I believe many people have the habit of taking naps, but is it really necessary to take naps?
This may need to talk about why we form the habit of taking naps.
Through scientists' research on monkeys' sleep, it was found that most monkeys have lunch breaks. As humans, because they often have to stay awake for more than ten hours, humans have gradually formed the habit of lunch breaks during the long evolution process.
We usually start to feel sleepy around 2 pm, and this state has nothing to do with whether to have lunch or not.
In other words, it is not because of lunch that we start to get sleepy . Whether you eat or not, at this point, we will experience depression in the afternoon.
This is a very natural and normal phenomenon, so there is no need to regard this kind of sleepiness as our enemy, and it will not harm our bodies at all.
When we feel sleepy, it actually means that our brains have just reached the sleep conditions at some point.
If we can successfully enter a deep sleep state at this time, then our state will become better after waking up.
It is precisely because I learned the effect of napping that companies like Google , Nike, etc. will encourage employees to have lunch breaks.
And scientists' research data also proved the effect of lunch break.
They set up an experiment. When the experimenter sees a circle on the display screen, they ask them to press the button to grasp the awakeness of these experimenters and be able to accurately count their reaction time.
As the awake time continues to extend, their reaction time will become longer and longer, and there will be more and more mistakes.
However, if you can rest for 2 hours while you are awake for 12 consecutive hours, if it corresponds to 24 hours a day, it is equivalent to resting for 4 hours, which can effectively reduce the occurrence of mistakes.
However, it needs to be explained that this is just a reduction in the occurrence of errors, but it cannot completely restore our reaction time to the initial state.
If you sleep for 2 hours every 12 hours, it is impossible for most people to do it. What should I do?
doesn’t have to worry, we only need 20 minutes of nap to recover to a certain extent.
Scientists conducted research on nap habits and risk of dementia in hundreds of elderly people with Alzheimer's disease and their spouses.
The result found that compared with those who have lunch breaks every day, the probability of people who have lunch breaks is 1/7 of the latter.
But is the longer the lunch break, the better?
The answer is no.
Because the data shows that if the lunch break is more than one hour, the probability of getting sick will be twice as high, and it may lead to abnormal aging or other diseases.
And once the lunch break exceeds 30 minutes, it is easy to get low after waking up, which means we feel sleeping in a daze.
And once the lunch break is too long, it may affect your sleep at night, which will be more than worth the loss. So the best choice for a 20-minute nap.
