How long should a nap be?

You may be familiar with overwhelming drowsiness at noon in the afternoon. Regardless of whether you ate lunch this is very common, and it is caused by the natural decline between 1 pm and 3 pm. So, if you are in a place where you are taking a nap and you can take a nap, please do it one day.

If you have time to take a nap for a while, you can relieve drowsiness sooner and you can raise awareness within a few hours by waking up. And there are many other advantages

In countries with Greek, Brazilian and Mexican narrative culture, the nap rate is high including early "quiet time" in the afternoon, people can go home and rest. In these countries up to 72% of people sleep four times a week.

A nap is beneficial for not only weakening drowsiness and alertness but also improving cognitive function, reaction time, short-term memory, and even emotion.

Our research (unpublished) shows that snoring people feel alarmed after a short afternoon nap, and occasional snoring people sometimes

Another research team discovered that after snoring normal, motor learning is a reason for changing as new skills are learned compared to those who do not snore.

Indeed, the overall benefit of a nap is similar to the overall benefit of drinking caffeine (or other stimulant), but there is no side effect that depends on caffeine and it can be discontinued sleep at night There is.

The time you actually take a nap depends on how much time you have, how it works, and the schedule for the next night. Generally, the longer you take a nap, the more rejuvenated when you wake up.

A long nap of 1 to 2 hours in the afternoon means that you are not so sleepy that night (and need less sleep). This may mean that it takes longer than usual to fall asleep

If you get up later than usual or plan on going to bed for a while before going to bed, it's not that much. After that, I will take a nap for about 5 hours. This is the length of normal sleep cycle. You will experience a deep sleep in about an hour or so and then have a light sleep in the past 30 minutes.

If you wake up during a light sleep, you will be refreshed. However, it does not awaken with a deep sleep. If you sleep too long and you missed a slight sleep at the end of your nap you may feel bored and sleepy. Do not worry if you get sleepy after a nap - this feeling is temporary, it disappears after a while.

Another alternative is a short "power" nap. A short nap of 10 to 15 minutes markedly improves the awakening, recognition and mood just after waking up. These benefits usually last for hours

Because you do not feel any dullness or drowsiness after you wake up, the power nap is amazing. This is because I did not enter a deep sleep during this short period of time.

Studies have shown that a short nap to noon nap can bring the greatest rejuvenation compared to other naps during the day. But if you are going to stay awake and staying, however short shirt nap can help you keep alert

For those who did not fully understand zzz last night, a nap might help keep things focused. It is unknown how long a nap should last - in one study memories improved significantly after 90 minutes of a nap. However, in other studies it has been shown that alertness can be improved even in a few minutes of nap. On the other hand, some scientists say that if you include a dream, nap can only improve memory. Regardless of whether it's "listening" to a friend talking about her BF or just strolling around the neighborhood, the mind will go on in a strange direction many times. But do not stop the brain - it shows that there are many cognitive benefits in thinking like the ability to improve creativity and solve problems.

SALAMEDNIC, a nap researcher at the University of California, San Diego, boldly said from the results of more than 10 years of experiments: "I sleep for an hour and a half hour ... you can get the same benefit in your research. Organize it within your sleeping hours. "If they spend their nap, the people studying in the morning will get 30% better at night than when they are not." Albert Einstein said at 1 pm After returning home from the Princeton office in 30 minutes, I had lunch and took a nap and then had a cup of tea to start the afternoon. Thomas Edison played until three hours a day. Winston Churchill believes that his afternoon nap can not be negotiated. John Kennedy had lunch in bed, then opened the curtain and played for 1-2 hours.