The Benefits of Napping

"Why are you so tired?" My mother questioned me scanning my pessimistic face. "Yes, okay ... I slept till late at night and completed my homework." I hope that she will leave when I finish my homework, so I can stay alone Tired, said. "Wow," you said, "You should take a nap!" "No, I need to finish my homework" "My mother answered uncertainly" It was good that she finally left, I continued reading the part of my science teacher assigned to homework in the textbook.

One of my favorite themes is the benefit of a nap. I can not get enough research to confirm the so-called "two phase sleep" sleep schedule - sleep twice in 24 hour work, it usually sleeps at night and then takes a nap in the afternoon - to rejuvenate Ideal way. Brahms fought against the piano and made a famous lullaby. Winston Churchill arranged his cabinet meeting around his nap, arguing that he needed to take a nap every day to cope with his wartime responsibilities. As part of the training program, some of today's top athletes and Olympic athletes will take a long nap in the afternoon. Their nap is as important as their daily training.

No need for anything that can be smarter in just 20 minutes. Shao Yang!

Sarahmednick, a nurse researcher at the University of California, San Diego, boldly told from the results of experiments over 10 years: "I sleep for an hour and a half hour ... you are close to the same benefits of learning." There is time to have a nap Then, the person who studies in the morning will be 30% better than at night when it is not. "Albert Einstein returned home from the Princeton Office at 1:30 pm, after having lunch and taking a nap, I drank a cup of tea to start the afternoon. Thomas Edison played until 3 hours a day. Winston Churchill thinks that negotiations can not be negotiated in the afternoon nap. John Kennedy took lunch in bed, then opened the curtain and played for one or two hours.

Over the years, scientists have studied the advantages of a nap, including a 30 minute nap and a one to two hour sleeping time. Extensive cognitive process execution has been tested. Studies have shown that in some memory tasks, a nap is as good as sleeping. NASA's research, led by David F. Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, found that a nap could improve some sort of memory function and a long nap was more effective than a short nap. In NASA's research, volunteers spent 18 days sleeping schedule in the laboratory over several days. To measure the effectiveness of nap, tests to detect memory, alertness, reaction time and other cognitive skills were used.