This isn’t a dream — you can now nap in NYC for $25

This isn’t a dream — you can now nap in NYC for $25
Post reporter Elizabeth Rosner visits The Dreamery.

Stephen Yang

I got paid to sleep on the job Monday — or at least to try.

I’m a borderline insomniac, so I jumped at the chance to try to snooze on the clock at The Dreamery, an upscale new mattress showroom in Soho.

The shop began selling 45-minute naps in one of its curtained-off nooks for $25 a pop this week as part of a promotional gimmick by the bed-in-a-box company Casper. The firm says it wants the city that never sleeps to get better shut-eye and is allowing people to book a nook for up to four hours to snooze.

Staffers first offered me my choice of several beverages, including herbal tea, water and La Croix, along with an assortment of healthy snacks such as apples and cashews. They then handed me navy-blue cotton pajamas, made by the luxury sleepwear brand Sleepy Jones, and I changed into them at a “refresh station,” where I also washed my face and brushed my teeth.

I was then led through a tunnel-like hallway, which was dotted with blue specks of light and seemed plucked from a spaceship to my circular wooden napping pod. It came complete with “meditative” music, a sleeping mask and a customized lighting system.

There were even snooze-inducing books, such as “The Truth about Corporate Accounting” and “The Art of Choral Speaking.”

I climbed under the sheets and tried to channel my inner Sleeping Beauty.

Instead, I spent the next 42 minutes tossing and turning.

My anxiety immediately flared up.

“How often are these sheets washed?” I thought.

“Why wasn’t I offered a hair net? OMG, will I get lice?!?”

The sheets and jammies were clean — workers say they’re washed in between use — but I still couldn’t shake my fears.

Plus, the mattress was a bit firm for my taste (I’m picky), and I kept hearing guests laughing and whispering.

The place was full of other New Yorkers who came to “rest” between business meetings, along with tourists killing time before flights back home.

Just as I was finally starting to doze off, I was jolted awake by bright lights, which automatically flip on after 45 minutes.

As I walked out, I heard a man gush, “This was the best!” And a staffer told me, “You look so rested!”

Well, not exactly. I actually felt exhausted.

I could really use a nap.

Additional reporting by Natalie O’Neill

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