human life. It draws attention to the fact that the spread of the tendency to sleep outside home is a clear indicator of the level of psycho-emotional and physical stress that people experience in today's world.
The best thing about this day is that it is easy and healthy to celebrate — you just need to take a nap.
Take a look a Sputnik Africa's gallery and then go and get a little shut-eye today!
Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2ndR) and Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker (R) sleep as Ireland’s Prime Minister Bertie Ahern attends the two-day Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM), 10 September 2006 in Helsinki.
An environmentalist (R) sleeps on a so-called tripod in the village of Luetzerath, western Germany, on January 11, 2023, as police started the evacuation of anti-coal activists staging an 'active defence' of the village, ahead of a planned demolition to expand a coal mine.
![Students of Ekaterinburg universities take part in the flash mob "Get some sleep." - Sputnik Africa](https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.africa/img/07e8/02/1c/1065297407_0:0:3077:2047_600x0_80_0_1_d2abd89b55ae2ec924cac211b843838e.jpg "Students of Ekaterinburg universities take part in the flash mob "Get some sleep."")
![A woman pulls a trolley with a sleeping child along a street during the country's national "Golden Week" holiday in Beijing on October 2, 2021. - Sputnik Africa](https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.africa/img/07e8/02/1c/1065297990_0:0:3077:2047_600x0_80_0_1_b8a94426c1001b0b505e84396d1b283e.jpg "A woman pulls a trolley with a sleeping child along a street during the country's national "Golden Week" holiday in Beijing on October 2, 2021.")
