Earn Benefits of Napping

The Japanese company famous for its high productivity, but now they remind employees to take a nap in between jobs. What's wrong with a nap in between jobs? Is it true that napping can improve productivity as stated by the researchers?

It was not just kids and toddlers are the development of intelligence better post-nap. Recent research shows that adults who took the time to take a nap for 90 minutes after lunch will increase the quality of learning and memory. It will allow them to absorb new facts.

In the last decade, the focus of research naps Japanese society. The Japanese researchers suggest a nap or the so-called power nap for 20-30 minutes after lunch. But for some people who try to practice sleep for 20-30 minutes, just get up after 1 hour old. As a result, instead of fresh, people actually puzzling. For this reason, some places in Japan that provides facilities nap, a cup of hot coffee before going to bed, to wake up exactly 20 minutes later.

Napping habits among workers is also open new business opportunities. Salon sleep name. In recent years, salon bed kept popping up in Japan. Napia, one salon now has 1,500 members sleep anyway. With a spend of U.S. $ 4, office workers who are tired may feel a nap for 20 minutes to more.

New research says nap prepares the brain to work better in memingat something. Just like a computer when turned off and restarted, so running more smooth and stable. "Sleep is not only useful for the body, but also the brain," said Matthew Walker, an assistant professor at the University of California.

Walker and colleagues 39 separate adults into two groups. During the study all participants were asked to complete a memory test. In these tests each participant was asked to remember faces and names. After that, 20 of the adults were asked to take a nap for 100 minutes. After the nap, they were asked to take a memory exercise back in the afternoon.

The results are stunning, they were awakened scored 10% worse than those who napped. Even more surprising, is basically one's memory abilities declined in the afternoon until 6 o'clock pm. But naps can keep the memory remain stable at these hours.

Further research indicates, each dreamless sleep by the workers was able to increase the memory capacity. This evidence suggests, sleep has an important role in the memory process.