You're tired, but you don't have time to really sleep. Rather than taking a power nap or grabbing a cup of coffee, try taking a coffee power nap. Here's what a coffee power nap is and why it actually leaves you feeling more refreshed and awake than either a power nap or a cup of coffee or even a nap followed by coffee.
What Is a Coffee Power Nap?
You know what coffee is, but it might be helpful to review the power nap concept. A power nap is a short nap (15-20 minutes) that takes you into stage 2 sleep. It's just long enough to stave off some of the worst effects of sleep deprivation or exhaustion, but not so long that it drags you into slow wave sleep (SLS) or deep sleep, which would leave you feeling groggy if you ended it too soon (sleep inertia). Research has shown that even a 6-10 minute nap helps improve concentration, alertness, motor performance, and learning, while a 30 minute nap confers the benefits of a full sleep cycle, markedly reducing fatigue and reversing much of the physiological damage of sleep deprivation.
A coffee power nap or caffeine power nap is when you drink coffee or a caffeinated beverage right before settling down for your nap.
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5 comments:
Elvis would take uppers for the shows, and downers to relax and sleep. He died of a massive heart attack on the "throne." It's not nice, or healthy, to screw around with your body like that, or by trying to trick it into thinking it's getting rest while you're loading it with caffeine.
Been doing that nap for years ..works like told too !!
Can't take "Naps". Wake up groggy and with splitting headaches.
Crazy thinking here
I call a power nap about 2 hours or it's not worth bothering.
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