Naps: Kristen Holmes and Emily Capodilupo discuss the physical and mental benefits to napping, the concept of sleep debt and how naps help offset it, plus how to incorporate your activities & day strain into planning the timing and duration of your naps.
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How Naps Can Impact Performance on the Job
The benefits of brief kind of five to 15 minute naps are almost immediate after the nap and last a limited period. On the other hand, like 30 minutes plus can produce actually can produce impairment from sleep inertia which I think Emily's just a fancy word for grogginess. For a short period after waking, but then produce improved cognitive performance for a longer period up to many hours.
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