Help Your Memory, Take an Afternoon Siesta!
Filed in archive Cases , Studies on January 10, 2008
Do you take a nap everyday? I do, though not everyday. Say 2-3 times a week.
Since I am a night owl, I can't sleep before 1 AM. Thus, an afternoon nap is really beneficial to me.
Not only is a daytime nap beneficial to your tiredness, it actually can help speed up the process of long term memory consolidation.
At least a ninety minute daytime nap, according to University of Haifa researchers:
Long term memory is defined as a permanent memory that doesn't disappear or that disappears after many years. This part of our memory is divided into two types - memories of "what" (for example: what happened yesterday or what one remembers from an article one read yesterday) and memories of "how to" (for example: how to read Hebrew, how to drive, play basketball or play the piano).
In this new research, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Haifa in cooperation with the Sleep Laboratory at the Sheba Medical Center and researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Montreal, it was revealed that a daytime nap changes the course of consolidation in the brain.
Well, I only know that a daytime nap is recharging. But if there are more benefits (like the one stated above), I can't see any reason why we should prevent ourselves by taking a nap daily?
However, if you are on the 8-5 job, napping may pose a problem. But if you work at home like me, nobody is going to fire me if I am caught napping.
Find more details from University of Haifa.
In this new research, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Haifa in cooperation with the Sleep Laboratory at the Sheba Medical Center and researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Montreal, it was revealed that a daytime nap changes the course of consolidation in the brain.
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Marijke
(01/12/08 8:11pm)
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Gloria
(01/13/08 10:16am)
hey there Marijke! thanks for visiting this blog. Yeah, working at home is heaven. we can naps anytime we want -- as long as naps don't compromise our online commitments.
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Believe it or not, the best way for me to function is to get up early between 6 and 7, and then go back to bed for a 30 minute or so nap around 9 or 10. Then I do the same thing mid afternoon.
I can't do this every day, but the days I do, I feel much better. I go to bed anywhere between 10 and 1, depending on what I'm doing and how I'm feeling.
People have tried to make me feel guilty about my naps but I worked in an office environment for a few months last year, and I was just so tired because I couldn't get in my naps. Now that I work from home again, life is good. :-)