It's a fantastic idea, but first we need to change baby boomers' hearts and minds. They are still the bosses. However, like John Mayer said, "some day our generation is gonna rule the population" and perhaps then people can see the importance of sleep. And nap time should also be in place in middle school, high school, and college.

PS I really need some sleep.

One of your classmates is trying to create a business that brings napping spaces to the workplace. Perhaps SOM could be a test market.

Grad student stays up late studying, and doesn't sleep enough. What's to prevent him from using the nap time for study ?

Dream or Meditaion journals? or go the other way and use electronics to track heart rate and breathing and wear a pedometer with wireless bluetooth or something that reports your movements (or lack of) to the GSNT Professor

There's a new style of sleeping bag that hangs from a tree and that you sleep in squatting on the bottom. This gives the benefits of a tent without the weight and hassles. (The bag is nicknamed "Satan's testicle," though not by the mfgr.) If there were hooks installed in the seminar room's ceiling (easy), lots of grad students could be packed into a small space, like bats in a cave.

(This sounds facetious, but I'm a fan of this idea. It would make it practical to sleep on airlines and buses and trains too, if they weren't fully occupied.)

PS: Even if you are one of those who can only drowse in this position, it would be better than nothing.

The formal name of this gadget is The Cocoon Emergency Survival Treehouse, designed by John Moriarty.

But I don't know where it's sold yet--it may only be in the prototype stage.