If you think naps are effective, give meditation a shot.
What Naps Do For Your Brain
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#12If you think naps are effective, give meditation a shot.
Usually when I try to nap, that's all it winds up being -- me laying there thinking, and eventually giving up on the nap.
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#14I was never a nap guy. But in testing our biosensing watch I've been amazed that naps reliably reduce my stress and in as little as ten minutes. I'm now up to over 20 naps and they've all had the same effect. I wonder actually if the cognitive benefits might be due more to reduced stress and anxiety. It's something we'll continue to investigate.
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#15Naps never help me. Is it just me or people here feel much more drowsy after taking a nap too?
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#16Tony Schwartz in his book "The Way We're Working Isn't Working" is big on naps. It's basically the crux of the book. In it, he mentions a study on laboratory mice. They were deprived of sleeping or even being unconscious until they died.
From this Tony Schwatz deduces we have a daily nap.
Michel Jouvet[1] was the researcher who developed Modafinil. In one of his experiments, Jouvet deprived cats of sleep until they drowned in a vat of water. On average, the cats survived 35 days with only micro-sleep[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Jouvet [2] http://psychology4a.com/sleep8.htm
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#17At our office we keep a cot in an office on the 2nd floor. Almost everyone on the dev team has grabbed a nap at some point. I'd rather a 20 minute nap and feel refreshed then trying to keep slogging away drowsy from whatever reason (big lunch, up late the night before whatever). Never had anyone abuse it, max nap was probably 45 minutes someone took with the avg being around 20.
I know a guy who refuses any sleep time at work. He's smart and pragmatic, yet he can't accept doing this on the workplace at paid times, even though he will fight sleep for hours (chat, feeds, games).
I wonder how many of us fell asleep at noon, woke up feeling they must have lost hours because you feel so pumped suddenly, when it was in fact just ~20 minutes.
Pity his high stress high creativity job wasn't greeted with a nap room, many times I've heard people mention they got new ideas just after going to bed.