We all love our afternoon sleep. We often like to stay and sleep in homes when the weekend comes so that the body can be given some rest.
How beneficial and harm to have afternoon sleep?
Boosts memory
A study was done by scientists at the University of Saarland, Germany, and they came to the conclusion that a 45-60 minute afternoon sleep can increase a person's memory up to five times. The study, published in the journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, also analyzed sleep power on 41 children. The study found that children who were allowed to sleep in the afternoon remembered things taught better than children who did not sleep.
Performance improvement by one hour of sleep
A press release released by the National Institutes of Health stated that sleeping in the afternoon does not overload the information in the brain and your brain is protected from mental dysfunction. The study found that those who slept for 30 minutes after performing two or three visual task sessions on a computer did not show a drop in performance, rather an improvement in their performance with the nap of an hour.
Make mistakes
If you want to do some office work on weekends, it is very important to know this thing especially for you. A study was conducted by NASA on some military pilots and astronauts. These were people who felt lethargic. The study found that 40 minutes of sleep improves their performance by up to 34 per cent while alertness is up to 100 per cent.
Makes you happy
Afternoon sleep improves your mood and now it has been proved. A study conducted by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire analyzed data from a thousand people. 66 percent of these people slept 30 minutes or less each day. The study found that those people who had an afternoon sleep feel more pleasant than those who did not sleep.
Improvement in your immune system
Afternoon sleep is also good for your immunity. According to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, urine and saliva samples of 11 young, healthy men were taken each day to study norepinephrine levels on their bodies during stress.
Sleeping time was limited to two hours at night for men while they were allowed to sleep for half an hour during the day. Men who were allowed to sleep for only two hours had their norepinephrine levels more than double (in the afternoon) than those who slept normally. However, no change in norepinephrine was observed in those who were allowed to sleep.
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