Let's Take a Nap!

I will take your advice. I have a nap scheduled for this afternoon.

Years ago I read somewhere that 60% of industrial accidents occur in the first two hours after lunch. I guess there's something to be said for siestas.

There is an increased urge to sleep and difficulty concentrating after lunch.

http://sleepdisorders.dolyan.com/circadian-rhythm-sleep-disorder/

Don't sleep in public, you'll wake up with no shoes....

Instead of NAP at day time, 10 min meditation is better choice which enhances the ability of frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital and so on ..... for those who have 8 hrs undisrupted sleep at night.

I don't remember nap time in kindergarten. In fact, I don't remember kindergarten at all, although I think I went to one... My first vague school memory is from second grade.

One of the perks of being an old-timer is that I have a couch in my office, and yes, I do frequently take naps. They are seldom as long as an hour, so according to your article, I'm not getting the full benefit.

I remember, we (my twin sister, myself and my best friend Ricky) laid our mats out next to each other, and we always talked.

i came home, and my mom and dad were at the kitchen table, and they asked me and my sister what we did, we told them, and they asked if we to,e our naps, and we told them yes.

dammed if they didnt take out that days local news paper, and on the front page, they had a picture of my sister, myself and my best friend heads propped up and talking to each other while everyone else were taking their nap. Never saw the photographer, guess our conversation was more interesting.

that taught me to be very careful not to lie and to be very aware of what's going on around you.

You woke me up, just to tell me this?

"Doc! You gotta help me, man!"

"What seems to be the problem?"

"Well, I sleep well enough at night, and mornings aren't bad, but I toss & turn all afternoon!"

I'm part of the target age group, but I'm having problems with this sentence, "participants who took shorter, longer, or no naps at all also seemed to experience a decline in mental abilities that is typically characterized by a five-year age increase, according to researchers."

So, if I sleep for 70 minutes I'd be better off to not sleep at all? ?

I never take naps unless I'm really sick so I guess I'll just suffer the consequences.

Yes, but at your age, how can youwe be certain youwe don't take naps? Don't just check the time, check the date too.

Yes, the article seems to suggest that you need exactly one hour for your nap to get a benefit. I suspect that on average 50 or 70 min is less beneficial than 60 min, and that 30 or 90 min are less beneficial than 50 or 70 min...and so on (normal distribution). And I would also suspect that for some people, 45 min may be better than 60 min, but that's not how it comes across in the article.

These nap, I believe that what drives the benefits of taking a nap or not taking a nap is diet.

If you understand what protein, carbohydrates have and the effects that it has on your metabolism. Naps may be unnecessary to a certain degree.

To explain further, from my experience, the requirements for a nap, may be coming into a warm house after a day of logging in the woods. Taking a nap, prior to start milking that evening. (I Grew up on a dairy farm, and my dad logged in the wintertime to feed a sawmill we operated in our free time in the spring, summer and fall to keep the boys busy.)

If I feel sleepy during the day, I take a nap. If not, I don't. Funny thing is that if I felt sleepy before the nap, I feel more alert after the nap.

Sometimes it might only be 10 minutes, sometimes up to an hour. My body seems to know how much I need. Since I eat my lunch at home, it is easy to grab a nap in the early afternoon and just work a little longer that evening.

I'd say I've only napped during the day on average, one or two times a month. But I also make it a point to get enough rest at night. I suspect the day nappers may not be getting enough good sleep at night.

Schedule permitting, I've always napped around 3 pm, for between 45 minutes and 1h, and woken up refreshed, usually feeling the most refreshed I've felt all day. At night I sleep around seven hours. If I can't nap in the afternoon I drag arse until bedtime, so for me daily naps work out very well.

I expect that many of you old timers need a little afternoon nap to keep you fresh enough to find your way home at night.

I'm sharp as a tak and I don'tt hav anee problems with fatige in the afternouns.

Very interesting research. This would be a wonderful benefit -- possibly logistically difficult in an open office though. Barcalounger, anyone?

I'm surprised that the research advocates an hour nap. The conventional wisdom suggests that 20-minute naps -- no REM sleep -- are more refreshing. Evidently not so! No more power naps.

A Barcalounger at work?

Hell yeah!

For the active man