A Power Nap - Sleep Session During Day

Hush little baby don’t say a word, go and take the rest that you deserve. Let that sun keep shining down, take a trip to sleepy town. Hush, hush, go and take a nap.

Assalamualaikum and a very good morning. Today, I would like to talk to you and to tell you on the topic of naps. So, what is the power naps? How long is an ideal naps? What is ideal time for taking naps? Do naps interfere your nightime sleep? What kind of naps are best for you? So I have done some research about this topic. And today I would like to inform to you the benefit of taking naps in term of learning.

A power nap is a sleep session that happens during the day that ideally between 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, and lasting between 10 to 30 minutes periods. Naps have been shown bring benefit to the learning process, help us take in and retain information better. Now looking at the graph above here. This graph represent the performance of participants recalled the syllables after remaining awake and after sleep. At the first two hours, the percentage of syllables recalled for both group shows the decreased. But, after 2 hours learning a syllables, there is a change in a result between both group. At the hours 3 to 8, the percentage of syllables recalled for awake group still shows a decreased, but for sleep group, the percentage of syllables recalled is maintained at 55 percent. Now as you can see, the sleep group performed significantly better than awake group. It is about 85 percent of the patterns can be recalled by sleep group, compared to awake group, it is only 60 percent of syllables can be recalled. Research indicates that when memory is first recorded in the brain, it is still fragile and easily forgotten, especially if the brain is asked to memorize more things. Napping improves your memories and transfer it to the neocortex, where long-term memories are solidified and stored. According to a 2010 Australian study, a longer nap is likely to leave you slightly more groggy, but you can have a longer benefit to brain power after the fact. In fact, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) scans have shown that brain activity remains higher in nappers all day compared to people who don not take a rest, according to a 2008 study.